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If Tighter Underwriting, Skyrocketing Prices and Intense Competition Threaten Your Agency, Read this NOW!
Breaking News for Insurance Agents: Agents Cheer While Other Markets Cry “Foul” as Unique Rebel Wholesaler Delivers Top-Rated Carriers To Agents Choked By Hardening P&C Market. . . Insurance agents, just like you, across the country are scrambling to deliver...
Dirty Little Secrets I’ve Learned About Buying Insurance Agencies & Brokerages
So, business has been good. Sales are up. Claims activity is low. Retention gets better each month. You’ve almost spent next year’s contingency three times in your head, and have visions of your family enjoying that little vacation you keep imagining. But if...
How To Get Appointed By The Carriers You Want By Giving Them What They Want
So, you’ve decided you’re ready to add a carrier to the lineup of companies in your portfolio. You call the marketing rep, set up an appointment, he comes to your office, you talk some more, go to lunch, and he reminds you of what he needs from you to take back to...
Broker Fees: The Ticket to Wealth or An Invitation to the Commissioner’s Office?
For the last twenty years or so, I’ve been hanging around the water coolers of some fantastic trade groups for agency owners. These could be agent organizations, marketing companies who bring like-minded agents together, continuing ed classes, or even some of the...
How to Help the Less Fortunate in Your Community, Get New Prospects in Your Front Door, Massive Free Publicity and Look Like a Hero All Over Town
By: John N. Mason, CIC President Chenango Brokers, LLC Have you ever heard the pleas for help at your local food pantry, and wondered how you could help? Maybe you sent a donation in during the holidays, or dropped a dollar in the basket during the second...
Using Personality Marketing To Fill Your Funnel With Leads, Your CSRs Desks with New Apps and Your Bank Account with Cold Hard Cash
If I told you that I used to love to check into hotel rooms in strange cities and tear open the yellow pages just to see new insurance ads, you’d either tell me to get a life, a girlfriend, or wake up and realize there aren’t yellow pages in hotel rooms anymore. . .or...
