For two decades, industry voluntary sales increased year after year.Growth was largely driven by new brokers entering the business, primarily from the ranksof the traditional medical and group brokers. But these newentrants did not begin growing their sales and increasingproduction each year as one might expect. Instead, they sold a fewcases each year, with results changing only slightly fromyear-to-year.

Many of these brokers were selling defensively, offeringvoluntary products when a client asked about them, or when acompetitor came on the scene. And apparently, the likelihood ofthese things happening was not changing much from year to year.Voluntary productivity increases were low, but the waves of newentrants kept industry sales growing.

The Broker/Voluntary Learning Curve

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