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A healthcare professional, an international English teacher and an artist with military experience what do they all have in common?

They all found their way into careers in tech sales.

Unlike for many professions, theres no singular path into sales. Its blend of career growth potential and translatable skills make it an attractive option for both recent college graduates and working professionals eyeing a career change. Wondering what to do with that philosophy, psychology or English degree?Hop on the phone, and turn those communication skills into commission.

Excelling in sales, however, is another story. It takes more than the gift of gab or the ability to strike a gong (although more power to you, if thats your jam) to rake in commission.

With the rise insales technology, the profession has only become more competitive and data-driven. Hitting quota requires mastering email cadences, customer research and complex CRM systems. In some cases, a salesperson might have to play the parts of engineer, marketer and customer support on a call to explain the nuances of a complicated product to a customer.

But mastering those skills can lead to an array of job options, whether thats as an account executive closing deals, an account manager working with existing customers or a sales enablement lead coaching others to success.

We spoke with three salespeople about the paths they took to get into sales, and how theyve found success.

Selam Degefu, Account Executive, Intercom:I was working in healthcare and had applied to work for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only to find out that they had discontinued the project I wanted to work on. Without that job, I didnt want to be working in healthcare much longer. That was when my mentor brought up the idea of working in tech sales. I didnt even know what the job involved, but after doing a little more digging, I became interested. I liked that there was an opportunity for growth, which was something I didnt have in the healthcare field.

Andrae Washington, Sales Enablement Lead, Onna:My first experience in sales came in 2016, when I was living in Shanghai, China. I was helping to run an English tutoring company with a group of other expats, and we had to get parents to invest in the company. The process was like raising a seed funding round. Then I moved back to the United States in 2017.

I wanted to get into tech, but I didnt have any connections. Sometimes this job traffics in a space that minorities arent connected to. Most of my friends are lawyers, accountants or doctors. Im educated, I have military experience, but I would never have traveled in the tech circle. Thats when I connected with SV Academy, which helped me get my foot in the door at my first company, Sisense.

Danielle Ruffin, Sales Consultant, Kin Insurance:I taught English at a university in South Korea for 10 years before moving back home to Chicago, where my skills werent as in-demand. So, I bought a car on Craigslist and started delivering groceries. I turned that into a mini business and went from delivering groceries to packages to doing paratransit. By the end of 2019, I just wasnt seeing any real growth, so I started looking at other options. Thats when I came across re:Work, a nonprofit that specializes in helping people from disadvantaged communities like mine find opportunities in tech sales.

Ive always had an interest in sales and had applied to sales jobs in the past, but I wasnt even able to get an interview. So, I applied to re:Work and entered the sales training program in 2020. Its an eight-week program, but I was able to get my first interview with a company in the third week and my first job offer by the fourth.

Washington:Whenever youre on the phone, you should always understand what the customers goal is for the conversation and what you want from them. When you think of how to position your company, its helpful to know what they think about the product. If they think were an e-discovery tool and Im trying to sell them the e-discovery solution, I dont want to talk to them about our enterprise search function and confuse them. Conversely, if they dont think we can do e-discovery and thats what they want, then what I need to do is educate them. When youre describing the product, try to keep it open-ended so that you dont close off opportunities.

Degefu:My manager says its like going to the doctor. The doctor wont just look at you and prescribe medicine, he asks you how youre feeling, where the pain is, and what you are there to fix. Its the same in sales. In order to solve a complex problem, we have to understand what the customer is even trying to solve and why they need to solve it. You need to start with a good discovery. I also like to ask customers what other solutions they have tried. Once you understand the issue, then you can prescribe the solution with your product.

Ruffin:The first step is understanding the product yourself. I know its rudimentary, but for something like insurance, which is very complex, being able to understand it enough that you can explain it carefully takes time. I found listening to how other people explain it to be very helpful as well. Most of my customers have no background in insurance, so I try to keep it as simple as possible and use concrete examples.

Washington:If youre in the marketing or business intelligence space, the ability to write even a little bit of SQL can be huge for leveraging analytics. But the most important thing is to commit to being an expert in the one tool thats going to bring you the most success. If you start at a company as a BDR and they have Sales Loft or Outreach, immerse into the training videos and learn the tips and tricks to customize the system. At the highest level, most of those tools are similar. So if you can become an expert in it, you can bring that value to your next job.

Degefu: Understand how to use Salesforce, at least at a very high level. Youre going to use Salesforce or a similar CRM whether you end up as an SDR, an account executive or customer success manager. You cant avoid it. The other thing is to understand how to use email cadences. Every company uses a different tool, but if you understand how to create an opportunity with email cadences, thatll help you be successful.

Ruffin:Learning email sequences and having a cadence of messages that you can set over the next seven days is huge. It keeps my name in front of them and makes sure that we stay top of mind throughout the sales process. Its also important to spend time learning about your CRM, and how you can use it to make your job easier. We dont have direct phone numbers, so Ive learned to use the notes section to flag customers who are mine. I also live and die by setting follow-up tasks in our CRM, which helps me simultaneously take on more leads and manage existing ones.

