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10/09/2020 · 6 min read
Every insurance agent has one asset no competitor can duplicate: their specific background, experiences, perspective, and communication voice. Agents who build on that identity compete in a category of one. Agents who hide it behind generic branding surrender the only advantage that cannot be commoditized.
10/07/2020 · 6 min read
Nicholas Ayers' updated YouTube ad playbook for insurance agents: custom intent audiences targeting recent searchers, shorter creative built on hook-problem-offer, layered local geo targeting, and retargeting people who already visited your site at a fraction of cold cost.
10/05/2020 · 6 min read
Practiced consistently, gratitude becomes a performance system: name three specific things every morning before opening email, track weekly wins to counter the scarcity narrative, deliver specific recognition to your team, and identify one win at end of day. Scarcity thinking produces short-cycle decisions. Grounded operators make better long-term ones.
10/02/2020 · 6 min read
Manage agency pressure with four moves: name what you're carrying out loud (isolation amplifies stress), triage to what's actually in your control today, protect one recovery block daily that doesn't move, and join a peer group where honest answers are welcome.
09/30/2020 · 6 min read
Run an insurance agency without trading away your family by setting non-negotiable hard stops on work, building systems so the agency runs without you, and having a specific schedule conversation with your spouse and kids. Integration is the goal. Balance is a myth that pretends everything gets equal weight.
09/28/2020 · 6 min read
At episode 205, Jason Feltman names the principle that runs through every Insurance Dudes conversation: full ownership of your agency's results. Not market blame, not carrier blame. The lever is in your hands. Celebrate the team, take the responsibility, keep building.
09/25/2020 · 6 min read
Four negative patterns quietly kill agency growth: victim thinking about the market, comparison to the wrong benchmarks, procrastinating on the conversation you are avoiding, and treating activity as achievement. Audit your own patterns and replace the most expensive one first.
09/23/2020 · 6 min read
Tommy Breedlove walked away from a high-finance career, rebuilt his identity, and became a bestselling author. Real comeback starts with clarity about what you want, identity change as the lever, and community to keep you out of the old patterns.
09/21/2020 · 6 min read
The single self-inquiry question that unlocks agency growth: what would I have to believe to get this result? Run it forward on your goals and backward on your current results. The gap between what you say you believe and what your actions show is where your growth is stuck.
09/18/2020 · 6 min read
Action-orientation, doing the specific work that moves the needle, is the single trait most predictive of agency growth. Build it by tightening decision speed, shortening the gap between decision and motion, and tracking completed outputs instead of daily intentions.
09/16/2020 · 6 min read
Mitch Dunford built online insurance distribution in the late 1990s before aggregators, comparison engines, or digital lead playbooks existed. His pioneer-era lessons still drive agency results: trust is the primary conversion variable, lead quality beats lead volume, and technology reshapes the agent role instead of erasing it.
09/14/2020 · 6 min read
Imperfect action beats perfect planning because action generates the only data that actually matters: how your market responds to your specific approach. Pick one thing you have been preparing for thirty days, take the first step today, and hold yourself to a daily yes-or-no check.
09/11/2020 · 6 min read
Focus is architecture, not willpower. Anchor your day to three goals, protect one strategic block per week, run a Friday reset, and say no on purpose. Those four structural moves prevent the slow drift that swallows most agency quarters.
09/09/2020 · 5 min read
Build a commercial referral engine by partnering with CPAs, attorneys, payroll providers, and bankers your clients already use. Formalize referral arrangements where compliant. Track every referral in both directions. Qualified inbound commercial leads close at higher rates than any internet lead and cost only your time.
09/07/2020 · 5 min read
Insurance agent burnout recovery is structural, not a vacation. Give yourself genuine permission to operate differently, run an honest hour-by-hour audit of where your week leaks, and build non-optional recovery protocols around sleep, exercise, and decompression.
09/04/2020 · 6 min read
Empathy is a production multiplier, not a soft skill. Lead with curiosity in one-on-ones, learn each producer's actual motivator, deliver hard feedback in a way it lands, and treat conversations as information gathering. Highest leverage: staff retention, client retention, owner decisions.
09/02/2020 · 7 min read
Leadership is a responsibility agency owners accept the moment they hire. Kris Plachy teaches four practices: written, specific expectations, performance conversations separated from the relationship, coaching toward the answer instead of giving it, and the clean transition when coaching has run its course.
08/31/2020 · 6 min read
Move the needle in your insurance agency today by identifying which of five conditions is your real constraint (production, retention, team, leadership, or financial clarity) and taking one concrete action against it before close of business. 250 days of compounding beats waiting for the right moment.
08/28/2020 · 6 min read
Five agency fundamentals determine whether advanced strategy has anything to land on: follow-up cadence above five touches, quote-to-close ratio tracking, retention as a revenue strategy, staff accountability to specific metrics, and owner time allocation above 70% on growth work. Skip any one and the book stagnates.
08/26/2020 · 6 min read
GloveBox's scaling playbook applies to any P&C agency: reduce friction in the client experience first (a client who finds their ID card has fewer reasons to shop), build fast feedback loops with producers and clients, define who decides what across partners, and document processes before hiring into them.
