Marketing Your Agency for Growth

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Welcome to the Agent Leader podcast. My name is Brent Kelly, your host. Thanks so much for joining me on this episode. And we have a great episode scheduled for today. I have a great guest who I'll introduce to just about a minute or so. She will blow you away. No pressure. Guest who I'll introduce shortly. But I have a will have a great background and just different level of experience in looking at agency development and growth and marketing. So if that's something you're looking for, stay tuned. Before I get into the guest and do a full introduction, I do want to mention, as always, the purpose of the Agent Leader podcast is to help you, the agency leader, regardless of your specific role, to help you gain clarity, build consistency and to make a commitment to become your best version possible. And for those video people, I always have to hold up a copy of our book, Best version possible. We continue to expand enhancements. The best version possible experience. Oh, good. My God. Well, I'll ask my guest here in a second about that. She's got a copy of the book. But our goal is we enhance the best version possible experience with our agency partners. Which one of those you're going to hear from today is to always improve the alignment of the agency, the culture of the agency, to help with that, to help be a guide and navigate to get producers in the green zone, which is producer producer productivity, to retain and replicate your best clients and to help install a playbook that your agency can use can be repeatable and effective. Another thing that our agency guest, I don't know if she'll talk about it today or not, but it's something they've done in their agency as well. So I do want to introduce formally our guest today, Mary Savage, who is director of marketing at the UNICO Group based in the great state of Nebraska. And depending on when this gets released, we've had a few of our wonderful UNICO partners with us. Why? Because they got a lot of great people that can share some great knowledge with you, the agency leader. So, Mary, welcome to the Agent Leader podcast.

Thanks, Brent. I'm happy to be here today.

All right, well, Mary's got many, many skills and we'll get to some of them, but we're not going to get to all of them because some of them probably, you know, we're not going to discuss on the podcast, but Mary's multifaceted and I, I did, I was very excited to get Mary on. She's very involved, obviously in different ways at UNICO and Marketing, but. Well, I haven't beyond what I would think many people think of marketing from that perspective. And I was actually talking to you, Mary, before we. We were having a conversation before we started recording. I said, you're not directly in sales, but you're always directly in sales. And so I want to talk a little bit about that. And maybe if you could just expand on what you do at Unico, your role, how it's involved. Obviously, you're a large. Your top 100 agency, your best practice agencies. You guys do things really, really well. Explain to me your role, how it fits in, and what's your superpower?

Well, thanks, Brent. As you said, I'm. My title is director of marketing at Unico. But as you kind of mentioned, we take marketing a little bit, maybe outside of what some other agencies might consider the role of the marketing team. And that was really just an evolution of realizing what Unico needed to be able to. To grow and to be the best sales organization that we could be. So the marketing teams, we kind of talk about having four pillars. Right. But primarily it's to foster growth and profitability for the company. Right. So, I mean, you could say that about a lot of different departments within an agency, but specific to marketing, that's new business retention and to protect our brand. So there's some very traditional marketing things, obviously that fit within that. But also we've kind of taken that to how do we directly make sure that we are supporting our sales team so that when they're out in front of the prospect and the client, that they look their best, that the materials that they put in front of them don't necessarily get in the way, but they also help lead the conversation in a way that we have it aligned with our sales process. So there's a lot of other things outside of marketing, but I think that's where my role has kind of evolved. And then I'm in a lot of those conversations as we're going in to sell with new prospects, is talking about how can I align the pieces of marketing or any of the collateral we're going to show to that prospect or client to align that with the way that we want to sell that, and so that it helps lead us to being able to close that.

I love that. And again, you are, I know, in our relationship and coaching calls and conversations we have and getting to know you in different aspects and some of the networking events that we're part of, you're involved in a lot of different aspects, which I think is great. But what you said there really hits home because you Know, again, there's a lot of ways, I guess to people could define marketing and maybe this is what I heard and what I see you do. But basically it's how can I help the salespeople sell more? And there's a lot of ways you think of traditional marketing and some of the things and you know, I think it's all can have a positive effect. But you're very, you and your team are very directly involved. Like you said, like for that advisor, you know, you producer advisor at Unico, the term you use basically every step is how can I make this easier for them to do that? So I want to, if I could kind of, I always ask about, you know, challenges that agencies have. And so I want to get into that and because I know that as well and great of a year you all just had at Unico, which was fantastic. It doesn't mean there's not challenges and even specifically challenges in your role of marketing and what you see from your perspective. So when you think of the challenges that you're facing at Unico and even in your role, what jumps out at you and what are some things that you are doing, your team is doing at Unicode to address them?

