How to Get a Job Selling Wedding Insurance
While once a niche market for the rich, Wedding Insurance has become main stream and is sold by most major insurance companies. Wedding Insurance protects you from loss due to catering errors, theft, losses due to weather, damage to the bride's dress, and even being stood up at the altar. Getting a job selling wedding insurance is just like selling any other type of insurance. A person must have an insurance license to sell wedding insurance. Every state has different licensing rules but the common factors in getting a job selling wedding insurance are training, testing and licensing.
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Things You'll Need
- Telephone Book
- Internet Connection
- 100 to 150 hours of time for school, study and testing
- $200 to $500 for licensing fee, training, testing, and travel
Instructions
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Identify the company you want to work for selling wedding insurance. You must be associated with a company in order to navigate the licensing process. The company you choose will help you through the license process and provide other training to sell wedding insurance.
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Contact your State Department of Insurance. The State Department of Insurance has a step by step training, testing, and licensing routine prepared. Specifically ask for the routine for selling wedding insurance.
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Attend the wedding insurance training, which is usually a 40 hour course. You will receive a certificate that allows you to take the wedding insurance licensing test. Fees are $200 to $300.
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Take and pass the wedding insurance licensing test. The test for wedding insurance licensing is given in several ways. A proctored online test is available in some states. The examination is given monthly at centralized locations. There is a fee ranging from $20 to $100. You must attain a 70 or higher to be licensed. If you fail the test you can retake the examination after a month.
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Tips & Warnings
The training is intense and may cover many aspects of insurance that has nothing to do with selling wedding insurance.
Association with a company does not mean that you have to work for that company selling wedding insurance once you get your license. You can change companies as often as you like.
Once licensed get omissions and errors insurance for your self. This protects you from lawsuits if you make a mistake.
