Justin Brock describes starting in door-to-door sales using direct-mail leads, winning incentive trips, and learning from top producers and agency owners. He explains how exposure to agency owners' teams and operations inspired him to build toward owning an agency; currently he focuses on growing his company and personal brand with a stated vision of helping more people, treating money largely as a scorekeeping metric.
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I was going door to door, direct mail leads old school way. And I got pretty good at it. I was able to get in the house, and I was 26, so I was had a lot of energy for it. And I started winning some incentive trips. And then I'd get around other people that were top producers. But then while I was there, I'd make friends with guys that were not just top producers, but top agency owners. And then it dawned on me, okay, these guys have other people working for them, and they're doing the marketing and the operation, and then have these guys doing the production. And I said, okay, got to build towards that, you know, and then I would learn a marketing, you know, pitch from them. But all the while, this kind of like, success ladder, I feel like, is like really just attacking the opportunity that's six feet in front of you. It was never like there was this grand plan. There still isn't. You know, right now, I'm trying to continue to grow that company, grow the personal brand, but really the vision is just help more people and money becomes kind of a like a scorekeeping metric at some point.