Degefu:Listening, more than anything, is what sets you apart from other salespeople. Are you quick to talk about your product, or are you listening to what the customer is saying? I always try to recap the conversation to make sure that I was fully listening. If I missed something because I was thinking about an exciting deal or solution, the recap creates an opportunity to circle back and make sure I have all the information I need.

Washington:If youre a BDR or an AE doing outbound sales to generate your business, its important to have soft eyes. You need to be able to look at someones LinkedIn and see how their skills and resume all connect together for an opportunity. You need to be able to listen to them on a call and figure out what their problem is and how you can solve it. No one is ever going to tell you the exact things you need to check off your list to qualify as an opportunity, so you have to connect the dots on your own. Then you have to be able to paint a picture for them of how your product can solve it.

Ruffin:Its important to understand that youre going to be in this constant state of evolution, and being comfortable with that growth. In tech, its kind of a given that things are not going to be the same a year from now or even a month from now. As a salesperson, being able to take constructive criticism, incorporate that into your process and evolve is so important.

Ruffin:Its always a challenge to find that pipeline stability. My target is to take anywhere from nine to 12 leads a day, which keeps my pipeline full while also giving me enough time to help everyone else in my pipeline. Then Ill look at my pipeline and see if there are any customers who I havent had any connection with for more than 30 days and mark them as lost. Marking my lost leads and maintaining a clean workflow keeps my head on straight and allows me to keep moving. I try to do that every week.

Washington:Theres more than one way to hit quota, but the three most successful ways Ive seen are the dog method, the product expert strategy and leaning on what you know. The dog method is like, Im hitting quota even if I need to burn through 75 contacts before lunch and another 75 after lunch. Then theres the product expert strategy, where you understand the product so well it gives you immediate credibility. The third way, which is what I did, is to lean on what you know. Once you get a deal, reverse-engineer all the steps you took to get that deal and do that again. And lean into the messaging and process your team gives you to start.

Degefu:If your quota is $300,000 for the quarter, you just have to make sure that every week youre bringing in $25,000. So using an Excel doc or whatever you can to keep track of your pipeline each week helps. If you miss your goal, then you know you have to make up for it next week. Good reporting will also help, so you dont have to go through all 100 reports every day. If you do miss your quota, understand that its normal early on and that it takes time to learn the software. Give yourself a grace period and learn from people who always hit quota.

Day in the LifeWhat Does a Customer Success Manager Do?

Degefu:I started at Intercom as a sales development rep, and then I moved on to be an account manager and then an account executive. What helped me find success was having a growth mindset and being able to adapt to change. You have to be up for the challenge. I was always ready to learn from every project that they gave. I always raised my hand to work collaboratively with product marketing and other teams outside of my role. If you have to go above and beyond your role, do it. Thats how you set yourself apart from others.

Washington:Lean into what youre good at. Im good at research, so I researched the hell out of these companies and who I was talking to so that the messaging felt targeted to that person. I did that at scale, so all I needed to do is call them when they opened the email. Its also helpful to have a mentor. They dont need to be someone whos 25 years older than you, they just need to have more experience in the industry and are at a different company. I can bounce ideas off my mentor and get honest feedback that I might not get in the workplace. That ability to be transparent and have a sounding board is so valuable in this career.

Ruffin:I reached out to my HR manager and mentioned that I would like to have someone as a partner or mentor to help as we transitioned to working from home, and they set me up. Its been so helpful to have a partner to answer my questions, listen to my calls and tell me how I can save time or relay the information more succinctly to the customer. There have been times during this journey where Ive felt defeated, and my mentor has been able to give me some outside perspective, tell me that theyve been through the same thing and offer some tweaks.

Degefu:When I first went to interview for Intercom, I did a tour and was so struck because I didnt see one person who looked like me. The good thing was that they were open to making the team more diverse, and they ended up hiring more African Americans. Id say, speak up if youre noticing your team isnt diverse, or ask why? Theres nothing wrong with asking what we can do to attract more individuals who look like us in the recruiting pipeline. The tech industry needs diversity. The other thing you can do is look for teams that are more diverse with whomyou can share your experiences.

Washington:If you experience a microaggression or feel frustration, dont be afraid to stand up for what you believe in and what it is you think hurts you. It will only be to your disadvantage if you dont. You have to let it out in a professional way, whether thats to your mentor or someone at the company so that you can get counsel on how to move forward with it. If you just carry it, then its going to fester and then youre going to be perceived as the problem.

Ruffin:I spent 10 years of my adult life in a country where I looked different, spoke a different language and acted differently from the people around me, so its not uncomfortable for me to be in situations where I stand out. I was aware that Im older than most people in this industry, that Im female and Im not the same color as other people working in this industry.

I would say what makes tech special is that theres a progressive, forward-thinking way of doing things that transcends the product and gets into how we treat each other. Within my office, Ive been pleasantly surprised at the effort and genuine care that has been put into diversity, unity and inclusion. Diversity and inclusion is a core pillar of our culture, and its not something special that we do only on Fridays or something like that.

