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Insurance Producer Advice


How to Navigate a Hard Insurance Market (and Still Grow Your Book)
When the insurance market gets hard, average producers panic. They complain about rate increases, blame the carriers, and scramble to...
Daryl Henry
Jun 255 min read
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A School Had a Bad Experience. Here’s What I Did About It.
I’m going to tell you a story I’d rather not tell—but I think it’s important. Because we made a mistake with a client, and that mistake...
Daryl Henry
Jun 234 min read
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How to Build Confidence as a New Insurance Producer: My 6-Part Framework That Actually Works
If you’re a new insurance producer and you’re feeling overwhelmed, nervous, or like maybe you don’t even belong—let me just say this...
Daryl Henry
Jun 185 min read
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Child Care Insurance Horror Story: How I Fought a 30% Rate Hike
Let me tell you a story about a Maryland childcare business owner I helped. It's a story about big wins, unexpected setbacks, and how the...
Daryl Henry
Jun 125 min read
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How to Become the Obvious Choice to your Commercial Insurance Clients (Even If You’re New)
If you're trying to grow in commercial insurance, I want to give you a piece of advice that never fails: buyers love mastery . They don’t...
Daryl Henry
Jun 115 min read
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How to Choose the Right Insurance Niche: A 4-Step Framework That Works
One of the greatest challenges for any commercial insurance producer is deciding where to specialize . You’ve heard it before: “The...
Daryl Henry
Jun 55 min read
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How I Used Leverage to Save My Client’s Auto Insurance — Without Shopping the Market
When an insurance company told me they wanted to non-renew the auto policy for one of my structured cabling contractor clients, I didn’t...
Daryl Henry
Jun 34 min read
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The Cold Call Conversion Blueprint: How to Turn Strangers Into Sales Conversations
Cold Calling for Insurance Producers: How to turn Total Strangers into Booked Appointments Too many insurance producers treat cold...
Daryl Henry
May 294 min read
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How to Get Started as a Commercial Insurance Producer: A Step-by-Step Guide to Your First Year
Starting out as a commercial insurance producer can be overwhelming. The opportunities are endless, but without a clear plan, it's easy...
Daryl Henry
May 214 min read
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Sales is a Performing Art – Hit Your Marks. Know Your Scripts
When I was in High School and College, I loved the performing arts. I loved performing in plays, singing in choirs, playing the guitar,...
Daryl Henry
Mar 195 min read
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Turning Claims into Opportunities: How to Present a Business Case to Underwriters
Claims are an outcome of business operations. Underwriters know that. What they don’t know is exactly what the numbers on the page are...
Daryl Henry
Mar 185 min read
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Ambition is Good, But Too Much Will Drive You Crazy
I don’t know about you, but I find the hardest thoughts for me to wrestle with either hit me at 4 am or a random Tuesday afternoon at...
Daryl Henry
Mar 135 min read
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AI is Great for Creating Ideas, and Terrible for Sounding Human
I’ve experimented with different forms of AI to help speed up the process for creating content.  Writing blog posts and creating videos...
Daryl Henry
Mar 64 min read
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How to Deal With Losing, Rejection, and Failure in Sales
I lost an account this week and didn’t see it coming.  I started working on their renewal 4 months ago. I knew that they were going to...
Daryl Henry
Feb 206 min read
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