FAQ

Regardless of how you start your Brightway career, you enjoy support designed to empower you to focus on new business sales. Brightway is completely aligned with the financial interests of its business partners; if our partners don’t grow, Brightway doesn’t grow. We have every incentive to help you grow and work closely with all of our partners to ensure their success.

Brightway is a business opportunity that empowers you to reach your potential, build wealth, help others achieve their potential and build a legacy. The entire system is designed to produce win-win-win outcomes for you, your family and your customers.

No. In fact, our two largest locations are owned and operated by people with no insurance experience, just solid business experience

We pay you 85 percent of the commission on new business and 55 percent on renewal business. Through our sales incentive program, you have the opportunity to earn up to 100 percent of the commission on new business.

From the moment you sign your franchise agreement with Brightway, the Agency Development team stands ready to onboard your new franchise. The first step is a Welcome Call during which you’ll learn what to expect. From there, you will attend a Workshop during which you’ll meet with each department that supports you and your business. Finally, you and your Producers will attend Training during which you’ll sell your first policy before opening your Brightway Insurance store.

Some people are attracted to us by the choice in insurance brands we offer. Others are attracted by the service after the sale that empowers Agency Owners to build world-class sales teams that outsell other agents 2-to-1. And, while those features of the Brightway system are terrific, we like to say that they are the icing on the cake. The key to our—and our franchisees’—success is the comprehensive system of business support that includes:

• Onboarding and training to help you get your office open and your people educated on how to sell as much as possible.
• A fully-staffed Marketing team to position you as the local insurance expert in your community and provide you with the tools you need to network with referral sources and build your brand with customers
• An Agency Development team to help you plan a business proforma and develop compensation plans for your producers
• And so much more

The ideal candidate for our Office Agent franchise is someone with Personal Lines sales experience and/or Personal Lines agency ownership experience.

The commission split for this franchise is 80% new and 50% renewal. The commission split, coupled with the lower up-front and ongoing costs, is designed to make you profitable as quickly as possible.

As an Office Agent, you will already have experience in Personal Lines sales and/or agency ownership experience. The training you’ll receive will be focused on Brightway’s technology, systems and processes as well as training on Brightway’s franchise system and designed to ensure your success.

Some people are attracted to us by the choice in insurance brands we offer. Others are attracted by the service after the sale that empowers Agency Owners to build world-class sales teams that outsell other agents 3-to-1. And, while those features of the Brightway system are terrific, we like to say that they are the icing on the cake. The key to our—and our franchisees’—success is the comprehensive system of business support that includes:

• Onboarding and training to help you get your office open and your people educated on how to sell as much as possible.
• A fully-staffed Marketing team to position you as the local insurance expert in your community and provide you with the tools you need to network with referral sources and build your brand with customers.
• An Agency Development team to help you plan a business proforma and develop compensation plans for your producers.

It’s not just about providing customers the service they need, but the customer experience that they want. As soon as you sell a policy to a new customer, their service needs are handled by a world-class Customer Experience team at Brightway’s Home Office in Jacksonville, Fla. Although the Customer Experience team is in Jacksonville, you position them as your back-office service department and they provide seamless service to your customers, referring opportunities for customers’ additional policy needs back to you.

In the Office Agent franchise, our contract length is five years with the opportunity to renew for an unlimited number of five-year terms at no cost.

The Independent Agent program is a short-term, commission-based program in which you can earn a fully financed franchise fee to join our Office Agent franchise opportunity. Because of this, you must have Personal Lines sales experience and ideally you have a proven track record of building referral sources to drive new business sales.

The commission split in the Independent Agent program (50% new/50% renewal) is designed to provide you with profitability as early as possible.

As an Independent Agent, you will already have experienced in Personal Lines sales. The training you’ll receive will be focused on Brightway’s technology, systems and processes.

You will receive initial and ongoing training and your customers’ after-the-sale service will be provided by our Service Center. As you know, servicing existing customers can be time consuming—and the more successful you are in sales, the more customers you’ll have to service. By providing industry-leading customer service after-the-sale, you’re empowered to sell more new business.

It’s not just about providing customers the service they need, but the customer experience that they want. As soon as you sell a policy to a new customer, their service needs are handled by a world-class customer experience team at Brightway’s Home Office in Jacksonville, Fla. Although the customer experience team is in Jacksonville, you position them as your back-office service department and they provide seamless service to your customers, referring opportunities for customers’ additional policy needs back to you.

The Independent Agent program is a short-term, commission-based program in which you can earn a fully financed franchise fee to join our Office Agent franchise opportunity. The length of the initial term is six months with an opportunity to renew it, free of charge, for one additional six-month term.