How to Sell More Insurance During Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment Marketing Ideas and Strategies

Choose the Right Time to Upgrade Technology

Make the Most of All Your Channels

In the lead-up to the big season, technology shouldn’t be the only focus of your marketing strategy. Build a steady pipeline of SEO-friendly support content that grows awareness for Open Enrollment dates and processes, answers common questions, addresses customer pain points, and ultimately generates leads. 

Meanwhile, for those leads you have consent to contact, automated email marketing and SMS drip campaigns can be used to remind potential policyholders of upcoming enrollment dates and smooth out the sales process when the time comes. The logic behind employing an omnichannel approach to marketing and sales is simple: the more channels you offer, the more opportunities your leads will have to engage. And in the end, that will add up to more sales.

Whether it’s during OEP or not, all of your marketing channels should work in tandem with your dialer. In the current environment, omnichannel call center software solutions can help outbound sales and lead gen teams lower their call volume, improve their caller ID reputation, and avoid call blocking and flagging—all of which will translate to more enrollments during the open season and year-round.

Optimize Your Lead Forms

Whether on product pages, blogs, or elsewhere on your website, lead forms can make it simple for potential customers to request more information. Make sure lead forms are optimized so customers can opt-in with ease—and you can gather info that helps your business deliver better marketing and customer experience. Follow these best practices to boost conversions:

• Keep forms “above the fold.” Ensure visitors can find lead forms easily by placing them at the top of a page, without having to scroll.
• Minimize the number of fields, whenever possible. There’s a delicate balance to creating fields on your forms. The more fields you add, the more qualified leads you’ll generate. However, you will also likely lower your overall conversion rate with each field you add. When creating a form, consider which fields of user info are absolutely necessary and which should be required to opt in.
• Test to see what’s best. Run A/B tests outside of Open Enrollment to experiment with lead form design and learn what works best. When OEP rolls back around, you can trot out your best-converting design.

Of course, for insurance teams generating leads, designing the right form isn’t just about marketing. If you’re going to be dialing leads that opt-in through these forms, then it’s also about TCPA compliance. Our friend and expert compliance attorney Eric Troutman of TCPAWorld.com recently discussed a court ruling that underlined the importance of disclosure form compliance. To help avoid TCPA violations and litigation, lead forms’

• Font cannot be too small or too light, although the exact standard for these is unclear.
• Their button must clearly advise that by clicking it terms are being accepted.
• Hyperlinks contained in form text are okay, as long as they are clearly marked. 

Reach Your Leads Faster—and Keep Them Alive for Longer

During the Open Enrollment Period, leads come in fast. Without the right tech and tools on your side, you might just wind up losing those leads even faster. After all, we don’t need to tell you twice that health insurance is a flooded, highly competitive space. If you don’t wind up with a given policyholder—and quickly—it’s likely one of your closest competitors did.

In this environment, speed to lead is absolutely paramount to driving more sales during the rapid-fire Open Enrollment season. When a warm lead enters your sales pipeline, your insurance dialer should have the ability to automatically enter it into a custom workflow and make sure that that lead is contacted not in days, or even hours, but minutes.

Speed, while critical, is ultimately only part of the equation for enrollment season success. Your dialer also needs to be equipped to drive conversations over the long-term, too. If a lead doesn’t pick up straight away, don’t dial harder—dial smarter. With workflow automation software, you can ensure that leads are rested for longer periods and tried at different times to increase your chances of success. Costly leads won’t go to waste and, best of all, your dialer will do all of the dirty work for you.

Say the Right Things

With the right tech, your dialer will get more leads on the phone—but that doesn’t mean they’re going to convert automatically. To turn leads into policyholders, your agents need to know what to say. They need to serve as a resource on health coverage options and know how to sell to individuals, not phone numbers in a list. 

That’s where dynamic scripting software comes in. Working hand in hand with your dialer, dynamic scripting auto-populates your best, most well-tailored health insurance sales scripts with personalized info for each lead that’s on the phone. Plus, agents can navigate the call flow script and find the best replies to customer responses in real time. 

Your teams will be able to better keep up with complex state-by-state compliance rules and close more sales. Meanwhile, managers can collect feedback and easily update script contents with easy drag-and-drop software to drive consistent improvement.

Keep an Eye on the Right KPIs

At Convoso, we’re data-driven people. Why? Because if you can’t measure something, you can’t make it better. The same goes for selling health insurance during the Open Enrollment Period: without access to real-time reporting and data analytics, how are managers supposed to make the decisions that will drive more insurance sales?

Robust reporting is crucial to maintaining (and improving) profitability, especially during busy—and even downright hectic—periods of business like Open Enrollment. Decision-makers need customizable dashboards that deliver complete transparency around key performance metrics like true cost-per-acquisition, contact rate, agent talk time, and more. In addition, they need granularity that gives them access to these metrics at the individual list level, so they can see which sources are delivering and which need to be turned off.

Paired with a powerful predictive dialer and the right Open Enrollment marketing strategies, advanced reporting solutions will help health insurance sales teams play more and more to their strengths, fine-tuning their approach to enroll more and more policyholders during the next OEP.

The Importance of Technology During Health Insurance Enrollment Season

During a recent panel at the Medicarians 2022 conference, a group of experts discussed the reluctance of many in the health insurance sales space to adopt game-changing technologies. What they all agreed on, though, is that those that don’t adopt the right technologies will soon be left behind.

Brendan McLoughlin of Enrollment123 said that the industry was approaching a “tipping point,” where automation technologies are becoming a must-have. John Fallot, President of Senior Enrollment Solutions, echoed this sentiment and underscored the urgency of the situation for those in health insurance sales:

“Any of this technology that you’re thinking about bringing on, now is the time to do so. It’s the time to do any due diligence that you can to see whether [a technology] is going to save you time or make you more efficient during the upcoming enrollment period.”

Upgrading your dialer to a leading software like Convoso won’t just save you time and make you more efficient—it will drive more conversations, more conversions, and more profits. 

With another enrollment season upon us, don’t delay. Learn more about how Convoso can help you generate more policyholders this year and sign up for a free demo today.