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She recently launched the Gigamon Playbook for the channel.

Gigamon has promoted Larissa Crandall, who was senior director of Americas channel, to vice president of worldwide channels and alliances.

Gigamons Larissa Crandall

Crandall led Gigamons North American enterprise channel business to double-digit growth. As VP of worldwide channels and alliances, she is responsible for driving global channel strategy. She will collaborate with the companys various go-to-market (GTM) and corporate teams to ensure a channel-first approach.

Gigamon delivers unified network visibility and analytics on all information in transit.

Crandall tells us she will also lead the alliances team, working to develop and grow partnerships. This will be a priority for Gigamon.

My top priority right now is to continue to support our partners during these uncertain times with demand-eneration programs, financial solutions, training and joint ecosystem-stacked solutions to help our partners navigate and thrive in our new normal, she said. Growing our ecosystem and alliances to build better together solutions for our partners and customers will also be top of the list, while partner experience will continue to be at the core of how we enhance our channel program.

Crandall recently launched the Gigamon Playbook for the channel, building creative demand-generation programs, and supporting training and enablement initiatives. As the pandemic unfolded, she worked on financing options for partners.

She also worked with Gigamons partner community to support customers in various ways.

In the last few months, the world has seen unprecedented change, which has forced Gigamon, like everyone else, to adapt and shift to the new normal, said Doug Woodley, Gigamons senior vice president of worldwide sales. Amid these challenging times, Larissa has played an integral role in providing our partner ecosystem with the solutions they need, including creative demand-generation initiatives and financing options. We look forward to seeing her grow in her new role, and are excited to see the continued growth and success of the Gigamon channel program.

Prior to joining Gigamon, Crandall was senior director of global channel sales at Scalr. Before that, she was Kasperskys senior director of channel sales for the Americas.

At Gigamon, she played a key role in doubling the companys channel team. This led to more revenue, channel-initiated business and community alignment.

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CCPA enforcement began on July 1, 2020 and many businesses are still ramping up their compliance efforts. These efforts include meeting the CCPAs requirement to provide privacy training to all employees who either handle consumer inquiries or who are responsible for CCPA compliance. To maximize the value of CCPA compliance efforts, businesses should address the training requirement at the outset of the compliance process.

Too often, as companies begin to tackle their obligations under a new privacy law, the natural inclination is to turn immediate (and sometimes exclusive) attention to amending their privacy policies. This focus on external disclosures is not surprising, as privacy regulations are principally about providing transparency to consumers, and the privacy policy is the primary mechanism by which companies accomplish these goals. Additionally, an updated privacy policy is sometimes the only piece of tangible work product a company can point to when trying to justify the time and expense of reviewing its data practices.

However, as many privacy professionals have learned in the post-GDPR worldand much to the chagrin of budget-conscious business managersbusinesses must expend considerable effort before they can put pen to paper on a new privacy policy. The biggest to-do is data mapping (i.e., documenting the what, where, who, why, and how of the data collection, use and sharing in the business). Data-mapping involves answering, among other questions, the following:

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To answer these questions accurately with a view towards updating disclosures, businesses need to engage employees at multiple levels of the organization. Although most employees will have no experience with interpreting privacy regulations, many will have the critical knowledge necessary to map the personal information that flows through every aspect of the business accurately (e.g., website visitor data, customer data, HR, payment card information). Although data-mapping can be a herculean exerciseespecially for large, complex organizationsdoing so efficiently and cost-consciously is critical in our data-driven economy.

While the importance of data-mapping message has propagated, what many businesses have yet to embrace is that to map data efficiently, businesses should begin with effective privacy training. Although the CCPA requires that businesses adopt some form of formal privacy training, training often appears as the very last item on compliance to-do lists. Training is generally thought of as a perfunctory check-the-box item and not a useful or worthwhile investment. This relegation is unwise. Organizations should, instead, make training the first compliance requirement they address because it can make addressing data mapping and all other CCPA requirements (including updating a privacy policy) easier and more efficient. And training can also help a business become more privacy forward in an environment marked by both increased consumer awareness of data privacy and regulatory complexity.

Training business managers and other employees makes addressing all of the other CCPA requirements easier and more efficient. The core requirement under the CCPA, and privacy laws like it, is accurate disclosure of the types of personal information collected by a business, the use of that information, and the types of third parties with whom a business shares or sells that information. As businesses address these disclosures, the language in the CCPA, as any new law or regulation would tend to do, demands the interpretation of ambiguities such as: what qualifies as personal information and what does it mean to sell it? As many privacy professionals understand, the meanings of these terms under the CCPA do not align with their plain meaning. Unless a business trains their employees before asking them to participate in a data mapping exercise, these employees are likely to confuse concepts and definitions, provide incomplete categorizations and descriptions, and may need to update their data maps later to supplement or correct their initial feedback. Without training to understand what qualifies as personal information under the law, addressing disclosures and updating privacy policies can become more costly, inefficient and less accurate.

