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Final Expense Marketing

Done-for-you marketing

Final expense marketing services for licensed agents and agencies

Final expense marketing services fit licensed agents, agencies and call centers that want a lead source they own, or help working the leads they already have. We run your ad campaigns, staff a setter desk for your leads, and automate SMS and email nurture.

  • Funnel, pixel history and data stay yours when a campaign stops
  • Managed campaigns include weekly reporting and a monthly strategy call
  • Setters make the first attempt within five minutes during coverage hours
  • No guaranteed cost per lead, lead volume or appointment count

What are final expense marketing services?

Final expense marketing services are done-for-you services: they build a lead source you own, or follow up the leads you already have, instead of selling you finished leads. We sell three:

  • Managed advertising. We run final expense ad campaigns for you. You pay the ad platform directly and own the funnel, pixels and data.
  • The setter desk. You hire callers who follow up the leads you already have on a defined attempt schedule.
  • CRM and automated nurture. SMS and email automation that keeps contact going between calls.

We are a final expense marketing company that sells only to licensed agents, agencies and call centers. We are not an FMO, a carrier or an insurer, so we never contract you with carriers or underwrite a policy. Leads, live transfers and preset appointments are separate products with their own prices.

Should you buy leads or build a lead source you own?

A lead vendor sells you the output: leads, transfers or appointments at a fixed unit price. A marketing service builds the source that produces them. The trade-off is control against risk: buying leaves the ad spend with the vendor, while owning puts it on you and keeps the funnel, pixel history and data yours when the campaign stops.

Consent follows the funnel too. Under the FCC's rules, prior express written consent for autodialed or prerecorded telemarketing calls is a signed agreement that "clearly authorizes the seller" to make them, so the wording of the form decides which seller is named. On a managed campaign, that form sits on your funnel.

FactorBuy leads or transfersManaged advertisingSetter desk and CRM nurture
What you pay forEach lead, transfer or appointmentSetup, management and ad spend paid to the platformA monthly fee, plus setup for CRM nurture; lead costs separate
Funnel, pixels and dataThe vendor's; you receive the recordYoursUnchanged: it follows up leads you already have
Ad-spend riskThe vendor'sYours, with no guaranteed cost per lead or volumeNone
Who else receives the leadExclusive leads: no one, one buyer per record. Aged leads: not exclusiveNo one: the campaigns run for you aloneNot a lead product
CommitmentNo contract; minimum orders on most products90-day initial termNo initial term
Fits whenYou want conversations without running adsYou want a lead source you keepLeads arrive faster than you can call them

If buying fits better, compare every final expense lead type side by side before you order.

Managed advertising: what you own and what we run

Ad spend never passes through us: you pay the ad platform directly, we run the campaign, and you own the funnel, pixels and data it builds. Our fee covers the funnel and landing page, the ads, creative testing, tracking, CRM routing, weekly reporting and a monthly strategy call, with no per-lead charge on top. The service excludes a guaranteed cost per lead or volume, appointment setting, a dedicated caller, and unlimited new funnels or states. The full scope is on the managed final expense advertising page. Before launch, check that the consent wording on a funnel you own names your agency as the seller.

If your campaign runs on Meta, you are the advertiser, and in the US Meta lists insurance products in its Special Ad Category for financial products and services. Its documentation says age options are "generally fixed to include ages 18 through 65+", ZIP codes are not supported, and location targeting must cover at least a 15-mile radius. Age fit therefore comes from the questions on your funnel, not from the audience settings. Read Meta's Special Ad Category rules for final expense campaigns before you set a budget.

The setter desk and CRM nurture: follow-up for leads you already have

A managed campaign stops at the lead; the setter desk starts there. You hire a final expense setter desk by the month: setters follow up the leads you supply and book time on your calendar. Your hand-off rules for a lead's first 48 hours set how many leads you supply, so write them before you choose a seat. Seats are sized by new leads a month, and every seat uses the same attempt schedule:

  • First attempt within five minutes during coverage hours
  • Six to eight call attempts
  • SMS and email follow-up
  • Appointment confirmation
  • CRM disposition notes
  • Weekly contact and appointment report

CRM and automated nurture adds SMS and email automation between calls for $500 to set up and $350 a month. Sales texts to cell phones fall under the same federal do-not-call and calling-hour rules as sales calls; plan 10DLC-registered, consent-checked SMS follow-up before you turn the nurture on.

