The Ryan Hanley Show - RHS 149 - Chris Greene on Content Marketing as a Competitive Advantage
Episode Date: June 30, 2022Became a Master of the Close: https://masteroftheclose.comIn this episode of The Ryan Hanley Show, Ryan Hanley, interviews Chris Greene, the Flood Insurance Guru. Chris joins the podcast for a master'...s level conversation on content marketing and how properly using your CRM can create an undeniable competitive advantage in your business. Don’t miss this episode…Episode Highlights: Chris discusses how insurance is not the problem but the risk is, and how he is working on this data to solve the issue. (4:13) Chris explains how their flood risk analysis provides a huge value to their referral partners to grow their business. (8:29) Chris mentions that videos used for education and advice are still considered streamlining. (14:31) Chris shares how he uses automation to follow up with his clients. (22:32) Ryan explains that this is the moment where HubSpot tools, like video cards, give you a true competitive advantage. (25:35) Chris explains that conversations like why they weren't closing more business can be seen at HubSpot as one of its features. (36:34) Ryan shares that the industry needs a company that offers Accord form integration and creation at a price that the industry can afford. (44:09) Chris talks about Hubspot being better than any AMS, and shares how they are currently using it in their interview process. (51:14) Chris shares that what he likes about Ryan's content creation is that it is very neutral and does never put out any misinformation. (55:53) Chris shares three different books he requires people to read before they come on board. (59:50) Key Quotes: "We just need one company that offers Accord form integration and creation and mapping easily at a price the industry could afford and they would absolutely friggin dominate." - Ryan Hanley "It's not about us. It's about the customers, you know? So, it sticks in my head and everything I do now." - Chris Greene Resources Mentioned: Chris Greene LinkedIn Flood Insurance Guru Reach out to Ryan Hanley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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In a crude laboratory in the basement of his home.
Hello everyone and welcome back to the show. Today we have an absolutely tremendous episode for you.
A dynamic conversation about marketing, the insurance industry, what it means to have a niche.
With Chris Green, the Flood Insurance Guru.
Now, Chris, the things that he's done from a content marketing perspective are nothing other than absolutely
outstanding. He leverages HubSpot has fully dived in. He leverages Marcus Sheridan's concept of
they ask, you answer and fully dived in. And really that's what I appreciate and respect the
most about Chris is that when he makes a decision to take action in his business or in some other aspect of his life, he goes
all in.
He focuses on it.
He attacks it.
And he sees it through.
And there's so many lessons to learn from Chris, not just as a person, but in the way
he handles himself in our industry.
And this is just a tremendous conversation that I think you're really going to enjoy.
I know I did.
Make sure you connect with Chris on LinkedIn, all the socials, all that kind of stuff.
Because if you're watching what he's doing and taking notes, you're going to get better
at marketing your agency.
It's just absolutely positively the case.
So with that, I want to give a quick ask to you guys.
You know, I put a lot of episodes out.
We put an episode out every Thursday. I
appreciate you listening. I love you for listening. And I've said that for years.
Guys, if you enjoy these shows, just share it with somebody. That's really my ask today. Just
text it to somebody or if you want to share it in social, whatever, email an episode to a friend and just say, Hey, I think there's something here. I think this episode is fun.
Whether it's this episode or another one, guys sharing the show, more people find it more people
get into our ecosystem, I get more inbound suggestions for guests, I get more people
kind of sending ideas and tips and thoughts in. And I listen to all that stuff. I
read all those DMs and it helps us get more content, more great guests, more great information
in front of you guys. So if you're enjoying the show, if you're loving the show, always love a
rating and review on iTunes. That helps more people find the show. But really sharing the show is the
thing that's most important because when a friend tells another friend that something has value, they often take
action on it. And if you find value in this show, I'd love you to share with a friend, man. I mean,
that's the whole deal. So with that, guys, love you for listening to this. Let's get on to Chris
Green. Yo, what's up, man? You hear me okay? Yeah, you're good. What's going on? Not much, man.
How are you? I am, I just want to start by apologizing for bailing on you twice, two
different times. I'm glad we finally connected. Dude, I know you got so much going on in the
world professionally, personally, right now. Yeah. I know.
Yeah, I appreciate you being good to me about it.
Because, yeah, for everyone listening at home, we've had this scheduled.
This is the third time now.
And twice I had to bail because with everything with SIA and whatnot, you know, just different meetings pop up.
And we're doing so much to like offload services
from Rogue to SIA to kind of free us up to do our thing that sometimes they just have to be done. So
either way, I'm glad we're finally getting a chance to chat. You know, big news, biggest news
in the insurance industry. You had a suit on the other day. That's like one of the big, big,
earth-shaking, universe-shaking things.
That's like I tell my friend Jason Katz, always expect the unexpected.
So what's going on in your world, man? What's up?
I'm spending a lot of time on data right now.
Yeah?
Yeah, like trying to change the flood insurance world right now through data.
It's kind of exciting to this point now where we're getting to a point kind of like with you, where you can take that money, you can actually invest in the business. You can
invest in the technology. And so I went and hired a glove boxes developer and we've got about a year
long worth of projects. We just tapped into FEMA's database yesterday and basically pulled the entire
FEMA database in the HubSpot. And like, what is, when you say working with data, like what's your,
what problem are you trying to solve? Like, what are you trying to do?
What I, the problem I'm trying to solve is that like I spoke last week at CIPC, I said,
insurance is not the problem. I said, risk is. The problem is that we don't know, we don't do
a good job of knowing the risk, understanding the risk and reducing the risk. And we don't show
the property owner, the prospect that.
So we got to find a way to do that.
So that's exactly what we're doing with all these risk analysis companies,
pulling things in and actually showing people the same thing
that an underwriter is seeing.
But how do we change that data?
You know, how do we reduce that risk?
Now, how do we create long-term rate stability in the market by doing that?
Yeah, that's interesting.
So how do you do that?
Like, what does that look like?
Well, I mean, for us-
As much as I like technology and marketing and shit,
like data is not my specialty.
And it's not money.
Like I tell people, I'm a visionary.
I'm just not good at very implementing it.
And that's where the developers really helped me now.
But now I can give a flood score to every property
with all these different factors.
I can tell you how long it's going to take water to enter your property,
where it's going to enter it. Hey,
how do we change from that water entering the property? You know,
what can we do? And literally we can, based on the data,
we have all these different videos, these different steps.
We can walk people through part of the video proposal system.