Addressing disclosures and updating a privacy policy are not the only instances where training can be useful. Another CCPA pain point is the Do Not Sell requirement. The Do Not Sell rule requires businesses that sell personal information to provide consumers with a mechanism to opt-out of such sales. This requirement has led some businesses across industries to change their business practices to avoid making sales as defined under the CCPA. Otherseven in cases where required by the CCPAhave opted not to include the Do Not Sell button on their websites or mobile apps, and in certain industries, such as digital advertising, businesses have questioned whether the requirement spells the end for some of their core products and services. Needless to say, determining if a business sells personal information under the CCPA (and implementing Do Not Sell compliance for consumer requests if it is selling) should not be taken lightly, and certainly should not be taken with an incomplete or inaccurate understanding of how a business shares personal information. As with disclosures, without proper training before being asked to participate in a data mapping exercise, most employees are likely to provide incorrect or incomplete information to their in-house or external lawyers. This kind of garbage-in, garbage-out mapping may result in longer, more costly compliance reviews and, even worse, an incorrect or incomplete analysis.

Training early in the compliance process can also help make a business and more critically, its workforcemore privacy forward overall. While the GDPR and CCPA have dominated privacy headlines, there are no fewer than 24 states in the US seeking to pass CCPA-like comprehensive state privacy laws. And non-EU foreign privacy regimes will likely come into focus for many businesses as the dust continues to settle on the GDPR. Privacy compliance is here to stay, and many data privacy management principles and practices that business managers and employees are encountering with the CCPA will be relevant under other state and foreign privacy laws. Training enables business managers and employees to develop foundational knowledge that will make the learning curve less steep when tackling future laws, and makes a business more proactive and less reactive in its approach to privacy.

An effective privacy training program balances relevant, engaging and practical content that (1) meets the minimum compliance requirements, (2) educates its audiences with a view towards addressing privacy compliance holistically, and (3) reinforces a privacy forward business culture; in each case without consuming too many resources (e.g., cost or time) or creating administrative burdens (e.g., scheduling issues). At one end of the training spectrum are customized privacy training programs that can be tailored at the industry, company, and even department levels. Privacy professionals at law firms are best suited to deliver these programs to increase the benefit these programs can bring to an overall privacy compliance exercise. For businesses with fewer resources, there are also excellent free training resources such as http://www.ccpafreetraining.com that can provide a solid foundation for helping businesses comply with the CCPAs training requirement.

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Training is unfortunately too often an afterthought. But when properly implemented, it can make any businesss journey through CCPA compliance much more efficient and prepare the business to manage the rapidly changing and complex privacy regulatory landscape. Training should not be the last compliance item a business tackles. It often should be the first.

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July 07, 2020 13:00 ET | Source: Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers (QPAREB)

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QUEBEC CITY, July 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers (QPAREB) has just released its most recent residential real estate market statistics for the Quebec City Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), based on the real estate brokers Centris provincial database.

In total, 924residential sales transactions were concluded in June 2020, a 47 per cent increase compared to June of last year.

The real estate market in the Quebec City CMA rebounded strongly in June, once again posting a level of sales that has remained well above that of the other CMAs since the start of the health crisis in late March, despite the restrictions placed on brokerage activities," said Julie Saucier, president and chief executive officer of the QPAREB. The market continues its astonishing momentum that nothing seems to be able to stop. In the past year, despite the increase in sales, we had not observed a significant drop in active listings in the Quebec City CMA, except for April and May when the market was put on hold. June is the first month we can confirm a significant tightening of market conditions."

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In June, there were 5,824 active residential listings in the Quebec City CMA, a much lower level (-24 per cent) than in June of last year, confirming an acceleration in the improvement of market conditions in the absence of a catch-up in new listings (unlike in all other CMAs), for all three property categories.

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About the Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / July 6, 2020 / Mike Ashabi is changing the game to provide better service to his clients through his two business pursuits: True Life Ventures, a consulting agency that specializes in life and business coaching of which Mike is the CEO, and The One Connection Network, a network Mike founded to create convenience in the marketplace.

The One Connection Network allows business owners and entrepreneurs to get things done all in one place rather than having to go to different resources, making the marketplace convenient. In one place, they have all the information and resources to do promotion, content creation, sales training, software, and anything else business owners need.

"When running a business, entrepreneurs and business owners have to go down many different avenues and talk to many different people to get things done for promotion, advertising, PR, lead generation, funding, etc.. That's why I created The One Connection Network to build a business." Mike states.

Moreover, Mike understands that what works for some entrepreneurs and business owners does not necessarily translate to work for all.

"I realized that most coaches are just selling their strategies on what made them successful but what I've observed over the last few years is that what works for one person does not work for another. People don't have the same tools, resources, or financial abilities as another person does." Mike shares.

In order to tackle this reality, Mike wanted to connect with his clients to better understand their situation and tailor solutions for them, allowing for more successful outcomes.

"I wanted to change the game and get directly involved with my clients, learn about their situation and where they want to go, and develop strategies with them that they can effectively execute within the means of the tools, resources and financial abilities that they have." Mike explains.

