Jerry Xia

Entrepreneur , helping Professionals do Vibe Marketing& Personal IP;
Ex-CMO at FanShu, Top 1 Knowledge Content Provider in China;
Creator with 50K followers

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

@felixlopmsc Great question! We have a AI-driven method to capture daily converation with clients and turn into social network content. I will try to launch this via "Build-in-Public" in X

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

Insurance agents don’t lack stories. They lack time and skill to turn them into content.

Recently I helped Nina, a busy insurance agent, clarify her personal story, then use AI tool to capture daily work and turn it into social posts.

One post about why she left her previous career for insurance generated 100+ leads.

The lesson: stop leading with products.

For trust-based businesses, your story and expertise sell better than another product brochure.

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

This may be the best time in history to start a business.

Social media gives you distribution without owning a media company.

AI gives you the capabilities of a small team without hiring one.

Work that once required 7–8 peopl，content, design, research, customer service, even coding，can increasingly be done by one or two capable operators.

Put simply:

Your expertise × Social Media × AI = unprecedented entrepreneurial leverage.

You no longer need millions in funding or a large organization to test an idea, build trust, reach customers, and generate revenue.

The scarce part is no longer resources.

It is judgment: knowing what problem to solve, whose trust to earn, and what only you can offer.

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

How Insurance Agents Build Trust on Social Media

Many insurance agents use social media to explain products.

That is exactly why people scroll past.

Insurance is a high-trust business. Before clients care about coverage, returns, or policy details, they need to believe:

“You understand people like me.”

I was recently advising an insurance agent who moved from legal and commercial real estate into insurance. One thing became clear: her strongest content asset is not her product knowledge.

It is her lived experience.

She understands the anxiety of a fixed salary, a declining industry, and the career ceiling that appears after 35—because she has been there.

This is where Vibe Marketing matters:

Don’t sell the policy. Sell the feeling of being understood, protected, and in control.

Share real career decisions.
Talk about specific family risks.
Write for one clearly defined person.
Show up consistently, like opening your shop every week.

The goal is not to become an influencer.

The goal is to build a trust asset—so when someone finally worries about education, retirement, or family security, you are the first person they message.

Content opens the door.

Trust starts the conversation.

The sale happens later, in private.

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

Insurance Agent Doesn’t Need to Become an Influencer to Win Clients on Social Media

I recently helped an AIA insurance agent rethink how she could use social media for lead generation.

Before entering insurance, she had spent 10 years as a stay-at-home mom. Her network was small, meeting strangers felt uncomfortable, and even after two years in the industry, prospecting remained her biggest challenge.

But she strongly resisted making videos.

“I don’t want to show my face online every day, act like an influencer, or say things just to attract attention.”

My advice: Good. Don’t become an influencer.

Her existing clients were mostly parents of her child’s classmates. She understood their real concerns: education costs, aging parents, family protection, and how to allocate household assets without taking unnecessary risks.

That was already her content strategy.

I suggested a simple AI-assisted workflow:

1. Capture real questions from client conversations.

2. Add her professional explanation and personal experience.

3. Remove names, financial details, and identifying information.

4. Use AI to organize the material into a clear, useful post.

5. Let readers ask privately about specific solutions.

AI should not invent expertise. It should turn the expertise hidden inside your daily work into content that can travel further.

Insurance agents don’t need millions of followers. They need the right people to read their thinking and say:

“This person understands families like mine.”

And useful, authentic content creates another advantage: existing clients can easily forward it to friends facing the same problem. That makes referrals more natural: clients share helpful advice, not a sales pitch or a name card.

That is not influencer marketing.

It is trust at scale.

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

@Jackywine 真正在踏实做AI生意的人也不一定有空（或者有必要）去参加展会

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How Insurance Agents Can Use AI to Build Trust on Social Media？

Most insurance agents do social media the wrong way.

They post product facts, company events, awards, and occasional client photos.

None of these are wrong.

But they rarely answer the question a potential customer or potential recruit is silently asking:

“Why should I trust you?”

Recently I helped an AIA insurance agent think through her personal IP.

She has been in the insurance industry for 8 years. Her personal business is stable, and she now leads a team of around 12 people.

Her first instinct was to write more like a work diary:

What she did today.
Which event she attended.
Which client she met.

But the real story was much stronger.

Before insurance, she had already reached a senior role in an international consumer brand. Her career was not failing. In fact, she was doing well.

The problem was that she started seeing the ceiling of the industry and the business model.

At some point, she realized:

Personal effort matters.
But platform, industry, and long-term compounding matter more.

