Alex Strate

Alex recently qualified as an Executive Vice President with his agency FFL Fire issuing $587,142! Continue reading to learn more about his journey with FFL:

Q: What were you doing for work prior to getting started with FFL?
A: I sold my first policy on Jan. 10th 2019. Prior to that I was working as an insurance agency for a different company.

Q: Why did you decide to switch over to FFL?
A: I was living with Jordan L. at the time and struggling financially. My previous insurance company didn’t offer a lead program and the compensation was about half of what FFL has. It was a no-brainer for me to make the move.

Q: Did you start seeing results quickly since you already had some insurance experience?
A: No I was not the type of FFL agent that did well initially. It took me around 7 months before I was able to issue $20k. It was my own fault, I kept trying to do things my own way especially in regards to leads. Once I let my ego go and just followed the system is when I started to see positive results. I just made sure to never quit.

Q: What did your initial lead strategy look like and what is it now?
A: Initially, I was spending around $1500-2000 per month on leads in order to issue $8,000-$10,000. Now I’ll spend around $4,000 per month in order to issue $20,000-$25,000. When you put yourself in uncomfortable positions like that you’re forced to figure it out and rise above it.

Q:Did you start building an agency from the very beginning?
A: No and that is my biggest regret. I thought I needed to get to issuing 20k before I could start to hire. I tell all of my new agent now that they should leverage the stories of the many successful agents that we have here. There’s a learning curve so there’s no reason that you have to reach a certain level of success before sharing the opportunity.

Q: What’s your goal for 2021?
A: My goal is to get my agency to the 10 million agency hall of fame level. I know that in order to do that I’ll have to continue working on raising up the leaders that I have on my team.

Q: What’s your one piece of advice to an agent who’s struggling in that learning curve phase like you did?
A: I’d say to go to Youtube and look up the trainings for the 2 or 3 agents that you relate to. We have tons of amazing training online and if you can plug into around 3-4 hours of that per day your mentality will start to change.

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