Yeah. I, so I was talking to,
geez, I don't know if it was Carruthers or I was talking
to somebody and I was talking through, we were talking about HubSpot and, um, obviously
we have, we use HubSpot and we have big plans for what we want to do.
And as we continue to build stuff out and I think, um, you know, it, I, I love the system
so much and I don't want to go too nerdy just on HubSpot, but like,
I think what a lot of people don't realize about that particular tool is with
their operations hub that they've added and the wide open API portal that
they've built,
you can essentially take any database or data or system that is producing,
pushing, pulling data, and now plug it in.
And man, it opens up the world
as to what you can actually build
and what it can look like.
So yesterday we finally got version one live.
And so we got the latitude and longitude
and our API and our developers are like,
look, we got the latitude and longitude.
There's nothing we can't do now.
Yeah.
Google Maps, everything like pulling pictures into these proposals off of the Google API,
like having the longitude and the latitude when you're talking about this property stuff,
that's the golden nugget right there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's really interesting.
So, you know, I guess what I'm interested in is like a lot of the pushback that I get,
and I'm interested in where you get this pushback to, is people will, what I get is,
hey, I think it's cool that you're interested in all this into technology, into systems,
into pushing forward, into new ways of doing business,
blah, blah, blah.
But you can write a lot of insurance just doing it the regular way.
Like what is the, what is the improvement percentage?
What is the upside potential of going down these paths of leveraging data?
Like, I guess, what is the opportunity cost versus,
I can just keep doing it the way I'm doing it
and probably grow a business and probably make money.
Why do the extra work?
Why figure out these ways to put images in proposals
and figure out different, you know, why go through
all the effort? What does it get you? Well, for me, what it gets me is, like I tell people,
I say, look, we can charge for this because trust me, we're paying a lot of money for it.
But think about the value that we can bring to our referral partners. Let's just say a David
Carruthers goes in and meets with a middle market account. He's one of our referral partners.
Now they've got this full flood risk analysis report
that completely helps separate them from everyone else.
You know, being able to show that to them on their building.
The value that it brings to them now,
we've got a referral partner for life now.
Yeah.
That's the value of the technology to us is,
hey, how can we help our referral partners
grow their business?
How can we make them look like rock stars?
Because at the end of the day,
like I tell people, the technology is not about me writing more insurance it's about us changing
insurance it's about exchanging risk that's the difference between us and most insurance agents
at the end of the day it's not about us writing a bunch of insurance it's about hey how do we
create a more stable insurance market yeah and is that how you're getting a lot of your business is referral partners, agents who don't understand flood or need more expertise on flood or is still the inbound content game or is it know, a realtor emails you at 10 o'clock at night. Hey, I got this listing.
You know, I need to verify the flood zone.
Oh, great.
I won't have it back to you in the morning.
I'll try to put an offer in.
But what if we can solve that problem?
Fairly easy with some technology, which is exactly what we did.
As we went to FEMA, we were able to order flood zone determinations.
It goes directly back to them.
They do it instantly.
Next morning, it lets us know.
It's already sent in an email to them, full risk report.
All we're doing is following up with them we didn't have to do anything literally all they did was put an
address and email address in and they got everything they needed that's pretty cool so
like you call it it's you know it's working as our 24-hour sales rep yeah yeah that that's that's
really cool i mean these are the kind of things that I think, I really believe that we're still in,
you know, the first inning, or if we're even in the first inning, maybe we're in the top of the
first inning when it comes to realigning value with an insurance sale, right? There's the obvious,
I shouldn't say obvious. There is the well-understood traditional
value proposition, which is particularly relevant in middle market sales. A lot of the stuff that
say Carruthers or McHunt or Charles Speck or these guys talk about, which is, you know,
tends to be geared towards comp or something like that. And a lot of it has to do
with, you know, just kind of risk management techniques, okay, and managing people and
injuries and okay. But there are a ton of additional layers of value that can be offered
with education, with resources, with real-time return of information,
with self-service, automation. There's all these different both types of value and layers of value
that are possible that we just simply are not even tapping into that in other industries are
the bar, like literally the bar, barrier for entry. And ours we're we're just starting to tap into them
like what you just described which is getting a report based on email and address and that's
the other thing too is that everybody thinks about insurance first like you know our college
teachers i was like like you know that's what he taught me love insurance shouldn't be the first
conversation yeah so that's the problem i said because when their insurance rate goes up that's
the first thing they're thinking is they're mad at you yeah because
you you led with the insurance and i was like well you know insurance is really all that we do
well maybe that's part of the problem is we're not overall risk advisors yeah you know what is that
the term risk advisor insurance advisor um is is a tough one for me because...
It's a tough one for everybody.
Yeah, I think you're right.
And I would love to think of myself as an advisor for sure.
But then there's a lot of times where I'm just placing policies, right?
Someone calls and they need a comp policy and I go, this is easy, blast it out, get it back to them. Here's what it is.
Off we go. I didn't really advise them. I kind of just like took an order and placed it. And
when, and my point to that is when I think about, I think a lot about, um,
the cost of our people's time. That is, that is something that I spend a lot of time thinking about. And
it's one of the reasons that I went to HubSpot initially. One of the primary reasons is I wanted
to be able to track activity. I wanted to be able to track time, not in like a dystopian Joe Biden
way where I want to control your every move, but in more of like in order to create
areas of value or create area, you know, how do I automate something that they're doing a lot of,
or where are we wasting it? Okay. So when you look from a profit standpoint at being an order
taker, when an order is put in and you process that order and you sell that order,
and it works that way, that easy, right? That is the most profitable way to do business.
It's why all the insured techs, all the VCs go after these quick DC plays because
when someone knows exactly what they want, is ready to buy, and all you have to do is execute
that order, it is incredibly profitable.
So your brain goes, wow, that is easy. I should do more of that. Except one, those are relatively
rare in our space. And two, those people don't stick around. So I feel like while we all want
to be advisors, there's like this false incentive to be order takers because it is actually an easier
way to do things. And we get lost in that. Does that make sense what I'm saying? It does. And so
that's why it's helpful. You know, that's why we use video the way we do. They're like, cool. You
know, how do you do all that? I said, you can still advise. So I said, look, when someone picks
the phone up to call us, usually it's to give us their credit card information because they've
watched 10 of our blogs. They've listened to 10 of our videos through the whole journey but it's the
same thing on streamlining it though use the video that educate and advise through that funnel
and still streamlining it yeah but most people haven't figured out how to do that yet or are
willing to invest the time to do it so look yeah it's gonna take a lot of your time but i mean
literally dude yeah i mean it's the reason why when a lead comes in,
my licensed people don't even touch it.
