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Insurance Marketing
How To Create A Business Plan for Your Insurance Agency
“What’s the plan?” That’s the question my wife and I ask each other every day about 3:00 in the afternoon. We have pretty busy lives with ...
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Guides
Hiring Insurance Agents and agency Employees
Contents The First Questions Hire in order ...
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Growth Agent Insight
Automate Your Marketing Processes to Maximize Growth
Growing your insurance company means finding qualified leads and nurturing and servicing current ones, but running your agency means wearing a lot ...
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Growth Agent Insight
Producers and Service Centers
“Never hire a producer until you have no other choice”. ...
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Growth Agent Insight
What is Spread?
I've talked before about the importance of knowing your ...
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Growth Agent Insight
Eliminating Difficult Customers to Create Growth
I remember 1997 I got the opportunity to hear a man named Roger Sitkins speak for the first time, and he changed my ...
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Growth Agent Insight
Scarce = Value
"That which becomes scarce becomes more valuable." - Dan Sullivan Dan is ...
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Growth Agent Insight
Pay Your Business First
That was something I learned from my business partner, Ken Anderson. I don't know where he picked up the idea, but ...
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Growth Agent Insight
Creating the Culture You Want
Nearly 25 years ago I became a partner in an existing business. While this was a fantastic opportunity for me it was a difficult ...
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Growth Agent Insight
EBITDA
I have talked to business owners a lot about this term EBITDA, and they look at me with a puzzled look. They've either not heard it before, or ...