Through Mike's businesses, he is able to communicate and connect with people. He talks with his clients to learn about their current situation and where they want to go, to make sure he can help them get there in the best way possible.

"I like helping my clients know what they need to do with what they have at their disposal in order to achieve their goals by taking what seems complex to them and showing them the simplicity in what needs to be done. As well as helping them identify their why and their pain points which need to be attached to their goals." Mike shares.

Mike understands the struggles his clients go through. He dropped out of college three times, moved from state to state, went through a breakup and got fired from a high-paying sales job all before starting his own business.

"I was telling myself that I was never going to reach rock bottom, and when I hit it and knew what it felt like, I knew that other people were going through the same thing. That is the moment I wanted to be a voice for others to help them realize their own self worth as well as understand that they can create the future they want." Mike recalls.

It was after working for a tree removal company for 10 months, working five months in the financial industry, and working 10 months for free as a sales manager for a franchise branch that Mike started to turn his life around and focus his efforts toward the coaching business.

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"I had a lot of connections with some big names as well as a good sense of how things worked in the business coaching industry. This is when I started looking at the coaching industry and seeing what was missing." Mike recounts.

Mike discovered that the missing piece was tailored coaching: most coaches act as if there was a one-size-fits-all solution that worked for everyone, but this is not the case. Mike and his team work to figure out their clients' goals and their "why", and put together a daily routine for them to execute. This method gives his clients small wins in order to have a sense of fulfillment.

"We also identify the strengths and weaknesses of an organization in various departments, in order to strategize solutions on weak points while having the organization hyperfocus on their strengths," Mike states.

Mike also helps clients understand the correlation between what happens in their personal life and how it could affect them in their professional life. This differentiates him from his competition.

"Most coaches keep life and business coaching separate, but I combine the two to get the client the best possible results. I want to be known for helping individuals get the results they desire in their personal and professional life as well as assist them to develop their self-worth!" Mike explains.

Finally, Mike knows that the difference between a leader and a boss is that a leader cares about the people that are with him rather than only caring about himself. This is the approach Mike carries through to both his businesses, True Life Ventures and The One Connection Network.

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This report studies the global Bancassurance market size, industry status and forecast, competition landscape and growth opportunity. This research report categorizes the global Bancassurance market by companies, region, type and end-use industry.

Bankassurance is a relationship between a bank and an insurance company, aimed at offering insurance products or insurance benefits to the banks customers. In this partnership, bank staff and tellers become the point of sale and point of contact for the customer. Bank staff are advised and supported by the insurance company through wholesale product information, marketing campaigns and sales training. The bank and the insurance company share the commission. Insurance policies are processed and administered by the insurance company.This partnership arrangement can be profitable for both companies. Banks can earn additional revenue by selling the insurance products, while insurance companies are able to expand their customer base without having to expand their sales forces or pay commissions to insurance agents or brokers.

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The global bancassurance market is a sizable and increasingly important channel for protection products, and is predicted to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.16% from 2014 to 2019. The growth rate for bancassurance is four times faster than the growth of life insurance in general in many markets around the world. With this increased opportunity comes increased competition. In order to differentiate themselves, bancassurers in both emerging and mature markets must deliver innovative products aligned with target consumers through efficient distribution channels.

The success of a strategic partnership between banks and insurers is dependent on executive buy-in, which was rated as the top factor for bancassurance success by respondents to RGA Global Surveys on bancassurance conducted in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand markets. In these countries, the largest bancassurers distribute insurance products through integrated partnerships which have aligned goals and sales targets for the banks and insurers.

In 2017, the global Bancassurance market size was xx million US$ and it is expected to reach xx million US$ by the end of 2025, with a CAGR of xx% during 2018-2025.

This report focuses on the global top players, covered American Express Banco Santander BNP Paribas Cardif Citigroup Crdit Agricole HSBC ING Wells Fargo

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Market segment by Regions/Countries, this report covers United States Europe China Japan Southeast Asia India

Market segment by Type, the product can be split into Life Bancassurance Non-Life Bancassurance

Market segment by Application, split into Old Adults Children

The study objectives of this report are: To study and forecast the market size of Bancassurance in global market. To analyze the global key players, SWOT analysis, value and global market share for top players. To define, describe and forecast the market by type, end use and region. To analyze and compare the market status and forecast between China and major regions, namely, United States, Europe, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, India and Rest of World. To analyze the global key regions market potential and advantage, opportunity and challenge, restraints and risks. To identify significant trends and factors driving or inhibiting the market growth. To analyze the opportunities in the market for stakeholders by identifying the high growth segments. To strategically analyze each submarket with respect to individual growth trend and their contribution to the market To analyze competitive developments such as expansions, agreements, new product launches, and acquisitions in the market To strategically profile the key players and comprehensively analyze their growth strategies.

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In this study, the years considered to estimate the market size of Bancassurance are as follows: History Year: 2013-2017 Base Year: 2017 Estimated Year: 2018 Forecast Year 2018 to 2025 For the data information by region, company, type and application, 2017 is considered as the base year. Whenever data information was unavailable for the base year, the prior year has been considered.

