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Autopilot Marketing

One of the problems in growing an insurance agency is once we run out of friends, family and our Christmas card list, where do we find new ...

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Turning Disaster Into Dollars

A lot of the conversations I have in this business revolve around claims. Discussions of loss ratios, catastrophic claims and simple fires ...

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What’s the Plan?

That’s the question my wife and I ask each other every day about 3:00 o’clock in the afternoon. We have pretty busy lives with multiple ...

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Managing Producers (Know when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em)

About 10 years ago I attended Dynamics of Sales Management, which is a program put on by the folks who have the CIC and CISR programs. It ...

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Still Contemplating Hiring a Bloodsucker (Producer)?

In my last post I ran through the real costs of hiring an “employee” known as a producer. Some of you, I am sure, are arguing with me that I ...

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So You Want to Hire a Producer?

If you’ve been reading my blog you already know I think this is a bad idea for most small agencies. Insurance producers take a lot more ...

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A Great Agency Owner is a Terrible Thing to Waste!

Many years ago, the United Negro College Fund (I told you it was many years ago!) had a series of TV ads with the slogan “A mind is a ...

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It’s Commission NOT Premium!

I talk to lots of insurance agency owners. In OAA we now have about 90 partner insurance agencies so there’s lots of them to talk to and, ...

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How Much?

Recently, I posted that the Silver Bullet to agency growth is activity. One of the natural questions is how ...

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