It goes straight to the VA.
The VA does it.
Then when the VA has it ready,
then a licensed person reviews it.
Yeah.
We, you know, it's funny.
We're definitely two peas of a pod
when it comes to the video stuff.
One of the things that, so I, you know,
the video content marketing stuff, obviously like they ask you answer is a set should you know should be you
should have on your on your on your dresser or whatever your end table next to your bed you
should have like the bible and they ask you answer and life will be life will be better
the torah or whatever you call it the Bible marketing. Yeah, whatever you,
I always bust Marcus's chops because, and I know people
who've listened for a long time
know that he's a good buddy of mine.
And I know Chris,
he's become a good buddy of yours.
But so when he first came up
with that concept,
they ask, you answer.
He was interviewed by the New York Times
and he actually has this article that he shows
sometimes, and it's a picture. And it says, answering revolutionary marketing concepts,
answering client questions. And it was like a completely dead serious headline. And it's just
like so funny that the concept of just simply answering client questions in video is like
this revolutionary idea that our industry refuses, which I'm glad I do.
I hope none of you listening ever do what Chris and I do, please.
It's tons of work. Never do it. Don't do it.
You're going to be terrible at it. You're all going to be awful.
Don't do it because then the two of us can reap more benefits.
I will tell you this. I'm going to see Marcus in two weeks.
I'm on a retreat with him and Donald Miller in Cleveland. Oh, wow. Yeah.
That's going to be fun. Yeah. Jeez. That'll be super fun.
And I think I'm supposed to be on a retreat with him and David Meerman in
October in Massachusetts. Wow. Where in Massachusetts?
I got to look and see it's a mastermind group. He recently started a smaller one. It's only like 30 to 40 people. Yeah. We do twice a year.
That's cool. That, um, you know, so, so what, but going to the next level of video,
one of the things that I just did was, um, I had a buddy of mine refer me over, um, uh,
one of his clients that he was struggling with the DNO. And I like, I kind of like the,
I'm not as good as Gordon Coyle at this stuff, who will be on the podcast. I think
when we're recording it, he'll be on soon. By the time you hear this one, he'll have already
been on. So go back and listen to this episode. But like, I liked especially liability stuff too,
like DNO and stuff in cyber. And I gave him to that. But he, you know, he referred
it over. And what I did was I packaged the account up and, and, you know, put the applications that I
knew needed together. And then when I submitted it, instead of doing a cover letter or just
sending in the apps, which if you're just sending in apps, I think that's the most Bush league thing
to do today. Like there's just no way to stand out with how busy underwriters are. You at least need a cover letter. So instead of doing a cover letter,
what I did was a video cover letter. And I used, so when we do a submission in HubSpot,
I add the underwriters as contacts. So in the deal card, I have the client, right? Obviously
as one of the contacts, their company, and then i'll have the underwriters
as contacts as well so every communication with underwriters from all the companies that i'm
submitting to are also captured in the activity feed for that deal card okay so what i'll do what
i did was because we use vidyard is um i didn't realize you're using vidyard yeah yep yeah i use vidyard because i wanted the full
so we went using the paid version the free version paid version yeah yeah it's uh i mean it was it
was definitely a heavy expense but the analytics that we get back no the forms you can put in the
videos like it's just it's unbelievable the roi you can track and HubSpot back to a video. I got a $10,000 revenue video about us.
It's a silly video that I put up in November that made $10,000 in 60 days.
Yeah.
Because I put a form in it.
Yeah, dude, it's crazy.
And the other part too is like when we went, we moved,
and I'm a huge supporter of Chris Langell and Advisory Evolved and always will be.
But when we made the move to HubSpot, I wanted to go fully in.
So we moved our website CMS to HubSpot's CMS so that we could track everything.
I wanted to know every visitor, what page, what form, time.
I wanted the full thing.
And to get the full thing, including video, you need to go Vidyard.
So now I have, I literally,
anybody who fills out a form on our site,
I know everything they've done,
every video they've watched,
how much of it they watched,
what buttons they clicked,
what pages they went to.
I know everything.
Okay.
Now HubSpot's got the whole video thing,
but I tell people I'm still a bigger fan of Vidyard because first, the number of videos,
but I just don't think HubSpot's advanced
on the video and the forms in it.
I'll take analytics all day long. Are you doing the website yourself?
That's been my biggest struggle. Yeah. Yeah. I do the website myself.
It's hard to find somebody when you get it into HubSpot who could do it the way you wanted to do,
especially what they ask you to answer or something like that. Other than using,
you know, of course, Marcus and them, it's kind of challenging. I'm doing the exact same thing
you're doing. I like that stuff. I get
into the CMS stuff. I like building out the pages in the form, the page builders and all that. I,
I get into it, but, but, so my point is I did this, um, I did this submission with a vidyard video
submission, a cover letter. Well, here's the interesting part. And all my underwriters listening, your ears should perk up. I could see, so I sent it, you know, individual emails. I
didn't just blast it out to all of them, but I sent it to three different places that I thought
would be interested in this account. And I could, the, the, the, um, the first place, uh, guy opens
it. He then forwards it to his assistant underwriter
who watches the full video.
They immediately respond with,
this just got moved to the top of our pile.
We'll have a quote back to you by the end of the week.
Boom.
So two people in the company watched the video.
The video was like three minutes long.
And in it, I'm doing what you would do.
Hey, look, like I know this is a first time DNO policy,
but you know, this is a, you know, blah, blah, blah.
I break down the account.
Like, here's why I think this is going to be
a really good risk for us
and why I think you guys should think about placing.
Okay.
Second company watches 15 seconds of it, never responds.
Still haven't heard back from them.
Third company I sent it to never watches the video,
never opens email because I can track that too.