That is why she chose insurance as a form of “light entrepreneurship”: backed by a large platform, but still able to turn personal judgment, trust, and effort into clients, income, team, and long-term assets.

This is the kind of story AI should help an insurance agent extract.

Not fake viral content.
Not generic motivational posts.
Not “5 reasons you need insurance.”

The better workflow is:

1. Define the agent’s real positioning
2. Collect real stories from work and career transitions
3. Use AI to turn those stories into useful social content
4. Publish consistently across social media
5. Let content create the first layer of trust before the 1-on-1 conversation

Insurance is a trust business.

Social media does not replace referrals.

It helps the right people feel they already understand how you think before they ever speak to you.

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

@integralmj Totally agree! Trust is everything!

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

The Best Insurance Agents Don’t Sell Policies First.
They Build Trust Around Family Decisions.

Most insurance agents try to build a personal brand by posting product tips.

I think that is the wrong starting point.

If you want to build a serious solo practice, your content should not make you look like a salesperson.

It should make you feel like the person a family would consult before making a big financial decision.

A good example: one insurance agent I spoke with had a background in online wealth advisory before moving into insurance. Her strongest positioning was not “insurance agent.”

It was:

“I help young families think through cash, investments, housing, protection, and long-term risk.”

That changes everything.

Now content topics become much broader:

What should a family do with idle cash?

How should new parents think about protection?

What does a market drop mean for household planning?

When does insurance belong in the conversation, and when does it not?

This is much more useful than posting product features every week.

For a solo insurance agent, social media is not just distribution. It is trust compounding.

The playbook is simple:

Share real client questions, anonymized.

Turn everyday conversations into useful posts.

Use market news as an entry point, but bring it back to family decisions.

Let insurance appear naturally as part of the planning, not as the whole story.

Put simply:

People do not follow insurance agents because they want insurance content.

They follow people who help them reduce decision anxiety around money, family, and risk.

That is the Insurance Agent IP worth building.

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

@zarazhangrui Totally agree

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

I once suggested that Mr. Luo, the boss of my kid’s optometrist, should build a professional personal brand.

Not the “look at my life” kind of personal brand.

The useful kind.

He works in myopia control, a field where parents are anxious, products are expensive, and trust matters more than traffic.

My advice was simple: stop writing generic practice owner stories. Write as someone who actually understands the industry.

Talk about new products. Explain why one device is safer than another. Share what parents usually misunderstand. Reduce the customer’s decision cost.

Later under my guidance, he used AI to help him turn his thoughts on a new vision-care product into a post in about 10 minutes.

That one post sold over US$7,000, worth of product.

The lesson is not “AI writes better copy.”

The lesson is that AI amplifies professional judgment when the person already has real context.

Most experts do not lack knowledge. They lack a low-friction way to turn that knowledge into trust assets, repeatedly.

For professional workers, such as optometrists, insurance agents, dietitians, consultants and health advisors, content is not performance art.

It is pre-sales education.

When your content helps the right customer understand a high-trust decision, even a small audience can convert.

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

Recently，I helped my AIA insurance agent Nina turn one simple social media post into a lead magnet.

The article barely talked about insurance products.

Instead, it explained:

Why she became an insurance agent.
Who she wanted to serve.
What made her different from every other agent posting product flyers.
That shift mattered.
Most insurance agents post like advertisers.

Product updates.
Company events.
Generic financial advice.

But people do not buy high-trust services because of one poster.

They buy when they feel:
“This person gets me.”
“This person is credible.”
“I can trust her with a serious life decision.”

For insurance agents, your best content asset is not product knowledge.

It is your story, your judgment, and the trust you build before the first sales call.

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

How Insurance Agents Can Turn Good Content Into a Personal Business Card

A lot of insurance agents think personal branding means going viral.

I get why. Big numbers look nice.

But for insurance, I actually think a few thousand right views can matter more than 100,000 random ones.

Recently, I wanted to introduce my insurance agent to a former boss. In the past, this kind of intro could feel a bit awkward. You need to explain who she is, why she is reliable, why this is not just another sales pitch.

This time was easier.

She had just written a solid post about insurance planning. Nothing flashy. No hard sell. But you could tell how she thinks, what kind of clients she understands, and why she takes the work seriously.

So I simply forwarded the post.

That felt very comfortable. The content had already done half of the introduction for me.

This is what good content can do for an insurance agent.

It does not need to close a deal on the spot. It just needs to make someone think, "Okay, this person seems thoughtful. I can probably talk to her."

That is already a big step.

