Andy NearyI help insurance professionals turn brand awareness into business growth.

Don’t be this 👆insurance agency 😳.

21 Jul 2025 · 0 min

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Short YouTube video clip by Andy Neary criticizing traditional cold-calling/email practices in insurance agencies, describing them as ineffective and giving an example of a national agency that forces producers to make cold calls publicly on Friday afternoons.

I watch far too many agencies who still preach to their producers that cold calls and emails need to be the thing they have to focus on every single week. In fact, I know a large national house in this industry that has their producers come into the conference room once a week, sit around the table, and one by one they go around and have to make cold calls in front of everybody else. Worse yet, they do this on a Friday afternoon. You talk about being ineffective.

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