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Expert insights, marketing strategies, and industry updates to help insurance agents revive old leads and reignite results.

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From Lead Generation to Client Revival

This 2025 marketing playbook addresses the core challenge for insurance agents in the current "hard market": not a lack of leads, but the lack of an efficient system to convert them. It outlines a three-pillar solution, starting with a foundation of trust built on Google's E-E-A-T standards and optimized for AI-driven search (AIO). The second pillar is a hyperlocal marketing engine focused on dominating local SEO through Google Business Profiles and community-focused content. The third pillar details targeted content funnels, treating life insurance as a "trigger-event" sale and annuity marketing as an "education-first" funnel. Finally, it presents the "Lead Revival" system, an automated, multi-channel (Email and SMS) nurture campaign designed to convert new, purchased, and aged leads into clients, solving the critical follow-up problem.

Written By:
Michael McMillan - President of Financialize.com
Published:
November 5, 2025

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