Hiring callers is not buying a preset appointment: that is a booked meeting billed per confirmed or kept appointment, while a seat is billed by the month and carries no appointment count. The product conversation stays with you as the licensed agent. Florida's rule, for example, lets an unlicensed person "telephone persons to set appointments for licensed and appointed agents" but says that person "may not engage in a substantive discussion of insurance products."

Which service fits your operation?

Budget, licensed states and team size decide it. Start with the first question you answer yes to:

  1. Do leads sit uncalled in your CRM? More volume will not fix that. Start with the setter desk or CRM nurture; when hiring, price a seat against an in-house setter.
  2. Do you want a lead source you keep? If you are licensed in the states you want to reach and can fund at least $2,000 a month in ad spend through the 90-day initial term, managed advertising fits.
  3. Would you rather pay per conversation? Skip the services and buy interest-verified live transfers or preset appointments, which bill per transfer or per appointment under published rules.
  4. Do several agents take the leads? Size the desk by new leads a month: the shared follow-up desk suits one agent's flow, while a dedicated seat or the high-volume desk with QA suits a team.

What each service costs

Monthly services are paid before the service month, and ACH payments receive a 2% discount.

ServicePriceCapacity or ad spendCommitment
Managed advertising$1,000 setup, then $1,250 a month or 20% of ad spend, whichever is greaterAt least $2,000 a month in ad spend, paid by you to the platform90-day initial term
CRM and automated nurture$500 setup, then $350 a monthSMS/email automationNo initial term
Shared follow-up desk$1,500 a monthUp to 125 new leads a monthNo initial term
Dedicated setter seat$2,500 a monthUp to 300 new leads a monthNo initial term
High-volume setter and QA$4,000 a monthUp to 500 new leads a monthNo initial term

A managed campaign's first month totals $4,250 at the minimum ad spend, and each following month $3,250, ad spend included. Setter prices exclude lead costs, and lead products are priced on the full rate card.

What stays your responsibility

Owning the lead source means owning its exposure. Every campaign build captures consent on the landing page with TrustedForm or Jornaya, and the calls that follow are made for your agency, including the ones setters dial. The FCC defines the seller as the person or entity "on whose behalf a telephone call or message is initiated," and in its 2013 DISH ruling it said a seller "may be held vicariously liable under federal common law agency principles for a TCPA violation by a third-party telemarketer."

Ask any setter provider, us included, how it handles calling hours, do-not-call requests and caller ID before the first dial, and read how consent records and DNC requests are handled across our products.

How to start

Use the quote form to tell us whether you are an agent, an agency or a call center, which states you are licensed in, how many leads you can work in a week and your monthly budget, then tick the services you want priced.

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  1. How much do final expense marketing services cost?

    Managed advertising is $1,000 to set up, then $1,250 a month or 20% of ad spend, whichever is greater, plus at least $2,000 a month in ad spend paid to the platform. Setter desk seats are $1,500 to $4,000 a month; CRM and automated nurture is $500 setup plus $350 a month. Lead costs are separate.

  2. Who owns the funnel, pixels and lead data?

    On managed advertising, you do: you pay the ad platform directly, the campaigns run for you alone, and no per-lead price is added to the setup and management fees. The setter desk follows up leads you already have, so ownership does not change.

  3. Which marketing services carry a term, and which are month to month?

    Managed advertising has a 90-day initial term, the only initial term we set. The setter desk and CRM nurture are paid before each service month, and lead products carry no contract; most have a minimum order instead.

  4. Do you guarantee a cost per lead or a number of appointments?

    No. Managed advertising excludes a guaranteed cost per lead and guaranteed volume. The setter desk is billed by seat, so it promises no appointment count. If you want to pay per booked meeting, preset appointments bill per confirmed or per kept appointment.

  5. How is the setter desk different from preset appointments?

    You hire the setter desk: callers who follow up your own leads for a monthly seat fee. You buy a preset appointment: a booked meeting billed per confirmed or kept appointment. The first adds calling capacity; the second buys a meeting.

  6. Is a final expense marketing agency the same as an FMO?

    Not here. We sell marketing services and leads to licensed agents, and we are not an FMO, a carrier or an insurer. We never contract you with carriers, so your carrier appointments and your upline stay exactly as they are.

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