So it's like, now I'm like,
who do you think is going to get my next submission? The company that four days later still has not opened the email or watched the video. The company that opened the email watched
15 seconds of the video and still hasn't responded. Or the company that watched the
full video twice with two separate people and immediately responded. I now know who my real
partners are as underwriters. Because again, carriers are only your partners if they're
actually your partners, right? If they act like partners. So what I'm doing is now I have analytics,
not just on my customers, but actually on my underwriters and their
engagement with us. And, you know, that to me is powerful. So I actually use that with a carrier
and I actually put my carriers in automation. So when we send them an app and they don't respond,
it's following up them automatically every 24 hours. It drives them nuts. My office manager
thinks it's hilarious because she's like, you're driving, you're driving by nuts. And I said, look, we don't have to do it,
but we know that they're opening it and they're not responding. Yeah. But the other thing is I
do something called risk storytelling. There's a broker somewhere out in Texas that really hates
me right now because we just took a $500,000 account for them because I did a risk storytelling
video, send it to the underwriter, full risk. I go through the flood risk score. I'm pulling up
all the different types of flooding, how this property was built on another property that had flooded
eight times. And they're like, well, somebody else already submitted it, but we're actually
backing them out. And we're putting you in as the broker because they didn't give us any of
that information. They didn't tell us how it was elevated. They didn't tell us the water resistant
materials that were being used. So we just took you to the list and we're giving you the count.
Yeah, dude, I think you're helping them understand the risk.
Yes. Yeah. And this is the thing is, and I've said this,
this is why I've said this on the podcast before.
So we're not doing this anymore, but for a very long time,
I took every appointment that I could get because I think that carriers bend
the truth. I was, I was speaking with my good buddy, Dave Iadonza
from Dryden Mutual the other day.
And I used to say carriers lie.
He said, don't say lie.
Lies are a bad word, a mean word.
We don't lie, but we bend the truth just like agents.
And I said, that's true.
Okay, so that being said,
I think the carriers over oversell
what they're willing to write
and what their pricing is gonna be
and geographic spread and all that.
And agents overestimate and bend the truth on how much premium they're going to put with them.
Okay, that's the game.
Well, what I'm working towards, and again, I'm training my team and it's not all there yet.
But like to what you said, by doing a better job of presenting an account to an underwriter, I feel like we're being a better partner to them.
So we're doing our part.
And in exchange, by using HubSpot and Vidyard, I'm actually able to see who's a better partner on their side.
Because I can't stand the marketing rep who's like, send us more business, send us more business.
Yet they don't realize that they're freaking underwriters,
bottom file all our submissions.
And we don't hear from them for three or four days.
And when we do hear from them, it's a one sentence response.
And it's like, this isn't a partnership.
Like this is bullshit.
And now I know like these guys want our business.
When we send them an email, we send them a video cover letter.
I like risk storytelling.
I may steal that.
Like when they get that,
they open it, they watch it,
they appreciate it.
That's a partner.
And none of that,
but now they can say,
you know what, broker A,
we're blind to this risk.
Broker B, we've got the full picture.
Yeah.
That's a broker we feel
is going to do a better job of protecting us.
Yeah.
That's a partnership we want. Like I tell people, I say, people so look at the end of the day it's our job to make sure we reduce the claims for the customer because we don't want to go through
that experience but we're also reducing for the carrier yeah it's a win-win yeah and in tools like
you know this is one of those moments where tools like a hub spot tools like a Vidyard give you a true competitive advantage.
I think there's a lot of tools that are, you know, they're nice and they definitely help,
but they're not really like a competitive advantage. I feel like when I submit business
on an account that deserves this, I mean, a $700 bop, you're just, you know, you quote it,
you write it, whatever. We still will probably do a video proposal to the client, but you know, you don't necessarily
talk to an underwriter.
I'm talking about some of a little me or something that needs some explanation or whatever.
This allows you, like you said, to do a screen grab of a report or here's what I'm thinking
or here, let's walk through their financials.
And yeah, there's a little schmoogie here, but this is why I think this is still a good
account.
And you actually get to have that interaction with them
and they can see the look on your face.
They can hear your tone of voice.
They can hear you're excited
about putting this account on the books and whatever.
That to me makes all the difference.
And I do agree with you.
It's us doing our job.
It forces us to do our job better
because you can just send a bullshit submission
into somebody when it's just an app as an attachment
when you actually have to do a video and pitch it and sell it you need to believe in what you're
selling none of that like for example i got 150 million dollar risk right now in hawaii that gave
me a notice three days before renewal and i was like there's no way yeah i sent a video i got a
response back this morning if i would have sent an app it would have taken three days yes but from
that video they can see right away what the risk is yeah because let's be honest underwrite it read through the app it takes time yeah they don't want
to do it they're human I will tell you this on video though we do have a rule too if someone
sends me an email and asks me more than two questions we actually respond with a vidyard video
it's out of conversations yeah first uh introduction first person that emails us we never
met him before usually something that's going back to them it's just a simple introduction email for me real quick with vidyard yeah i like that i i am
i'm definitely gonna start responding more doing more you know we we started doing this underwriter
submission cover letter thing which has been a big success um certainly a success for the underwriters that opened it. I just, I can't stress enough
how mind blowing it is to me because I know the carriers that will give us tons of shit
about our submissions. And I'm like, wait a minute. I can tell you it's been a week and he
hasn't even opened that email yet. Like, don't come at me, man. Like he hasn't opened the email.
The fact that
the carriers are willing to almost double your commissions because they see what you're doing
with the risks yeah yeah we're gonna increase your commission because you're doing a better
job of protecting the risk yeah you're not sending us garbage yeah it's dude it is um
this is the kind of stuff that's where i laugh when i look husband's one of our best employees
it's the most expensive thing.
But to tell you with playbooks now, I don't know if you've gotten into that.
We basically built that carry appetite since I play books.
Yeah.
So it's been with us two weeks or two years.
You go in, you type the question, you've got the answer for who to go to with it.
Yeah.
It, um, we're, we're implementing actually right now I'm working on, um, one of our,
our, our, our head of sales.
He put together this, uh, it's a, it's called
needs any ADS. And, and it's basically a pre-qualification sequence of questions. And I
built, or I'm in the process, hopefully it'll be done by, I would love to say today, but it probably
won't be until next week. Basically, this is going to be the
questionnaire for when a lead comes in, our new business coordinators who are, who is, who's
unlicensed person, they call out and say, ask them these five questions and use a playbook and type
the answers right into the playbook as they're taking the responses. And then they're trained
based on the responses they get to these questions to the playbook, whether they move that person to, from a lead to a suspect,
or they sit, or they refer them out to commercialinsurance.net who we refer like, uh,
lines of business that we don't have. Um, we don't have a good markets for today, or we just, or we just kill the, kill the deal.
And that simple process keeps our licensed producers from dealing with accounts that don't really have a shot at closing. Right. So the whole,
the whole point is, is filtering and things like playbooks, things, you know,
things like, you know, dynamic, dynamic forms that...
All right, so dynamic pages is just something I've gotten into this week with our developer,
but also, dude, it's so powerful.
Yeah.
Because of the unique customer experience on every different customer.
