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The Insurance Dudes©

by The Insurance Dudes: Craig Pretzinger and Jason Feltman

The Insurance Dudes is a weekly podcast for independent and captive P&C insurance agency owners, hosted by Craig Pretzinger and Jason Feltman, covering lead generation, sales scripts, DISC-based hiring, producer training, recruiting, automation, and the KPI tracking that scales an agency past $10 million in premium. Craig and Jason ran their own agencies blind for years. No read on contact rates, quote rates, or close rates. Just grinding, and blaming the leads when production stalled. Then they started tracking the numbers that actually move revenue, and production jumped without adding a single hour to the week. That shift became this show: 800+ episodes on what actually runs an agency. Real-time vs aged lead economics, how many dials a day a producer should be making, scripts for the rate-increase objection, how to leave a captive carrier and go independent, how to run an agency on a 4-day week, and how to value and sell an agency when you're ready to exit. No theory, no motivational filler. Just the math and the systems that took two agencies to over $10 million in new annualized auto premium. If you're wearing every hat in your agency and ready to stop, this show is built for you. Website: theidudes.com Built from the show: TeleDudes for outsourced overseas dialers, TeamIQ for DISC-based hiring, LineShield for phone reputation, and Insurance Agency Trader for buying or selling an agency. New episodes every week. Subscribe, and let's sell some policies.

Latest episodes

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Great Agencies Don’t Hire Salespeople, They Build Them

Shoot Us A Message! Hiring insurance producers who actually write premium comes down to building a repeatable training system rather than searching for a unicorn salespe

Sep 30
28 min

Why Most Agents Fail the Exam

Shoot Us A Message! How to help new insurance producers pass the licensing exam on their first attempt and reduce onboarding drop-off. Melissa, the Insurance Exam Queen

Sep 23
41 min

The Future of Insurance: Technology, Risk & Relationships

Shoot Us A Message! How P&C insurance agency owners can adapt to modern technology, evaluate emerging risk, and strengthen client retention to scale their business. In

Sep 16
53 min

From Wild Claims to Agency Success: Michelle O'Connor's Journey

Shoot Us A Message! Scale your P&C insurance agency by building repeatable operations, handling complex claims, and tightening your client acquisition process. In this

Sep 9
59 min

The 15-Minute Meeting That Changes Everything

Shoot Us A Message! Meetings: the overlooked habit that keeps an agency from falling apart This episode breaks down why daily meetings are the “glue” that keeps an insu

Sep 2
15 min

$6 Million Non-Renewed - Then Everything Changed with Dan Kitajima

Shoot Us A Message! Struggling to stay profitable when carriers change the rules on you overnight?  Dan Kitajima shares the brutal moment his captive agency lost $6 mil

Aug 26
46 min

The Hiring Mistake That Costs Visionary CEOs Their Best People with Mandy Keene

Shoot Us A Message! Hiring for insurance agencies requires a specific strategy to avoid turnover and protect your company culture. This episode covers the common hiring

Aug 19
55 min

How $500 Became a 50-Employee Insurance Empire

Shoot Us A Message!  Struggling to grow when your best move feels too risky to make? We discuss how to scale a P&C agency from scratch. The episode focuses on the tran

Aug 12
57 min

Why Your Agency Hiring Process Is Failing

Shoot Us A Message! Hiring Producers for P&C Agencies. In this episode, we discuss effective recruitment techniques for finding high performing talent in a competitive

Aug 5
25 min

Mastering the Insurance Sale: Six Stages to Success

Shoot Us A Message! How to close more P&C deals in 6 steps. In this episode, we break down the six stages of every successful insurance sale. We explain how to move pro

Jul 29
31 min

Mastering Lead Generation: Six Steps to Insurance Agency Success with iDudes Mailbag

Shoot Us A Message! Are your marketing efforts leaking money without delivering the growth you need?  This episode dives into the real, behind-the-scenes challenges of

Jul 22
24 min

The Secret Sauce to Insurance Business Success with iDudes Mailbag

Shoot Us A Message! Think your agency has a lead problem?  Most agencies aren’t losing sales because they bought the wrong leads, they’re losing because they’re not tra

Jul 15
21 min

From Chaos to Order: The Insurance Journey of Andrew Engler

Shoot Us A Message! Most agencies aren’t losing growth because of price, they’re losing because of process. 👀 In this episode, we break down why the best P&C agencies w

Jul 8
1 h 00 min

How Hiring Mistakes Drain Your Agency's Profits with iDudes Mailbag

Shoot Us A Message! Are bad hires quietly draining your profits? We discovered how the true cost of a failed team member can skyrocket to $74,000 in just six months and

Jul 1
24 min

How 1% Improvements Lead to 40X Growth with iDudes Mailbag

Shoot Us A Message! How to teach and train a sales team effectively depends on consistency and repetition rather than one-off training events. We answer a mailbag questi

Jun 24
19 min

How to Hire A Players in a Tight Market

Shoot Us A Message! Think your agency has a lead problem? Think again. In this high-energy episode, we reveal how top agencies are slicing through chaos by upgrading

Jun 17
16 min

Unlocking Agency Growth: Fun, Authenticity, and Social Media Mastery with Nicholas Sakha

Shoot Us A Message! Struggling to scale your insurance agency without adding more chaos? Discover how embracing fun and authenticity can transform your business and life

Jun 10
55 min

The Future Agent: Winning with AI, Automation, and Digital Innovation

Shoot Us A Message! In this episode, we dive into the seismic shifts happening in the insurance world, led by industry veteran Justin Brock. From skyrocketing agency gro

Jun 4
57 min

Mastering Contact Rates: How to Double Your Insurance Sales

Shoot Us A Message! Ready to eliminate the hidden problems slowing down your agency growth? In this episode, we delve into the challenges of lead generation, contact r

May 27
28 min

10% Lead Success? Here's What You're Missing

Shoot Us A Message! In this episode, we cut through the BS around lead generation and show you how elite agencies win regardless of lead quality by having the right syst

May 20
23 min

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