Tag: Lessons Learned

Episode 170: 1 Billion Dollar Revenue (Encore)

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What’s the biggest mistake you’ve made over the past year, or year and a half?  I was in a room with entrepreneurs who generate over $1 billion in annual revenue and that question was one of the most important when it came to learning how to take your business to the next level.  Join me as I share the answer to this question and the stories behind them.

Highlights:

  • Severance packages are the cost of poor leadership
  • Never take your foot off the pedal on a prospect
  • Be careful of who you are hiring
  • Just one person can affect the culture of a company and not always in a good way
  • How you personally lead will make or break the success of your team and over the business
  • The opportunity costs due to lack of action
  • Make sure you have deep conversations with the people you want to promote as sometimes they are already in the right position for them
  • Always be recruiting. Ensure you have the team members to handle the opportunities as they arise
  • When it comes to launching, ensure you have the framework fully developed before doing so
  • Keep your eye on the marketplace
  • Balance your priorities
  • Have a cyber plan and cyber insurance program
  • Hire great people, give them authority and get out of their way

 

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
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Episode 136: The Agency Battlefield with Joel McKinley

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After multiple requests, we have returning guest, Joel McKinley, on the show.   Joel is here to talk about strategic thinking, his Army Ranger background, and how it relates to the business operations of the world, more specifically, the independent insurance agency business operations.

Highlights:

  • It is not enough to plan the goal, but you must plan for the changes that achieving it will bring
  • If you want to see yourself get to the next level, you have to keep investing in yourself, train with the ones that you want to emulate.
  • Creating a clear vision of where you want to be, where you want your business to be.
  • Surround yourself with the five right people that are going to support you in that vision
  • Utilizing the SWOT analysis to create a successful business
  • Always inspect what you expect. If you are not, how do you know it is going to work right for you?

 

Resources Mentioned

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About My Guest:

Joel McKinley

Joel was born in Colorado and spent his early youth there, but when you’re raised in a military family you get to claim everywhere as “home”. Joining the army (he knew he would at age 11) to serve as an infantryman after graduating high school, Joel has deployed and served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Kosovo and is grateful for the opportunity to serve his country. One of the highlights of Joel’s military career was the achievement of Army Ranger. Joel retired from the military after 20 years in 2018 and now gets to use those superhero powers on being a dad to his two super cool kids. Joel dove in headfirst as part of the UPP team to also share his superhero powers with the Unstoppable Agents Nation to continue to serve others and help agency entrepreneurs grow their business, create wealth and have more freedom.

FUN FACTS

  • Loves Star Wars and is comfortable with his inner nerd
  • Woodworking is his passion hobby
  • Loves to build, create, and take things apart (sometimes they go back together and actually work)
  • Won Regional Top Seller of Cub Scouts popcorn at 8 years old (#3 Nationally)
  • Legitimate fear of sharks and will not go in the ocean
  • Lived in Germany for 8 years
  • Was choked unconscious by UFC legend Royce Gracie

 

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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