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In the face of Health reform, NIA is proud to say we have kept our model simple and innovative as you have become to enjoy and rely upon NIA for. 

NIA will advance 6 months on all health carriers.  1/2 on sumit and 1/2 upon issue daily.*  If you are on the Free Telemarketed Lead program we require 3 applications per week to remain on the program.  Remember NIA is one of a very few companies still using telemarketed exclusive leads providing you quality contacts and quality customers.

*Submit Advances are triggered by the package sale of an Answer Plan, a AAACare Accident Plan or a Critical Illness plan, your choice.  NIA has remained the leader in innovation in Daily Advanced Commissions and we will continue to remain the leader in innovation and technology to help you our partner in business be the best you can be and assist you in making your job as easy and as simple as possible.  We provide you with free consumer sales sites to assist in your training and sales efforts, we also provide you with un-surpassed lead quality.

Look to NIA for leadership!  We have not had one single carrier pull our of the market nor go into state supervision like most of our competitors had by promoting weak, unrated carriers.  Proven leadership says it all.

Remember:  Assurant Health, Cigna, UnitedHealthOne, IHC are all advanced 6 months commissions!  Call NIA marketing at 888-243-5026 with any questions

Michael Wiley, Administrator, Commission Accounting. mwiley@nia.biz

National Insurance Agency has recently overhauled the process of handling submitted business and new policies. With the introduction of New Business Transmittals and Issue Status Notification, it is now an instant process to notify agents and their clients of policies being issued and business being submitted. This is good for both National Insurance Agency agents and the consumer as they now both know instantly through text messaging when their policies have been issued. Because National Insurance Agency pays their agents daily through EFT, these two new processes allow the NIA model to work even faster and smoother to insure that agents can recieve their commission instantly after they submit their new policies. Both processes are done completely through phone text messaging.

New Business Transmittals: The new process that NIA agents go about submitting business is now completely automatic. Once it has ben submitted and processed, NIA sends an instant text message automatically to the agent and the client so that everyone is aware and up-to-date on the entire policy set up. This new system works seamlessly with the daily EFT payments for National Insurance Agency agents.

Issue Stats Notification: When the policy is issued there is an issue status form letting the agent and client know when the policy has been issued. This also works seamlessly with the daily EFT payments and allows faster and more efficient payment to NIA agents.

National Insurance Agency has been a leader in the health insurance agency since NIA was founded in 1996.  Through our daily EFT funds transfer payment system, National Insurance Agency has provided immediate benefits for all of our agents.  National Insurance Agency has perfected it’s payroll system and daily EFT system to a point where it can reward agents sales efforts faster than any other agency.  We have the financial strength and stability to pay you the agent/agency daily and wait for repayment from the carriers which most competitors can’t afford to do. This puts any National Insurance Agency associate in front of the pack and gives our representatives a huge advantage over the competitors who sit there and wait and wait to get paid in a tough economy.

At National Insurance Agency we provide a daily EFT Payroll with Strong, Stable Affordable Carriers whom we focus our training on. Free Leads, Free Webinar Tools to Power Producers adds the knock out punch to the competition.

Its all about leadership!  National Insurance Agency’s CEO Larry McClendon has been in the health insurance industry since 1990 as a health underwriter and knows the value of writing good business, good risks and fair, quick decisions and offers from the carriers.  If you do not believe in what you sell you cannot sell it, and if you love what you do its not really a job!  Our Sales Associates and Partners are the top income earners in this huge industry!  Follow the training at NIA.biz and you too will become a top earner.  Larry G. McClendon, CEO., is at the NIA offices every day overseeing the operation, maximizing every single technological advance, online ablities and/or the plain old fashioned paper applications with daily speed and accuracy.

Larry McClendon’s philosophy of doing business and positive business attitude you can take to your bank!  Trust the National Insurance Agency family to be there for you and your family.  The NIA way has proven it’s success for over a decade and will provide you the jumpstart into the health insurance industry that you need to start the career you’ve always wanted!


The NIA Way

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National Insurance Agency prides itself on being a family-oriented company. Hiring dedicated people who embrace this tradition lays a foundation for rewarding careers, and provides our customers with the service they expect and deserve. This concept has helped American National become one of the leading life insurance providers in the industry.

If you are interested in becoming part of the American National Family, visit our prospective agents page to view our current openings and apply for jobs online. NIA even accepts potential agents without insurance licenses! We have association plans to be sold in any state.

Becoming an insurance agent through NIA and building your insurance agency job with us also comes with benefits including:

-Daily EFT Advance Commission Transfers
-Free Tele-Marketing Leads Provided
-Comprehensive insurance agent job training
-NIA provides it’s insurance agents with supreme marketing tools needed in Today’s Lucrative Fast Paced Instant Gratification market.

The Insurance Sales Agent Career Path Through National Insurance Agency

The insurance agent career has changed in recent years, but the job at it’s core remains the same. You must enjoy working with people to have a successful insurance agent career. Insurance agents often have to work with some very stressed out and unhappy customers in the event that they experience a loss of a family member or other losses, and the insurance agent must be able to work through this with a good attitude. This means it’s up to you to run work through this with a cheerful and positive attitude.
Many people have their first run in with an insurance company through an insurance sales agent.  Getting an insurance agency career through NIA, you will help businesses, families, and individual people select insurance policies that provide the best protection for them.