Yeah.
I mean, the idea that you can change the content based on where they're coming from or what
pages they've been to or whatever or like like some of
the really cool shit what they you can do with with merge fields in dynamic thank you pages
where literally your the thank you page is being customized that it feels like the page was
literally built for that person so now you're using their name and their and different pieces
of their information in how you thank them or how you push them to the next
step it it's um because everyone's worried about open rates you know with apple and google's
changed i said that's why we've generally always stuck to click the links like vidyard they click
the link it takes that away i can still use it based on them clicking that link with a panda doc
yeah for example we build our video proposal with vidyard and panda doc so when i send it
through panda doc they open it.
It goes from, well, it basically goes from quote,
ready to quote sent automatically when the PandaDoc goes out.
Customer reviews it, it goes to quote, being reviewed.
I don't have to touch it.
Yeah.
Do you use a lot, do you do,
one of the things that I've been working a lot on is like customer life cycles
and using them as a way to better understand
our funnel and where things are in our funnel. So we, one of the automations, again, I'm way
behind just so everyone's clear where Chris is with HubSpot build out and where I am in two
different places. So I don't want there to be like, you know, there's no, there's no real
comparison. I'm, I'm still very early stage,
but this is my fourth year too. Yeah. And we're, this is our fourth month. So, you know, that,
that would be the difference. But one of the things I think is really interesting. So we,
we use a fairly standardized customer life cycle, which is subscriber, someone who we know of that doesn't know of us, lead shown interest, suspect meets
qualification standards, or what would technically be called marketing qualified in normal parlance.
Prospect is interested in quote, and then client evangelist lost. That's customer lifecycle. So you could be a client without being an
evangelist, et cetera. So what's cool is that you can, in the pipeline, in different engagements,
different pages they hit, you can change where the lifecycle is automatically. So like if someone leaves us feedback or uses our
referral, referral page and types in a referral to us or, you know, whatever, we can move them
from client to evangelist. We can move the automatically moves. So I don't need to rely
on my people to have to think about, Oh, are they a suspect? Are they a prospect? Which not that
they're incapable of it, but it's just, I don't want them to have to think about, oh, are they a suspect? Are they a prospect? Which not that they're incapable of it,
but it's just, I don't want them to have to think about that.
But as a business owner,
I can now look at our customer lifecycle report
and know exactly where in the funnel our contacts are,
where we may be having obstacles,
where there may be issues,
our attrition rate and all that kind of stuff.
And it's like those simple insights are where you're able to make true improvements in
your business. And, you know, you just don't get that a lot of places. So I was able to use it to
change our fee schedule. So we could see exactly which deals we're losing and why, and what the
premium point was like, Hey, it was a big issue. $500 and less is where we're losing because of fees. And I said, you know,
that's not that big of a deal, but at least gives us the data to know. Yeah.
It's the small stuff we're losing, which is okay. But that's,
that's why we're losing it. Well, that's like a little bit of an,
we made a little bit of an adjustment there and we stopped losing almost all
of it. Yeah. That's awesome.
So that is like putting the learning center on there um was that has been
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episode. That is our, so our, we're working towards that. We're not there yet. You know,
we're moving off of agency zoom slowly over to HubSpot. That's not necessarily a knock on agency zoom. We just are different level. Yeah.
The integration I wanted, you know, especially with, you know, doing the deal with SIA and all
that kind of stuff and where we're going and where we're headed, like agency zoom was a great tool
for us as a seven, eight person agency operating fairly traditionally. Great tool. I think today,
based on the way things are going, I would probably look at better agency over agency Zoom
personally. But agency Zoom is not a bad tool. But man, if you want to take your game to another
level, there's just no comparison between the two. the things that you can see do and the insights you can have. If you are the type of, and this is one
of the things that I've always appreciated about the way you look at the business is
regardless of what system you have, you have some sort of insight into what's happening in your
agency. And one of the major beefs that I have with the
traditional mentality of our industry is that principals have these thoughts that are really
just subjective kind of feelings they get in their brain, and they use those to make decisions. And
I'm like, you're not actually
basing that on anything that's actually legitimately like data-driven happening in
your business. You're just saying, it feels like this happens. So this is what I'm going to do.
And when you start to see what's possible from touch points, phone calls, like I'm like,
you're supposed to make 20 calls a day, let's say could tell me you made 20 calls but those 20 calls aren't HubSpot you made zero calls
zero didn't happen in HubSpot didn't happen and it can track the full life cycle of every touch
point and that is when when you when you get to that level it takes work and commitment and you
gotta keep on your people and you know know, and culturally develop, you know, that, but man,
once you start to get some of that insights and we're just getting the very early pieces of it,
geez, the things you can do are just unbelievable. Yeah. But for example, for me, like I can see why
we weren't closing more business because my licensed person was spending time on things
that weren't licensed. And I can see that from the conversations at HubSpot. Yeah. And it easily
threw me the control that was not assigned in those conversations,
assigned to the VA or say,
hey, you know what?
We need to hire someone else to help you here
because I see that you're spending
30% of your day on this.
Now, something else we've been using for a while too
is something called Mapsly.
So Mapsly actually maps
where every one of our referral partners
is across the country, our customers.
I matched it up with a flood warning system that we use.
So it also tells us where to create content
where flooding is also happening.
And so I can look at the map and say,
hey, this month, 40% of our business is Arizona,
30% is in California.
So it tells us where to kind of spend our time.
That's awesome.
I just think, dude,
that type of real-time marketing insights of dynamically creating, adjusting, maneuvering content, whatever, to address the market.
I mean, one, that's a level that most people are not interested in. Like, just frankly, they're just not interested in going that deep um which is fine uh
you don't you don't need to but for those that are um the the the wizard-esque games that you can play
are just i mean i feel i honestly feel like a kid in a candy store like Like with, when I, when I get into HubSpot, like I've every meeting that
I have in the day that doesn't allow me to like build out new systems processes or different,
different features in, in HubSpot, I feel like it's wasted time because just figuring out this
thing that I mentioned to you with the underwriters, right? This, this submission video submission
process and getting the feedback of here's the underwriters that open? This, this submission video submission process and getting the feedback of
here's the underwriters that open the emails and watch the videos. And here's the underwriters
that don't just that insight alone allows me to go, guys, don't waste your time submitting your
business to X, Y, Z carrier or MGA, send it right to these guys. They appreciate it. They're going
to get it back to us. We're going to write the business faster. That saved, if that saves five hours a month, total time, right? For the team, if that just that simple insight,
and now I can stack those insights up on top of each other, three hours here, an hour here,
five hours here, 10 hours here, all that time goes back into selling and helping clients, all of it. And it's like, when we think in terms of just.
