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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

How Do You Prepare to Dominate a New Year?
How Do You Prepare to Dominate a New Year?

Maybe you like to double down when everyone checks out or perhaps it's the perfect time to recharge without losing ground. Because one thing's for sure, it's hard to find two new years prep strategies that look the same. Sure, there's plenty of simil...

Posted: Dec 17, 2018

Do You Know How to Compete Against the Right Person?
Do You Know How to Compete Against the Right Person?

If not, you could be wasting a lot of energy and opportunity trying to start relationships the hard way. Ignoring what works is only going to hold your agency back from reaching the clients you truly want to do business with. It's amazing what you fi...

Posted: Dec 14, 2018

How Strong Should Your Content Machine Be?
How Strong Should Your Content Machine Be?

There's a good chance other things in your agency still get in the way of consistently creating content. Don't worry, it happens to everyone, the bigger question is how do you respond to it and make it harder to happen again? That's the most importan...

Posted: Dec 13, 2018

What Happens When You Encourage Culture that Cares?
What Happens When You Encourage Culture that Cares?

There's a good chance you'll see your agency have an impact on the community that you didn't think was possible. As a result, it will be extremely hard for that community you cared about first to ignore what you do. That's not even mentioning the amo...

Posted: Dec 12, 2018

What Happens When You Encourage Culture that Cares?
What Happens When You Encourage Culture that Cares?

Posted: Dec 12, 2018