12. Life Insurance in the USA is in decline
Source: LIMRA
Individual
&
Employer
44%
Employer
only, 26%
None, 30%
% USA Citizens with Life Insurance
2012, total = 100%
13. MetLife Direct Business Mission
Provide affordable Life Insurance alternatives with
great customer experience
Enable everyone to protect family and loved ones
14. Life Insurance Sales Process Evolution
Lead Quote
Under
writing
Approve
& Pay
1 min 5 min 1 hour 1-2 weeks 1-2 weeks 1-2 weeks
Applic
ation
Direct Term Life
Lead Quote
Approve
& Pay
1 min 5 min 20 minutes 1minute
Applic
ation
Direct Simplified Issued Term
~100 Days
$750/app
~40 Days
$500/App
27 minutes
$200/App
Lead Agent Quote
Under
writing
Approve
& Pay
5 min 1-2 weeks 0.5 hours 2 hours 2-4 weeks 2-4 weeks 2-4 Weeks
Applic
ation
Traditional Term Life
Medical
Medical
17. Simple Application
Name
Age
State
Name
Age
State
Some health
questions
Name
Age
State
Some health
questions
Database
checks
Name
Age
State
Some health
questions
Database
checks
Risk
questions
Name
Age
State
Some health
questions
Brief health
exam
Name
Age
State
Database
checks
Risk
questions
All health
questions
Guaranteed Simplified Simplified
Plus
Simplified
Premium
Simplified
Premium
Plus
Rapid
No UW Simplified Underwriting Fully Underwritten
Ask only what we need to know
Name
Age
State
Database
checks
Risk
questions
Brief health
exam
All health
questions
Traditional
18. 1. Bank Draft or Check
Simple to Pay
2. Set Pay Date
3. Multiple Payors
4. Credit & Debit Card
5. Gift
6. SMS Payment Alerts
You are
approved!
Mobile
acceptance
7. Mobile Landing Page
to Accept
20. Our Mission
Provide affordable Life Insurance alternatives with
great customer experience
Enable everyone to protect family and loved ones
21. Thank You
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Editor's Notes
INTRO: Albert Einstein Quote: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”
Simplicity is hard but an attainable goal once you have mastered product complexity and customer need.
Had the chance to see Ken Segall, auther of the book the simplicity principle and a key player with NEXT and then Apple to communicate the principle to wthe world. He laid out the concept with a simple comparison: how many verieties of laptops can you buy from apple vs HP? 3 vs 48.
How do you know when its simple? What was once “can my mother understand it is now “can my 5 year old get it” rule
Form: credit card statements from Citibank are a hodgepodge of account information, offers, rewards, and alerts on a horizontal axis. More like information overload for the paper form factor. Compare this with the citibank ipad app, a beautiful interface that is device specific and adds color and research to account info and investing – its perfect complement.
FUNCTION: a Bank website if its laid out correctly, can provide almost all options. Compared with an SMS that has a 160 character limit and opt-in requirements
FLAVOR: Infusing the brand narrative and personality into your communications. ING has always done a great job of this, instilling a sense of Orange into everything it does.
FREQUENCY: 95% of advertising goes unnoticed. That’s because we are creating as much content every year as we did for the first 2,000 years of civilized existence. How frequently a bank should communicate with its customers? It depends.
Critical to this is the customer Opt-In. All it takes is one irrelevant or non-value add message to drive opt-out or the dreaded spam filter. IN the end, communication with the customer must be built on value generated.
Lean Manufacturing identifies several types of waste to be identified and eliminated. More recent reengineering disciplines find a funnel of activity
Something happened to the previous “business centric” models. Interconnectivity empowered Customers to manage their own paths to identify, purchase and experience a product. And social media created a platform for voice of customer and their unpolished opinions.
Apple: 2 laptops regular or pro vs HP and Dell: >40 types from dell or HP
Unmet Demand – growth opportunity!
35 million Some 11 million households with children younger than 18 — viewed as families with the greatest need for coverage — have no life insurance
In 2010, there were 184,873 "affiliated agents"— insurance agents who primarily or exclusively sell one insurance company's products — down from more than 246,000 two decades ago,
As well as 3rd party aggregators
Objective is to double online lead-to-application rate
Results of mobile pilot: 25 % of those opted in to receive SMS used it to accept. Accepts for this group were higher, including for price to quote >$25