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Agency Profitability Audits Lead To Greater Success

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Almost two years ago, after 10 years of consulting, I accepted a temporary assignment of managing an independent agency that generated 85% of its income from Property/Casualty Lines and 15% from Life, Health, and financial services products.

Agents Can Negotiate Contracts

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AGENTS CAN NEGOTIATE CONTRACTS by Chris Burand When it comes to re-negotiating company contracts, if you dont ask you dont get! Suppose you own an agen...

An Answer To Your Producer-Hiring Woes

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Help your top producers grow your agency & and their income!

Many of our clients find themselves the recipients of a decidedly mixed blessing. On one hand, they are successful because they employ many of the top producers in their community. On the other hand, since many of the community's top prospects already work in their agency, there's not much sales talent left to hire. They're ready, willing, and able to invest in future growth, but don't know quite how. If only they could find a way to replicate their top producers, their agency's market share would balloon.

Annual Strategic Planning

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ANNUAL STRATEGIC PLANNING by Al Diamond Implementing plans within an agency is certainly not unheard of and often works as well as the planning and organizational skills of the agency...

Are You Giving Your Customers What They Want?

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ARE YOU GIVING YOUR CUSTOMERS WHAT THEY WANT? by Al Diamond The first question is 'Do you know what the customers want?' If your answer is 'They always want the lowest ...

Avoiding Adverse Legal Decisions

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AVOIDING ADVERSE LEGAL DECISIONS by Carol Hammes Several months ago we addressed the potential for lawsuits associated with agency errors and omissions. Unfortunately, there are a number of other ...

Be Careful What You Wish For

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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR by Chris Burand Many agency owners lament their staffs lack of a work ethic. Agency owners typically judge their employees work ethic against t...

Carriers Put The Squeeze On Agents

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CARRIERS PUT THE SQUEEZE ON AGENTS by Edward Curry If you're an agency owner wondering why your carriers are making it so difficult to do business with them, you're not alone. While...

Change Is A Certainty

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CHANGE IS A CERTAINTY by Al Diamond Attempting to maintain the same old business practices in a changing environment is as futile as trying to sit stationary in a rising tide. As ind...

Cluster Tips

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CLUSTER TIPS by Chris Burand Cluster contracts among individual agencies or groups of agencies (not necessarily the major cluster-type agency organizations) are almost alw...

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