Addressing Cyber Threats & Preventing Loss with Cyber Security Insurance

As an insurance agent, you probably already know the importance of having a good cyber insurance policy to protect your business in case of a data, privacy, or network breach. However, you need to ask yourself if your clients fully comprehend how cyber insurance can protect them and if you’re doing enough to inform them. … Read more

Five Steps to Better SEO for Independent Insurance Agents

Search Engine Optimization

As an independent insurance agent, you’ve probably heard about SEO but never understood its essential role in your industry. These days, consumers are searching for their insurance online. If you’re interested in reaching these customers, you will need to get up to speed on using SEO best practices. What Is SEO SEO (search engine optimization) … Read more

Community Marketing Tips for Independent Insurance Agencies

Community Marketing

Independent agencies and brokers rely on sales to survive. Without sales, an agency will lack customers, lose revenue, and have no future. If sales represent the vehicle driving the success of your independent agency, then marketing, specifically community marketing, is that vehicle’s fuel. Community marketing is essential to any independent insurance agency or insurance broker’s … Read more

Symbiosis: Referrals & Your Agency

an agency building symbiotic business strategies

To anyone who hears the word ‘symbiosis’ and is immediate transported back to high school biology, I apologize. It’s important to understanding that symbiosis doesn’t just refer to biological relationships, but also inorganic entities like your agency and your referral sources. Adopting a symbiotic business strategy can boost your agency’s visibility and prominence in the … Read more

Direct Appointments vs Producer Codes: What’s the difference?

Different carrier appointments for independent insurance agents

Most captives look to go independent because they’re tired of being told what business they need to write, how much of it they need to write, and who they have to write it through. You want your name on your book of business, and you want to keep your by being able to provide the … Read more