Mary Sure. I was, when I was reflecting about this, I kind of thought about this from a marketing standpoint. But I think that this could apply to other places or other roles I have at Unico as well. And I think this is a rut that a marketing team specifically can get into. And what I wrote down here is one of our number one challenges from a marketing team is to be seen as an order taker. And so one of the ruts and I talked to some of my colleagues in the industry and this is something that we often think about is you hear from an advisor or a leader at a team and said we need X and you just order take, you know, and you're just a short order cook. You just do it and you provide it. And so one of the challenges that we have and we continue every, you know, all the time to try and get better at this is how do we then become part of the team. And I think at Unico between some work that I've done with the relationships I have with our advisors, being on the sales leader team, those kind of things, it helps that. But how do we be part of the team? Okay, you're asking for X. Okay, why are you asking for X? How is that going to support you in selling this, this? Well, it's because X, Y and Z does it. Okay, that's maybe a good place to start, but let's ask some questions about how's the best way to provide this. You know, I need this thing on a template. Why are you sending it in the first place? Does this already exist? Some of those kind of things. And so one of the ways that, you know, I've done in my team as well is just building relationships with our advisors so that we're seen as a trusted team member and not as a service center. So again, like I said, Unico has come a long way when it comes to this. I've been at Unico for seven years and when I came in we were still operating really as a smaller kind of small town agency. And we. That was when they brought on a director of marketing. They did that because they knew we needed to take some steps if we were going to get to the next level of our agency. Right. We had, we had really made a commitment to really refocusing on being a sales organization. And in the last seven years we've had an extreme amount of growth and I thank our leadership team for thinking proactively about that. We thought about hiring some marketing teams. We hired some additional operations leaders that we hadn't had before. So we did a variety of things over that. But when I came in the marketing team, we did have a couple of people there, but they were order takers. They were, put this on this template, here's the content, make it look pretty and really working through to how does that actually integrate in the sales process? And are we just creating something that's just going to get thrown away? That wasn't what I wanted. I wanted it to actually be a piece of, of a piece that they could then use to actually help sell the account. Right. And so we've done a lot of work on this, but it continues. New advisors come in, people get back in the rut. And you have to keep reminding people, you know, we're part of the team too. You know. Yes, we want to give you what you need, but I want to make sure that we're giving you the right thing and not just the black and white ask that you gave me.

Yeah. Um, well, there's a lot you could unpack in that. A lot of wisdom there, Mary. See, I told you listeners she'd be great, you know, but what I wrote down was interesting and I have to be careful here because every, every year I have my own word of the year and it's become pretty popular out there. I know. But my word this year is impact. And so now I hear it more often, even when I don't hear it and just something fall off your wall. This is real time, folks. I couldn't, it wasn't that loud. But that was impact, for example. That was good timing. Impact. And boom, there it was.

I actually did that on purpose.

It's a special force. But, but, but it really is. And what, what you do and your team does around marketing. And I love that it's like, it's, yes, we'll get stuff done that we need to get done, but I love, it's like, but what's the impact of actually doing this? And there is a lot of things that we see in agencies that, you know, that's the way we've always done it. Whether it worked or not, I don't know, it's. That's the way we've always done it. And I love that, you know, you and your team have challenged the advisors and challenged leadership to say, listen, why are we doing this? Which seems like a pretty innocent question. You know, I've got a, I've got a five year old at home and I still get that. Why? Why? And there are times as a parent that you're like, well, just because. Right. And then you realize when, if you're really being honest with yourself, you're like, why? Why am I doing that? It actually doesn't make any sense. That doesn't do anything. So I think what I love about that, Mary, and you guys as a sales organization, have you really brought that as part of the culture, to question yourself, to challenge each other internally, not just to be difficult. And by the way, I do know very well your team at UNICO likes to give each other a hard time. That's good, that's fun. All right. In the right way. But part of that too is because you want to get better.

Yes.

