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08/21/2019 · 6 min read
Content is a positioning strategy, not a marketing tactic. Insurance agents win by guesting on adjacent-industry podcasts, collaborating across audiences instead of competing, and repurposing every conversation into clips, posts, and emails. The compounding plays out over years, not weeks.
08/19/2019 · 6 min read
Laura Harris built an agency that runs 30 days without her by documenting every process before delegating, surrendering the outcome but not the standard, measuring process adherence (not just revenue), and building cross-training redundancy. Train your team on the system, not on how you do it.
08/13/2019 · 6 min read
Turn cold leads into lifetime clients with Nato Guajardo's relationship marketing system: lead with value not a quote, automate follow-up over 90 days while keeping conversations personal, and measure touchpoints and retention, not just policies sold. 97% of leads aren't ready today, but they buy later if you're still there.
08/06/2019 · 6 min read
Scale-agnostic operator rules from Alex Mehr's $1B portfolio: prove product-market fit with data before spending on marketing, track unit economics by lead, quote, and bind, ship and iterate over plan and perfect, hire for learning velocity, and diversify revenue.
07/30/2019 · 6 min read
Captive agents build to millions in premium by mastering retention, investing in community, and cross-selling every household into multi-policy relationships. New business is one to seven the cost of retention. Treat the agency like a business, leverage the carrier's brand, then decide stay-or-independent on real facts.
07/26/2019 · 5 min read
Stop asking what you need to do and start asking who you need to know. About 70% of an agency owner's task list can be solved faster by the right connection. Build a weekly WHO list of three to five people alongside your to-do list and watch leverage replace grind.
07/23/2019 · 6 min read
Neal Tricarico's sales mastery framework, learned with Tony Robbins and proven at the Chopra Center, built a $2M insurance book on five practices: manage your state before every call, run strategic empathy, use precision language, reframe objections through curiosity, and treat mastery as daily practice.
07/16/2019 · 6 min read
The average agency loses 15 to 20 percent of its book annually to preventable attrition, mostly because nobody followed up between the sale and the renewal. Automation fixes this by making consistent follow-up the default. Automate service workflows as aggressively as sales workflows. That is where retention and profit live.
07/09/2019 · 5 min read
Mindset is the operating system for insurance sales and agency ownership. Shift from outcome attachment to process commitment, reframe every no as data, stop comparing to highlight reels, prioritize sleep and movement, and curate the circle around you. Internal state shows up in external results.
07/03/2019 · 5 min read
Stephanie Hamilton runs multiple mega agencies and identifies five operational non-negotiables: hiring is the most important activity, every process must be documented, sales management and service management require separate leaders, structured communication rhythms replace informal alignment, and retention starts on day one of onboarding.
06/28/2019 · 5 min read
Build a personal brand that sells without a big ad budget by treating every piece of content as an investment, choosing names and language that trigger emotional response, working from abundance not scarcity, and collaborating with adjacent service providers instead of competing with them.
06/25/2019 · 5 min read
Bobby Stocks built a Two Comma Club business on five marketing pillars: surgically specific targeting, offer-first (the ad is the delivery vehicle), relentless testing with fast kills, layered social proof at every funnel stage, and reinvesting profit into education every month. Stop running generic ads; build offers.
06/20/2019 · 5 min read
Austin Moorehead helps insurance agencies convert more leads by automating repetitive follow-up, hitting new internet leads inside five minutes (21x lift), and tracking every touchpoint. Humans handle judgment calls. Machines handle the scaffolding. Start with one sequence, measure it, then layer on the next.
06/18/2019 · 7 min read
Bryan Falchuk's framework has four parts: identity precedes behavior (decide who you are before you change what you do), systems over heroics (build pathways that run without motivation), small wins compound (one percent better across five metrics changes a P&L), and adversity is data, not destiny.
06/12/2019 · 7 min read
Double production with half the staff in four steps: document every recurring workflow, automate the handoffs (lead routing, follow-ups, onboarding), hire by output rather than by function, and measure weekly dashboards. Audit your team's time. Anything over 40% low-value is a systems problem.
06/07/2019 · 6 min read
Tracy Morgan's Bugatti collision shows why state-minimum liability is a financial-ruin trap for clients. Use the story to drive three conversations: raise liability limits, add a million-dollar umbrella for two to three hundred dollars a year, and stack adequate UM/UIM.
06/04/2019 · 6 min read
Your lead source data is probably lying to you. The five numbers that matter: cost per lead by source, 5-minute contact rate, quote-to-bind ratio, 12-month retention, and lifetime value. Scale what works, kill what doesn't.
05/27/2019 · 6 min read
InsurTech wins where the work is commoditized (personal auto, renters) and loses where it is complex. Independent agents survive by leaning into commercial lines, high-net-worth, and consultative coverage, then using back-end automation (raters, CRMs, remarketing) to one-person-leverage a book that used to need three.
05/24/2019 · 6 min read
Serial entrepreneurs build durable businesses by treating tiger mentality as stamina (not aggression), letting personal loss deepen their purpose instead of disqualifying it, leading with generosity that attracts better people, and gaining compounding wisdom from diverse ventures. Single-focus operators burn out faster than multi-purpose builders.
05/21/2019 · 6 min read
Dan Herrenbruck runs an $18M book in Florida without writing home insurance. He writes 500 new items a year just to maintain the book, funded by always-on marketing, service-driven retention without the bundle anchor, and hiring run like a marketing funnel.