Key Stakeholders Bancassurance Manufacturers Bancassurance Distributors/Traders/Wholesalers Bancassurance Subcomponent Manufacturers Industry Association Downstream Vendors

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Table of Contents

Global Bancassurance Market Size, Status and Forecast 2025

Chapter One: Industry Overview of Bancassurance

1.1 Bancassurance Market Overview

1.1.1 Bancassurance Product Scope

1.1.2 Market Status and Outlook

1.2 Global Bancassurance Market Size and Analysis by Regions (2013-2018)

1.2.1 United States

1.2.2 Europe

1.2.3 China

1.2.4 Japan

1.2.5 Southeast Asia

1.2.6 India

1.3 Bancassurance Market by Type

1.3.1 Life Bancassurance

1.3.2 Non-Life Bancassurance

1.4 Bancassurance Market by End Users/Application

1.4.1 Old

1.4.2 Adults

1.4.3 Children

Chapter Two: Global Bancassurance Competition Analysis by Players

2.1 Bancassurance Market Size (Value) by Players (2013-2018)

2.2 Competitive Status and Trend

2.2.1 Market Concentration Rate

2.2.2 Product/Service Differences

2.2.3 New Entrants

2.2.4 The Technology Trends in Future

Chapter Three: Company (Top Players) Profiles

3.1 American Express

3.1.1 Company Profile

3.1.2 Main Business/Business Overview

3.1.3 Products, Services and Solutions

3.1.4 Bancassurance Revenue (Million USD) (2013-2018)

3.2 Banco Santander

3.2.1 Company Profile

3.2.2 Main Business/Business Overview

3.2.3 Products, Services and Solutions

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Valerie Brown is positioned at the intersection of two traditions that can be very helpful to us all right now. Shes a Black woman whos involved in racial justice work, and shes a Buddhist teacher who shows people how to use mindfulness to navigate lifes challenges challenges like, say, a pandemic, a huge economic collapse, racial injustice, and social unrest.

For 20 years, Brown had a high-powered career as a lawyer and lobbyist. Then she radically shifted the focus of her attention to Buddhism. She learned at the feet of the Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and was ordained as a mindfulness teacher.

I recently spoke with Brown for Future Perfects new limited-series podcast, The Way Through, which is all about mining the worlds rich philosophical and spiritual traditions for guidance that can help us through these challenging times.

We talked about the fascinating historical connections between Buddhist practice and Black activism. She explained how we can use mindfulness not just to soothe us as individuals, but also to tackle broader racial inequality today. And she shared some classic Buddhist mindfulness training, which she recently helped rewrite through a racial justice lens.

We know the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately taking Black lives, and for Brown, thats deeply personal: Her brother died of presumed Covid-19 just a few months ago.

You can hear our entire conversation in the podcast here. A transcript of our conversation, edited for length and clarity, follows.

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Valerie, tell me a bit about yourself and how you became interested in Buddhist meditation. You didnt grow up with it, right?

I grew up in the Peoples Republic of Brooklyn. And I grew up with a lot of poverty. My mother was a maid in the Hotel Manhattan and my dad was a tailor in the Bowery. We grew up on public assistance. Early on, there was quite a bit of violence. My dad left. And then when I was 16, my mother passed away. I became an independent student at 18, meaning I had no parental supervision and no parental support.

But I got really lucky. I got a job at Burger King. So I worked, went to City University, and made my way out, running to undergraduate school and graduate school and the big, important job as a lobbyist and lawyer.

In 1995, I attended a public talk given by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh. The talk was at the Riverside Church, down the street from my brothers apartment, so I just walked down. And everything that Thich Nhat Hanh was saying was the opposite of how I was living my life. I was this very type A, aggressive, bunker-mentality, hard-as-nails person, just running from tremendous internalized oppression and internalized racism. And I walked out of the talk thinking: That guy! Who is that guy? That day touched something, a spark in me. And I started to practice meditation.

So once you got interested in Buddhism, you began going on retreats and training as a meditator and then as a meditation teacher. What was the experience like for you?

Over time, I gradually began to change. I started practicing this particular meditation called metta, or loving-kindness, where you hold a sense of friendship for yourself and then for the people you like. And then for the people you actually dont know. And then for people maybe youre not so cool with, maybe even people you hate. And then for everybody, all beings everywhere.

So I started practicing this and I decided, Okay, let me actually practice this at work when Im in the halls of Congress. Now, Im a Black woman, with dark skin, with dreadlocks, talking to a very conservative person who may be white from quite a racially segregated area. What I would do when Im in that conversation with such a person who, on one level, my mind perceives to be the opposite of me is, I turn to my breathing. And I would just notice how Im breathing and feel my feet on the floor and Id say these words to myself: Soften. Soften. Soften.

