Stay Paid Podcast

In this week's episode, Biggby Coffee cofounder Michael J. McFall explains that for your operation to be completely sustainable, it needs to be able to run well even without you at the helm. To do that, you need to recruit expert talent who can help you bring your enterprise to the next level. Listen to Mike's interview to learn the secrets to creating a business culture that attracts top talent,...

In this week's bonus episode, Luke discusses the two marketing stories you won't want to miss. How was Red Bull able to become the #1 energy drink in the world by throwing their product in the trash? What mistake did United Airlines make that lost them $180 million? Both stories come with valuable lessons you can use in your business, can't wait for you to hear them!    This episode was pre- recor...

Building off last week's episode on insider tips to succeeding on Instagram, we're discussing the truths and myths with four true-or-false statements, and how to best use effective content to build a successful presence. You may discover that some of the strategies you thought were effective for increasing your follower interaction are actually counterproductive. Listen to this Silver Dollar episo...

Everyone operates on autopilot occasionally, but that's no way to spend your entire life. In this week's episode, Allyson Lewis, time-management pro, best-selling author, and founder of the 7 Minute Life, joins us to share how devoting time daily to careful planning and reflection can put you in complete control behind the wheel. Listen to learn how just seven minutes every morning can set you up...

We decided to ask ChatGPT for the six top qualities that the absolute best closers share. The answers didn't surprise us, but it did confirm what we know are the most important personality attributes and strengths any sales team should have if they want to close the most deals. Listen to this week's Silver Dollar episode to discover the importance of being confident and goal-oriented   as a salesp...

This week, we host Justin Brock, the owner and CEO of Bobby Brock Insurance. He's built an insanely successful insurance business on the premise that providing value is the best marketing strategy for long-term growth. Listen to d iscover why leading with value simply makes good business sense and get examples of what Justin has done to encourage his audience to know, like, and trust his brand, he...

Of all the social media platforms, Instagram (owned by Meta) is the most transparent about what it takes to have its algorithm promote your content. Compliments of @marketingharry, who has 293K Instagram followers and attended Meta's most recent creators conference call, we're sharing five tips that Instagram insiders have revealed to be key to your success on the platform. Listen to this Silver D...

In the almost two years since Shannon Gillette was last on Stay Paid , she's ranked among the top 12 agents in Phoenix, Arizona. She's also hired a coach and a virtual assistant, joined a new brokerage, and moved much of her marketing efforts to YouTube. Listen to this episode to find out the best decisions any agent can make regardless of the size of their business, the outrageously genius videos...

Do you really need a morning routine to be successful? Do you have a routine you swear by?   If you have been in the entrepreneur or motivational speaker space for any amount of time you have heard people talk about the power of a morning routine. On this week's bonus episode, Luke shares his belief on morning routines and the 4 things he focuses on to start his day on the right foot.    This epis...

We can all get weighed down by our own stress, so it's a good idea now and then to step back and think about what's most important in life, shifting our priorities to what really matters—and there are few things that will make you examine your priorities more quickly than finding out you're dying. Listen to this episode to hear the seven things that the dying most regret not having done in their l...

Last year, John Wetmore's agents sold an average of 10,000 policies monthly and generated $130M in paid annual premiums. He expects to double that in 2023. With numbers like those, we had to ask him about cold calling and how he goes about recruiting insurance agents for his team. Listen to John's interview to discover why a hesitancy to make cold calls is the result of a choice, a never-fails tac...

ChatGPT is an artificial-intelligence chatbot that came on the scene in November 2022. In just six months, it has already demonstrated itself to be the next huge leap in technology. It's insanely powerful, and it's super easy to use. In this Silver Dollar episode, we talk about how marketers use ChatGPT to increase the efficiency of their content creation and suggest some of the many ways you can...

