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Keep the household record in the agency, not in each adviser's phone.

A CRM for a life insurance agency holds one record per household: who bought what, when the premium falls due, who the nominee is and who last spoke to the family. GullySales sets up the record, the stages and the rules for who edits it.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

Life insurance advisors: show a real physical business scene illustrating Premium due calendar. List every policy by due date and mode, with reminders on WhatsApp and SMS before the date and again inside the grace period.

What CRM means

A CRM is the record where every enquiry, call and quote is kept against a customer, replacing separate notebooks, spreadsheets and memory. GullySales sets up or cleans an existing CRM and reports from it by enquiry outcome rather than by activity logged.

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Sales and marketing for life insurance agencies, the overview.

Last updated 18 Oct 2026. Rules for this trade differ by state and professional body, and they change. We describe restrictions in general terms, so check the current position with your own council or adviser before you publish anything.

For life insurance agencies

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “The record walks out with the adviser”

    When contacts live in personal phones, an adviser who leaves takes the families with them and the agency has no record of what was sold. The register has to be the agency's, kept where the agency can open it.

  • “A policy is not a household”

    One family may hold a term policy, a child plan and a parent's older policy, each sold by a different adviser. Without a household link, the agency calls the same family three times and misses the gap in cover.

  • “Dates matter more than names”

    Premium due dates, review dates and a child's milestone dates are what the agency acts on. A record that stores a name and a number but no dates cannot prompt the call that prevents a lapse.

  • “Consent needs a note”

    A family may have agreed to receive premium reminders but not marketing messages, or the other way round. Record what each household agreed to in the record itself, and check that note before any message goes out from the agency.

What we do

What we deliver for life insurance agencies.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. Household record structure

    Fields for members, policies, riders, nominees, due dates, review dates and the adviser who owns the relationship.

    Result: A record that answers who holds what in each family.

  2. Proposal stages

    Stages from first enquiry through needs meeting, quote, proposal form, medical and issue, each with an owner.

    Result: Every open proposal sits at a named stage.

  3. Moving contacts out of phones

    A one-time clean-up that gathers contacts from advisers' phones and spreadsheets into the shared record, with duplicates merged.

    Result: One list instead of several that disagree.

  4. Access rules

    Who can see and edit which records, written down, with a plan for what happens when an adviser leaves.

    Result: A rule the agency can show a new adviser.

  5. A choice of tool

    A spreadsheet, or a CRM such as Zoho CRM or HubSpot, chosen on the size of your book and the habits of your team.

    Result: A tool the advisers will actually open.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries logged in the CRM
  • Data completeness
  • Reports generated from CRM data

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Read the full CRM implementation and customisation page

Who it is for

This is written for these life insurance agencies.

  • Salaried families buying their first term cover
  • Young couples planning for a child's education
  • Self-employed shop owners and professionals with no employer cover
  • Home loan borrowers asked by the bank about life cover
  • Parents and grandparents past fifty with older policies to review
  • NRI families with relatives and property in your town
  • Business partners who need cover against a partner's death
  • Women earners buying their own first policy

How it works

How the CRM work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Map the sales process

    We record how a deal actually moves from enquiry to close in your business today.

  2. 2

    Configure stages and fields

    The CRM's pipeline and fields are built to match that process exactly, not a generic template.

  3. 3

    Set up automations

    Reminders, assignment rules and follow-up triggers are configured so routine steps happen without manual effort.

  4. 4

    Test with real deals

    We run the configuration against actual current deals to catch gaps before the whole team relies on it.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Do we need paid software?
Not at first. A well-kept shared sheet with due dates and owners beats an unused CRM. We move to software when the book or the team outgrows the sheet, and we say so plainly.
Who owns the client data if an adviser leaves?
That depends on the agreement between the agency, the adviser and the insurer, and on data rules. Check it with your own legal adviser and your insurers. We build the register so the agency holds the record.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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