Insurance, You Indemnify Me: Insurance Soup founders Taylor Dobbie and Mike McCormick

In this week’s episode of Insurance, You indemnify Me we dive deep into the world of recruiting with two of the best in the business.

Taylor Dobbie and Mike McCormick created the Insurance Soup Facebook group as a small outlet for agents to share industry knowledge,  in the time since it has grown into one of the most valuable resources for all information that an independent agent could need.

Insurance Soup is the largest active free online community of Insurance Agents and Brokers who talk sales, marketing, social media, industry gossip, office culture, comp plans, crazy clients, and more.

Time Stamps:
1:45 – Who is Taylor Dobbie?
CAC(Career Agent Concepts).
3:45 – Who is Mike McCormick?
10:55 – How did you meet?
12:22 – 38,000 members in Soup.
13:30 – Sonic and cross sellers.
15:45 – When we write we are writing to help our agents, not to entertain.
17:20 – There’s not a single Lead-all vendor.
26:00 – We have turned down do many vendor partnerships.
29:00 – Are you trying to keep us PG?
30:20 – The executioner story.
34:30 – When did insurance soup take the next step?
38:00 – Taco Bot.
41:00 – Pineapple on pizza debate.
43:45 – CIA(Career Insurance Agents).
51:00 – There are too many companies that are not agent-focused.
1:04:40 – What are the common daily struggles of an insurance agent?
1:11:32 – What got me here won’t get me there.
1:15:15 – The courtship process should be informational.
1:21:00 – Advice to someone new to the industry.

Honorable Mentions:
Ellis County BBQ
Air Force
Villanova
Chase Bank
Citi Bank
Insurance Soup
Sonic
State Farm
Farmers
Brian Blair
Back Nine
University of Farmers
SafeCo Bricks and Clicks
Agency Elephant
Taco Bot
Yellow Brick Road
Ron Wadley
CIA
Mark Wertz
Rex Hickling
John Adizio
Charles McDade