Tamara Thompson is the mind behind Broadcast Your Authority, a content marketing agency that helps influencers, CEOs, and other professionals exponentially grow their influence and audiences with a data-driven approach to microcontent and repurposing. Tamara shares some of the methods she and her team use to routinely and with lightning speed grow their clients' audiences from as few as a dozen to...

T here's an excellent chance you're making shortsighted business decisions because, according to Simon Sinek (author of the New York Times bestseller The Infinite Game) , you don't know which game you're playing. In this week's Silver Dollar episode, we talk about the notion of the infinite game and how it doesn't just apply to business—it also applies to the decisions we make in our daily lives....

Rick Elmore, a former NFL pro, was working in sales and taking a marketing course when he learned that handwritten notes, with their 99% open rate, perform the best. He took this info back to his job, and six weeks and 500 notes later, he surpassed his monthly quota by 82% and made $28K in commission. Listen to Rick's interview to fully understand the remarkable impact of connecting with prospects...

ReminderMedia (the company behind Stay Paid ) hired an independent company to survey recipients of the personally branded magazines that our clients send to their clients, and we just got the phenomenal results. Discover the incredible rate of referrals and repeat business our clients can directly tie back to their magazine, the multiple ways you can use a personally branded magazine to establish...

This week on Stay Paid , you'll hear from David Price who, after only five short years in the industry, is the CEO and founder of his own insurance brokerage. David shares how he overcame a childhood defined by utter poverty, drug-addicted parents, homelessness, and years of moving from job to job and state to state to become a successful broker. Today, he hires 50 agents a week and makes millions...

We continue the conversation started in episode 441 about the six steps that will help you to develop more self-discipline. In this episode, we cover the final four. Listen to find out the simple technique professional athletes swear helps them stay the course and achieve their goals, hear Simon Sinek's recommendation for how to maintain your motivation and keep moving forward, and discover the si...

Steve Acree, the CEO of ReminderMedia (the company behind Stay Paid ), shares a few lessons about building a successful brand. Among the topics he covers are the far-reaching utility of having a clear mission, vision, and value proposition and their critical importance to a business's long-term success. Listen to find out the three-part tactic that lets you neatly define the central aspects of you...

In a survey released by realtor.com, 97% of survey respondents said local expertise is an important attribute of a real estate agent, while 25% say it is the most important. In today's episode, we share 8 things you can do to become the most widely recognized and trusted agent in your local area. Listen to discover s everal key resources that can get you the inside scoop on what's happening in you...

We talk with Bob Burg, a leading authority on influence and referral marketing and coauthor of The Go-Giver. If you've questioned whether nurturing relationships with clients really works to a build business, struggled with implementing a successful referral marketing strategy, or have never been quite sure how to do relationship marketing, then this episode will remove all doubt and answer all yo...

In episode 437, we talked about accountability, noting that before you can hold other people accountable, you need to take responsibility and hold yourself to the same standards. In this episode, we take a deeper dive into the subject of accountability to talk about how you can embrace self-discipline and achieve the success you want. Listen to discover the most challenging aspect of self-discipli...

David and Elle Denning—the husband-and-wife team behind the 30,000 member "Marketing for Insurance Agents" Facebook group—share their experience about what works (and what doesn't) when growing a Facebook group, suggest tactics business owners can use to develop a local presence, and talk about how they manage to run a highly successful insurance business—and still stay happily married. Listen to...

We're tackling one of the most persistent challenges facing marketers: how to get people to open and respond to emails. Included among the findings we share are t he email length that produces a 50% response rate, whether a negative or positive tone gets more replies, and which email closing prompts the most responses. Be sure to check out our show notes at staypaidpodcast.com for more in-depth in...

Darin Stubbs is the executive vice president at Symmetry Financial Group. If you're an entrepreneur who's just starting out, has hit a lull, or can't get momentum—or if you simply want more of what being your own boss promises—then we guarantee that Darin's advice and insight will change the trajectory of your life forever . (That's a big claim, but we're sticking by it!) Listen to his interview t...