Agency Management

Disgruntled and Gruntled Clients

Agents live and work in a wondrous world. Everyday offers opportunities, some taken, and some missed. But the most entertaining part of any agent’s day is their interactions with their…

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3 Questions That Measure Your Professionalism

About the time you become satisfied with your knowledge level, figuring you know all there is to know, you become a danger to yourself and everyone else. For example, the…

Apples-to-Apples Agents – Please Don’t Be One

First, you should never “quote” a policy; and second, you should never propose coverage that only matches what the insured had previously. If all you provide is an “apples-to-apples” proposal,…

The Great Bad Faith Myth

Randy Maniloff, an attorney and insurance expert, discusses what is really required before a carrier can be found guilty of bad faith. The threshold for bad faith is more than…

I’m Shopping for a New Insurance Agent

Agents owe their clients a certain level of service, but what is that level? What should be the agent’s role? What standards of care are reasonable to properly assure an…

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Insurance: A Once Honorable Profession

Insurance was an honorable profession, the habitat of honorable professionals. It can be again, can’t it? Only we can pull us from a fate from which there is no escape.

Can An Organization Outgrow Its Owner And Vice Versa?

Agencies initially develop the personalities of their owner. If the agent is sales oriented, the agency grows staff that key in on the sales and marketing process. If the agent…

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