And to get better, we've got to challenge each other. Well, tell me why you're doing that. Does that make sense to me? And if you can explain it, great. Maybe I missed it, but it comes back to this idea of just doing a bunch of tactics without strategy is a bunch of noise sometimes. And so I love that you as a sales organization are doing that. And also the relationship we talk about at Sitkins of appreciation and respect and trust goes a long way into that. So anything else you want to add to that dynamics? I think it was a really important point you brought up.

No, just bringing it back to that relationship is, you know, I think insurance is about relationships. And although my, my client is probably the Advisor versus my client being, you know, the external client. It. It's all about relationships when it comes to that as well. If I, If I hadn't done some of the work to prove that I was going to do what I said I was going to do, and by taking the approach that I take towards some projects and ending with a good product at the end, if I hadn't proven myself along the way, you know, that's. You could. It's easy to say if you just walk in a room and be like, I'm just gonna ask why? Well, that didn't work as well early on as it does now. And that's because I have a personal relationship with most of these advisors. We've created some trust. They know I'm part of the team, all of those things.

That's. That's a great point. Right, Come in. Why? You know, because. Be quiet. Right? You just got here. So you do have to earn that, you know, earn the right. And it is about the relationship. And it's interesting because there's a lot of sales within a sale. And you know, we've said before, there's two sales. A sale to the underwriter, the sale of the client. I actually think there's probably three or four. I think there's the sale for an advisor or producer individually. Do you really believe in what you're doing and why you're doing it? There's that internal, like, thing. Then there's the team dynamic. And let's face it, our best agency performers like unico, they embrace that. It's team selling, whether it's a cross selling or it's internal selling with, you know, the account managers, account executives and marketing team. It's this idea that, hey, do we all buy into this? There's a sale to be made there. Some of it is a sell of an idea or the sell of the relationship along the way that, hey, I trust enough to value your opinion to help push me further in this. And I tell you what, when you get those things going and then of course, the underwriter and then the client, like the client part becomes. I don't want to say the easy part because not easy, but the other stuff done right can make it much easier. So I think that's really impactful. All right, so I talked about the challenges. You guys have had a great year. Let's flip it to the successes. And again, from your vantage point, and I'm curious of whether it's the past year, recently. I mean, you can go wherever you want in this. Mary but what would be a success or two or a success you would highlight, why did it work and what are you doing at Unicode to replicate that success?

So maybe this is my personality, but I couldn't think of one thing that I wanted to share with you today, Brent. But when I kept thinking about this question, I thought, really, I think one of the successes that I've tried to embrace, as well as other leaders here, is just the mindset of continual improvement. Talked a little bit earlier about when I originally came on at unico, the leaders had made some, you know, some efforts to put some things into place so that we could improve. I've continued to work with our teams on how we can continue to push the envelope so that we're a better marketing team for unico. And I just think about all those many successes along the way and how they just eventually you start looking back and you go, wow, we've come a long way. We've made a lot of growth. I've had a lot of personal growth. You know, my team is bigger than it was before. Our advisors are more successful. You know, they've got better new business and retention numbers than they have before. You know, just all just kind of impacts. And you and I were talking a little bit earlier, before we were recording, but I, I'm a. I'm into weightlifting and into running. So I kind of thought in bringing it back to those two things, and I think about, you know, every day I get in the gym or every day I get out on the road, and you do a little bit more to potentially make yourself a little bit better. And it's not in that one run or that one lift that you, all of a sudden you're like, oh, man, I am now going to be able to know, you know, my max is now up 10, 15 more than it was. But every day you show up, you do a little bit more, and then you go to compete and you realize, oh, all of that work counted, right? So I compete in powerlifting, you know, every time I go out and I am able to increase the max that I'm able to compete, there I go. All those little things I did, right? Every time I go out and run a half marathon at my time is, you know, in the place that I had as a goal. Like all those little things I did met that. So as I look back is just continuing to think all those little successes along the way, all those little wins, I look back and like, man, we made a big impact is just to continue that same thing. It's Every day, just do the best question myself as well. Am I doing all of the right things and not to get myself in that rut that I ask our advisors not to get in, which is we've always done it and just to continue to improve it that way?

