Digital Insurance Pint: Benchmarking with Carey Wallace

In this episode, host Tom Reid and his colleagues Steve Earle, Adam Mitchell, and Jeff Roy are joined by Carey Wallace, founder of Agency Focus. The episode focuses on key performance indicators (KPIs), metric tracking, the impact of compensation structure, and the efficiency of Canadian brokerages. Carey shares insights from her experience as a fractional CFO and consultant for independent insurance agents, highlighting the importance of growth, profitability, and customer retention in agency performance. The conversation covers various topics related to the insurance industry, including data entry and technology, specialization, differences between personal lines and commercial lines, revenue metrics and contingencies, growth and profitability in 2023, inflation and premiums, challenges with contingencies and carrier relationships, leading and lagging indicators, and the importance of knowing your numbers.