Insurance You Indemnify me! Season 2, Episode #3 - Insurance Soup

[shawnmwalker]

For many of you, this week’s podcast guests need no introduction. This week’s guests are officially….. Insurance Famous. (I have seen with my own eyes; someone stop them on the street and ask them for selfie!)

We would love to welcome the founders of Insurance Soup, Taylor Dobbie and Mike McCormick, in the latest installment of “Insurance, You Indemnify Me”. These guys provided us with one of the funniest and most informative conversations to date.

Insurance Soup, for those who don’t know, is the largest active free online community of 39,000 Insurance Agents and Brokers who talk sales, marketing, social media, industry gossip, office culture, comp plans, crazy clients, and more. In addition to Insurance Soup Taylor and Mike are partners in several companies in the insurance space including CIA, CAC, Back Nine, Agency Elephant, Taco Bot and many more, making them unquestionable experts on everything our industry has to offer.


So, what are you waiting for? Jump into the irreverent conversation here! I tried to keep it as PG as possible, but that’s what legal disclaimers are for.


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[shawnmwalker]

Time Stamps:
1:45 - Who is Taylor Dobbie?
3:45 - Who is Mike McCormick?
10:55 - How did you meet? Money is not everything.
12:22 - 39,000 members in Soup.
13:30 - Sonic and cross selling.
15:45 - When we write we are writing to help our agents, not to entertain.
17:20 - There's not a single Lead-all vendor.
26:00 - We have turned down do many vendor partnerships.
29:00 - Are you trying to keep us PG?
30:20 - The executioner story.
34:30 - When did insurance soup take the next step?
38:00 - Taco Bot.
41:00 - Pineapple on pizza debate.
43:45 - CIA(Career Insurance Agents).
51:00 - There are too many companies that are not agent-focused.
1:04:40 - What are the common daily struggles of an insurance agent?
1:11:32 - What got me here won't get me there.
1:15:15 - The courtship process should be informational.
1:21:00 - Advice to someone new to the industry.