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Is Your Agency’s Web Site Dangerously Obsolete?
Jun 21 2010 // Letting Your Site Atrophy is Online Suicide With all of the high level hype regarding social media, it’s easy to imagine that your agency’s Web site is as obsolete in cyberspace as Sputnik is in outer space....
Don’t Do Any of This Stuff on Twitter
May 17 2010 // How Not to Screw Up in 140 Characters or Less Twitter (www.twitter.com) is the absolute easiest to use of today’s social networking tools. Just like a freshly hatched songbird, all you have to do is open a free...
Free Online Places to ‘Spy’ on Potential Commercial Prospects
May 3 2010 // It’s Fun to be an Insurance Detective In the dark days of insurance sales – before computers, cell phones, and digital cameras – gathering information about a potential commercial prospect required real...
California DOI Launches Twitter Account
Mar 18 2010 // The California Department of Insurance has launched an official Twitter account, @CDInews. “I am always looking for new ways to reach out to and engage more consumers, and I am glad that we can take advantage of an...
How New York Insurance Broker Has Used Social Media
Mar 12 2010 // To the 77 percent of independent insurance agencies that don’t have a social media presence, creating a profile and trying to form “friendships” via a computer can be daunting. Once an agency gets online,...
Creative Social Networking for Insurance Agencies
Dec 20 2009 // Don’t Expect Many Friends With Boring Posts Social media is the cover term for the hottest marketing communication tools of today. They include such popular Web 2.0 networking sites as Facebook and Twitter. Both...
Web 2.0 for the Insurance Industry
Sep 21 2009 // How to Use Social Web Tools to Expand Contacts and Increase Opportunities Every insurance professional knows that our industry is built around relationships. Through rapidly developing Internet innovations, there are now...
Social Networking for Fun and Profit
Jun 15 2009 // Why Agents Should Use Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to Build their Brand Whether it’s used to market new insurance products or interface with current clients, social media is transforming the insurance industry...
Beware Twitter Users: Tweets Can Raise Publicity Legal Issues
Jun 10 2009 // “As exhilarating as social networking tools like Twitter can be, they also raise a variety of legal issues concerning the right of publicity,” says intellectual property attorney Jonathan Faber. An Indiana...
AAMGA Meeting <em>LIVE</em>: Dealing With Ups and Downs; <em>IJ</em> Reports on Twitter, Facebook
May 18 2009 // Managing general agents have a positive attitude about the soft market and recession, figuring what went down must come up again, according to Curtis Anderson, incoming president of the Association of Managing General...
Tweaked About Fake Tweets, Idaho Governor Joins Twitter
May 5 2009 // A bogus Twitter account set up five weeks ago in the name of Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter has been shut down — only to reopen with the real governor sending out tweets. The popular social networking and...
Nevada Department of Business & Industry Now on Twitter
May 1 2009 // The Nevada Department of Business & Industry (B&I) announced that it has created an account on the micro-blogging site Twitter. “Our participation on Twitter is part of our strategy to expand how we provide...
Mississippi to Twitter Disaster Information to Evacuees
Apr 17 2009 // Too busy fleeing from a hurricane to decide which evacuation route to take in Mississippi? You may want to check your cell phone or laptop for a tweet. Mississippi Department of Transportation officials will use the...