None of that. Think about employee morale.
Yeah. Oh yeah. A hundred percent. Yeah. A hundred percent.
I think about, you know, people hate doing mortgage changes.
They hate doing a lot of the service, especially salespeople.
But now what if you can see, Hey, here's how I can take it out of your hands.
Yeah.
Or you're doing it and you shouldn't be.
That's one of the things that I like about it. It helps me gauge what each one of our team members is doing. Yeah. And ultimately it lets you know, where do you need more help? Where do you need
another person? Where do you need a VA? Hey, we can actually, we can actually, you know, go get a VA who crushes COIs or is great
at handling email inbound service requests and responding to them and triaging them.
And, you know, and, you know, other things like, you know, right now we have a position
new business coordinator.
That's the person who does the pre-qualification of leads to suspects.
And she is training to get licensed.
Well, I am now able to give her and watch and listen.
One, listen to phone calls through RingCentral.
I'm able to call log every call she makes.
So I'm getting a feel before she ever becomes a licensed producer for Rogue Risk.
I am able to see how does she do on the phone? Is she
willing to pick up the phone? How does she do with answering questions? How is she at documentation?
So I'm literally getting, she's building her resume for us as a select producer before she
ever becomes a select producer. And I can see it all right there. Now she's doing an awesome job.
I can't wait for her to become a producer. I think she's going to crush, but like, but, but maybe she's, maybe she wasn't good. Right. And I would get to see that and either train her or
say, maybe this isn't the right thing for you or whatever. That's what I like conversation AI.
Yeah. Customer behavior based on tone. So it helps us teach our team how to use the right
tone to the conversation, to control the conversation. Yeah. You know, it's, it's, it just, this level
of insight, I think a lot of people will go, ah, you know, I'd rather just go golfing with the
person. And, and I think that's wonderful. I think, I think what's happening in our space is
that there's a, there's developing a clear delineation between those individuals whose thought process is singular individual household income, right?
Which through nonprofit events and golf games and asking for referrals, can you build a book
of business that provides you with personal income that's sufficient? Abso-freaking-lutely.
You don't have to do any of
this shit. None of it. You can use a spreadsheet and have two carriers and make more than enough
money to take care of your family and everything's fine. It's going to take time and a lot of work,
but you can get there and that's fine. If you're looking to scale your business, to like grow your business beyond you, beyond the kind of egocentric kingdom version of your business, you cannot do it today, in my opinion, without starting to dip your toe into the shit that we're talking about right now.
You just can't.
It doesn't mean you can't be successful. You can. It doesn't mean you can't make money. You can. But if you're looking
for if scale, if legacy, if you're ambitious and you want it to be bigger than just you,
you have to start to think about this stuff. You just can't compete if you're not.
That's the same thing we're doing with payments right now.
We're getting ready to finally finish the integration with ePay.
We're going to go straight through deals in HubSpot.
We don't have to do anything.
Instead of having to go to ePay, fill out the pre-paid payment page, send it.
None of that.
Yeah.
Same thing with Accord forms with the developer.
We're getting ready to finish out pre-filling Accord forms.
How are you getting to that?
You got an Accord templates and you've you getting to that? Just you're using,
you got an Accord templates and you've built it yourself or?
I built it myself years ago.
I just didn't like the way it looked.
But now with API data,
it can be up to date and really accurate.
It can change instantly if we need it to.
Yeah.
The Accord form thing is such a shame.
It's such a shame that in Accord,
like can't get out of their own way.
You know, what a bureaucratic nightmare Accord is. It just, you know, the, the, what they have at
their fingertips and how much value they've actually extracted is it's sad because I know
some, you know, a court would say, Oh, look how much money we make and look how big we are. And
it's like, yes, except you've probably done 5% of what you would have been capable of if you had ever actually pushed.
So that said, that being said, you know, we use WonderRite to produce a lot of our chords today.
And they just opened up Zapier Beta, which is cool.
We're going to help test that a little bit.
I'm hoping that that works.
I do like Peter and what they're doing at WonderRite.
Yeah, I'm going to promote Brain, but. Yeah, it's hard. I'm very hopeful for them, so I don't want this to be negative in any way,
but with third party, the hard part is you have to assume inevitably they're going to continue
to expand services and want to become an AMS or want to become something else. And it's just like,
it's like,
we just need one company that offers a cord form integration and creation and
mapping easily at a price the industry could afford.
And they would absolutely frigging dominate. But it's,
I feel like everybody goes, no, we need to build an ecosystem. We need to build this and we need to build dominate. But I feel like everybody goes,
no, we need to build an ecosystem.
We need to build this and we need to build that.
And it's like, if I have to duplicate entry,
it's not going to work.
If it doesn't work, everyone's like,
oh, you need to offer this type of insurance
and this type of insurance.
Look, it can be nice.
Oh, maybe we should offer that.
Maybe we should go over there.
And you get distracted so easy.
Then what happens?
You forget why you got in business to do what you do in the first place yeah yeah chasing chasing shiny
objects is difficult you know i know i you know i i'm if there was like a chasing shiny objects
anonymous 12-step program i probably would have or should have been in it a long time ago because I'm definitely guilty of that.
But, you know, I think that there's two sides to that coin.
You know, there's part of me always says like, oh, right.
Just stay focused on what you're doing and keep pushing and which, you know, in general is what we do.
Or I guess I hire people to do that because I struggle with it.
But the other side of it is
so naturally things are going to develop off what you're doing like when we originally started with
just flood insurance you know we have a flood city company now we have a flood mitigation company a
flood consulting company but it still goes back to our educational vision of it's all still circled
around that yeah i mean it's not going outside of that but these things you know like people oh
you know you start a side business or whatever it just naturally happens when you get in a certain
field and you're dealing with it you know the thing the thing too yeah and I think that's a
great point I think I think the other thing with chasing some shiny objects or or always kind of
researching or looking into new technology is that if you don't, if you don't spend some time in that space, right.
Then you do become stale like over time. I'm not saying immediately,
but you do start to like, if you're not there,
there is absolutely something to keeping some small portion of your brain
looking out into the future at what's coming and what's going on.
It doesn't mean you always take action, but like, uh, I'm going to, uh, in two weeks I'll be at
insure tech Boston. Um, which I don't know when this is going to come out, but, uh, uh, may or
may not, this may not come out that week or may come out the week after. So that may already
happen, but, um, I can't wait to go there. It's a great event.