Insurance is not a product people buy because they saw a poster. Most clients need context. They need someone to explain the tradeoffs. They need to feel that the person behind the policy understands their family, career, health concerns, and financial pressure.

So instead of only posting product updates, write about real questions you hear every week.

Why do many people confuse medical insurance with critical illness insurance?

How should a young family think about protection?

What do professionals usually miss when they review their coverage?

What did one client conversation make you rethink?

These posts may not explode. That is fine.

For professional services, content is not just for exposure. It is something others can forward when they want to introduce you.

A good article is a business card with your thinking attached.

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

Vibe marketing sounds like something someone would say on a panel in San Francisco and then avoid defining.

But for professional services, I think it means something very plain:
People start trusting you long before they are ready to hire you.

Nobody wakes up randomly and says, "I need a dietitian today." Same with a financial planner, therapist, or insurance broker.

Usually they watch first.

They read a few posts. They notice how you explain things. They see if you sound careful or pushy. Over time, they decide whether you feel like someone they could trust with a problem that is personal, expensive, or hard to talk about.

We saw this in China with insurance agents, health consultants, founders, and niche experts.

The content that worked was rarely a hard sell.
It was usually a small signal.

A real client question.
A mistake people keep making.
A story from daily work.
A simple explanation that makes someone think, "Ok, this person gets it."

That is the part I want AI to help with.

Not replacing your voice. Helping you catch the conversations you are already having, turn them into clear thinking, and publish more often without becoming a full-time creator.

For solo professionals, the goal is not to be famous.
It is to feel familiar before the client needs you.

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

“Can professionals really build a personal brand?”

My honest answer:

Yes. But probably not in the way you think.

If you are an insurance agent, travel agent, nutritionist, consultant, or health advisor, you should not start by asking:

“How do I become a huge influencer?”

That is the wrong game.

Most professionals are not entertainers. And honestly, expertise is often bad for mass traffic.

The more responsible and specific your advice is, the less likely it is to go viral.

But that does not mean content is useless.

It means the goal is different.

A professional does not need 1 million random followers.

An insurance agent needs people who are actively thinking about family protection or retirement.

A travel agent needs people planning trips who want expert judgment, not generic tips.

A nutritionist needs people who care enough about health to trust a serious professional, not another viral diet hack.

For professionals, 3,000 precise followers can be more valuable than 300,000 casual viewers.

Because the real asset is not attention.

It is trust at scale.

Before, your expertise might only reach a client meeting, a WhatsApp group, or a few friends.

Now, 10 minutes of daily content can let the same expertise reach hundreds or thousands of relevant people.

That may not make you internet famous.

But it can multiply your professional influence by 100x or 1000x.

So don’t ask:

“Can I become a big creator?”

Ask:

“Can I make my professional judgment visible to the right people, consistently?”

That is a much better game.

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

@An_yhl 非常同意！

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

会用Codex的和只用豆包的，终将成为两个世界的人

我去年裸辞了樊登读书CMO，开始使用各种AI工具用类似“一人公司”的模式来把业务转起来。

曾经有几百人团队围着我转，现在我一个人带着7-8个AI工具组合就能干不少事。

平时也会和很多在用AI做业务的人交流，互相学习下。
我发现很多公司创始人和高管都是在用AI帮自己做事的，完全不用的基本没有。

但用Codex/Claude的，和只用豆包的，已经快成为两个世界的人了，虽然表面上都是在用AI。

有两个例子让我印象很深。

之前我一个在创业做健康饮料的Kellogg同学联系我，说想聊聊AI如何改变世界。

我开始以为他是看了啥营销号文章上头了。

见面时，他给我演示了如何用Deepseek+Vscode+Obsidian，帮他干了以前需要品牌部+战略部+CEO助理的工作。

他觉得再过一阵可以开始把团队里不用AI的人给替换掉了。
我当时还只是用Notebook整理内容和用Gemini做智能体的水平，光obsidian的关系图谱这一个功能就把我看跪了。

立马虚心请教。

作为回报，我“传授”了他用Vibe Marketing的思路做内容矩阵号的方法，以及后面介绍Codex给他用。

等我自己也玩明白后，我一边放弃了招人的规��，一边和其他朋友分享这些方法。

结果，碰了一鼻子灰。

典型的故事，是近期另一个公司创始人聊天。

见面时，先是听他讲了半天，自己作为创始人多辛苦，很多能力经验和知识都在自己脑子里，团队带不动，很多活都要自己跟进才有结果。

我听完一上头，给他介绍了用Obsidian+Codex的方法，甚至打开电脑演示了我平时是怎么做的。

结果他全程的反应就是“我习惯和豆包聊天的，我的想法和思路都放在豆包里，这个豆包也可以做啊，这个和豆包没区别嘛。”

