10 BASIC PLANNING INITIATIVES THAT WILL ADD TO YOUR BOTTOM LINE by Ken Buehler The need for planning has never been greater. While planning focuses on profit...

Whether you’re running a mega-agency or a boutique, following these proven management guidelines makes sense.
Learn what motivates each of your employees
Use this information to help manage their performance. Although status, power, or additional authority might motivate some people, others might be more excited by the opportunity for tapping into their flair for creative, job-related activities or more face-to-face contact with customers. Rewarding good employees with assignment that speak to their unique motivations, interest and long-range career goals can help you retain them.

The goal in business is to outdistance the competition and make profitable sales by producing more customer-friendly products or services. To reach this goal, you need an advantage to improve your batting average-but it's getting more difficult and complicated to obtain this advantage, let alone keep it.

Becoming accustomed to a growing economy is easy and dangerous. Although there are always pockets of problems, we forget that success is often more the result of a good economy than our business acumen. If everyone else is doing well, our major challenge becomes how to pull ahead of the pack. Unfortunately, many business people tend to get a bit lazy-and that's when we can get caught.
There are ways to become more successful, keep business booming, and give companies the opportunity to gain a competitive advantage. Here are 15 ways to develop an extra edge:

ACCOMMODATING ALCOHOLISM ON THE JOB by Don Phin A Legal Report from the Society for Human Resource Management went into depth about this unique challenge. Here are some guidelines for emp...

ACKNOWLEDGE CLAIM DATE [CLIENT MAIL NAME] [ADDRESS1] [CITY], [STATE] [ZIP] Dear (Customer Name), Thank you for reporting your recent claim so promptly. We have sent the report to [POL...

BASIC STEPS FOR PUBLICITY 1. Choose only one person from your agency or organization to contact news media. Two persons contacting the same newspaper editor or program director will create confl...

When it comes to our privacy, trust, and security in this modern age, we have come to have more of an inherent focus on how we can obtain more access, easier and more securely. When we want to learn about online privacy systems like VPN technology, we opt to find out more online , to educate ourselves. The way that we handle our insurance is no different. In fact, insurance is the latest industry to find itself infiltrated by the modern prowess that is blockchain technology. Decentralised in nature, blockchain is the pioneering force in the drive to a future that is more sectioned, more secure, and safer than ever before. Insurance is one of the last pieces of the puzzle in the pursuit of this ideal.

BREAKING THE SUCCESS BARRIER by Kenneth Davis An invisible barrier is holding you back. It's the reason why many of us aren't achieving the goals we set for ourselves. It has been constructed bric...

San Diego, CA, February 17, 2016 - Industry veteran, founder and chief executive of Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC ("Atlas"), Bill Trzos has been named in Insurance Business America’s ("IBA") Annual "Hot 100 List" for 2015.