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Rebuilding State Auto: A CEO's Story With Mike LaRocco (Full Interview)
Rebuilding State Auto: A CEO's Story With Mike LaRocco (Full Interview)

Posted: Apr 27, 2018

What Holds You Back The Most
What Holds You Back The Most

Is the lack of trust and respect you have for making sure people know you're an expert. If there's one thing you should be doing on the internet for your agency, it's distributing your insurance brain to as many people in as many places as you can. W...

Posted: Apr 26, 2018

Passing the Torch: How to Recruit the Next Generation of Insurance Professionals
Passing the Torch: How to Recruit the Next Generation of Insurance Professionals

If you want to build a business and avoid becoming a slave to your agency, you have to find the next generation of agents. This has to be one of the most important things you do over the next five, 10, 15 or 20 years. You really don't have a choice,...

Posted: Apr 25, 2018

How It All Works Faster
How It All Works Faster

Is by making sure you always know who needs to do what, when. Because when you do, you'll limit the amount on enthusiasm you kill delaying progress. The longer you make something take, the less that will get done. This is also true if you're always t...

Posted: Apr 24, 2018

The Family Tie is Hard to Cut
The Family Tie is Hard to Cut

For whatever reason we like to sell insurance with people who normally have the same last name. It's all possible we just suffer from some undiagnosable form of mental illness to prefer to do business this way. Or there could be unexplainable benefit...

Posted: Apr 23, 2018

How Long Should You Wait for Your SEO?
How Long Should You Wait for Your SEO?

I doubt that you are, because it's really hard to keep doing something you don't think is working. Not to mention you could've have missed something and waited all that time for nothing... Doesn't SEO sound great? Guess what though, if you can surviv...

Posted: Apr 21, 2018

Woody Brown: The Origin of a Creative Insurance Agent
Woody Brown: The Origin of a Creative Insurance Agent

It's hard to capture and even harder to recreate, now matter what it's dangerous inside your agency. The truth is, it's so rare to find most agencies don't know what's possible if they had it. That thing, of course, is creativity and the lack of it f...

Posted: Apr 20, 2018

The Power of Video Gear
The Power of Video Gear

Is so out of control if you realized what's possible you'd spend threes times more. The problem is the mindset you approach the purchase with. That is it's something that isn't really necessary and ineffective. That mindset is easy to have not knowin...

Posted: Apr 19, 2018

Breaking Customer Inertia with Jeremy Hallett
Breaking Customer Inertia with Jeremy Hallett

Are you brave enough to actually do the things you wish could be done different? It seems like everyone loves to play armchair InsurTech CEO these days, but actually making it on the field is entirely different. That first step is much easier when yo...

Posted: Apr 18, 2018

When Should You Hire the Next Person?
When Should You Hire the Next Person?

The better question is, what should they actually be doing? Because if you think you need a person, there's a good chance that you actually need a person. What isn't so obvious is the type of work this person will be doing and seeing if it can be fou...

Posted: Apr 17, 2018