They do a great job. I'm glad it's back after COVID. But like you get a chance to just bump
into people that have crazy ideas kind of like you do. And, and it gives you it gives your brain
a little taste of like, here's what's possible. It doesn't mean you need to do it, nor do you
need to do it today. But like this is possible Or like, you know, you talking about some of the shit that you do.
I may look at that and go, gee, I'd love to be able to do that.
I can't do it today.
But man, that's on my list.
And I'd like a year from now to be able to do that thing that he's doing.
And if you don't let your brain go to that space, I feel like you're doing your best.
You could also bring it back and say, you know what?
I can tweak it just a little bit to improve what I'm currently doing.
Yeah.
And that's usually what my goal is of, Hey, no,
I don't want to go do what they're doing,
but maybe something they say triggers in my brain to help me improve our
process.
Yeah.
Cause I got to tell you, look, as fancy as these systems are at the end of
the day, it's all about process.
Yeah.
Yep.
One of the things that I want to do that I'm going to build out eventually is I want to track every company that we quote on an account.
I want to track who we quoted, what their response was, quote or decline, and then what the actual quote number was. Because I want there to become a day
when I can pull a report that says,
say, Amtrust, Hanover, Chubb, Liberty, and Hartford, right?
Let's take those five companies.
So we quoted those five companies 20 times.
Hartford came back with a quote 90% of the time.
Chubb was 82% of the time, down to Liberty that only came back 52% of the time.
It's not a lack of Liberty.
I'm just, as an example, right?
And then what that, and here's the quoting, who was the best price, who declined, you know, whatever.
And be able to take those analytics and come back and go, okay, in the future, when this type of account comes in, don't even quote the other four.
Just quote Chubb because they're quoting this type of risk comes in, don't even quote the other four, just quote Chubb
because they're quoting this type of risk 97% of the time and another 90% of those times
they are the best price.
So I'd rather just go right to them, right to business, then quote the other four as
well and have to deal with a decline or the rate not being as good or
whatever. And then you can obviously tweak it too with like, they have the right coverage package
and that kind of stuff, obviously. So, but being able to get that insight back allows you to shave
so much time because I know you're dealing with a singular line of business. I know you have
multiple markets, but like for us, one of our biggest headaches and biggest time lost
is where does the business go? Where does it go?
That is an enormous time waste.
I'm wasting 80% of my time sitting at 20% of the carriers. You know what I mean?
Like, Hey, how do we do a better job of understanding the appetite?
We're instantly, we know right off the bat, when we put something in,
even training the system, you know, machine technology to tell us, tell us hey go to company a company b based on what you're putting
in yeah yeah i mean in this to the underwriter not opening the email and watching the video
that underwriter is going to get less submissions from us from now on and and in the next quarterly
review with their marketing rep when they call and go hey submissions are down i'm gonna go look i sent you guys 25 emails and this son of a bitch only opened 16 of them what
happened the other nine what is it you're good to open those like you're not doing us any favors
don't you know what i mean like like that kind of stuff to me not to screw the carriers i you know
that's not the point the point i wish the person would open the emails. That's, that's, the point is from, from a people time efficiency standpoint, and to your point,
a quality of work standpoint, my people are not ever are feeling less and less like they're just
spinning their wheels, which is just a soul killer. I mean, let's be honest too. You deal
with the market. They've always had the power of, Hey, you didn't do this. You didn't do that.
Now something like a house, but no, wait no wait we did and here it is yeah we didn't know we get just an opportunity to defend what we did yes yep that
that to me there is just like you know that's how people hub spots better than i think any ams out
there i will put i i walked through so i walked through for my team how I did this submission the other day this year
added this contact added the underwriter made a note attach these quote forms it automatically
pulls in all the emails it tracked the call that I made to the person and here's the video but I
showed them all that and I was like what's not in the system. What activity that I do that someone could go back and say, Hey,
you know, bub, bub, bub here, here. What did I not do? What did I miss? And they were like,
you got everything. And that it was easy. It's, it's different, right? The HubSpot is different.
If you're trained on a traditional AMS, it's definitely a different mental with the objects
and stuff. But like, man, once you start to pick it up,
it is insane.
It's just all there right at your fingertips.
And that's what's up with it.
That's what it wins is ease of use because even when I interview a candidate,
HubSpot is part of our interview process.
And yeah, it usually blows them away
about how easy the system is to use.
But I said, look, it's not that it's necessarily easy to use.
It's that I'm only showing you 1%
and it's the 1% you're going to use every day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Dude, it's awesome.
So, so, you know, we're, wow, we just blew through 52 minutes in no time.
That was crazy.
So, you know, kind of using the last 10 minutes or so of our conversation here, talk to me
a little bit about what's good.
You got the most excited about your business.
It doesn't have to be technology.
It could be whatever.
Like, when you show up in the morning, like, what right now are you the most excited about?
When I show up, it still goes back to this massive risk that comes on my desk that nobody says they can do anything with.
And I'm able to instantly pull the data we have, go in, put a full report together, send it to a a carrier and get a risk model and a rating model
that no one else can get yeah because of our educational background it's that people at the
end of the day it still comes back to that for me yeah that's the part i enjoy yeah so so you love
the challenge of the tough account that you get to you really dig your teeth into and do the
problem solving i i get that i i like you, as much as I don't really love selling insurance,
I love the, I love the risk management. You know,
I love walking through I'm with you.
I love the educational side of walking a client through the coverages,
why they're important, how they can mitigate them. Like that,
that problem solving piece is, it is a lot of fun. There's, there's, there's a lot to that. Then I also like
how my team will email me and say, Hey, here's what happened this morning that we need videos on.
Yeah. And then you go crank them out. Like this afternoon, I'll crank out about eight more. I
usually do eight to 10 videos on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Yeah. I, uh,
I, so you guys know this is a Friday, so he's off his schedule just, just to be clear on that. But I, uh, I will, um, I am also this afternoon going to be doing my, I did a bunch of stuff this
morning. I got a few more calls. And then this afternoon, before I get my kids off the bus,
I will, uh, go crank out. I got about six. I have six. So I think in
headlines, you know, in terms of what I want to attack. So I have six headlines. I may,
depending on time, I may just add two more and bang out a quick eight. But, but dude,
you know, I know you're right there. We did. We just got monetization status. You know,
I'm not going to actually put ads on, on our videos for rogue risk, but got monetization status. You know, I'm not going to actually put ads on our videos for Rogue Risk,
but the monetization status gives you some extra tracking and whatever.
