Agents Growth Academy Jim Schubert

Lead magnets are a great way to collect leads online but can be an obstacle for business owners of all niches. So today on Agents Growth Academy, host Jim Schubert outlines how to create a lead magnet that converts like crazy. You'll learn what a lead magnet is, how to choose the right type of lead magnet for your business, and how to create a lead magnet that provides value before asking for anything in return. By the end of this episode, know exactly what you need to do to get more subscribers and customers in no time.

3 Key Takeaways
Brainstorm your target audience's pain points by making a list of common problems that you hear from them regularly.Choose a lead magnet type that makes sense for your target audience. This could be a cheat sheet, a checklist, a guide, a video course, or a challenge.Create your lead magnet beautifully by using a software or outsourcing it to someone who can help you make it look professional.
Resources
How to Fill Your Talent Pipeline
5 Tricks to Improve Your Email Marketing Strategy
Content Marketing Playlist
5 Ways to Provide Value Without Asking for Anything in Return
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About Jim Schubert
Jim Schubert is the CEO of Southern States Insurance, one of Georgia's largest independent insurance agencies. He is a nationally recognized author and podcast guest contributor appearing in Insurance Journal, Independent Agent Magazine, Insurance Business America Magazine, Best's Review, and Applied Systems.

Jim is a passionate advocate for small business owners, entrepreneurs, and independent insurance agents. He loves sharing ideas about agency growth, digital marketing, and the lost art of human interaction.

Jim is also the creator of Agents Growth Academy, an online resource for insurance agents and agency owners who want to take their growth to the next level. And when he needs to take a clarity break, he is either behind a camera lens in the great outdoors or teaching aspiring shutterbugs how to take beautiful nature photography at Schubert Photography.



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Host Jim Schubert is joined by Will Lemanski, who outlines the moves needed to turn your business into a lean agency machine. As a fourth-generation agent who has been in the business since 2002, he knows what it takes to make an agency run efficiently and maximize everything. Create more freedom by prioritizing certain payments and budgeting using Will’s framework. Show appreciation to your employees and to your clients and become a best practices agency on this episode of Agents Growth Academy.

3 Key Takeaways
Pay off debts and other liabilities as soon as possible to reduce stress and increase freedom.Get involved in Best Practices programs to benchmark and improve your agency.Appreciate your employees by showing them that you care about their well-being each day.
Resources
Website
Pipedrive CRM
Facebook
Instagram
Email: will@mllins.com
Call: 5173519117
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
Agency Freedom Podcast by James Jenkins


About Will Lemanski
Will is a fourth-generation agent who has been in business since 2002. He spent 5 years as a claims rep handling property, liability, and auto claims. As an agent, he bought a business in 2012 with his wife. Since then, they’ve almost tripled agency revenue in 3 years. 

Will is heavily involved in state and national BIG I association and has run a best practices agency since 2016. He went from sitting at a computer with a phone and being told to sell to managing producers, running an agency, and making it as efficient as possible. What interests him now is finding ways to run the agency more efficiently and maximizing everything.


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LinkedIn is a powerful tool for business owners and professionals, but most people don't know how to use it to generate leads without spending any money. On this episode of Agents Growth Academy, host Jim Schubert breaks down the simple, 5-step strategy that he used to get hundreds of leads on LinkedIn and go viral on social media. This strategy doesn't require any fancy tools or expensive software–just a little time and effort.


3 Key Takeaways
Stop Spraying and Praying. Niche down and find a target market with fewer people in it.Create content and post it consistently. This will help you be the person that people go to when they have a need for your product or service.Send people to a lead magnet, something that solves a pain point for them and is a quick win.

Resources
How to Make Your LinkedIn Posts Go Viral YouTube video
Content Marketing Playlist
The free guide on 5 Ways to Add Value Before Asking for Anything in Return: agentsgrowthacademy.com/value
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Jim Schubert
is the CEO of Southern States Insurance, one of Georgia's largest independent insurance agencies. He is a nationally recognized author and podcast guest contributor appearing in Insurance Journal, Independent Agent Magazine, Insurance Business America Magazine, Best's Review, and Applied Systems.

Jim is a passionate advocate for small business owners, entrepreneurs, and independent insurance agents. He loves sharing ideas about agency growth, digital marketing, and the lost art of human interaction.

Jim is also the creator of Agents Growth Academy, an online resource for insurance agents and agency owners who want to take their growth to the next level. And when he needs to take a clarity break, he is either behind a camera lens in the great outdoors or teaching aspiring shutterbugs how to take beautiful nature photography at Schubert Photography.


Get the FREE: Agency Guide To Filling Your Talent Pipeline - agentsgrowthacademy.com/talentpipeline

It's far too easy to get bogged down by negative experiences and let them define us. But Michael Zalle brings his experience of being born with a small right hand and losing a seven figure sale just minutes before the interview as proof that your experiences make you the person you need to be today. Join him alongside host Jim Schubert to discuss the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and how you can do well while doing good at the same time on this episode of Agents Growth Academy.


