Agency Management

How to End Telephone Price Shopping

Is too much of your staff’s time being spent responding to telephone requests for auto quotes? One agency getting 80 calls a day seeks a way out and the VU…

Read the Policy You’re Selling

This may be the most important coverage article you read this year. It may be the most important coverage article you’ve ever read. Please read it. And please have your…

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Partnership Marketing

Partnership Marketing is the joining of two diverse organizations with a client base that can use the services and products of both. In its broadest terms the concept can apply…

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Agency Bank Accounts and Comingling of Funds

An agency has both a premium trust account and an operating account at a local bank. The agency owner has been told by some other agents that separate accounts are…

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Unrelenting Rain May Leave You High & Dry

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, May 26, 2016—The persistent rain that has recently saturated most of the East Coast can create property damage, flooding and other hazards that may not be covered under…

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Agency Valuation, Is It Based on the Past or the Future?

When buying or selling an agency, is the value based on what the agency made in the past or what it will earn in the future? A recent call illustrated…

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Procedures and Why They Really Matter

Over the years I’ve seen many agents spend thousands of dollars on a Procedures Manual,… one you’ve bought…one you’ve paid a consultant to come in and do…or one you’ve struggled…

You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

What does buying running shoes have to do with buying insurance? Keep reading for an excellent analogy of why online buying of certain “products” is often a big mistake.

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