Closing the sale: an app for the iPad

If you’re in the market for a turnkey mobile app that can help you sell more cash value life insurance, a recently launched product might just fit the bill: the Voya Life Journey mobile selling system.

Debuted by Voya Financial (formerly ING U.S.) and designed in its first iteration for the Apple iPad, the tablet software aims to help consumers understand the different benefits of life insurance and the solutions available to them to meet financial objectives. Given a target retirement date, the app produces a life insurance needs assessment based on factors that can impact a customer’s retirement security.

“People often don’t think of life insurance as an asset class to help fund retirement needs,” says Kurt Fasen, a senior vice president and head of insurance sales marketing at Voya Financial. “This new app helps educate the consumers about life insurance and meaningfully ties the product to a retirement plan.”

Availing producers of scripts and charts, the software illustrates not only the value of permanent life insurance as a protection product; it also shows how life insurance can be used to accumulate wealth and distribute retirement income in a tax-efficient manner.

The app boasts a resource library segmented according to the individual’s life stage. An online calculator accessed through the app can display how much life insurance the individual needs to replace lost income. And it can provide a premium quote based on a prospect’s age, gender, health risks, etc.

What distinguishes the tablet software from the competition, says Fasen, is a third component: a sales track with graphics to help illustrate life insurance’s place in a holistic retirement plan; and to convey the impact that factors like Social Security, healthcare costs and inflation have on the retirement objective.

Need talking points to help the conversation along? Just touch on an icon and up pops a prepared script.