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Insurance Agency Management

Increase Office Hours to Grow Your Insurance Agency

While on vacation in Honolulu some years back, my son broke a previously repaired front tooth. Because he was a teenager, this was a big deal to ...

By Tony Caldwell

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Insurance Agency Management

Hire for Attitude Train for Skill

There was a discussion I participated in recently on an on line forum for pilots which I frequent regarding how to hire salespeople. To be ...

By OAA Admin

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Insurance Agency Management

Mass Produced Customization

I have written recently that I believe the insurance agency distribution model is going to go through a rapid and irreversible set of changes that ...

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Insurance Agency Management

Campaigning and Serving

It’s political campaign season and in my house this is a subject of a great deal of attention as my wife is a political consultant. While we ...

By OAA Admin

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Insurance Agency Management

Old is New (again)

I recently had an interesting discussion with a senior executive with one of the largest, strongest and fastest growing insurance companies in ...

By OAA Admin

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Insurance Agency Management

Are Captive Agents Writing PAP’s Doomed?

The personal package policy of auto and homeowner’s insurance has been the bread and butter of the captive and direct writer insurance companies ...

By OAA Admin

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Insurance Sales

The 3 Acts of Selling Insurance

As a young man I read Ernest Hemingway with great enthusiasm. Several of his books discussed bullfighting and I’ve always wanted to attend a ...

By Tony Caldwell

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Insurance Sales

Success in Business Comes from Never Giving Up

Hard work, long hours and vision as I have pointed out are required to be successful in building any business including an insurance agency. ...

By OAA Admin

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Insurance Agency Management

More on Success in Business

In my last post I discussed the fact that long hours throughout the life of a business are required for the owner to make the business a ...

By OAA Admin

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Insurance Agency Management

What is Required to Be Successful in Building an Agency

From my vantage point of helping entrepreneurs start, build and operate insurance agencies I have developed some strong opinions about what is ...

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