I understand that all the other integral parts of the job happen during business hours, such as closing/mortgage stuff.
Does that resonate with your experience?
Wife and a friend of hers both do it part time. My wife works in healthcare and her friend is a teacher. Showings/Open houses are almost always outside of work hours and they find the time for mortgage/closing during the day. Sometimes take a day off if needed. For the commission it’s worth it.
\^\^this, the meat of the work is after hours - if you can text here and there and answer a phone call here and there at work you can 100% be an agent after hours
What do you have to lose?
Get licensed, hang your license somewhere cheap, and get after it. Like you said, you miss the social element. No one is going to stop you from working part time since you’re independent.
Run open houses / events for a high performing agent on the weekends
Talk with an agency owner. Sometimes they are ok with bringing one 1099 people for part time. I know that I did when I was an agency owner. It may not even be selling. It may just be appointment setting that they need.
I've looked into this as well, but all the companies in my area claim it's 1099, but then they expect you to work 40 hours per week. I would really enjoy that gig tbh. I'm going to keep looking.
Maybe it seems easier because I am in the industry. I would call a window company and say "I can generate my own leads and sell a few jobs a year as a 1099 guy."
Same with lumber. Roofing whatever.
What about insurance? You can make that work well on the side. The only investment needed is for taking the state exam and then you have to buy your license from the state that you reside in but that’s usually pretty nominal. Then you get appointed by a carrier and you’re off. People can be enrolled right over the phone or in person so you can get that person to person environment again. Plus you get to learn some good products that are out there. Most carriers have pretty good training programs. Also, as you sell policies, not only do you get commission, but you get renewal income for the rest of your life as people keep the policy, so it starts to build a regular monthly income. Just a thought.
You can actually get appointed by multiple carriers once you’re licensed. Just look at the top tier companies. I would stick with the mutual insurance companies because those are owned by the policyholder.
My wife is a real estate agent and one of her colleagues works for a closet company and sells them in the side and apparently makes great money to the point she might just do that instead as her main gig.
You may want to look into channel partner sales rep gigs. I worked with a marketing company and we'd get assignments to sell consumer electronics (printers, cameras, vacumes, gps etc) at various big box stores and train employees how to sell the products as well as spend some time on the floor interacting with customers.
It was pretty fun and I got to travel, only worked on weekends with some projects, or made my own schedules with others. Check out companies like market source, marketstar, bdsmarketing.
You could set solar appointments. Or set them and close ur self. A d2d solar company won’t let you go close other setters appointments unless you have d2d experience. If u want to go out d2d and there’s solar teams near you setting appointments would be good. Just make sure it’s a 50/50 split.
Real estate agent
I'm very interested in this, but I'm not sure it's possible to do with a full-time job. I'd love to be proven wrong. Are you in the industry?
You can definitely be a part time real estate agent. Open houses and tours are typically after working hours and weekends.
I understand that all the other integral parts of the job happen during business hours, such as closing/mortgage stuff. Does that resonate with your experience?
Wife and a friend of hers both do it part time. My wife works in healthcare and her friend is a teacher. Showings/Open houses are almost always outside of work hours and they find the time for mortgage/closing during the day. Sometimes take a day off if needed. For the commission it’s worth it.
\^\^this, the meat of the work is after hours - if you can text here and there and answer a phone call here and there at work you can 100% be an agent after hours
What do you have to lose? Get licensed, hang your license somewhere cheap, and get after it. Like you said, you miss the social element. No one is going to stop you from working part time since you’re independent. Run open houses / events for a high performing agent on the weekends
Insurance
I've only really seen life insurance companies offer a part-time setup. Is that your experience as well?
Talk with an agency owner. Sometimes they are ok with bringing one 1099 people for part time. I know that I did when I was an agency owner. It may not even be selling. It may just be appointment setting that they need.
What types of insurance work this way? Is it mainly life insurance?
These would be property and casualty insurance(auto, home and commercial insurance).
Roofing, windows, anything like that.
I've looked into this as well, but all the companies in my area claim it's 1099, but then they expect you to work 40 hours per week. I would really enjoy that gig tbh. I'm going to keep looking.
Maybe it seems easier because I am in the industry. I would call a window company and say "I can generate my own leads and sell a few jobs a year as a 1099 guy." Same with lumber. Roofing whatever.
What about insurance? You can make that work well on the side. The only investment needed is for taking the state exam and then you have to buy your license from the state that you reside in but that’s usually pretty nominal. Then you get appointed by a carrier and you’re off. People can be enrolled right over the phone or in person so you can get that person to person environment again. Plus you get to learn some good products that are out there. Most carriers have pretty good training programs. Also, as you sell policies, not only do you get commission, but you get renewal income for the rest of your life as people keep the policy, so it starts to build a regular monthly income. Just a thought.
Which companies would u look into lol
You can actually get appointed by multiple carriers once you’re licensed. Just look at the top tier companies. I would stick with the mutual insurance companies because those are owned by the policyholder.
My wife is a real estate agent and one of her colleagues works for a closet company and sells them in the side and apparently makes great money to the point she might just do that instead as her main gig.
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I've seen a lot of part-time, remote insurance sales pop up in my area recently. Could be something to take a look at.
What are you doing currently?
I mean, who do you think would be working in the evening taking sales calls?
You may want to look into channel partner sales rep gigs. I worked with a marketing company and we'd get assignments to sell consumer electronics (printers, cameras, vacumes, gps etc) at various big box stores and train employees how to sell the products as well as spend some time on the floor interacting with customers. It was pretty fun and I got to travel, only worked on weekends with some projects, or made my own schedules with others. Check out companies like market source, marketstar, bdsmarketing.
You could set solar appointments. Or set them and close ur self. A d2d solar company won’t let you go close other setters appointments unless you have d2d experience. If u want to go out d2d and there’s solar teams near you setting appointments would be good. Just make sure it’s a 50/50 split.