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Can be excruciating or possibly the greatest thing you've ever done. Honestly, the choice is yours initially. However, as you start to see what's involved it should become painfully obvious. When you rise to the Insurance Mindset Challenge, you're re...
Posted: Jul 19, 2018

If you're going to do something dramatic, you minds well go all in. It doesn't matter if it means moving office locations, encouraging people not to show up there or deciding once and for all who your best client is. Taking that decision to the the n...
Posted: Jul 17, 2018

It should mean we've finally made it to a place where it's not even close to the first thing we think about. It would actually cease to be a topic of discussion and occupy a level of normality never seen before. It's something that some of us have to...
Posted: Jul 16, 2018

It seems like everyone has the answers to your agency's problems. The only catch is you have to follow them down their rabbit hole to find out if it's worth your time. Even then it could be months, maybe even years, before you realize the full scope...
Posted: Jul 13, 2018

Not many agencies are brave enough to fix what isn't broken to build something better. It's during that construction process that you'll truly be tested on the strength of your structure. But that's exactly what will happen if you want to try and rea...
Posted: Jul 12, 2018

Companies spend a lot of money to make sure people know who they are. The only thing you have to do is tell them what they want to know. That's the hard part and only something a valued "objective" third party can do. You're that third party, some mi...
Posted: Jul 10, 2018

When you run a lean, mean scratch digital agency like Erin Nutting, you have no choice. It's by embracing the advanced systems (and automation) at every turn that will make your life easier. It's everything from managements systems to the process beh...
Posted: Jul 09, 2018

If it's not great there's a really good chance your new customers will never want to do business with you again. Joey Coleman took the stage at Elevate 2018 to show everyone just how powerful that short amount of time can be for your business. Your o...
Posted: Jul 06, 2018

You might have no clue just how easy it is to make sure that never happens. All you have to be willing to do is say something (anything) about them before they do about you. That shouldn't be that hard because it's certainly an idea that 99 percent o...
Posted: Jul 05, 2018

There comes a point in every agency where the things you have to do prevent you from doing what needs to be done. It's this disproportionate balance of activities that usually leads to burnout and despair. Let's be honest, there's a reason you made i...
Posted: Jul 03, 2018