Ah, well, I mean, it's just again, and knowing you and some of the stuff we talked about doesn't surprise me, but it is. It's one of those things I heard years ago. Is it about goals or growth? And I think the answer should be probably both. But, you know, I heard this years ago. It's like, if you focus on goals but not growth, you may or may not hit your goals, but if you focus on growth, like continual growth, intentional growth, you'll hit your goals. And guess what, you'll just keep growing because you're always looking for a slight edge, a way that I can prove something a little bit. And I love your analogy with, you know, obviously if you can add another two and a half pounds on the end of the bar or take off another five seconds on that time. Right. I mean, you're, you're seeing some of that, but those are steps. And by the way, I mean, this is me just thinking here out loud on this in that whole process. Like, I'll ask you this, how often do you compete? And again, maybe it's a half marathon, maybe depend, like on average, like, how far apart are the, are the events?

Yeah, I try and compete in something about once a quarter. So every three to four months. I've got some sort of goal in mind that I, I like to have. I have like, like you're talking goals. Like, I like to have something that I'm training for a reason to get in the gym. You know, sometimes the reason to get in the gym is just to, you know, block out what happened during the day. But a lot of times it's for a goal.

Yeah. Well, and I, I didn't, I was. I didn't know for sure, but you kind of hit where I was much thinking it doesn't have to be this. But I love, even when it' quarterly or if you want to do semiannual, but something that you can really measure your progress. And part of that too, though, is interesting, is that my guess is, and if I'm wrong, just tell me there may be a week or two in there between training where you actually, at least the numbers don't progress, you may have an off week. Right. Does that happen all the time? Sure. Right. So part of that, just like in the insurance Business. Like you've got 90 day metrics or, you know, semi annual or annual goals. What too often happens is you have a bad week and so instead of saying, okay, what did I learn from that and how can I get back on, it's, well, I guess it's not going to work, so I'll quit. Right. And that's a mindset issue. And I think what I love about that, Mary, is, I mean. Yes. Can we like force feed that to every member of an agency? No, but you can set the tone. As you said. I can model that. Hey, listen, we're not always going to have a great week. Like I hate to say that, we're just not, we're going to strive for it. But the difference of us being great versus average is that if we don't, we're going to learn from that. Not just take it a loss, pack our bags. We're going to learn from it and we're going to regroup for the next week and the next week and the next week because, hey, I'm not great at math, but if there's 13 weeks in a quarter and if I have two off par weeks and 11 great weeks, I'm still way ahead. Right. And I don't know where I was going with that. I just, it just kind of hit me is that you resonate with that.

Yeah. And I'll piggyback on that a little bit in the, in the quarterly. So we were talking about personally, you know, do I have something to compete for? Yes. Three to four times a year and competing in something. But at Unico, we have, you know, a similar business plan. Right. So we follow traction. What we call, we call it the VTO Vision Traction Organizer. But it's our, it's our plan for how we're going to get where we want to go. Right. So what's our five year, three year, one year plan? And then as departments and as individuals, we then break that up into quarterly goals to help meet those. So, you know, that's what it is. It's just kind of like incremental. It's like what as a marketing team or what is as. Mary, as an individual contributor, what can I do to hit those metrics for you?

Yeah, and obviously, you know, we're, I'm familiar with working with you in traction and we're familiar with traction at Sitkins as well. And we look at, in our coaching relationships, we look at things in 90 days and you guys already have that set up to a degree. What I love about it, again, it Just seems simplistic. It's simple, but not easy, is that you can identify what we're trying to achieve and say, listen, you know, what are the two or three core behaviors or things that must be done on a progression, ongoing. And, and so, you know, for a lot of people, we get. One of the pitfalls I see in performance or results is not that they're not doing enough things. It's the fact they may be doing too many things that are sporadic, saying, listen, let's just filter down 90 days. Our goal is this. This is our big rock, right? This is our rock. So these are the two or three things that I have to do an ongoing basis and just keep chugging away and stay focused on that. So I think that's, that's really, really good information there, Mary. All right. This is a bit of a, of a selfish question when I ask members, but heck, it's my podcast. I can do what I want. So you have been with Sitkins for a while now and working with us. And I know I do find this interesting because there's a lot of different. We were joking before we recorded about all the different acronyms and things that we talk about. Right. And there are some things that we do with agencies. You know, we want to make an impact. Back to that word, certainly. But there's certain things that some agencies really engage with and take deeper than others, which is great. So I'm curious from you, what, what do you see that UNICO has taken from our relationship? How has that benefited unico? And, you know, give me an overview of that.

