Senior Market Insurance Agent Blog

Level Up: Starting an Agency with the Licensed Only Agent (LOA) Model

May 3, 2021

By John Hockaday and Jeff Sams If you've been a successful agent for a few years, you might decide you want to start bringing on some new agents underneath you. If you're going to do it, I really…

Cover Your Bases: How to Use LinkedIn for Agent Recruiting

August 17, 2020

If you are looking to recruit more agents for your agency, LinkedIn could be a great place to invest some time. LinkedIn is built for business networking, and many business professionals use it to…

Level Up: How to Start Building an Insurance Agency

July 28, 2020

If you're a rockstar producer interested in starting an agency, you have a choice: do I want to continue serving clients, or do I want to get into management?

Cover Your Bases: How to Increase Productivity In Your Insurance Agency

June 15, 2020

As an insurance agency owner, you want to make sure your agents are being as productive as possible. The money coming in the door directly reflects how well they're using their time. There's so much…

Cover Your Bases: How to Set Meaningful Goals for Your Insurance Agency

November 26, 2019

The best way to take control of your insurance agency's future is to set some meaningful goals. Setting goals is one of the trickiest tasks we face each year, and there's a lot that goes into it.…

How to Manage Growth as a One-Person Insurance Agency

April 2, 2019

If you're an insurance agent, you know that your time is best spent in front of the client. All of that behind-the-scenes work like scheduling appointments, fixing errors on applications, and running…

[Case Study] How We Built Our Local Insurance Agency

November 27, 2018

Over 30 years ago, John and I started our local insurance agency. We went through all those growing pains, from making expensive marketing mistakes to finding and hiring the right staff members.…