我平时也是豆包的日活用户，拿来查信息和帮我家娃练英语口语，确实很有用。

但我们现在聊的是如何用AI工具帮你搭建业务体系啊。
豆包能干，和能干出和品牌战略专家一样水平的工作，能是一回事么？

至少也试试扣子或Workbuddy嘛。

也许AI时代真正残酷的地方，不是有人用了AI，有人没用AI。

而是很多人明明每天都在用AI，却依然停留在“问一句，答一句”的阶段。表面上看，他没有掉队；但实际上，他的工作方式、组织效率、业务思考，已经在慢慢和另一批人拉开距离。

一年以后，差距可能不会体现在谁更会聊天，而会体现在：谁能用更少的人、更快的速度、更低的成本，把一家公司真的跑起来。

到那个时候，最扎心的可能不是“我不会AI”。

而是：我明明在用AI，但怎么还是被人甩开了。

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

Dietitians don’t need to become influencers.

But they do need to become more visible.

In weight management, patients are already searching for answers:

“What should I eat on GLP-1s?”
“How do I avoid weight regain?”
“How much protein is enough?”
“Why do I keep failing after losing weight?”
“What should I do after leaving the clinic?”

Most dietitians answer these questions every day.

The problem is that the answers stay inside 1:1 consultations, patient handouts, hospital programs, or private chats.

AI changes the distribution model.

Not by replacing professional judgment.

But by helping dietitians turn expertise into consistent, useful, trust-building content.

This is where Vibe Marketing becomes interesting for healthcare professionals.

Vibe Marketing is not “let AI write random posts.”

It is a lighter, faster, more iterative way to connect professional knowledge with what people actually care about right now.

For a dietitian, that means:

- listening to real patient questions
- identifying repeated anxieties and misconceptions
- turning clinical experience into public education
- testing topics quickly on social media
- learning from comments and DMs
- improving the next post based on real feedback

In other words:

AI handles the heavy operational work.

The human expert keeps the judgment, empathy, and credibility.

A practical workflow could look like this:

1. Build a content kitchen

Collect the raw materials you already have:

patient FAQs, successful weight-loss stories, nutrition education slides, follow-up protocols, meal principles, common mistakes, and product/service explanations.

Most clinics already have the ingredients.

They just don’t have a system to turn them into content.

2. Use AI to repurpose expertise

One patient education topic can become:

a short X post, a thread, a newsletter section, a consultation checklist, a webinar outline, or a short video script.

AI helps with structure, clarity, tone, and repurposing.

The dietitian still reviews every claim.

3. Lead with stories, not product claims

In health, trust is fragile.

The best content rarely starts with:

“Buy this supplement.”
“This product will help you lose weight.”

It starts with:

“Here’s why weight regain happens after medication.”
“Here’s what patients misunderstand about protein.”
“Here’s why appetite control is not just willpower.”
“Here’s how one patient rebuilt routines after losing weight.”

Vibe Marketing says: don’t sell features first. Create the right emotional and practical context.

For weight management, that context is often control, confidence, dignity, and long-term support.

4. Turn social media into the top of the care funnel

The goal is not to diagnose in public.

The goal is to help the right patient think:

“This professional understands my problem.”

Then the next step can be a DM, a checklist, a webinar, an assessment, a private group, or a structured program.

Content creates trust.

Trust creates conversations.

Conversations create clients.

A dietitian with clear positioning, real patient insight, and an AI-assisted content system can become a trusted voice in a specific niche:

postpartum weight management, GLP-1 nutrition, metabolic health, emotional eating, high-BMI patients, travel routines, or weight regain prevention.

AI makes the content engine scalable.

Vibe Marketing makes it responsive to real human needs.

The winners won’t be the clinicians who outsource their voice to AI.

The winners will be the clinicians who use AI to communicate their expertise with more speed, consistency, and empathy.

Because many patients are not just looking for a product.

They are looking for someone they can trust.

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

Most insurance agents don’t need more AI-generated content.

They need an AI-assisted trust system.

Because insurance is not sold through “content.”
It is sold through trust, timing, and personal relevance.

The mistake many agents make:

They ask AI to write posts like:
“Why life insurance matters.”
“How to protect your family.”
“5 reasons you need coverage.”

Useful? Maybe.
Memorable? No.

The better play is to use AI to turn your real work into social content.

