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Welcome to WholesaleInsuranceBroker.com! In the world of insurance there are multiple levels of sellers, middlemen, suppliers, underwriters, and at the end of it all, consumers. In this midst of this sometimes confusing and multi-layered industry exists wholesale insurance brokers. At first, one might try to compare them to some kind of retail wholesaler, managing bundles of insurance lines to distribute to local agents; the wholesale insurance brokerage works somewhat the same way. They work directly with insurance providers, they sell to agents and first line sellers, and they rarely connect with consumers. The Broker Most people are familiar with retail sales end of insurance dealing with insurance sales agents. These folks either work out of branch offices of their mother company or they work as independent agents covering a number of different insurance products and companies. However, retail sales agents do not function as wholesale brokers. Behind the retail sales agents there is another layer of agents who work primarily with other insurance agents and no consumers at all. Successful wholesale brokers gain their success by building a portfolio of clients very similar to retail sales agents and their number of consumer clients. The bigger the client base, the more income that comes in for the agent of either type due to commissions. Wholesale insurance agents are not limited to just their company's line of products. In fact many wholesale agents are independent operators. Being free agents, wholesale insurance brokers can take advantage of connecting with and selling a variety insurance products, some in very obscure niches and specialties. Most average retail agents would never get close to such opportunities and the large amount of dollars involved in these obscure insurance coverages. By definition the wholesale broker functions in an intermediary role that operates between retail agents and major insurance providers yet these agents are not contracted in any way with the party that is finally insured.