But yeah, 1,000 plus subscribers.
And we did 4,000 total hours of view time in the last 12 months.
Last month, we did, last 28 days, we did almost 11,000 views.
Which, dude, for which dude for insurance,
YouTube channel. It's that's why like I watched the shit you do.
I've done it twice now. Once with the Murray group with rogue, you know,
a few other agents, Crowley's doing some good stuff.
Like I just don't see how other agents can see the things that we're doing
and not be like, this is a thing we're going to do.
Like we're going to do this. Like of all the things we should be doing, this is like, look at the success these guys are having.
Like, the leads just keep, it never ends.
It's just every day.
We generate 200 to 300 leads a month from between referral partners and content.
Like, we're not out there spending money on ads.
Everything's strictly organic.
Yeah.
And we have an 80 to 90% close ratio.
Yeah.
Dude, it is insane the possibilities yeah it's just insane and it boggles my mind but not that the content like i had a meeting with
a large carrier yesterday that's leaving a private flood market and they came to us and we're gonna
put a blog out with some other carriers we We're kind of putting misinformation out there.
And I said, you know, we like your content.
It's neutral and it's always fact-based.
Will you put this piece of information out for us?
So I shot a video on it and I got a blog I released last night on it.
They said, we know that you won't spit it negatively, but you also won't spit it positively.
You're going to be completely neutral about it.
And that's what we like about your content.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's good.'s good man i know um in general i'd say carrier reviews do really well
for us from a content perspective um i got a call from four ceos mine did a best of on private
residential and commercial yeah it's what's what's what's funny is that a lot of agents like um
well you know my carrier's
gonna get mad at me i'm like mad at you like i mean maybe if you're saying a bunch of untrue
things about them or you're purposefully like trashing them but like if you're giving an honest
review like i did an honest review of um maybe hanover or somebody where you know like i i just
i said like hey like they are a little
old school in some of the things they do, but the paper's amazing. The claims handling is amazing.
You know? So, so it was, it felt to me, it felt very real.
And they're going to sue you for saying something good about them.
Yeah. What do you, what, why would they be pissed? I'm doing the video to write more
business with their carrier.
Like I want people to watch the video and go, Hey, you know, Hey,
I saw your video on Hanover. They seem like a great company. Let's do it.
You know, I like do business. Like that's why you're doing it.
So to me, it's just, there's just, it's like, well, read,
they ask that you answer.
I can't discuss pricing on my website. Look, customers don't want to know how much your insurance is going to cost.
They want to know what's determining the price of insurance.
That's all they want to know.
Dude, that Marcus has made an entire career just in our space with that point is, yes,
you cannot say a bop for a bakery is going to be $1,300.
No, you can't say that because you don't know. But what you can say is here's the four main factors that based, you know, based on these four factors, your rate is going to go up
or down and here's what they are. And that's what people want to know. And I promise you that'll be
the number one page that people visit on your website. Yes. Yeah. It's dude, it's wild. It's
unfortunately he's trained me really badly i gotta send him an email
on this i made my wife on mother's day present and she's like you know another you're not in
any of the pictures i said you gotta blame that market shared him there's that whole thing he
trained me you know it's not you know it's not about us it's about the customers you know so
he sticks it in my head on everything i do now yeah i know a lot of i've had a lot of people um
you know a lot of people have questioned the
fact that all our videos on Rogue Risk YouTube channel have me in them. And I'm on the cover
image. And it's like, look, as soon as I get someone who is willing to be, who can speak to
insurance in a way that I believe is authentic and real and, and, and, and get, you know, in a
caring way. Like I I'd like to believe that the way I deliver it is I actually want people to
learn. Like, as soon as I get someone who can do that and do it consistently, I will have them do
it. Like, I don't want to be the face. It's the reason it's not the Hanley agency. Like I didn't
name it Hanley insurance services. I named it rogue risk because I don't want it to be about me. But I think to a certain extent, the human factor,
there's something to it. There's something to it that like you run your agency and people get to
hear your viewpoints. You're the, you're the cultural leader and driver of the business.
And if you're out there every day teaching and educating, then it becomes very
clear that that is a core principle of your business. Dude, I love answering the phones
every now and then it completely throws people off. Wait, this is the person from the video?
They're just like shocked. I will tell you this. There's three books I require people to read
before they come on board now. They Ask, answer. The visual sell by Marcus and Tyler.
And then Anne Hanley, everybody writes.
Yeah, Anne Hanley's great.
And I said, because you're going to write a blog.
You're going to do a video.
You're going to share it with a customer.
And they're going to build this instant trust
because it's actually done by you,
not someone else on your team.
I had Anne Hanley on the podcast.
She is...
Gosh, that was what? Two or three years ago was what, what two or three years ago now.
It's probably about two years ago now. Um, she's awesome. I've yeah, I've had so much going on. I haven't been able to do too much outreach to people outside of the industry. I used to love
like bringing people outside the industry and every once in a while, but, um, yeah, she's,
she's awesome. And just as quality a person off camera as on camera,
just think very highly of her as very, very good person. So.
But I've sent out probably 20 copies of the visual. So everybody,
I had one candidate reach out back up to me.
Didn't end up coming to work for us. She's like,
I closed a $10,000 account today because of that book. Yeah.
Dude, I'm with you. Hey man, I want to be respectful of your time.
We just blew through an hour long conversation. We'll have to have you back on the show again.
This is great. People want to see what you're up to. They just want to connect with you. Where are
the best places to do that? LinkedIn, Chris Green. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
our website, floodinsuranceguru guru.com i have a lot
of people right now they're reaching out to us about the learning center not necessarily learning
about flood in the learning center but they're like hey how do i build a learning center like
that um visit my website flood insurance guru.com forward slash learning center reach out to me
marcus shared and actually built it for me um but it's been very beneficial for us i'd be happy to sit down with anybody and just kind of show them how we built it, the
process, all that stuff to really help you out.
Yeah, dude, I appreciate you, the work you do, the way you think about your business.
You're definitely someone who's leading the charge on a lot of this stuff.
And I'm glad that you were willing to stick with me and finally get the get this interview
done because I always love
our conversations and, uh, I'm always just trying to keep up with you from a, from a content and
marketing standpoint. So, uh, I will tell you this though, what you did to me, I've actually
been doing the Jamie Pierce. I owe him an interview. Well, dude, thank you so much. Um,
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