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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
Tracking five lead metrics turns marketing spend into a scalable system: cost per lead by source, contact rate within 5 minutes, quote-to-bind ratio, 12-month retention, and lifetime customer value. The numbers tell you which sources to scale and which to kill.
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.
05/15/2019 · 6 min read
Internet leads are aggregated, validated, scored, and priced based on conversion data the vendor tracks on you. Speed-to-contact under 60 seconds drives the bind. Exclusive often isn't exclusive. Source quality varies. Ask for source-level data and your own close rate vs other buyers.
05/09/2019 · 6 min read
Run an agency the way DAC runs Fortune 500 brands: own local search before anything else, treat brand as every digital touchpoint, integrate paid and organic, and track three numbers (cost per lead, cost per acquisition, retention). Data without action is expensive trivia.
05/07/2019 · 6 min read
Nicholas Ayers books insurance appointments on YouTube by answering the exact questions prospects type into search at 11 PM, publishing longer videos with consistent cadence, and putting a direct booking link in every description. Phone camera and clear thumbnails beat studio production.
05/06/2019 · 7 min read
Insurance agency culture wins when the owner designs it on purpose. Skip Nichols and Josh Kelley (the Sock Dudes) cut turnover by giving the team a shared identity, visible leadership, and zero tolerance for culture killers. Comp plans come second.