Smuller1898
Brick,#2UPDATE Employee
Tue, March 24, 2009
My name is Stephen Muller and I am the Vice President of Operations for Executive Trade Associates. Allow me to start off by saying that if the employee in question was upset in some way and they had complained openly to our company we would have done something to make it right. The truth is, in our six years of business and hundreds of employees, we have had only 3 problems with agents who have tried our system and failed. To address the person who filed this report, how is it possible to tell what value we add to the insurance business without trying our system? If you never went out on an appointment that we set, how would you know whether we rip agents off or whether we make it possible for agents to have steady income in an unsteady industry? The truth is we advance our agents at our own financial risk. We set good, qualified appointments on our dollar, and we are a company that prides ourselves on helping people succeed. We would have a tough time still doing business 6 years later if most agents felt the way this person feels. We have never taken 2/3 of any agent's commission and on the contrary have lost money on many agents who we work hard for and then quit before they are in the field producing anything. Our policy has been to not grant releases for agents. The reason for this is we put an awful lot of time in training and contracting the person for the business we do. We give our system to the person. Then to have a person leave and take our ideas and business practices with them to another company becomes a great loss to us. The insurance business is a tough one. There are ups and downs and people do get burned by bad companies. I can only speak for the company that I helped to found when I say we have never taken advantage of an agent or a client. Our business has been a strong force in the insurance marketing industry because we help people succeed. I feel sorry for this person because they never gave it a chance. If they had, I'm sure they would have seen success as most of our agents do.