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Building Consistency: The Power of Documented Processes
Most entrepreneurs don’t realize how powerful processes can be. When applied correctly, they work like magic, bringing simplicity, scalability, efficiency, and profitability to a business.
Specialization: how putting most of your eggs in one basket can pay off
Mohit Halkare saw a big gap in the insurance market and aimed to fill it. With a single-minded focus on the trucking industry, commitment to a unique business model, and support from IGN, his company’s written premiums increased more than 20-fold over four years.
Grow or die: overcoming the barriers to organic growth
If you think a minimum of 15 per cent growth per year is impossible for your brokerage, Dan Repetowski has two things to say: first, it’s not only possible, it’s imperative if you want to maintain independence and second, he’ll help you do it.
Turning Challenges into Opportunities: A Process for Solving Issues
Every organization faces challenges, but it’s not the challenges themselves that define success—it’s how you address them. Unresolved issues aren’t just roadblocks; they’re missed opportunities for improvement.
Building the Right Team: Aligning People with Core Values and Roles
Success isn’t just about having talented people—it’s about aligning them with your company’s values and placing them in roles where they can thrive. Learn how to build a high-performing team that drives your vision forward.
Be the Broker: How one company beat the M&A giants at their own game
When a large industrial company lost their insurance broker to multiple acquisitions, they decided to take bold action and start their own independent brokerage – not just to service their own business, but to restore an independent insurance option to their town.
What if you don’t have to sell?
In an insurance landscape rife with mergers and acquisitions, mid-sized independent brokerages are the main target of big conglomerates, and many feel pressured to sell. Ben McDonald says there is another way to do business on your own terms.
A Vision is Only as Strong as Its Communication
The more clearly everyone in your organization can see your vision, the likelier you are to achieve it. When you focus the energy of your entire team toward a single, unified goal, amazing results will follow.
Meet IGN: Insurance Growth Network
IGN, formerly CMB Group of Companies, is a brokerage builder providing strategic support to producers launching a brokerage and owners looking to grow.