Episode 218: Higher Profits in Your Business with Mike McDonough

Mike McDonough and I have more in common than just insurance. Mike shares his journey from working as a sous chef for Hilton and Marriott hotels to becoming a successful insurance agent. Despite having no prior knowledge of insurance, Mike took the opportunity and learned about auto, fire, and life insurance. Mike specializes in workers’ compensation insurance and even wrote a book to help employers understand and reduce the cost of workers’ comp claims. He emphasizes the importance of creating an operational plan for businesses to address various issues, building trust with employers, and expanding into other areas of insurance. Mike believes in the potential of the insurance market and advises listeners to focus on thriving areas of the industry. Mike encourages taking consistent action and learning from others. You don’t want to miss this valuable episode with Mike McDonough!

 

Highlights:

  • Identifying the biggest pain point for businesses: workers comp. Going in reverse, addressing the biggest pain point first, then moving to other areas like auto and home.
  • How his book helps employers and brokers navigate emotional workers comp claims to save costs.
  • Mailing book to CFOs, receiving positive response, promoting services, advocating for better insurance system.
  • The art of disqualification in business and finding ideal clients.
  • Solving problems is seen as an opportunity for personal growth.
  • Focus on what is working rather than what is failing. Start small and transition into different lines.
  • Don’t stick to old strategies, diversify marketing, and focus on ROI, ROT and ROS.

 

About our Guest:

Mike McDonough is an entrepreneur and owner of McDonough Insurance Services.  Over the last 4 decades, Mike has owned his agency and sold several businesses.

Mike is a speaker, author and educator of insurance. He is known nationally in the Workers Comp Industry.

Mike is a problem solver and over the years has discovered a unique and affective way of helping his clients solve problems mitigating their workplace injuries.  Over the last couple decades, Mike’s clients have saved millions of dollars in overall costs combined. He enjoys helping businesses transform from chaos to certainty building business wealth and growing their bottom line. He recently received his designation as a Qualified Self Insurance Administrator, SIP in California. Having this technical knowledge helps him identifying potential issues that can arise, enabling Mike to review and resolve problems quickly for his clients.

Outside of workers comp, Mike has been married to his beautiful wife Nannette for over 3 decades. They have two children, their son Andrew and their daughter Marina. Mike has many passions including cooking which came from his many years of experience in the hospitality industry. As a sous-chef for major restaurant chains, hotels and as a previous restaurant owner.  Today he enjoys making homemade craft pizza pies for local friends and family. Mike has studied and practiced martial arts for almost 3 decades. If you don’t find Mike in the kitchen baking pizza pies or training in the dojo, you might find him on the local oceans riding his jet ski with his son Andrew. Mike enjoys anything outdoors and anything that has to do with water including bodyboarding, surfing, swimming, boating and fishing. He enjoys music, singing, dancing and live concerts.  He is a real foodie enjoying all different cuisines and types of food. He will always try something once.

Mike is one of 6 children and he enjoys spending time with family. He is loves animals especially his two dogs. If you follow him on social media, you might catch a glimpse of one of his dance videos. He enjoys most sports and traveling whenever possible. The last several years Mike has enjoyed travelling around the country to watch his daughter Marina compete as a college athlete in both women’s cross country and track and field.

His legacy is to make an impact with 10,000 businesses or more in 50 States in a decade or less.

 

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
Website: http://unstoppableprofitproducer.com/

Virtual Events: http://www.uppfaststart.com/

Email [email protected]

Podcast: http://unstoppableprofitpodcast.com

Virtual Training: http://uppfaststart.com

In Person Training: http://beunstoppablebootcamp.com

Episode 211: 8 to 1 ROI First Year

How do you guarantee an 8 to 1 ROI in your first year?  It is all about the clients.

Join me as I share my insights on the importance of client nurturing programs and analytics to maintain positive relationships. There is significant importance in delivering on promises, gratitude, community giving, and education about insurance coverage. I also talk about our six-step referral checklist and the strategies needed to operate a formalized referral program that you are not going to want to miss.

Highlights:

  • Having a systematic client nurturing program and back-end analytics program is crucial as it can lead to 80,000 opportunities from 800 clients who know 100 people each.
  • Customer referrals are a result of how you deliver service. So, deliver as promised every time.
  • Utilize a referral checklist that includes calling the people that referred to you as well.
  • Reach out to your clients monthly. Build those relationships with a focus on gratitude.
  • Every phone call is an opportunity. Every email is an opportunity. Every text message is an opportunity. Every communication is an opportunity.
  • Discover each of the steps that UPP utilizes in their six-step referral checklist.
  • Is the lack of consistency holding you back?

 

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
Website: http://unstoppableprofitproducer.com/

Virtual Events: http://www.uppfaststart.com/

Email [email protected]

Podcast: http://unstoppableprofitpodcast.com

Virtual Training: http://uppfaststart.com

In Person Training: http://beunstoppablebootcamp.com

Episode 170: 1 Billion Dollar Revenue (Encore)

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
Website: http://unstoppableprofitproducer.com/
Virtual Events: http://www.uppfaststart.com/

Email [email protected]

Podcast: http://unstoppableprofitpodcast.com
Virtual Training: http://uppfaststart.com

In Person Training: http://beunstoppablebootcamp.com

Episode 159: Acre of Diamonds

Are you scrabbling around for new clientele or are you taking advantage of the prospects that are already in front of you?  Too often we let slip through our hands the opportunities to expand what we already have.  And today I am going to talk to you about how to go about doing that so that you are cultivating from your acre of diamonds.

Key Takeaways:

  • If you have 800 clients, you have about 80,000 opportunities already within your grasp
  • It is your duty and responsibility to protect everything that people work hard for, so aim for having 3 policies per client. This increases retention drastically.
  • Be proactive instead of reactive. Add additional lines of business on proposals and follow-up.
  • People buy with their hearts, not their minds, so you must emotionally engage with them.
  • Discover your potential clients’ preferred method of communication and use that.
  • Create a new client welcome kit that strategically gets them the right information at the right time as a beloved new client
  • You want to have top-of-mind awareness with your clientele but you also want to have top-of-heart awareness as well.
  • Employee 60% relationship building, 20% insurance information, and 20% fluff into your newsletters
  • Incorporate a referral program to increase your maximum ROI
  • Use tactics that will grab their attention.
  • You will never know how much you can do until you put the maximum effort out there

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

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]

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