3 Key Takeaways
In entrepreneurship, you have to learn to adapt.  Figure out how to work around it and don't let it stop you from moving forward.Don't take things so personally–not everything is about you. Accept that sometimes things happen that are out of your control.Don't dwell on setbacks. Pick yourself up and keep going (in 24 hours or less).
Resources
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
The Daily Stoic Podcast
LinkedIn
Website: goyellowbird.com


About Michael Zalle
Michael is the Founder and CEO of YellowBird. He is responsible for creating, building, and launching new concepts and companies, resulting in multiple successful exits over a 25-year tech career. He has built a career through a unique balance of commercializing novel business models, operationalizing innovative technologies and platforms, rapidly scaling operations, and building market-shaping ecosystems. Michael’s companies and purpose are ever focused on serving others. Whether it be satellite systems for First Responders, environmental products for flood and spill response, or time and economic support for difference-making organizations, Michael believes in “doing well while doing good.”

Michael’s college journey began at San Francisco State University and was completed at Pepperdine University Graziadio Business School while working full-time and traveling at age 19. As a lifelong member and mentor for the Amputee Coalition of America, he enjoys the time he’s able to invest in mentoring kids with physical challenges.

Married 22 years with two children, Michael spends most of his free time at lacrosse or soccer games chasing balls, applying band-aids, and handing out snacks. He enjoys traveling and engages in a variety of sports including golf and tennis; he ranks himself an incredibly average golfer and perhaps even worse tennis player.
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If you're an insurance agent or in any kind of sales role–or just searching for new ways to generate sales–this is for you. Host Jim Schubert is going to show you how his friend Stephen generated $1.5 million in sales from a single content marketing idea. Stephen is an insurance agent who's been in the trenches, but it wasn't until the last couple of years that he generated over a million dollars. Today, Jim shares an exercise that will help you identify how you can create content that adds value and makes big profit. 

3 Key Takeaways
How one insurance agent generated $1.5 million in sales from a single content marketing idea that he gave away for free. How to become an expert in something by spending just ten minutes a day learning more about it.​How to figure out who your audience is and what they want. Start by interviewing people in your target market or niche to get an idea of the language they use to describe their pain points.

Resources
Full Podcast Episode with Stephen Sedlak
AGA’s Marketing for Insurance Agents Playlist
Free guide with 5 Ways to Provide Value Without Asking for Anything  Else in Return: agentsgrowthacademy.com/value


About Jim Schubert
Jim is the CEO of Southern States Insurance, one of Georgia's largest independent insurance agencies. He is a nationally recognized author and podcast guest contributor appearing in Insurance Journal, Independent Agent Magazine, Insurance Business America Magazine, Best's Review, and Applied Systems.
Jim is a passionate advocate for small business owners, entrepreneurs, and independent insurance agents. He loves sharing ideas about agency growth, digital marketing, and the lost art of human interaction.
Jim is also the creator of Agents Growth Academy, an online resource for insurance agents and agency owners who want to take their growth to the next level. And when he needs to take a clarity break, he is either behind a camera lens in the great outdoors or teaching aspiring shutterbugs how to take beautiful nature photography at Schubert Photography.
Get the FREE: Agency Guide To Filling Your Talent Pipeline - agentsgrowthacademy.com/talentpipeline

Will Moore is an entrepreneur, habits gamification, and happiness expert. He helps people gamify their habits by combining universal principles to replace their failure habits with success habits five cores that address everything from your physical health to giving back. Hear how you can game up and get back the playful side of who you are on this episode of Agents Growth Academy.

3 Key Takeaways
Universal principles have always and will continue to prove themselves true. Identify the ones that apply to you and create a system for yourself that holds you accountable to them.Begin by taking three days to keep track of the habits you’re doing in the morning, mid-day, and night. Use red for bad habits and green for good habits. Decide what you’d like to do instead of the red ones.Your mindset holds the power to change your lifestyle into what you dreamed of. Don’t try to do it all at once; instead, work on one or two changes at a time. 
Resources
Website: mooremomentum.com (Take the quiz for a 10000 foot view on where you stand in each of your five cores!)
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LinkedIn
James Clear, Atomic Habits
Simon Sinek, Start With Why
BJ Fogg, Tiny Habits
Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People


About Will Moore

Will is an entrepreneur, habits, gamification, and happiness expert. After exiting his delivery startup for a nine-figure sum, Will realized that “true success" is not just about finances, but nurturing and finding balance in the 5 core areas of your life scientifically linked to happiness:
Mindset
Career & Finances
Relationships
Physical Health
Emotional Health & Giving back
Will’s now dedicated his life to helping others run their lives as a successful startup of the most important business they’ll ever run: THEIR LIVES.
His Moore Momentum System helps people gamify their habits by combining universal principles, science, and tech to WANT to replace their failure habits with success habits in all 5 Cores.
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