196: Business Insurance with Doug Groves
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Protect your business with Insurance – what do you need to cover yourself and your assets? Doug Groves, is our guest. He is a small business owner and highly experienced commercial insurance professional. He shares how he got into the insurance industry and valuable tips & advice about commercial insurance for small business owners. Is your insurance coverage more attractive than your business assets?
Henry Lopez is the host of this episode of The How of Business show – dedicated to helping you start, run and grow your small business. (TheHowOfBusiness.com)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Howa Business is sponsored by Ustas, the one-stop shop for startups and small |
| 0:14.1 | businesses. As a small business owner, you know firsthand the difficulties of managing everything |
| 0:19.8 | from payroll and accounting to keeping your website updated. |
| 0:24.5 | Usta's small business solutions helps you with everything from starting your business, |
| 0:29.6 | operating it efficiently, and seeing exponential growth. |
| 0:33.7 | All of the products and services offered by Ustas are geared towards small businesses, and their pricing is too. |
| 0:41.0 | For more information about how Ustas can help your business, please visit the show notes page for this episode. |
| 0:49.9 | Welcome to the How of Business with Henry Lopez and David Begin, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. And now here are your hosts. Welcome to this episode of the How What Business. This is Henry Lopez. Before we get started, I'd like to say hello to Kai. Kai is one of our longtime listeners in the Austin area. Kai, thanks for listening to the show. |
| 1:14.1 | My guest today is Doug Groves. Doug, welcome to the show. Oh, good morning, Henry. I'm glad to be here. |
| 1:20.5 | It's a hot day in Central Texas coming up, but we just got to get through them. I hear you. Same |
| 1:24.7 | thing up here in the Dallas area. So Doug is the force behind an agency |
| 1:30.4 | called Program Insurance Group, an insurance agency, and we'll have him share with us more |
| 1:36.0 | details on that. But he has over 30 years of experience in the insurance industry. With his |
| 1:43.2 | multifaceted background as an area developer for franchises. |
| 1:47.7 | Doug also brings the expertise of the franchise industry to program insurance, the agency that he |
| 1:53.9 | has now. And he maintains ownership in three different agencies, although I think he's bringing |
| 1:59.4 | them all together. He'll tell us about that story. |
| 2:01.9 | He continues to be involved in the franchise industry. He lives with his wife and he has three adult |
| 2:07.5 | children. He's an avid outdoorsman, as he says, and he's passionate about philanthropy. And he has a great |
| 2:16.7 | entrepreneurial spirit, which is, will become evident as he shares |
| 2:20.9 | his story about how he got to where he is today. Doug has two homes. He lives in Bryan College |
| 2:27.5 | Station, the home of Texas A&M, where he attended, and also in Georgetown, which is outside of |
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