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Do You Need to Escape to Unlock Your Ultimate Success?
Do You Need to Escape to Unlock Your Ultimate Success?

You might if no one else wants to do the things your confident will drive business in the future. Because you can only wait so long before that unattained success starts to permanently slow you down. Once you're free it's about dedicating yourself to...

Posted: Jan 07, 2019

How Serious Do You Need To Be About Your Referral Partners?
How Serious Do You Need To Be About Your Referral Partners?

It's a question you ask yourself too often, especially when you're pretty sure you know the answer. Of course, you're serious about them, but is there a completely different level of attention you can give them? In all the but the most extreme circum...

Posted: Jan 04, 2019

How Big Is Your Insurance Purpose?
How Big Is Your Insurance Purpose?

The only way to know is to try and find enough people who also care about it as much as you do. Then you'll truly be able to gauge the level of impact you can have and if that will translate to the bottom line. If both of those things don't become tr...

Posted: Jan 03, 2019

What Happens After the Death of InsurTech Hype?
What Happens After the Death of InsurTech Hype?

The reality is most of these new-fangled technology focused insurance companies haven't been as successful as they want you to think. Time might be running out for some as 2019 might finally be the year people start looking for those returns on that...

Posted: Jan 02, 2019

Who Needs Incentive to Win the Sale?
Who Needs Incentive to Win the Sale?

There's a good chance you have plenty, it's the other people involved in the process that could use a little more. It might seem obvious, but it's certainly one of the easiest things to overlook and potentially be unaware of. Because without the prop...

Posted: Jan 01, 2019

How High Do You Need to Be On The Insurance Food Chain?
How High Do You Need to Be On The Insurance Food Chain?

That's certainly one of the most important questions you can work on answering over the next five to 10 years. No matter what the answer is, the higher you can get the better chance you have of sticking around. Because Artificial Intelligence gets re...

Posted: Dec 31, 2018

Two Things You Should Be Doing in 2019
Two Things You Should Be Doing in 2019

Can really be boiled down to simplifying work you've already done to maximize the effectiveness of your newly gained expertise. If you spent most of 2018 with your head down creating awesome content all over the internet, it might be time in 2019 to...

Posted: Dec 28, 2018

Can Your Agency Handle a New Employee?
Can Your Agency Handle a New Employee?

That depends on how often it happens and how much you need them to do something. It's never easy bringing in a new human being into your agency, sometimes it works great, sometimes not so much. A more interesting question to ask might be if they need...

Posted: Dec 27, 2018

What Happens When You Realize Your Open API is Overrated
What Happens When You Realize Your Open API is Overrated

It's certainly not something you hear every day, but if you take time to dig beneath the surface it starts to make more sense. That's because most open API's are built to be shallower than a kiddy pool. True integrations are made through intentional...

Posted: Dec 24, 2018

The Reality of Being a Third Generation Agent
The Reality of Being a Third Generation Agent

Certainly comes with a history of insurance that's hard to get away from. Most of the time that's a good thing because you have a community that has been conditioned over multiple generations to know, like and trust you. Of course, that can come at t...

Posted: Dec 21, 2018