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How To Make the Leap from Agency Employee to Owner
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How to Create Connection in a Socially Distanced World
Whether it is adherence to social distancing guidelines, working with clients that are too busy or located a long way from the office, there are still many advantages to learning how to market and build relationships remotely that are beneficial now and will prove to be useful in the future.
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What Every Agent Should Do Before Signing an Insurance Producer Agreement
Learn what every insurance agent needs to know before signing a producer agreement, including tips, risks, and steps to maximize your career success.
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Should You Invest in a Professional Designation?
Continuing education comes with the territory for insurance professionals and one option that continues to be popular in the industry is professional designation courses.
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4 Resources Every New Employee Needs
Without clear guidelines, employees are doing things the best way they know-how, but very likely doing things their own way. When this happens, important steps can be missed and results will be inconsistent.
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4 Steps Account Managers Can Take to Handle Difficult Clients
When working in a customer service role in an insurance agency (or any industry), there is bound to be conflict at some point. It can certainly be frustrating if your goal is to help the customer and they are not responding positively to your efforts.
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The Best Way to Deliver Bad News to a Client
Situations will arise from time to time which requires an employee to have a difficult conversation with a client. Having this conversation can feel especially stressful if they did not have any control over the decisions that were made leading up to that point.
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What Every Account Manager Should Do When Asking for a Raise
If anyone is finding that they are shouldering the majority of the work and not being fairly compensated for their efforts, it's only natural that they may start to feel underpaid and underappreciated.
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What Every Agent Needs to Know about Insurance Education
Insurance is a massive industry and even if you focus on a specific niche, there is still an endless amount of information you can consume.
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How Multitasking is Killing Efficiency And 3 Tips to Avoid It
Multitasking can have a significant impact on both efficiency and quality of work which can impact the quality of service clients are receiving.
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3 Quick Tips for Engaging and Retaining Customers
A critical component to the success of an insurance agency is retention. While an agency needs to bring in new business to continue growing, it is far more cost-effective to retain customers than it is to acquire new ones. In fact, agencies cannot grow if customers are leaving as quickly as they are coming in.
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Three Driving Principles to Inspire Customer Loyalty
Empathy, responsibility, and transparency are essential principles for fostering customer loyalty. By integrating these values into your agency's culture, you can build lasting relationships and enhance client retention.
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Winter Got You Down?
Combat winter burnout by embracing Total CSR's training solutions, designed to enhance employee engagement and performance during seasonal downtimes.
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Admitted vs. Non-Admitted Insurance Companies: Key Differences
How admitted and non-admitted insurers differ on licensing, rate and form filing, guaranty fund protection, taxes and placement, and what agents should tell clients.
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3 Overlooked GL Endorsements for Contractors
Many agencies have a portion of their client base performing construction operations, and while the premium and resulting commissions can be good for the agency, there are several exclusions involved that can potentially leave a client high and dry when a claim arises.