My whole body would start softening. And then what I noticed is that instead of trying to persuade the other person because this is the job of the lobbyist, to be persuasive I would switch that. I would take sincere and genuine interest in understanding that other person first. Even if I believed that that person was way far out on the opposite end of how I feel. I would ask the person: Tell me more. Help me understand. How are you doing, really? I wouldnt open my mouth until it could come out sincere.

And what happened then was that other person softened up. The dynamic between us became relational rather than adversarial. That was a form of mindfulness that was interpersonal. That was being peace, conveying peace.

These days you do a lot of racial justice work. And a lot of people might think Black activism and Buddhist mindfulness are two completely separate traditions that have nothing to do with one another. But actually, there was a very special friendship between two of their leaders: your teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King. In the 1960s, they had a blossoming friendship that also had political ramifications. Can you tell me a bit about that relationship?

Dr. King and Thich Nhat Hanh shared a real passion for nonviolent, peaceful liberation of all people. One of the most beautiful things Ive been reading about Dr. King and the great civil rights leaders of the 1963 Birmingham movement is that they said they were acting for the benefit of all people even the police who set the dogs on them, who abused them.

Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. King met at a press conference in 1966. They were united by the civil rights movement and their struggles for liberation. In 1967, Dr. King nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize. They met again [that year] at a conference in Geneva.

And then theres a lovely story. Dr. King was at a hotel. They were set to meet, but Thich Nhat Hanh was late for the appointment. Dr. King had a plate of food for him. And he kept it warm.

Thich Nhat Hanh has written about that very tiny moment, which may seem insignificant, but you can just sense the personhood in the connection of the two people, heart to heart. Here you have these great leaders who could not only attend to these massive political movements of their time, but could also focus on the very moment, the very humanness of care for another person.

It does sound like they connected on a really human intimate level. And I know that this originally started because Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a letter to Dr. King in 1965, asking him to please help advocate for ending the Vietnam War.

And Dr. King was getting a lot of pushback from people around him saying not to get involved in this because he was already dealing with a lot and this wasnt his business. And Dr. King said, For those who are telling me to keep my mouth shut, I cant do that. Im against segregation at lunch counters, and Im not going to segregate my moral concerns.

He decided to get involved in advocating against the Vietnam War. And so there was actually this very political dimension to this spiritual friendship between these two leaders. I think thats interesting to note, because people sometimes think about Buddhism as quite disconnected from politics. But Thich Nhat Han was anything but.

Thich Nhat Han coined the term engaged Buddhism. This goes back to the Vietnam War. As a young monastic with other monks and nuns in Vietnam, there were choices. They could have stayed in the monastery and prayed. Or they could have taken themselves out of the monastery and engaged with the suffering of the people in the streets.

In the case of Thich Nhat Hanh and many of the people at that time, they made a conscious decision which cost them dearly their lives, their own affiliation with the political people in Vietnam. Thich Nhat Hanh was isolated [and exiled]. He was not able to return to Vietnam for decades because of his outspoken activism. So we have in this extraordinary human being the footprint of how to engage in nonviolent, peaceful action for the benefit of all beings.

Lets fast forward to today. Were now facing a global pandemic, and we know its disproportionately taking Black lives. At the same time, were seeing this massive upswell of support for Black lives. Given what youve said about engaged Buddhism, how do you think Buddhist teachings and racial justice work can support each other right now?

What I would say is Black justice is justice for all people. Thich Nhat Hanh has coined the term interbeing. Interbeing, meaning that we are interconnected. When a Black person is able to obtain justice and peace, all people are going to benefit. And so its an illusion to think that somehow the white suburban person in the Midwest is separate from that Black transgender woman in Brooklyn, New York. That would be a mistake. We are connected. What happens in Wuhan, China, affects people in San Francisco.

Yes, I think the pandemic has really proven this interbeing concept to be true. I dont just mean in some abstract spiritual sense, but in a very scientific, epidemiological sense.

Interbeing comes up in a new version of the Five Mindfulness Trainings that you recently co-authored. These are words that are often recited in Buddhist circles, and theyre designed to make us more mindful of things like our consumption. But your version reframes all those trainings through the lens of racial justice. Can you give me a little snippet of the trainings that feels meaningful to you?

Heres a little part. This is the third contemplation.

I am committed to looking tenderly at my suffering, knowing that I am not separate from others, and that the seeds of suffering contain the seeds of joy. I am not afraid of bold love that fosters justice and belonging. And tender love that seeks peace and connection. I cherish myself and my suffering without discrimination. I cherish this body and mind as an act of healing for myself and for others. I cherish this breath. I cherish this moment. I cherish the liberation of all beings.

Beautiful. Thank you. You mentioned this idea that without suffering you cant have joy, that suffering contains the seeds of joy. And I know that is something Thich Nhat Hanh says often. He says the phrase, No mud, no lotus. If you dont have the mud, you cant have the beautiful flower that grows out of it.

But I want to talk about this in the context of the pandemic and the protests. On both the Covid-19 front and the racism front, which are interconnected, there is so much suffering. Honestly, how do you find seeds of joy in that?

