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The Agency Mistake That's Killing Your Growth — 3 Things We Do Instead

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The core argument presented is that many agencies fail to promote their services with sufficient intensity or duration, which directly hinders their growth potential. The speaker illustrates this point by sharing a recent example of a virtual event called the Visibility Blueprint, where they invested nearly three thousand dollars in advertising over a month-long campaign. Despite promoting the event for thirty days, half of the ticket sales only occurred in the final seventy-two hours, suggesting that the promotional effort could have been significantly more aggressive throughout the entire cycle. This observation leads to the conclusion that most businesses do not push hard enough at the beginning, maintain momentum in the middle, or capitalize fully at the end, thereby leaving significant revenue on the table. A critical component of effective promotion is persistent follow-up and consistent engagement with leads, a practice that many sales teams and new agents neglect. The speaker contrasts this common failure with an example of a former high-performing salesperson who maintained contact through various channels like texts, calls, FaceTime, and voice memos to secure deals. Similarly, the transcript highlights a success story involving a final expense lead generator who contacted twenty-six out of thirty leads within the first few days, a feat that is rare and difficult to achieve without relentless effort. The speaker emphasizes that simply having leads is not enough; one must actively touch them repeatedly over short periods like forty-eight or seventy-two hours to convert them, as most vendors fail to execute this level of persistence. Furthermore, successful agencies must clearly articulate their specific achievements and social proof rather than making vague claims about helping people. The speaker points out that major brands like Gymshark explicitly display the number of clients they have helped on every page of their website, including checkout screens, while many smaller businesses omit this crucial data. By upgrading to a Shopify Plus plan, the speaker's organization now tracks and shares metrics such as having assisted over twenty thousand agents in two and a half years. The lesson is that belief in one's product should naturally translate into telling everyone about it; if an agency does not aggressively share its specific impact and success stories, it may indicate a lack of conviction in what they do. Ultimately, the video concludes that scaling an agency requires pouring significant resources into advertising across platforms like Meta, Google, and search engines while simultaneously ensuring that promotional efforts are sustained from start to finish. The speaker reveals that their own organization spends six figures monthly on traffic generation for events, sales teams, and virtual workshops, a level of investment that most companies do not match. The final takeaway is that ethical products that genuinely help people should be pursued with maximum intensity, and businesses must overcome the hesitation to share their success stories. By adopting these strategies—consistent high-intensity promotion, relentless follow-up, and transparent sharing of social proof—agencies can unlock faster growth and achieve the scale they desire.
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From a promotional standpoint of promoting what you do, agencies do not promote hard enough or long enough. Okay, I'm going to give you some examples in this video of how if you are building an agency, you can continue to build it faster and better. And this, what I'm going to share you right now, is one of the biggest reasons why we scaled to eight figures in revenue in 2025 and how we're growing again this year. Here's one example. We just did a uh we're about to in about 10 minutes, actually, I'm going to walk upstairs and I'm going to kick off a Visibility Blueprint live virtual event. Um that event we spent about um close to three grand in ads, right, to fill that virtual event. What was cool about it is we sold virtual tickets. So, we had a $27 ticket and a $97 ticket. Um and we did we're we're we've done about 70 registrants. We've done over $3,200 in sales, something like that, right around there. Well, we not only we not only broke even or made a little bit on the front end. However, half of the tickets came in in the last 3 days. Half the tickets came in the last 72 hours. We've been promoting this event for a month. In the last 72 hours, half the tickets flooded in. And I guarantee you we could have done more or still promoted harder than we even did. What does that tell you? It doesn't tell you to stop, it tells you to go. What it does tell you, though, is that most people most companies are not pushing hard enough the beginning, in the middle, also at the end. Like, if you think about the very end of the promotional process. Like, I'm going to teach that on this Visibility uh Blueprint workshop in just a few minutes. But, like, the the promotional cycle at the end at the end should be harder, sure, but you should promote so hard at the front, the beginning, the middle, and at the end. So, then have different stages, right? So, so when we when we promote we're promoting with an early bird promoting with like a middle right? Of just regular promotion. And then I end with a last chance promotion. Most businesses, this is true for your sales reps, this is true for your true for your sales team, true for your events. Most