Agency Management

This page has evolved from our original Hurricane Katrina Resource Page. Except for a few links to articles available only to IIABA member agencies and paid VU subscribers, all of…

An amazing customer service experience comes down to this: “Sell a product or service that works and be nice to the customer about it.” It’s that simple. I could stop…

A freelance journalist was working on a story about what questions a consumer or business owner should ask when buying insurance. She was seeking five questions each from several insurance…

Many agency owners try to make producers out of employees simply by giving them the title “producer.” Even if these employees are not producing, they are given the title “producer”…

The cry we hear loudest from agents is that they are losing customers to cheaper alternatives. Yet watching the buying habits of these same customers, they don’t buy the cheapest…

Is the future positive for small, traditional agencies? As with most broad looking-into-the-future answers, it depends. It depends on knowledge, commitment, and recognizing reality. For example….

Over the next several months we are going to explore how you can protect your data from a data breach and what the federal and state laws say you must…

With a new year just beginning, now is the time to start questioning your customer service delivery. In this short article, customer service expert Shep Hyken presents 14 questions you…

Years ago I took a course offered by the Afterburners, a group of former military fighter pilots who teach corporate America how to bring military strategy into their boardroom. One…

Two decades of research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience and economics have finally converged, giving us a broader and more detailed picture than ever before about the power of…