Tag: Finance
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Medicare: Assessing Risk
Merriam-Webster defines risk as “the possibility of loss or injury.” In other words: peril. Insurance, at its core, is a tool for managing risk. Many people buy insurance hoping to protect themselves from risk—but that’s not quite accurate. You can’t truly remove risk. You can’t even minimize it in an absolute sense. Risk is ever-present.…
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A Meeting, A War of Ideas
Introduction: How we do anything is how we do everything. Thus, my business philosophy mirrors my life philosophy, which is inspired by mentors near and far. Distant mentors and muses inspire my abstract values and desires. While nearby mentors, like friends and family, provide the ability to contextualize my beliefs. I believe the best business…
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Medicare: Building An Agency
Introduction: Medicare business is simply the sale of Medicare insurance products from a licensed sales agent to an eligible beneficiary. Adaptability, resilience, and focus are three traits that many successful agents share. The creativity of the agent is what brings great opportunities in this market. In this essay, you will find blueprints for the creation…
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Medicare: What is Popular?
My strategy thus far has been to answer this question statistically by sharing what is popular among other consumers. Another move is to directly acknowledge my distaste for the question, then ask if my opinion will suffice as the “consensus”. My dislike of this question is due to my disinterest in pursuing subjectivity in long-term…
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Medicare: With Simplicity
The time to enter the Medicare business as an advisor is now. Upon deeply researching the industry, leading and lagging indicators show tremendous opportunities for hands-on, people-focused advisors. Medicare Supplement Insurance supports a market of more than 68 million people. Enrollment numbers have been rising year over year for decades. The market’s blossoming is happening…
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The Programmer
Programmer: a device that automatically controls the operation of something in accordance with a prescribed program. The actions you take are your own; this, you are certain of. It is less certain who is the programmer of these actions. Optimistically, we assume our actions are choices we make, guided by our intuition and logic. Today…
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Medicare: What Guidance is Available?
When I was in my final semester at NDSU, source material and direct information became an obsession. While studying there, I used to go listen to speakers the University would host in the Auditorium at Barry Hall, NDSU’s downtown Fargo business school. I was fortunate to have professors incentivize me with extra credit. I also…
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Medicare: How To Enroll
Dear Nana, I have been working to understand Medicare insurance so that I can explain it to you and your friends. This market is confusing, as are many insurance topics. I feel that the way technology is improving the world today at such a rapid pace, your generation is being forced to adapt to “improvements”…
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Medicare: When to Enroll?
Dear Nana, I have been working to understand Medicare insurance so that I can explain it to you and your friends. This market is confusing, as are many insurance topics. I feel that the way technology is improving the world today at such a fast pace, your generation is being forced to adapt to “improvements”…
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Medicare: What is it?
Dear Nana, I have been working hard to understand Medicare insurance so that I can explain it to you and your friends. This market is confusing, many insurance topics are. I feel that the way technology is improving the world today at such high speed, your generation is being forced to adapt to “improvements” that…
Dylan Sunderland 