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Automation

Insurance advisors

+15

Three tasks your CRM should handle during your meetings

Oct 26, 2026

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2 min read

Three tasks your CRM should handle during your meetings

Set up a booking link, an intake form, and a date alert this week. No new vendors are required.

Emile McLean
Emile McLean

Insurance advisors

+20

Stop keeping up with the Joneses' tech stack

Oct 5, 2026

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4 min read

Stop keeping up with the Joneses' tech stack

Four jobs worth paying for, and a one-page test for everything else

Emile McLean
Emile McLean

Insurance advisors

+21

Why AI comes last

Jun 16, 2026

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5 min read

Why AI comes last

AI on a broken foundation does not fix a practice. It makes the mistakes faster and more confident

Emile McLean
Emile McLean

Insurance advisors

+13

Your client does not care about your CRM. They care that you followed through

Apr 27, 2026

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4 min read

Your client does not care about your CRM. They care that you followed through

Operational improvement only matters if the person it is supposed to reach can feel it

Emile McLean
Emile McLean

Client Experience

+12

The annual review you skipped is costing you more than you think

Apr 14, 2026

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11 min read

The annual review you skipped is costing you more than you think

Every client you did not call last year is a client someone else will contact this year

Emile McLean
Emile McLean

Client Experience

+3

You scheduled 200 annual reviews last year. How many actually happened?

Mar 1, 2026

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5 min read

You scheduled 200 annual reviews last year. How many actually happened?

I ask this question in almost every first or second conversation with a practice. And the honest answer is almost always that a meaningful number of the reviews that were originally targeted did not happen.

Emile McLean
Emile McLean

Insurance advisors

+12

Your referral pipeline is a leaking bucket

Feb 21, 2026

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6 min read

Your referral pipeline is a leaking bucket

And most practices do not know where it drains.

Emile McLean
Emile McLean

The Capacity Problem

Fixing the operational drag that keeps financial advisors stuck in admin instead of with clients.

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