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WHY DO YOU WANT TO START YOUR OWN AGENCY? 3

family and your future, are unparalleled in comparison
to being an employee.

What Are You Trying to Accomplish?

There are endless reasons for starting a business, each
one of them very personal. What are yours? What are
you trying to accomplish by creating your own insur-
ance agency?
Are you looking for greater freedom? That is certainly
one of the benefits of owning your own business. You
get to decide who you will do business with and what
kind of insurance you will sell, and you can determine
your work hours to a great degree. You have the freedom
to invest your time, money, and other resources in the
way that you see best. You can take time for your family
when it’s convenient for you. We have many agency
owners in OAA who cite freedom as the reason they
started their agency. One of our most successful prin-
cipals spends much of his time out of state, and when
he is home, he dresses very casually (shorts, t-shirts,
and flip flops). Yet his business, which he designed to
run very well without his presence every day, has made
him a multi-millionaire.
Or, are you starting your insurance agency because
you want greater control over your future? Are you
frustrated because you can’t do things the way you think
they should be done? Do you have ideas about how
things would work better for you and for your clients?
Do you want greater control over the processes you have
to work with every day, from prospecting to proposals
to servicing your client’s policies? Do you want greater
control over the quality of the people you work with? Do
you want more control over the culture of the business
that you will spend a huge part of your life working