Tag: Insurance

Episode 151: C + F + D =

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When you access that extra capacity within you and realize that it has always been with you, that is when you realize that you have been making up excuses in your mind.   Recently I have been realizing how little of our capacity we have been accessing and so I want to take you through a formula to help you become more.

Key Takeaways:

  • Most people maybe use 15 to 20% of their total capacity in their mind alone
  • What we put into our mind means everything as far as results in our business and our life
  • You’ve got to implement consistency into your life, into your habits into your daily regimen, whatever that looks like, no excuses.
  • Stay focused. Follow one course until success or you will be left behind.
  • You must discipline yourself so no one else needs to.
  • Now that you have the key components of the equation what does it equal?

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

 

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
Call 800-770-9984
Email [email protected]

Episode 150: You Have a Duty and a Responsibility to Find More

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What does a four-mile run every four hours for 48 hours have to do with managing an insurance company? More than you think.

Join me today in a roundtable discussion with Patty Lares, Bill Butler, and Chris Paradiso as we discuss completing the Goggins Challenge.  We not only share our experiences of this adventure, but we also talk about the mindset and values that this event has highlighted in ourselves and within each other.

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Life is a head game
  • Live a mission-driven life
  • Don’t be the racehorse chasing the carrot. You will never catch forever trying to prove yourself to yourself.
  • Don’t surround yourself with people that speak to your desire for comfort
  • Most wars are won or lost in our head and remember you are not alone in the foxhole
  • Failure is all about repetition
  • Do not let anyone cap your potential

 

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

 

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
Call 800-770-9984
Email [email protected]

Episode 149: Attracting Your Dream Clients

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The goal of every agency is to write plans for your ideal dream client, no matter what your niche is.  In this episode, I am going to help you gain the insight and clarity to define what your dream client looks like and how you can reach them.

Highlights:

  • The Art of Disqualification and what that means for you
  • Who are your dream clients and how do you attract them? It starts with the 3 M’s of marketing
  • The first M is Marketplace. What are your demographics, psychographic, and geographics?
  • Uncover the Return of Investment of finding your dream client
  • A look into creating a shortlist of your personal and business dream client and creating a “client avatar”
  • The second M is Message. Discover the 5 trigger words of copy.
  • Learn how to uncover the conversation that needs to happen.
  • The third M is Media. Reaching 100% of the marketplace requires using 100% of the ways available.
  • It takes 20 – 50 touches to engage and get to the point of conversion with a cold prospect.

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

 

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
Call 800-770-9984
Email [email protected]

Episode 148: The Truth about First P Candidates (Encore)

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Employee recruitment can be a frustrating process. In this episode, I am going to take you through the musts of the interview process.  Whether you are an experienced interviewer or just starting out, this episode will help you define what you need to do and get the right person for the right job.

Highlights:

  • Discover the progression of an excellent PR person within UPP
  • The #1 skillset of being a great interviewer
  • The importance of the phone screen process
  • Interviewee personal rating scales
  • Utilizing the team interview approach for better evaluation of potential employees
  • Red flag areas and what to look for
  • Job shadowing as an interview technique
  • A look at the reference process, obtaining personal and professional references

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

 

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
Call 800-770-9984
Email [email protected]

Episode 147: The 120 Second Rule with Bradley Flowers and Scott Howell

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Fellow podcasters and insurance gurus, Scott Howell and Bradley Flowers have joined me in this week’s episode.   Scott and Bradley both have a strong understanding of what it means to run an insurance business and today they are going to impart some of the lessons learned and some strategies that will either reinforce what you are doing or drive you to action.

Highlights:

  • The meaning of the buffalo behind Bradley and how it inspires him to deal with obstacles head-on.
  • Scott shares his philosophy on not giving your problems oxygen and the 120 rule for delivering bad news.
  • A look at what Scott and Bradley are currently doing to keep their mindset in the right place; Audible University and working towards CIC designation.
  • The importance of getting everything in your business together to be prepared for opportunities (and challenges) when they present themselves.
  • The decisions you make today, will they be of benefit to you 10 years down the road?
  • Determining your hourly cost to decide if some tasks are better delegated
  • There is too much information out there to claim that you are not sure how to do something. That is no longer an excuse.
  • Bradley and Scott share their greatest lessons learned and their future vision for their podcast and for their agencies.

About My Guests:

Scott Howell
@nationwidescott

Agency Owner of Scott Howell & Associates, Inc – Nationwide Insurance. My purpose is selling insurance and our agency specializes in Business and Financial Services. Currently, our rates for multi-family and single family investors in Alabama cannot be beaten. Call me today and experience our award winning customer service.

Bradley Flowers
@Bradleyflowers7

Bradley is an independent insurance agency owner and agent at Portal Insurance in Saraland, Alabama and the surrounding communities; he is an expert and student of the insurance game, co-founder of the Mobile Young Entrepreneurs group, and a thought leader in marketing and social media. Bradley is the #1 Insurance personality on Snapchat per Wall Street Journal. He is driven to provide outstanding customer service as well as insurance products that fit his client’s needs and budget. Bradley’s hobby is business, and he loves saying “YES” to his customers.