The best way I can explain this is through my brother Trevor. Trevor died on February 21 in New York City. He was on the ventilator and probably on the beginning wave of Covid-19. I had a lot of suffering to see him die. It was very difficult for me. But one of the things that I realized in his online memorial is that the reason that I was grieving so much and felt so sad was because the love was so deep.

If he wasnt meaningful for me, if I didnt have that love, if it wasnt valuable, I probably wouldnt be suffering. But it was. I lost something valuable, something meaningful.

And so were fighting, peacefully, nonviolently, for something that is very important. And that is freedom and liberation and justice for a world that everyone can belong to. Thats a good thing.

First of all, Im really sorry to hear about your brother. And its amazing to me that you are able to, just a few months later, realize that the seed of beauty in this is that if there wasnt such preciousness here, you wouldnt have felt such grief.

You also just mentioned that youre fighting nonviolently for this cause that is really important and hopeful. I want to pick up on that thread of nonviolence.

Dr. King said, Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.

I dont know about you, but as a queer woman of color, I find it hard to do that sometimes. Can you talk a bit more about how we can keep feelings of bitterness and anger from overwhelming us when we see injustice? And Im also wondering, maybe sometimes anger isnt a bad thing? Maybe it can sometimes be a useful, galvanizing force to push us to fight for justice?

Its an important question. Anger can feel quite impulsive and fiery and seductive. It can feed the energy of violence.

And so the first thing Id say is that in the sutras, the Buddha refers to the mind as like a storehouse of seeds. So theres a seed of anger. A seed of fear. A seed of hope. And depending upon our thoughts or words or actions, these seeds get activated. You get cut off in traffic? Boom. The seed of anger gets watered or activated. You have a lovely conversation with a dear friend? The seed of gratitude gets nourished.

Part of taking good care of emotion, of hate in particular, is, number one, to recognize when its activated. Cant do much if youre unaware.

After that recognition is to calm ourselves through what we have thats a constant. Thats our own breathing. With time and with practice, we can use the breath to calm ourselves down. Not suppressing, not denying, not calling it disappointment when its actually rage. To be very clear, this is rage. And then breathing with that. Taking very good care of that energy.

What Ive come to understand is that that bitterness is a constriction in the heart. It actually makes me smaller. And so the invitation is to play in a bigger space. And the bigger space is love, is compassion. We are called into that bigger space. And were up for it.

Ive got to be honest. For me, to move from rage to love, thats a tall order. But what youre saying reminds me of this old Buddhist sutra, the Discourse on the Five Ways of Putting an End to Anger. One thing it says in that sutra is if someone is being unkind theyre probably suffering a lot. Maybe if I can remember that, it could help spark a bit of compassion in me for that person and maybe help me move the needle a bit from rage to love.

Another thing that sutra says is that the way we choose to direct our attention is crucial. If someone is acting with unkind words or unkind behaviors, we can choose to focus our attention on what theyre doing thats unkind. But the sutra says to try to actually redirect your attention to what in this person is kind, is good.

It reminds me of a calligraphy that Thich Nhat Hanh has that says, Are you sure? I can walk around with very fixed ideas, very attached to my own views. And so one of my deepest spiritual practices is to ask myself, Am I sure? What are my perceptions, assumptions, beliefs, and what is the lineage of all that? Where did that come from? How am I attached to it?

That kind of loosens things up. That mindset Ive got this idea, maybe Im right, maybe Im not right that allows for whatever the suffering is, whatever the aversion is, to have some flexibility.

In addition to this phrase, Are you sure?, one of the phrases I hear most often in the Buddhist context is this concept of taking refuge. I want to talk about refuge in the current moment, where were all dealing with a lot of stress and suffering.

If all one is after is a temporary refuge from suffering, there is a term for that trap: spiritual materialism, where youre just getting into meditation because you want some temporary material benefit or attainment. I wonder if you could tell us what you think is a better way to understand taking refuge. How can we use these practices in a way thats not selfish but is engaged with the broader ethical and political issues were all seeing right now?

Taking refuge is really important, especially at this time when theres so much upheaval. And that may feel like a really grand thing to say, to take refuge. But that can be as simple as taking refuge in this moment. Recognizing that I can breathe, I am alive, I can make a difference, I can contribute. Thats taking refuge. Thats not a small thing. Theres countless people who cannot do that.

The other thing I would say to the spiritual materialism point is that one of the foundations of mindfulness is ethics. There is an ethical component of it.

Often, in the United States, you see mindfulness sold in these packages that are all about focus, attention. Its so that I can do more, so I can get the promotion, so I can buy the car or whatever. Right? I even hear, as I say this, a kind of cynicism in myself. And I want to even question that, my own belief around that. But I would say that Ive seen a lot of that materialism myself. Its sad because there is such a critical component of mindfulness that is about the prosocial good. Were not only generating happiness within ourselves. We want to share that with other people.

We are quite good, particularly as Americans, at pursuing materialism, pursuing happiness. Not so good at generating it within ourselves and sharing that with other people. And so the basis for the whole practice is about creating a more peaceful society, a more compassionate society. This is something that we really cannot lose sight of.

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