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In this episode of the Agency Intelligence podcast miniseries, Age of Indiependence, host Katlyn Eggar interviews Tolga Demirel, the Co-Founder of Agency Zoom. Tolga talks about the power that a highly trained and highly motivated team can have in an agency, and the significance of technology to an agency.

Episode Highlights:

  • Katlyn introduces Tolga Demirel. (1:21)
  • Tolga shares that he started his insurance career in late October 2011. (3:35)
  • Where did Tolga get the idea for Agency Zoom? (5:12)
  • Tolga shares that they are where they are today, because of their cultural adaptation. (8:36)
  • What are some of the differences that Tolga has seen in the struggles that agency owners are facing? (11:05)
  • Tolga mentions that the biggest change that he has seen is an increased appetite for technology. (12:54)
  • Katlyn shares that in the insurance world, the agency owner is viewed by the carrier as a distribution point or distribution channel. (17:14)
  • For the agency owner, what are some key elements that they need to be able to get visibility on before they can hold their team accountable for big changes? (18:52)
  • Katlyn thinks that accountability is a challenge within organizations in every department and a huge challenge for the leaders. (22:49)
  • How would Tolga reinvest the time, talent, energy, and resources into transforming the agency into a sales organization? (27:37)
  • Tolga shares that you should be creative in how to keep your people motivated, fairly compensate them, and let them grow together with your agency. (29:49)
  • Katlyn thinks that team culture and being all about people still exists in an agency that has a sales organization mindset. (32:21)
  • Tolga believes that when you make your customers happy, you become happy. (36:46)
  • Tolga shares that you should view automation in a way that it can help your agency on both sides, and sales enablement is an area where there’s a tremendous need in the independent space. (38:18)
  • Tolga mentions that proactive engagement is going to win the future. (38:59)

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