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Growth Agent Insight
PRESSURE AND GOALS
Early in my sales career, I had the opportunity to go to New York City for some sales training with the Guardian life insurance company. ...
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Growth Agent Insight
STRATEGIES FOR GROWTH IN 2020
We’re entering the final stretch of 2019, and I hope you’ve had an incredible year. Regardless of how 2019 has turned out, 2020 and the results ...
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Growth Agent Insight
THE ROAD LESS STUPID
I find that most entrepreneurs are doers, not thinkers. I know in my business career that I am often busy just trying to keep up. Finding time to ...
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Growth Agent Insight
It Takes Teamwork to be Successful
I’d like to talk about the importance of teamwork in an insurance agency. I just returned from a fantastic pheasant hunting trip to South Dakota. ...
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Growth Agent Insight
Success and Successful Habits
My business coach Dan Sullivan, the founder of The Strategic Coach, says that the difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is ...
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Growth Agent Insight
Focus and Intentionality
As an entrepreneur, especially one who’s growing an agency, there are so many hats you have to wear and so many things that you have to do every ...
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Growth Agent Insight
What We Can All Learn from T. Boone Pickens
In 2019, we lost an incredible entrepreneur in America, and one of my personal heroes, T. Boone Pickens, who passed away at the age of 91.
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Growth Agent Insight
Where Will They All Come From?
My experience tells me that it takes five years to develop a well-trained commercial lines customer service ...
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"Feed My Sheep"
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Growth Agent Insight
Automating the Tough One