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Every Sale is Easy When It Starts With Thank You
Every Sale is Easy When It Starts With Thank You

That's generally the level of appreciation you receive when the relationship starts in the right place. Every insurance agent has started a conversation with "I know you're busy, but I just need a moment of your time." What if you could completely tu...

Posted: Aug 10, 2018

Are Your Topic Clusters Big Enough to be Found?
Are Your Topic Clusters Big Enough to be Found?

Or maybe the better question is, do you have enough content to cluster? This might be one of the easiest marketing tactics to follow that can ultimately dictate your strategy. If you focus on topic clusters, it makes it really easy to understand how...

Posted: Aug 09, 2018

Are You Getting the Most Value Out of Your People?
Are You Getting the Most Value Out of Your People?

There's a good chance they're not if their still doing basic service work. With back office support companies becoming more reliable and relevant traditional service roles can do non traditional tasks. If you crunch the numbers, you'll almost always...

Posted: Aug 07, 2018

How to Increase Your High-Net-Worth Clients?
How to Increase Your High-Net-Worth Clients?

The answers is probably already sitting in your agency, you're just not paying enough attention to it. Not to mention it might take a lot longer than you want or need it to. Regardless of what you might think, there's not much difference between an a...

Posted: Aug 06, 2018

How to Want to be an Insurance Agent
How to Want to be an Insurance Agent

It's not easy changing the perception of what people think it's like being an insurance agent. It might be one of the greatest challenges we will have to overcome recruiting top level young talent. Right now, one of the only things surviving several...

Posted: Aug 03, 2018

Is Your Career Built On the Most Useful Foundation Possible?
Is Your Career Built On the Most Useful Foundation Possible?

If not, you could be spending a lot of time on something you're trying not to do. Maybe that's important. Maybe it builds character. Maybe that's why we're still doing it. Or maybe we don't need to waste that much time and there might be a more focus...

Posted: Aug 02, 2018

What Do You Need to Know for Long-Term Growth?
What Do You Need to Know for Long-Term Growth?

Sometimes it's good to know if you're keeping up with the best of the best. But, just because you are now doesn't mean it's going to stay that way forever. Because there comes a time during every agency's growth where the potential is challenged. It'...

Posted: Jul 31, 2018

Is Your Compensation Good Enough to be Accountable?
Is Your Compensation Good Enough to be Accountable?

It's certainly one of the easiest ways to kill two birds with one stone. No one wants to tell someone they're not doing a good job, that's why accountability can be a tricky thing. Even worse, no one really wants to not pay someone because of that la...

Posted: Jul 30, 2018

How to Make Everyone Want to Show Up for Insurance
How to Make Everyone Want to Show Up for Insurance

It's not the easiest thing to do for the people buying it or the agents selling it. There's a good chance it might all come down to communication and how much may or may not be happening. It's always the person who has something to say that's respons...

Posted: Jul 27, 2018

Are You Good Enough to Make an Emotional Sale?
Are You Good Enough to Make an Emotional Sale?

It's real easy to talk yourself into thinking you talk too much about insurance. The truth is, it's what you do best and it's really hard to give people too many facts about it. However, one thing that usually goes dramatically overlooked is your abi...

Posted: Jul 26, 2018