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August 4, 2013

Who Is Your Business MVP?

Who is the Most Valuable Player of your business or insurance team? If this person left, would it make your business or insurance agency suffer? Is it your partner? Is it your spouse? Is it a good friend or just an acquaintance? All great teams have a MVP. That someone who stands out and makes Continue reading →

Tim Wilhoit

Educational

July 28, 2013

Ready or Not Here I Come Retirement

Does that statement get you excited or make your stomach turn? Are you preparing for your golden years or just ignoring them as if you are never going to get old? Whether you are ready or not, the day of your retirement is coming. For some of us, retirement is coming sooner rather than later. Continue reading →

Tim Wilhoit

Educational

July 21, 2013

What Difference Can One Degree Make?

As an insurance agent trainer I love motivational stories, inspirational quotes and videos. One of my favorite comes from Sam Parker and Mac Anderson of the Simple Truths. This is one of the most powerful videos I seen in the last 8 years. The difference of what one degree can make by taking water Continue reading →

Tim Wilhoit

Inspirational

July 14, 2013

Are You Always Punctual Or Running Late?

As a salesperson or insurance agent are you always on time or running late? Is it really important to be punctual? How late is too late? Do you call the client to tell them you are running late? Are you so habitually late that your clients just expect it? I have a theory on not Continue reading →

Tim Wilhoit

Educational

June 30, 2013

Are You A .300 Hitter?

A good friend of mine brought up a great point in a discussion about giving a little extra to grow your business or in my case insurance agency. He is a big baseball fan and personally I’m a football fan. I am somewhat of a statistics geek so I do love his analogy. He brought Continue reading →

Tim Wilhoit

Inspirational

June 23, 2013

The Evolution Of Insurance Marketing

I have been in the health and life insurance business for over 20 years. I was working on some marketing plans and started to think about how marketing insurance products to prospects has evolved over the last twenty years. The thoughts spurred me to write an evolution of insurance marketing.

Going back to the Continue reading →

Tim Wilhoit

Educational

June 16, 2013

A Unique Time For Short Term Health Insurance Plan

I started in the individual health insurance market back in April 1993. My whole insurance career was devoted to helping individuals secure good health insurance plans and protecting their insurability by offering non cancellable health insurance plans. Before Obamacare (ACA) insurance companies could pool clients into “classes” then raise rates on the class Continue reading →

Tim Wilhoit

Educational

June 9, 2013

Insurance Agents, It Is Time To Break Out Of Your Shell

If you have been in the insurance business for less than 4 years, I applaud you for surviving this economy and being new to our industry. However, economically things are improving and it is time for insurance agents to start making the big bucks again. The insurance industry is one of the most innovative industries Continue reading →

Tim Wilhoit

Educational

June 2, 2013

The Milk Stool Approach To My Insurance Business

I grew up in a small town in East Tennessee. Both my parents and grandparents grew up on farms. So, even though I didn’t live on a farm, I spent a lot of time on farms. I have cut tobacco, put up hay, fed chickens, slopped hogs and even milked a cow. The old way Continue reading →

Tim Wilhoit

Educational

May 27, 2013

Is Obamacare Manure?

Having started my 20 year insurance agent career in the individual health insurance side of the business, I am fascinated by the fact that our government wants to be the single payer in the system. Make no mistake about it, our power hungry government never wanted to fix it, they want to control it. I Continue reading →

Tim Wilhoit

Educational

May 19, 2013

I Just Learned How Ignorant I Am About SEO Technology

As a national life insurance broker for the past 20 years, I have had to learn this new world of technology. I have attended classes, webinars, and “lunch & learns” to gain the skills necessary to bring my insurance agency into the 21^st century. I designed and help build a website, Continue reading →

Tim Wilhoit

Educational

May 12, 2013

Do You Master Time Or Does Time Master You?

As a national life insurance broker I have been to a lot of training seminars and webinars over my 20 years . One of the most popular subjects seems to be time management. No matter how many I see, one I always learn something new and two I have yet to master my time. You Continue reading →

Tim Wilhoit

Educational

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Who Is Your Business MVP?

What Difference Can One Degree Make?

Are You Always Punctual Or Running Late?

Are You A .300 Hitter?

The Evolution Of Insurance Marketing

A Unique Time For Short Term Health Insurance Plan

Insurance Agents, It Is Time To Break Out Of Your Shell

Is Obamacare Manure?

Do You Master Time Or Does Time Master You?