Kickoff season continues in the field and the message that our distribution team is delivering is quite similar to what we heard as employees at our joint meeting 10 days ago.
And that’s we’ve already set records and we have no intention of slowing down.
If you weren’t able to attend the kickoff, which was simulcast in Vermont and Texas as well as to remote employees, you can see the slides and some video from it on National Life Today.
It’s well worth checking out even if you were there because Mehran put into context where we are as a company, how we got here, and why.
And, as he said, that why comes down to the 1,000-plus delighted employees who pushed through record business: $241 million WNAP in life sales and $141 million in flow annuity sales.
Mehran had some pretty interesting facts about what it takes to process that kind of business. We took almost 714,000 phone calls last year, which amounts to 2,844 a day or one every 10 seconds.
We processed 177,430 life and annuity applications, which figures out to 707 a day and 88 an hour.
There were plenty more statistics in Mehran’s presentation. But his message went much deeper. We are truly on the way to 1 million delighted customers. At the end of 2017, the count was 783,062.
We start our 170th year with more than $120 billion of life insurance in-force. And, frankly, that number has already risen since we kicked off 2018.
We’ve got ambitious goals for this year. We did last year, too, by the way, and totally blew through them. So let’s do it again this year!
And before we let you go, here’s one more shout out to Steven Wallach and the Sales Desk Crew for that rap song that he wrote and they all performed.
Check out the performance on National Life Today at the link above. And if you want to try your hand at Karaoke, we also posted the lyrics and the soundtrack.
