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Because the longer you wait the more opportunity you pass up that goes to someone else. It might sound a little crazy and potentially hyperbolic, but your ability to move faster than everyone else matters. It matters because they don't have the same...
Posted: Dec 26, 2017

The only thing that's going to protect your agency's relevance is figuring out a way to handle all the business others can't. The industry isn't going to check with you before something big happens, and depending on who you talk to it could be a lot...
Posted: Dec 22, 2017

I don't know, maybe. Someone's got to do it though. If there was every a more appropriate chicken and egg occurrence it's this. Do you need to have the business to justify the marketing person or do you need the marketing person to justify the busine...
Posted: Dec 21, 2017

If you wait to find out, you'll probably never know. Because you'll never be ready to go after that sale or client you don't think you can handle. It's only when you act in uncertainty that you truly offer yourself a chance to grow. The worst that wi...
Posted: Dec 19, 2017

This is definitely one of the most unnecessary steps you should not be over thinking. It really comes down to discovery vs. delivery and which object is primary for your video. If you want the easy answer, there are very few times when YouTube isn't...
Posted: Dec 18, 2017

If the rate of change in your agency is slower than the what's happening outside of it, you might want to speed up. Refusing to increase your speed won't be optional much longer, if it hasn't become already. Because what will ultimately happen is you...
Posted: Dec 15, 2017

There's a good chance it took you a lot longer to figure out what it was and that you actually do. Because growing up around insurance allows you to unfairly take advantage of an industry that's long been exiled to irrelevance. It's this perception o...
Posted: Dec 14, 2017

If you don't, it might not be as intimidating as you think to start. Constantly being in front of a large number of the people you want to do business with can never be a bad thing. Figuring out a way to get there can lead to some questionably misinf...
Posted: Dec 12, 2017

If you don't, it doesn't matter how many answers you get, they'll all lead to the same place. This was supposed to be a practical conversation about the efficiency online scheduling offers you. However, as things do when Ryan Hanley is involved, the...
Posted: Dec 11, 2017

If it continues to prevent you from doing the things that people actually care about, maybe. It's also possible that you haven't accepted what professionalism actually looks like in a 2018 world. When you have the ability to see so much more of who s...
Posted: Dec 08, 2017