Picking the right SEO firm and marketing plan for your online endeavours can be a particularly difficult challenge if you’re working for or are running an insurance agency. I consult to a number of insurance agents and through my lead generation program, I probably speak to at least 200 insurance professionals a month. More than most SEO practitioners out there. I’m aware of the many challenges captive and independent agents deal with on a daily basis in terms of getting their business more local exposure.

Before we get too deep into this post, I want make one thing clear. I’ve tried to make this post as light and as succinct as possible. If we were to get into the “nitty gritty” of every situation, this post would extend to a multi-post series. If you have specific questions or concerns, pick up the phone and call me and I’ll be happy to help you with any questions you have about this post or issues you have with marketing your insurance agency locally.

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Happy belated new year! It’s been really busy so this is my first post of the new year.

We’re going to get back to my series of posts on “7 Reasons Why Your Website Doesn’t Bring You Business” but I wanted to talk about a really important issue that I’ve been wanting to write about for a long time.

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m very fortunate to have a really good lead generation program that introduces me to business owners from every demographic every day.

My inspiration for this post comes from a really devoted business owner I spoke to early this morning, but this situation has come up many times before. The gentleman runs a small limousine service based out of Seattle, Washington.

What’s neat about this situation is that the gentleman has a desire to grow his business and he has reached out to me and two other SEO firms about quoting him on a monthly marketing plan that will help to get his website ranked on the first page.

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