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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

Why Feedback is the Most Important Thing
Why Feedback is the Most Important Thing

If you want to get better faster you're going to want to ask for as much qualified feedback as you can get. When you become fearless of people's opinions of your work, an endless sea of possibilities become available to you. There will also come a po...

Posted: Dec 20, 2018

How to Be Patient Long Enough to Get Rewarded
How to Be Patient Long Enough to Get Rewarded

If there was one thing every agency owner has been guilty of at some point in their insurance career, it's this. Sticking with things long enough to see results is a really hard thing to de especially if you're not sure it's going to work. This is ev...

Posted: Dec 19, 2018

Perfection Is The Death of Implementation
Perfection Is The Death of Implementation

If it sounds like you've heard this before, it's because there's a very good chance you have. That doesn't stop it from being true and one of the most difficult things to overcome when getting starting with content. It's very natural to want to chase...

Posted: Dec 18, 2018