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How to Maximize Your Book with Personal Umbrellas Plus 5 Steps to Follow When Writing Coverage

Do your insureds live in a house? Do they drive? Do they entertain? Do they have boats, motorcycles or other toys? Do they have rental property? Of course they do and because of that, they’re at risk. So why haven’t …

How To Use Compensation to Boost Sales

Al Diamond is one of the country’s best known agency management consultants. His firm, the Agency Consulting Group, is based in Cherry Hill, N.J. He deals with agencies across the country on issues ranging from operations to mergers to sales …

Agency Marketing Must Move Online and Beyond

Insurance agents could be more effective with their marketing efforts by incorporating online tools into their advertising strategy. After all, online resources often are free – and they’re a good way to build relationships with present and future customers. Moreover, …

101 Sales & Marketing Ideas

From … how to research and obtain referrals, why it’s important to listen to clients, what to do with social media, where to advertise and what to say … to how to use a questionnaire, court records, a disposable phone …

How to Use Compensation to Boost Sales

Al Diamond is one of the country’s best known agency management consultants. His firm, the Agency Consulting Group, is based in Cherry Hill, N.J. He deals with agencies across the country on issues ranging from operations to mergers to sales …

3 Keys to Establishing a Total Agency Growth Culture

Why is agency growth important? Agents and brokers are faced with a continued economic downturn combined with sustained soft market conditions; insurance companies continue to tier agents based on future growth; acquisitions are costly; expense cuts are short-term profit enhancing …

3 Imaginative Approaches to Agency Marketing in the Entertainment Age

GEICO, State Farm, Progressive, e-surance and other major insurance marketers currently employ humor in their advertising. There’s GEICO’s prolonged use of the gecko, State Farm’s whyagent.com Web site, Progressive’s Flo and e-surance play acting some fictional internal friction. Today’s attitude …

Agency Marketing Must Move Online and Beyond Yellow Pages

Insurance agents could be more effective with their marketing efforts by incorporating online tools into their advertising strategy. After all, online resources often are free — and they’re a good way to build relationships with present and future customers. Moreover, …

AZ Court Decision Could Increase Agent E&O Premiums

The Arizona Supreme Court is weighing in on the state’s uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage selection form — a decision that could dramatically increase insurance agency’s errors and omissions premiums, according to the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Arizona. According to …

PMC Adds Jones as Senior Executive

Workers’ compensation insurance wholesaler PMC Insurance Group appointed Bob Jones as vice president. Jones will share responsibility for expanding PMC’s agency management plan and revenue growth in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut — including the management and oversight of …