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How to Navigate the Path from Service to Sales
A role in production often affords flexibility, the opportunity to determine your earning potential, and residual income on retained accounts.
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Unlimited Vacation: Not Always a Day at the Beach
And while it may sound like a great option to get the attention of potential new hires, there are many factors to evaluate before adding it to your agency benefits package.
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How To Make the Leap from Agency Employee to Owner
The information here will provide insight into the critical items that should be on every new agency owner's mind.
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4 Ways to Avoid Traps of the Agency Bill Process
Left unchecked, what should be another tool to better service clients can quickly turn into an account’s receivable nightmare.
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How to Bridge the Benefits Gap in Your Agency
Statistics show that people are getting married later or choosing other lifestyles, but benefits offered by employers are failing to catch up to more modern lifestyles.
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Cutting Through Confusing Reports in the AMS
Reports are often difficult to understand and interpret. System-generated reports are also at high risk for errors due to the data that is in the system.
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4 Ways to Eliminate Confusion in the Submission Process
Without the right tools and guidelines, producers can easily find themselves creating their way of doing things, leaving the next person in the process without all of the necessary details to manage the quoting process.
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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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Quick Tips for Tackling Conflict in the Office
While employees do not need to be best friends, there is a certain level of decency and respect required for people to work together effectively and without being miserable.
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How To Avoid the Frustration of the New Business Process
The path to finding a working sales strategy is certainly not a straight one, but these tips will help producers refine their sales process.
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Is It OK to Date a Coworker?
Before the relationship gets too serious, there are a few essential things you will want to keep in mind.
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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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4 Tips to Ease Your Outsourcing Transition Pains
While outsourcing does present a significant up-side, it is important that agency leaders are able to understand how this solution can work for their organization.
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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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5 Tips for Successfully Executing Agency Goals
While it can be easy to get carried away with massive lists of goals and to-do’s, it is important that there are steps taken to evaluate and select goals that will have the biggest impact.
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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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5 Steps to Reduce Stress When Switching AMS
Any agency that has been through an Agency Management System conversion can quickly tell you that it never quite goes as planned.
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6 Tips For Making Flexible Scheduling Work In Your Agency
The traditional workweek in an insurance agency is quickly becoming a thing of the past. No longer is the 9-5, Monday – Friday the norm or the expectation.
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3 Steps for Training New Employees in Agencies
Training is a vital component to making sure those early days for a new employee go as smoothly as possible.
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3 Critical Steps for Building a Brand on Social Media
Using one or more of the various platforms can be a powerful way to increase exposure for your brand and reach a new audience of prospective clients.
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The 4 Traits of Top Performing Employees
While there may be several responses to a job posting, not every potential hire is going to be the right hire for the agency.
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How to Prevent a New Hire from Disrupting Your Culture
Finding a talented individual for your agency who also brings valuable insurance experience to the organization can feel like a huge win, especially in a competitive job market.
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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.