Every insurance agent already has raw material:

Client questions.
Family planning conversations.
Retirement concerns.
Objections from prospects.
Career transition stories.
Training notes.
Team events.
Stories from people who joined the industry.

The problem is that all of this stays buried in calls, DMs, WhatsApp chats, Zoom meetings, and memory.

AI helps you capture it, structure it, and turn it into posts.

For example:

A London-based agent should not position herself as:
“I sell insurance.”

She could become:
“I help young families in London think through mortgages, income protection, school fees, retirement, and long-term family security.”

A Toronto advisor could write:
“A couple in their mid-30s asked me whether they should put extra cash into their mortgage, ETFs, an emergency fund, or life insurance. Here’s how I’d think about it.”

A Singapore agent could write:
“Many expat families are over-insured in one area and under-protected in another. Here are 3 gaps I often see.”

This is not generic content.
This is a personal trust asset.

One case I like:

Nina, an AIA insurance agent in Shanghai, used AI tools to build her personal IP instead of just posting product ads.

She didn’t only talk about “buying insurance.”

She used her own background, professional image, client conversations, and career story to create two content lanes:

1. Professional trust:
Family wealth planning, protection, retirement, and real client scenarios.

2. Recruitment:
Why someone with a strong career background might consider joining the insurance industry, what the platform offers, and what kind of people fit the work.

One recruitment post used a simple lead magnet around AIA career transition materials and reportedly brought in 100+ contacts, with real recruitment results afterward.

That’s the point.

AI didn’t replace Nina’s credibility.
It helped package her credibility.

For insurance agents, the best social media strategy is not:

Post more.
Use more tools.
Sound more professional.

It is:

Become the specific person a specific audience trusts for a specific life decision.

Also: be careful with compliance.

Don’t promise returns.
Don’t exaggerate outcomes.
Don’t turn public posts into product pitches.
Use public content for education, stories, and decision frameworks.
Use private conversations for specific product recommendations.

The agents who win with AI won’t be the ones posting the most AI content.

They’ll be the ones who use AI to become more human, more consistent, and more trusted at scale.

[Jerry Xia @jerryxiajuve]

Recently, we helped an ophthalmology clinic founder build his personal brand with an AI tool we developed.

His background was not a typical “creator” background.

Before starting his eye care business, he was a regional leader at a top retail company.

Later, he became the founder of a myopia control and ophthalmology clinic business.

So he understood operations, products, clinic growth, and the real problems inside the industry.

But he had one big problem:

He had a lot of knowledge in his head, but he could not turn it into content.

When he tried to write by himself, one post could take almost a full day.

And the result usually had one of two problems.

Either it sounded like a product manual.

Or it was too technical for normal social media readers.

This is very common among clinic founders and medical business owners.

They are not short of expertise.

They are short of a system that can turn expertise into readable, credible, business-relevant content.

So we helped him reposition his content.

He should not write for everyone.

He should write for the people who actually matter to his business:

ophthalmologists,
clinic owners,
senior doctors,
product managers,
distributors,
and potential business partners.

Then our AI tool helped him turn his real industry insights into social media posts that matched his identity:

a clinic founder with deep operating experience and strong industry judgment.

Not generic eye care tips.

Not hard-selling product copy.

But practical industry content:

how clinics choose new products,
how myopia control services are changing,
what doctors should consider before opening a clinic,
what product trends are worth watching,
and how clinic operators should think about growth.

The AI did not replace his expertise.

It helped extract it.

It turned the ideas in his head into content that felt professional, useful, and natural on social media.

After the system was set up, he could update his social media almost every day.

Each post only took around 10-15 minutes.

Some posts reached over 10,000 views.

After several months of consistent posting, something interesting started happening.

When he attended offline ophthalmology forums, well-known doctors and product leaders from large eye care companies told him:

“I’ve been reading your posts.”

That kind of recognition is hard to buy.

His account still only has a little over 1,000 followers.

But many of them are exactly the right people:

ophthalmology product leaders,
known doctors,
clinic operators,
and regional distributors.

When he launched a new product, one article helped generate around $7,000 in sales.

It also attracted multiple regional distributors who reached out for agency and partnership opportunities.

That is the kind of personal brand I care about.

Not empty traffic.

Not random followers.

But precise trust from the exact people who can create business value.

For many medical and clinic founders, the opportunity is not to become an influencer.

The opportunity is to turn your expertise into a visible trust asset.

And with the right AI content system, that no longer needs to take hours a day.

Sometimes 10-15 minutes is enough.