Insurance sales agents sell one or more types of insurance, such as life, health, and dental insurance. Life insurance agents specialize in selling insurance that pays beneficiaries when a policyholder dies. Depending on the policyholder’s situation, a cash-value policy can be designed to provide retirement income, funds for the education of children, or other benefits as well. Life insurance agents also sell annuities that promise a retirement income. Health insurance agents sell health insurance policies that cover the costs of medical care and loss of income due to illness or injury. They also may sell dental insurance. Insurance Agents may specialize in any one of these product areas, or work as generalists, providing multiple policys to a single customer.

In an insurance agency career, insurance sales agents also prepare reports, create records, and find new clients. If a policy holder experience a loss, insurance agents help them settle their claims.

Increases in technology have greatly affected the insurance agency career business, making it more efficient and giving the agent the ability to handle more clients. Agents’ computers are now linked directly to insurance carriers via the Internet, making the work of obtaining price quotes and setting up applications and service requests easier and faster. Computers also allow insurance agents to be better informed about newer products that the insurance carriers have released.

The continued growth of the Internet in the insurance agency industry has changed the relationship between client and agent. Agents formerly used to devote much of their time to marketing and selling products to new clients. Now, clients are beginning to obtain insurance quotes from our company’s Web site and then contacting the company directly to purchase policies. This interaction gives the client a more active role in selecting their policy, while reducing the amount of time insurance agents spend seeking out new clients, which makes it easier on those looking into an insurance agency career. Insurance sales agents also gain new accounts through referrals, thus making it important that they maintain contact regularly with their clients to ensure that their financial needs are being met. Developing a happy and satisfied clientele that will recommend an agent’s services to other potential customers is the key to success in an insurance agency career.

Align Your Mind

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From Larry McClendon, CEO National Insurance Agency

Your Disposition determines your success.

What happens to you is less signifiant than what happens inside you.

Recognize that all things are difficult before they are easy.

You reveal yourself to the world by  your behavior.

What you do and say, tells everyone all that you are.

The thoughts you have chosen have brought you to where you are today.

Change your thoughts and you change your actions.

Change your actions and you’re on the road to success.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Larry G Mcclendon, CEO of National Insurance Agency, currently resides in Dallas, TX.  He is an entrepreneaur who’s life goal has always been to lead industries with fresh, new ideas and products.  Throughout the years Larry McClendon has successfully scaled his business, National Insurance Agency, to industry leading heights.  Larry McClendon is continuing to bring new concepts to the table.

National Insurance Agency is a pioneer in many areas of business submission, product design and web technology.  Many companies have attempted to copy National Insurance Agency, but few can keep up with the pace of the changing market and keep the changes seemless to its sales force.  National Insurance Agency’s home office sales team work very hard to keep their agents’ business flowing and the cash flow on a daily basis to its agents.  Without cash flow, agents are dead in the water as with any business and the goal of NIA is to provide daily cash flow to its family of sales representatives.

National Insurance Agency is proudly marketing across the United States in 43 states through leading marketing directors in those states through over 2200 agents nationwide.


National Insurance Agency (NIA) was founded in 1996 by CEO Larry G. McClendon.  Based in Dallas, TX, National Insurance Agency is a health and small group agency leading the market in providing a wide range of health insurance solutions.  NIA focuses on quality sales representative support and customer service, at National Insurance Agency, the agents are always most important.  Larry McClendon began his career in Health Insurance in 1990 in the home office of American National one of the nation’s largest insurance companies.  With a concept in mind McClendon has propelled National Insurance Agency to the top of the sales charts with the major carriers in the industry with innovative sales web sites, web tools, and web conferencing with the majority of NIA’s success behind its ability to advance commissions with online statements.

Larry McClendon stepped up the pace in 2006 with Daily EFT Commission Advances.  His vision was to speed up the rewards for his agents so they would and could be the best in the business, capitalize on each other through speed, accuracy and quick compensation for sales efforts.


Larry McClendon has an overall thought that the Top Agents should receive Superior treatment and handling.  Three levels of agents now exist within National Insurance Agency:


NIA Platinum Level Agent- Production requirements are 3 apps per week (average).  The Platinum Level Agent is entitled to Daily EFT Commission Advances, Free Leads, Free BHQ Web Sites and EFT Renewal Commissions each month.   Daily EFT’s are designed for top compensation for top producers; it’s a deserved top compensation at lightning speed for a top producer.  Platinum Level agents will also receive Daily EFT Advances on all Supplemental products such as the Accident programs and Gap Programs.


NIA Gold Level Agent -Production requirements are 2 Apps per week.  The Gold Level Agent is entitled to Free Leads, Free BHQ Web Sites.

NIA Silver Level Agent – Production requirements are 1 App per week.  The Silver Level agent is entitled to Weekly Commission Advance checks.   The BHQ site will be offered to the Silver Level Agent for free.


All National Insurance Agency agents will be hired on for 90 Days with the Platinum Level benefits.  The agent’s production or their down line agents overall production will then determine what level each agent will be in and perks accordingly.  We hope to keep all agents at the Platinum Level! Turn in Today, Get and EFT tomorrow!