Communications

EFFECTIVE GOAL REACHING by Randy Schwantz Follow this four-step planning strategy to reach your goals. The key to achieving anything is to have a plan. More important, you need a ...

Email marketing is the grand-daddy of interactive online marketing. Email marketing has been around for more than 15 years. It is directly or indirectly related to the advent of every other interactive communication platform, including instant messaging, texting, social media, forum interaction and more.
But, email marketing remains one of the hardest strategies to implement for an insurance agency (or any business for that matter). The challenges abound...

EIGHT COST-EFFECTIVE WAYS TO MARKET YOUR AGENCY ON THE WEB by Jack Fries Agencies large and small have embraced the Web as a place to have a presence. Fewer, however, have reall...

Times have certainly changed. It wasn’t so long ago that you could open your doors and find a steady stream of customers ready to buy whatever you offered them. If they liked your company, they were loyal 'customers for life.'

EIGHT WAYS TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT MAKING SALES IN TODAYS ECONOMY by John Graham These eight selling lessons can apply in any economy. Stunned. Confused. Shocked. These thr...

EIGHT WAYS TO MAKE DIRECT MARKETING COPY WORK HARDER by Patricia Czech Craft a powerful message that will present your products in the best possible light. In direct marketing camp...

If more salespeople were as good at making sales as they are at losing them, they could write their own ticket just about anywhere. Unfortunately, just the opposite holds true.
It happens so frequently that it almost seems as if someone out there is training salespeople to fail. For example, the woman calling launches into her sales spiel. “Our station is a perfect fit for your client. When can we set up a time to get together so I can show you what we can do?”

ELIMINATE CUSTOMER SERVICE NIGHTMARES WITH 'CARRE' by Jack Fries Wouldnt it great if you could get all of your customers to come back every year? For starters, you should put '...

E-MAIL MARKETING: BOON OR BANE? by Jack Burke E-mail is fast, direct, and inexpensive. Whether youre an e-mail marketing novice or veteran, this document by Jack Burke will give you tips f...

E-MAIL MARKETING: DON'T TEST SURVEY! by Patricia Berry Because of its incredibly low cost, e-mail harbors a temptatio...