Handing You the Tools to Enter and Thrive in the Modern Insurance Landscape

Human beings always have a lot of stuff going around them, and yet one thing that remains constant here is their pledge to grow on a consistent basis. This progressive approach, on our part, has already got the world to hit upon some huge milestones, with technology appearing as a major member of the stated group. The reason why technology enjoys such an esteemed stature among people is, by and large, predicated upon its skill-set, which ushered us towards a reality that nobody could have ever imagined otherwise. Nevertheless, if we look up close for a second, it will become clear how the whole runner was also very much inspired from the way we applied those skills across a real world environment. The latter component was, in fact, what gave the creation a spectrum-wide presence, and consequentially, kickstarted a tech revolution. Of course, this revolution then went on to scale up the human experience through some outright unique avenues, but even after achieving such a monumental feat, technology will somehow continue to produce the right goods. The same has grown increasingly evident over the recent past, and assuming one new insurtech-themed development shakes out just like we envision, it will only make that trend bigger and better moving forward.

Goosehead Insurance, a rapidly growing, independent personal lines insurance agency, has officially introduced an all-new Agency Launch Program, which is designed to help recent college graduates interested in building the skills needed to own their own Goosehead Insurance franchise. According to certain reports, the stated program comes decked up with means to let participants begin in a corporate sales role to learn the fundamentals of the Goosehead Insurance business model. Such information becomes all the more significant once you consider how the model in question has successfully delivered industry-leading productivity and profitability levels. Anyway, next up, we have the luxury of picking on practices, alongside hands-on experience, that are crucial to guiding clients through the insurance selection process. Interestingly enough, the program also makes you better equipped in regards to prospecting, networking, and overall client relationship management. Complementing the same is the way Goosehead gets its seasoned executives to mentor you on variety of topics, including how to prepare financially for a franchise launch, making the transition from corporate agent to franchise owner, optimizing your growth strategy on the path to building a large scale insurance agency, and plenty more. Not just in-house executives, though, the aspirants who take part in this program will also be able to connect with other agency owners, something which should greatly diversify their learnings and turn them more aware of industry’s operations.

“Owning a Goosehead Agency provides an exciting opportunity for ambitious individuals with an entrepreneurial mindset who want a career path with unlimited upside. Goosehead’s unique model offers many advantages for individuals looking to focus on growing a fast-paced sales team without the distraction of back-office operations such as service or commission accounting. Agency owners can prosper as entrepreneurs because of low start-up costs, a broad selection of products to offer clients, industry leading technology, proprietary business development data bases and tools and turn-key management of most back office non-revenue-generating work,” said Mark E. Jones, co-founder and CEO of Goosehead Insurance.

But what makes Goosehead an ideal candidate for such an initiative? Well, voted #1 Best of the Best Franchise in the Insurance Category by Entrepreneur, the company currently has 2,300 corporate and franchise agents and a rather wide collection of corporate and franchise locations nationwide. Goosehead’s choice model and an ability to build unique client experiences would also achieve for the company a Net Promoter Score of 90 and a customer retention rate of 88%. Going by these figures, one can quite easily understand what grew Goosehead’s written premiums by a sizeable 36% in the second quarter of 2023, bringing its total written premiums placed for the year between $2.87 billion and $2.99 billion, while simultaneously expanding the company’s client base to include over 150 customers.

“To build a successful agency at Goosehead, one of the most important skills is the ability to develop a network of real estate professionals who refer clients to them, and then recruiting agents who can do the same,” said Brian Pattillo, Vice President of Corporate Sales at Goosehead Insurance. “Our Agency Launch Program provides extensive training to equip agents with both skill-sets.”