people are not following up enough. They're not checking in hard enough. They're not uh persistent enough. Right? Like, okay, I'll give you an example. Uh one of the guys used to They used to work with Grant Cardone. He did Gosh, he made a million bucks a year in commissions. He did over a hundred million dollars in in revenue for Cardone. Over several years a bunch of years that he was there. Right? He reached out to me um just the other day and he's been following up with me. And the dude's been text, calls FaceTimes voice memos um videos. Like, he is calling in different ways, right? And most people I keep trying to get a hold of me in different ways. Most people don't Okay, even if you're a new insurance agent, most new insurance agents don't start don't call the leads fast enough. They don't call them enough times at the same time, by the way. They don't call them enough times over the course of the first, you know, day, 48 hours, 72 hours, week, etc. Most people aren't touching their leads. Right? And they're not following up their leads enough. I'll give you an example. One of our final expense lead orders um she works with Empower. She just said that, "Bro, I love your final expense leads." She said, "Because I just got a hold of" I think she's new. She just got a hold of 26 out of 30 of her final expense leads. Why should you care about that? You should care about that because that is rare that is hard to do. Most vendors can never actually make that claim and we can even back it up. Like we're building a portal that we're rolling out next week, actually. Uh for all of our Kaboom Lead clients that inside of that portal we can track how many sales you're making on your leads and what the average premium is of those sales. Why is it important? That that's important because I want to be able to prove with data, with science, right? With stats versus we do a good job, right? Well, how do you do a good job? What does that mean? And and so most people they're not promoting hard enough beginning, middle, or end. They're not going the distance. And when they are promoting what whatever, you know, they do or however they do it or how well they think they do it, they're also not promoting at what level that they do it. You see what I mean? Like they're not like like they're just like, "Oh, we help people." Well, do you have but how many people do you help? Like when you put on your Medicare agency website, how many how many clients have you helped in the Medicare business? Or if you're recruiting, how many agents have you helped? So, I'll give you an example. Uh we just upgraded um we got an invitation upgrade to Shopify Plus. Uh we're one of the top 10,000 stores in the world for Shopify. They said, "Bro, you're on pace to like explode. Your your your Shopify store is growing a bunch." I just got off the Zoom and he said like, "Man, dude, like you're on pace to like be a a Gymshark brand or these major brands one day because your store is doubling every year. Like it's unbelievable." He said that and then he played me. J- just the just the like success of what you're doing and how you are also No, I I I have no idea where I was going with that when I said, "Hey, I I I you know, our our Shopify store is doing really well." Um but what they said to us is like, "Hey, dude, you've got to get to where you've got to get to where um you are capitalizing, right? And so so on every person that goes to every checkout page, um oh, they even showed us like what big brands are doing and how they're adding like how many people they've clients they've helped. They're adding reviews on every page, right? Like there's so many evolutions to what you do. Do you have reviews? Do you have testimonials? How many do you have? How much are you sharing this, right? Um also any point during this you can click the link below to get a live strat of strategy call with my team on how we can help the visibility in your organization, right? So oh, Shopify, well we've helped over 20,000 agents with orders through our Shopify store in 2 and 1/2 years. Mind-blowing, crazy, big number, but guess what? It took It took us continuing to pour in, but we should also be sharing with people that we helped 20,000. And right now we don't have that in certain places. We don't have it on the checkout page. We don't have that in, you know, etc. etc. But we should be spreading that and sharing that and talking about that success what we do. We promote hard. We spend a lot of money. Meta, Google, search, performance max, ad roll, ads all over the place. Most companies don't push enough. Most companies don't spend enough. And we spend a good amount. I'm spending six figures a month just to drive traffic into our organization, our sales team, our events, virtuals, all this stuff. Most people don't push hard enough. Most people don't do those things at all. But at the end of the day, you should. And if you're not, why do you not push hard enough? Because what I've learned is the natural outflow of belief is to tell everyone. So if you're not telling everyone, then you must not believe in what you do. At the end of the day, you need to figure out what do you do, how do you do it, and do you believe in what you do? And if you do, you will start telling people. And if you believe you have an ethical product that helps people, you will go after them harder. Who wants to look at your company? And you click the link below to book a free strategy call with our team on how we can help you get more visible, and help you scale your agency so much faster. Thanks for watching. Book a call today. See you soon. 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