Yeah, so I initially, when I was thinking about this, was again thinking about it with my marketing hat on. And then we can, we can have a conversation a little bit further as to how it's impacted unico, but specifically for, for me, as I have gotten involved with, with your group and attended your. Your sessions and trainings, the aha moment I had was with the risk concierge program. You know, and that kind of has that ties back to marketing is for years I had, we talked about this, right. I'd been asking the why? How do we make sure that our marketing is really in line with the way that we're selling and we are continuing our relationship with our current clients and hadn't done it as well as I wanted to, and I think everybody could say that. I went to the, started digging into how you guys approach the risk concierge program and how you think through the stages and all of those sort of things. And I had an aha moment about how this would look at Unico and really started then kind of just penciling it out. And timing wise, the good, the bad is it all kind of aha. To me, in the middle of COVID and the marketing team specifically had time on our hands that we had not had before to really dig deep on how to put all the pieces together. So as I kind of thought through, okay, here's the theory that Sitkins has. How does this fit at Unico? How does this look based on what I know about our best advisors and why they're successful and just kind of started putting the pieces together, put our marketing plus some additional pieces in there, really put it together. And what at Unico, we call it the Ascent program. We're elevating your experience or taking you to the top of your mountain. All the marketing words, but a big thanks to some additional team members for thinking through the creatives of that. And I kind of just had the vision of, okay, I know what I want this to look like at the end, let's start together. But that really, once we got that, those marketing pieces to align with that and we start. And then in our sales meetings, we started training on the process of what the stages look like through our unique selling system. All of the things started clicking, really. They did. We had been doing some really good things prior to that, but all of those things came together, we came out. And this also kind of like we all came out of COVID as well. And now we had some additional marketing to help sell virtually that we didn't have before, you know, so everything really kind of came together and that was my aha moment. We definitely want to continue to make some improvements on adhering to that program and we all have places to learn. But when that came together, that was when I was like, you know, sickens. Really, really was thankful for the trainings that I had received to get that one put together.

Well, and you guys, I mean, I love that you guys did it right. I mean, there's a lot of that that, you know, you could have tools and resources and things and we love to provide those. But to take it and to kind of figure out how we're going to piece that together with our cult. You know, we're obviously very proud of risk concierge and the playbook that our private client members like Unico have access to. But it's interesting of how agencies take it and piece it a little bit differently for your culture and your vision of things and how that works. And then I think it Sounds so obvious, but it really is missed. I know. You know this, too. And being around in the. In the agency world is the preparation and training that goes around that, you know, I mean, yes, I overuse sports analogies, but. I know you're a sports fan, Mary, but I mean, it's simple as, like, could you imagine your beloved Iowa State Cyclones having no offensive playbook? And not only. No, I know you're gonna.

I don't know if you saw us play last year, but that was. That was what?

Well, I know that I realized as I was saying that I'm like, She's probably gonna be like, well, maybe they did. But, you know, okay, a college football team not having any offensive playbook, let alone then if they had one, not practicing around it. Right, right. I mean, and. And quite frankly, a lot of agencies, it's. Maybe there's a concept or an idea we kind of sort of do this. Like, we kind of sort of run this offense, and then once in a while, we may talk about it or maybe do a little preparation. Then we can't figure out why we're not getting these great results. Well, I don't know. You tell me. So I. I love what you guys have done with that and having that playbook in order. So. Very good. All right, Mary, are you ready for my last question that I love to ask all of my guests? And I get a variety of responses, and there's never a wrong answer here. It's only your answer. So I'm excited to hear where you're going to take this, but I'll phrase it as I always do. You know, I think we can learn so much from our own experiences. And, you know, actually, as I'm recording this, I'll just say, because today is my. My birthday. I don't know when this will be. Really. That's okay. I don't really want to talk about that. I was just thinking about, like, oh, yeah, you kind of reflect on your birthday, but, well, today's my birthday, but for any of us, you look back and, you know, the question is, is if you were having a conversation with the younger Mary. Right. And maybe as you're starting in, your professional career, seems to be a good time. I mean, you know, post some of the educational things you're going through, but you see the younger version of Mary on the street. Right. I don't know what that person is doing, but you come face to face and she says, wow, older version of me. I got. You got 30 seconds. You know, like, give me one and you don't have to give me 30 seconds, but give me one piece of advice that you could tell me right now that would be most helpful to me as I progress this younger version of me. So what would you tell your younger self, Mary?

