Partner Playbook

The Life Insurance Paid Social Lead Quality Playbook

Most life insurance leads from paid social never close. This playbook walks the full funnel and covers the three places where deals leak: low intent leads at the top, low contact rates in the middle, and low close rates at the bottom. For each one, we share what's worked for us at FamSure and what the top distributors in our network are doing.

01 Low Intent Leads

Problem

Generic ads attract the cheapest lead, not the right lead.

Solution

Build ads around your highest converting persona and lead with a story instead of a sales pitch.

In life insurance, the highest converting persona tends to be men under 45 with children. Here are two successful examples of AI generated ads that hit both points.

Example Ad 1

Example Ad 2

Note AI ads are great for testing quickly but they need an "AI generated" disclosure attached to them on paid social.

Problem

Form fillers who never had real intent to buy.

Solution

An intake funnel that feels like a personalized discovery engine, not a quote form. The tailored questions get the prospect to commit something real upfront, and a PIN verified phone number filters out anyone unwilling to actually pick up.

Here's what that looks like in practice

Don't have the sales infrastructure to call within 5 minutes (a call center, for example)? Pair the same discovery funnel with a calendar booking step instead. Keep the PIN verification, then route the bookings to your agents' calendars based on who's available.

Here's an example of the calendar version

Quick tip Limit the visible booking window to the next 24 to 48 hours rather than two weeks out. Intent decays fast on life insurance leads. A call booked for next Thursday will have a much lower contact rate than one tomorrow morning. If a prospect can't take a call in the next 48 hours, they're probably not a high quality lead anyway.

Note These funnels aren't capturing live data. Walk through them with any test inputs to see how each step personalizes based on earlier answers.

02 Low Contact Rate

Problem

Leads don't pick up or show up for appointments.

Solution

Lead quality is half the fight, and the strategies above already cover it. The other half is sales operations execution. Below are the practices the top performers in our network use, several of which we help our partners stand up.

Here's the cadence the top performers in our network run.

Tactic

TIMELINE

SMS PIN verification for phone number

Last step of the lead form

Automated SMS

Immediately after form submission

Call within 2 to 3 minutes (5 minutes max)

Within 5 minutes of lead submission

Call 3 times within the first 60 minutes

First 60 minutes

SMS and email reminders day of and 1 hour before appointment

Day of and 1 hour before appointment

03 Low Close Rate

Problem

Prospects aren't ready to buy on the first call.

Solution

Close rate comes down to two things. The first is the sales conversation itself, which means testing and improving your scripts. The second is third party validation that lands before the call. When a prospect comes through a discovery funnel that already recommended your company as the best fit, they pick up the phone half sold. We help our partners on both fronts.

The Life Insurance Paid Social Lead Quality Playbook

01 Low Intent Leads

02 Low Contact Rate

03 Low Close Rate

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