Aflac reviews

There are quite a few here...if you get into a region where ppl don't share accounts, you WILL NOT MAKE AN INCOME for probably 4-5 months. You will spend much more financially to establish yourself. I make about 500 phone calls per week and it is very emotionally and physically taxing. Sure, there are the super huge successes that you hear about in your region, but those are few and far between. The average person will scrape by their first few years on saved money from other jobs. The training is very hit and miss depending on who your mentor is and where you are located. There is only really a work life balance if you choose not to work....you own your own business only in theory. AFLAC can remove your contract with them at any time they choose. **What they won't tell you about your work is that like all business owners, you really are at the mercy and time of other business owners. You can begin to feel desperate or just general apathy towards regular human conditions...sometimes I think that even if you were making tons of $$ doing this it would not be worth it...

Success depends entirely on you, as well as on the group you sign up with. You are not really working for Aflac Corporate unless you are willing to relocate to Columbus, GA. You get help offered to you, but you are ultimately an independent agent. If you don't take rejection well, or are not a natural salesperson, you probably won't make money. Compensation is entirely 100% commission only. I made appointments for my "closer" trainer, and even he could not close the accounts. After so many weeks or months of you not closing accounts, your trainer will refocus their attention onto new recruits. At that point you are pretty much on your own, unless you have tricky a presentation or a big enrollment. Gas and transportation is up to you, your schedule is up to you, how many businesses and what type of business you prospect? All is up to you. Also taxes, retirement, personal health and life insurance, social security . . .all of those things will ultimately be up to you. If you are not prepared for that, the title "independent sales agent" may not be for you. And you have to take a state exam and pass it in order to successfully be an agent, which will require time, focus, and study. Not as hard as the real estate exam in most states (so I am told), but still somewhat intense.