I don't know if I would have listened to myself, to be honest, maybe, and maybe that's what I would have told myself. So I even texted my sister about this because I was like, I don't know, what would I tell 21 year old Mary? You know, and she sent some joking things back and we had a giggle about it. But I think what, as I gotten further into my career, one of the things that I wish I had done earlier was foster my professional relationships better. I think back to early in my career, I had the opportunity to meet just in the career that I was in, meet a lot of influential people in the, in the area that I was working in. And I didn't realize how important those, knowing those people was going to be leader later in my career. And I've unfortunately kind of lost the connection to some of those people at this point. And so I don't think that, you know, I could build on that. Like, I, like I wish I had, I wish I fostered those a little bit more and ask them more questions about how they got to where they are now. You know what I mean? I think, you know, I've had some successes along the way and, and maybe I fumbled through it and got here, but you know, if somebody asked me that who was starting their career, I'm happy to answer all of the mistakes I made along the way or all the successes I had along the way. And I'm sure all of those individuals that I had connected with earlier in my career would have done the same for me. And I wish I had taken some of that wisdom with me instead of just not realizing what a, what a gift that was.

Yeah, that's really good. I don't think anybody's expressed it that way and I love it. And first of all, I do agree, I laugh at myself when I think about that question because the younger version of me would probably be like, yeah, whatever, shut up, old man. You know, but if, if you're listening to that, it is, I mean, there's, there's, there's such value in that because, and this is true, you know, for the agency leaders listening, whether you, when I say a leader, you know, maybe you're a producer getting your career started or you're plateaued or you're leading the team or Whatever you think about that, and it's like the power. We know it's a relationship business, and that's a bit cliche, but it's true. And you think about every opportunity of the relationship, even if it's just a quick moment to add value or to listen a little bit longer to ask one more question. Some of them may lead nowhere, but many of them could blossom into something really cool. And you don't even know when or where or how. You know, I always tell people, it's like, you know, I tell my daughter this, so she's about that age, she's 19. And you know, whether you're working at a job, like this is going to be my career and all that, I said, I know that. But you never know who's watching. You just. You just don't know. Your greatest opportunity of your life could be someone that's sitting at a restaurant when you're a server. And it may not come back for 10 years later, but because of the impression you made that day, I don't know. I mean, it just could go so many different places. So I love that. So listen to Merit. Like I said, she's wise, she's strong, she's why she's strong. I will say this too, because you won't say this is that you talk about respect and trust like you have earned through relationships. I think what you just said there, they tie together of the respect and trust at UNICO because of the things that you do. So I want to applaud you and give you kudos for that. So all the UNICO folk that are listening, you know that already, but you're a huge, just. Just a huge resource in the insurance world and we thank you for that and thank you for being a guest today.

Thanks, Brett.

Any. Any final things you want to say before we wrap up?

You can cut this if you want, but Iowa State plays Kansas this weekend and I'm a huge basketball fan and that's game. So if you're. This is probably going to go past that, but. Go Cyclones.

That's okay. Well, so basically my guess, when this is released, it'll be. It'll be post. So if, If Iowa State wins. Yeah, what is that?

Maybe it'll be pro right before the.

Second time they play, but whatever game. So we get it. But hey, I totally understand and the football team struggle, but your basketball team is on fire right now. So, hey, listen, you know, take what you can get, right? I won't mention anything about the recent Element Nebraska game either, because no one cares.

But I saw you picked up your cup right when I was saying that that had a big eye on it. So.

Oh, this one? Oh yeah. I don't know anything about that. So anyway, hey, thanks for listening Mary. Thank you so much for being a guest. We really appreciate you. Again, as a reminder, all the agency leaders out there, if you want to learn about the Sitkins Network, the best version possible, experience the Playbook Risk Concierge. See if that is a fit for you and your agency. Go to sitkins.comexperience sitkins.comexperience to learn about how we work with agencies like Unico and awesome people like Mary. So Mary, thanks again. Wishing you all the best in your success. Thanks for listening. The Agent Leader Podcast is brought to you by the fine folks of the Rough Notes Company. They are publishers of the insurance industry's leading magazine and technical insurance content. Rough Notes Magazine profile successful agencies plus keen insights from respected experts on a host of must know topics. RoughNotes Advantage plus provides the tools tools to help your agency grow, providing authoritative information on complex coverage issues. Visit them and learn more@roughnotes.com.