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PREVIEW THE BOOK
Excerpt from Chapter 3
Kermit, the Wizard of Oz and The Royal Hangover
Excerpt from Chapter 5
Death Ground
Excerpt from Chapter 11
Ice on the Wing, the Angels May Sing

CRITICAL ACCLAIM
Gene Reiling writes:
"In The Insurance Wars, Tompkins tells every mistake he made and how he solved those mistakes to build his agency from scratch into the powerhouse it is today.  In The Insurance Wars, the 'how not to' is as important as the 'how to'..."
-Western Dakota Insurors
Rapid City, SD

Bruce E. Cook writes:
"I started reading it at four in the afternoon, and finished it at midnight...Iwish I read it 30 years ago; it would have saved me literally millions of dollars."
-Aloha Insurance Services, Inc.
Kailua Kona, HI

WORDS OF WISDOM
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If your marriage is shaky, probably having your wife help you in business for no wages is a bad idea.

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Do no count on a loan until you are certain you have one.

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Network, network, network: when you are done doing that, network some more.

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Snowmobile racing can be hazardous to your marriage.

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Do not ignore good technology, even if you are hard up for money.

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Advertising can be fun and does not have to cost you an arm and a leg.

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If good employees show up on your doorstep, hire them, even if you do not know if you can afford them.

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You can still do handshake deals in the Old West.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Chuck Tompkins, CEO Western Agency, Inc., is a 31 year veteran of the insurance business.  Chuck started his career as a captive agent in 1973 for Farm Bureau.  In 1976 he started his own independent agency, Western Agency, Inc., which has seven offices, seventeen employees, and writes over $12,000,000 in premiums excluding workers compensation insurance.  Although Western Agency, Inc. writes all lines of insurance, they specialize primarily in contractors and farms.  They are the largest single farm agency in North Dakota insuring over 900 farms in the state at this time.  Chuck and his wife, Linda, live on a farm southeast of Minot and have six grandchildren.

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