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02/19/2020 · 7 min read
Grow an agency faster with four moves: show up daily with mechanical consistency, give educational value before asking for business, ruthlessly simplify to two or three highest-leverage activities, and shift identity from "agent who markets" to "marketer who happens to sell insurance."
02/10/2020 · 7 min read
John Lee Dumas built Entrepreneurs On Fire into one of the most successful business podcasts in history. His principles of discipline, content creation, and audience-first thinking apply directly to insurance agents who want to grow beyond their current ceiling.
01/31/2020 · 7 min read
PJ Lewis built an insurance agency from nothing by starting before he was ready: licensed at 18, file clerk by day, prospecting cold by night. The blueprint is internal locus of control, full-stack operational learning, and stabilizing yourself before scaling anything else.
01/27/2020 · 7 min read
Cody Askins built four insurance companies and crossed $5M in sales by age 28 by treating growth as an investment, not a reward. He hired before revenue justified it, ran multi-company architecture instead of one agency, and removed decision fatigue from daily production.
01/24/2020 · 7 min read
Agency ownership in a catastrophe-prone market like Colorado requires deep local risk expertise, education-first selling, strategic carrier relationships, and real community presence. The compound effect of referrals, retention, and book equity kicks in around year four or five, but only for agents who keep going.
01/20/2020 · 7 min read
Bill Cline survived year one of agency ownership by accepting the valley (months 4-8) as a feature, banking 12 months of personal living expenses on top of business capital, outworking larger agencies on response time, and investing in community presence before digital spend. Track warm-market vs cold-market close rates separately.
01/10/2020 · 6 min read
Build breakthroughs across mind, body, and business by treating them as one system: daily mental training, four workouts a week with seven hours of sleep, and documented agency systems that run independent of the owner's energy. Discipline transfers from one domain to all three.
12/27/2019 · 7 min read
Stefan Aarnio's three closing pillars translated for P&C: expect the close before you open your mouth, treat every objection as a buying signal that maps the path to yes, and compress the timeline (present and close same call, not next week). Ask for the business more than once.
12/23/2019 · 7 min read
The rain barrel effect: every stressor (bad sleep, fast food, no movement, chronic stress) adds a drop until the barrel overflows as burnout, autoimmune issues, or a heart event at 48. Agency cognitive function drops with the leader's. Fix sleep, food, and daily movement first.
12/09/2019 · 6 min read
Shaan Patel's underdog playbook turns constraints into advantages, systematizes expertise into scalable assets, and prepares obsessively for high-stakes moments. Insurance agents who package their proprietary process the way Patel packaged SAT prep stop trading hours for dollars and build agencies that scale past personal capacity.
12/02/2019 · 6 min read
Pro skater Mikey Taylor runs Commune Capital, a private equity real estate firm, by transferring four skating skills: productive suffering through repetition, calculated risk assessment, brand equity that compounds, and team leverage. The same traits scale insurance agencies.
11/21/2019 · 7 min read
Break through the agency plateau with three moves: pay for structured mentorship with weekly accountability, build documented systems before you scale headcount, and treat your agency as a platform that can produce training, marketing, and coaching ventures alongside the book.
11/04/2019 · 6 min read
Travis Chappell says the entrepreneurial drive is innate, but networking determines how far it carries you. His method: pick ten target relationships, give value before asking, then propose a mutual arrangement. A local-business podcast doubles as a credibility-and-referral engine.
10/25/2019 · 6 min read
Patrick Bet-David built an insurance empire on three principles: full commitment with no backup plan, deliberate mentorship up and down, and content that compounds attention. Insurance agents can copy the framework without the refugee origin story.
09/30/2019 · 7 min read
Triumph is different because Justin Harkleroad is launching it as a branded entrepreneurial event, not opening it as another quote-on-rate shop. The model pairs grand opening momentum and Fort Wayne community presence with the production systems that turn local relationships into a scalable book.
09/27/2019 · 7 min read
Garrett J. White's Warrior Way teaches insurance agents that business performance is downstream of body, being, and balance. Build all four domains daily or expect collapse: physical health, clear purpose, relationship investment, then business. Sixty-hour weeks on coffee and fast food are a debt that always comes due.
09/20/2019 · 7 min read
Fractional CFO Courtney Epps says agency owners overpay by treating taxes annually, missing the S-Corp election (worth $10K to $30K a year over $80K income), and mixing personal with business finances. Hire a fractional CFO at $1,500 to $5,000 monthly and track CAC, retention, owner comp, and cash reserves.
09/13/2019 · 6 min read
Ryan Chao ran an office for one of the country's top-producing agents, then launched his own. The difference between agents who succeed at the startup leap and those who crash is preparation in three areas: financial runway, documented operational systems, and carrier and community relationships built before launch day.
09/06/2019 · 7 min read
Walter Bayliss's three operator rules: mediocrity is the real risk, speed of implementation is the only competitive advantage that compounds, and build assets (book, systems, brand) over hourly income. Audit your week. Less than 20% on asset-building work means you're self-employed, not an owner.
08/26/2019 · 6 min read
Trey Lewellen's four-step funnel framework applies straight to insurance: a hook that stops the scroll, a story that builds connection, a specific offer (not 'free quote'), and an automated follow-up machine. Most agencies skip three of the four and wonder why internet leads convert at single digits.