Grow — For Established Independent Agencies

Your book is good.
Your contracts
should pay like it.

OAA members earn more per premium dollar on the business they already write — then grow faster with national markets, coaching, and bonus structures that pay for the growth itself. You keep your book, your codes, and your name on the door.

180+
Member Agencies
$500M+1
Premium Written
5
Income Layers Per Member
36.6%2
OAA CAGR, First 18 Years

The Ceiling

Good agencies don't run out of effort. They run out of terms.

An agency that sells well hits a ceiling that has nothing to do with selling. Entry-tier commissions cap the margin on every policy. A thin carrier lineup caps the market you can quote into. Without profit-sharing eligibility, your best year pays at the same rate as your worst. None of that is a performance problem, and no amount of production fixes it — working harder inside those terms just writes more underpaid business.

So the order is: change the terms, then grow into them. Members move existing premium onto network contracts, open all five income layers, and work with a coach who has scaled agencies before. The machine you already built starts running against better numbers — and then the selling compounds.

The Growth Levers

Five levers. Pulled in order.

The sequence matters: economics first, markets second, then the operating disciplines that turn better contracts into a bigger agency.

  1. 01

    Re-Price the Book You Have

    Move your existing premium onto network contracts — better base commissions and profit-sharing eligibility on business you've already written. Growth before you write a single new policy.

  2. 02

    Markets You Couldn't Reach

    National carrier appointments and specialty access through the network — so you stop declining business you could be writing.

  3. 03

    An Agency Growth Coach

    A named coach with a personalized growth plan: retention, producer development, sales process, and the operational discipline that decides whether the next 20% of premium arrives profitably or just arrives.

  4. 04

    Marketing That Compounds

    Marketing infrastructure and SIAA's exclusive Performance Marketing Support Fund bonuses — you get paid to grow.

  5. 05

    Hard-Market Leverage

    When markets tighten, networked agencies keep options. Carrier relationships at OAA scale mean you always have something competitive to offer.

Run the Numbers

What would your current book earn through OAA?

Five income layers for an established independent agency writing $5M in annual premium — written solo, and written through OAA. Illustrative figures3 — your number depends on your book.

Income layer Solo independent OAA member
01 Top-Tier Base Commissions Illustrative 10% solo vs. 11.5% network base commission on the same book. $500,000 $575,000
02 Profit Sharing At $5M a solo agency may clear one carrier's threshold; the network clears them across the lineup. $15,000 $60,000
03 Regional Bonuses OAA-territory growth and retention incentives, negotiated for the membership. $22,000
04 SIAA Exclusive PMSF Bonuses Performance Marketing Support Fund — available only inside the SIAA network. $16,000
05 SIAA National Profitability Bonuses National-tier bonuses on network-wide carrier performance. $13,000
Annual income on the same book $515,000 $686,000 +$171,000 / yr

The real version of this table uses your premium, your carrier mix, and your state.

Get Your Number on a Call

Is Grow Right For You?

OAA is for you if…

  • You write good business and suspect you're underpaid for it.
  • You're declining risks because you don't have the markets, not because you don't have the clients.
  • You're ready to be coached on growth — retention, producers, pipeline — not just handed market access.

And probably not the right fit if…

  • You want a logo swap, not an operating upgrade.
  • You're not willing to share your numbers with a coach.
  • Your plan is to shrink quietly toward retirement — see Exit instead.

Growing With OAA

Established independent agency, capped by a short carrier list. Good clients walking out the door for markets the agency couldn't quote.

Network carrier appointments opened the markets; an OAA growth coach worked the retention and producer side.

A carrier lineup that competes on every quote — and an agency no longer apologizing for its rates.4

“The shackles have been kind of removed, and being better able to serve our clients with all the carriers we represent now has been life-changing in our business.”

Justin Peeler · Peeler Insurance
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Tell us about your agency — premium volume, carrier mix, growth goals — and we'll show you the delta between your current economics and OAA member economics. Thirty minutes. Confidential.

  1. Member-agency count and premium written are One Agents Alliance network figures, covering business placed through OAA member agencies.
  2. Compound annual growth rate across One Agents Alliance's first 18 years (2000–2018), from OAA's published company history. Past network growth is not a projection of any individual agency's results.
  3. Illustrative economics. Figures are modeled on publicly documented independent-agency compensation structures for a hypothetical $5M-premium agency — not OAA member results, and not a statement of any carrier's or the network's contract terms. Actual figures depend on your book, your carriers, and your loss experience.
  4. The quote is from a published One Agents Alliance member testimonial. The surrounding situation, support, and outcome summary is written by OAA to describe the member's path and has not been reviewed as a formal case study.