 

The Insurance Guys is a podcast made and dedicated to agents by agents. Scott Howell and Bradley Flowers discuss all aspects of becoming an insurance agent and give real life examples of their experiences in all aspects of hiring, sales and the day-to-day reality of running your own successful insurance agency.

The Insurance Guys Podcast

www.theinsuranceguyspodcast.com

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

 

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
Call 800-770-9984
Email [email protected]

Episode 146: Helping YOU Write Lots of High Net-Worth Business with Bob Klee

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Have you been wanting to break into the high net-worth space but not sure where to start or your there but not sure if all your bases are covered?

Bob Klee, Kelly Klee Insurance, has extensive experience in high net-worth insurance coverage and is here to offer you his knowledge as well as let you know about what they have to offer agents on a brokerage basis.  Tune in for great information that you are not going to want to miss.

Highlights:

  • Bob’s insurance journey that led him to the creation of Kelly Klee Insurance
  • What do agents need to be thinking about in the high net-worth market?
  • Working as a wholesaler insurance agent
  • Understanding the needs of the customer “If they can afford a million-dollar house, they need more than a million-dollar umbrella”.
  • It is all about the “why”
  • A look into the assistance and training they provide their agents, as well as the expertise that the agents can rely on
  • An interesting story about coverage from an art space and loaning million-dollar paintings
  • Why efficiency is so vitally important and how Kelly Klee will help reinforce you as the agent to the customer
  • Using NDAs to help build trust with clients
  • Developing the software to score leads in a quick and effective manner and utilizing their app for 24 hours service

Resources Mentioned

Sign up for virtual training at http://uppfaststart.com

Become Unstoppable: http://beunstoppablebootcamp.com

About My Guest:

Bob Klee is the President of Kelly Klee Private Insurance, the digital insurance broker for successful Americans. Bob’s career in the insurance industry began in 1986 when he obtained his license to offer motorcycle insurance to clients at his California dealership, T&O Yamaha and Honda. After selling the dealership in 1997, he opened his own Farmers Insurance agency in California. Bob then owned two different Allstate Insurance agencies in Kentucky (1998) and Tennessee (2001). In 2004, Bob co-founded insurance marketing firm Hometown Quotes and now serves as a Board Member. Bob co-founded Kelly Klee Private Insurance in 2014. Bob earned a BS in Business Finance from California State University and holds a certificate in Financial Planning from Belmont University.

Bob holds the following insurance designations in the high net-worth space: Certified Personal Risk Manager (CPRM) and Chartered Private Risk and Insurance Advisor (CPRIA). Less than 0.5% of all agents hold both designations.

https://www.kellyklee.com/blog/kelly-klee-successfully-partnering-with-independent-agents

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

 

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
Call 800-770-9984
Email [email protected]

Episode 124: Winning Back Your Lost Souls

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Are you aware that one of the top sources for your business could be those “lost souls”, clients that have left to seek greener pastures?  But we all know that the green grass may not be as green as they thought it was.   In this episode, I share with you some of the strategies that we have implemented to ensure that we are not passing by those past clients that have left us but may not feel like they could return.

Highlights:

  • Once they have left, people may be too embarrassed to reach out again for their insurance needs
  • The story that told me everything that I needed to know about dealing with lost souls or win backs
  • Designing a road map to pursue lost souls at day zero
  • The key trigger words that you can use to entice people to respond back to you
  • Learn about a sample letter that I have used in the past to reconnect with past clients
  • Giving incentives just to provide free quotes
  • Understanding the lifetime value of a client
  • A look into the process we use to upon cancellation of a policy

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

 

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
Call 800-770-9984
Email [email protected]

Episode 75: The Five Disciplines of Being a Social Media Authority

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Daniel Seong has been in the insurance agency for 12 years, moving into it from doing mortgages.  He discovered that he loved the work with little regrets.   Daniel joins us today to discuss how he uses social media to enhance his engagement with the community.

Highlights:

  • The culture of winning and caring
  • The law of reciprocity – treat everybody the right way
  • Taking a dip into social media starting with Yelp and how that grew to further engagement on social media
  • Being consistent with your posting
  • The importance of branding on social media
  • Handling policy cancellations with love
  • Responding to posts in minutes not days
  • Incentives for team members in earning positive reviews and testimonials
  • Be consistent in your engagement with clients, always go that extra step

 

About Our Guest:

Daniel Seong was born in South Korea in 1979 and moved to Burbank, Ca in 1984.  He grew up with two older sisters and a younger brother.  After a week of graduating high school he was on “the bus” to bootcamp.  He served in the Marine Corps with an Honorable Discharge in 2002.  He now lives in Irvine, CA with his beautiful wife Christina of 16 years and has 4 amazing daughters (Nicole, Natalie, Leah & Lauren) & son (Nathan).

Daniel is a firm believer in “the harder you work, the luckier you get”.

Daniel founded Great Park Insurance from his bedroom desk working 2-day jobs, plus a graveyard shift to support his family.  At one point, having only $200 to his name with 4 kids, he decided to plant his flag in the industry and make it happen!  No excuses! 

