Just over a year ago I made the jump from captive to indy. I am a producer with my own office for an independent company. I had a successful first year so now they are willing to spend some marketing money to make it grow even bigger. Ive been doing this long enough to know there's no magic bullet so just curious if anyone has marketing suggestions that work for you? I thought about doing a $25-$50 weekly referral drawing and putting my picture with the drawing winner in the local newspaper's every week. I thought that might generate more referrals plus get some brand recognition in the paper's. Also a lot of my business comes from mortgage lenders. I know theres a program like this already but I thought about sending out cards to my insured on behalf of the referral source so the lender can potentially get more referrals. Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.