“Being on welfare and having to send my wife to the grocery store with food stamps made me work harder than I ever could have imagined.” – Daniel Seong

 “I took 7 days off my first 5 years in the business and five of them were for Christmas.” – Daniel Seong

Great Park Insurance is currently licensed in 8 States (Arizona, California, Colorado, New Jersey, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Washington) and The Team speaks 8 languages (English, Cantonese/Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, Korean, Romanian, Hindi, Greek).

Daniel is living his dream life by being able to come out to the office every day to inspire, lead and develop his team members.  Recently, he was featured in “The Last Agent Standing Volume 5” as Great Park Insurance has become Yelp’s highest rated insurance agency in the country.

“Consistency will always be greater than talent.” – Daniel Seong

He enjoys creating memories with his loved ones, one-on-one dates with his kids and getting old together with Christina.  All his kids want 4 kids of their own so a simple family dinner will consist of 32 people.  This is Daniel’s ultimate dream.

“What a life I get to live.” – Daniel Seong

 

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniel.seong/

Facebook Agency: https://www.facebook.com/greatparkinsurance

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/great_park_insurance/

Agency: https://www.greatparkinsurance.com/

Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/great-park-insurance-irvine

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-seong-787b2b64/

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
Call 800-770-9984
Email [email protected]

Episode 70: Insider Secrets from the Living Agency Laboratory

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Are you taking advantage of the referral opportunities of your clients?  Today on the Unstoppable Profit Podcast, I am taking you through the main points of the Unstoppable Referral Program.  Learn the best way to leverage your relationships in order to grow your business prospects.

Highlights:

  • Meeting people where they are
  • Connecting with your ‘lost souls’
  • Commercialized niches
  • Always be Recruiting
  • The importance of Referrals to grow
  • What does a high-value referral look like?
  • Applying the Law of Leverage
  • Asking for introductions, not referrals
  • The Campfire Effect

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

 

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
Call 800-770-9984
Email [email protected]

Episode 68: How Failure Leads to Massive Results with Chris Paradiso

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Chris Paradiso is one of the most passionate and dynamic insurance agency owners today.   Recipient of the Safeco and Liberty Mutual National Agent for the Future Award in 2019, Chris understands that the process of success is looking in the mirror and learning from your failure.

Highlights:

  • Starting up in a small-town community
  • How a SWOT analysis revealed a micro-niche within a niche
  • Focusing on customer service
  • The fear of failure and how failure creates success
  • Realizing that employee failure may be due to leadership direction
  • Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable
  • The variations of the definition of success
  • The five lessons of making failure necessary
  • Overcoming your fears and grow
  • The purpose behind the magazine “Be The Last Agent Standing”

 

About Our Guest:

Chris Paradiso is one of the most passionate and dynamic agency owners in the insurance industry today. Within his 22 years as a licensed Insurance agent, Chris’s unwavering dedication to exemplary customer service has led him to build and grow his own agency to the 25+ employees that it is today. Established in 2006, Paradiso Insurance recently won Safeco and Liberty Mutual’s National Agent for the Future Award in 2019 and is currently licensed in 37 states with plans to be licensed in all 50 within the near future. Paradiso Insurance’s Parcel Delivery Division is currently the second largest in the country for insuring FedEx Independent Contractors and has recently grown to include Amazon DSPs and LSPs as well. Chris’s clear vision has helped direct other insurance agencies to push the envelope and find their own success as well through his coaching work with Paradiso Presents.

Chris currently sits on the advisory board of both Rough Notes, an Insurance Publication dedicated to educating the Independent Insurance Agent, and Journey Found, a nonprofit that provides behavioral, residential, and other support services to individuals of CT with pervasive developmental disorders and intellectual disabilities. In 2010, Chris was recognized for his work within his local community and throughout Connecticut when he received the Community Service Award from Rough Notes spotlighting the various ways he gives back including the Bikes for Reading program, Reverse Trick-or-Treat and Annual Flag Day Event.

In 2011 Chris was excited to introduce “Paradiso Presents” a social media marketing program aimed at teaching other agencies how to survive and thrive in today’s complex online marketing world.  His innovative marketing solutions have been recognized and implemented into agencies nationwide.

Chris can always be found researching the next best thing in the insurance world and is seen as a digital pioneer in an industry that is behind the times as far as digital technology and automation. Through his work with Aureus Analytics, Chris is paving the way for insurance agencies everywhere to be able to provide better, more accurate data on their customer base which will lead to better customer service as well as a better bottom line. A family man at heart, Chris Paradiso leads his team with these fundamental principles: family is everything and if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.

 

Social Media Links:

Paradiso Insurance:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/insurancect

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paradiso_insurance/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/paradisoins

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ctinsurance/

LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/24bQk3I

 

Paradiso Presents:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ParadisoPresents/?fref=ts

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ParadisoPresent

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/paradisopresents

 

Christopher Paradiso:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paradisoinsurance

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/paradisoins/?etslf=8105&eq=chris

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherparadiso

 

Until next time, get out there and make a difference, be unstoppable, and leave no regrets!

Mike Stromsoe
The Unstoppable Profit Producer
Call 800-770-9984
Email [email protected]

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