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Community Bank Insurance Sales: The Outlook
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... We have thousands of articles, checklists, tip sheets, sales letters, and more! Communications Marketing Customer Service Planning Finance/Accounting Risk Management Human Resources Selling Legal and E&O Technology Life/Financial Services Glossaries Management Resources & Links Categories Popular Recent All Back Community Bank Insurance Sales: The Outlook 4/30/2013 12:00:00 AM by CompleteMarkets Editor , James Campbell This content has not been rated yet. Are community banks being left behind as the bank insurance business lurches forward? While nine of every ... % annually since the mid-1990s. This suggests that growing your way to sufficient premium volume is unlikely. Additional pressure is being applied by technology. Lower-margin products such as Homeowners, Auto, and Term Life are beginning to migrate toward lower-cost distribution channels, such as call centers and the Internet. Today's telecommunications and Internet technologies provide legitimate alternatives for distributing products that many believe are approaching commodity status. While disintermediation to date is slight, it is occurring and it's certain to increase. Consumers are providing further pressure. Insurance consumers today are ... knowledgeable, sophisticated, and demanding than they were only a few years ago. This is true of both Personal Lines and Commercial Lines consumers. Today's consumers want flexibility, control, and the ability to access their provider when and how they prefer. Still further pressure is coming from new types of insurance distributors. Banks and other financial institutions, agency aggregators, financial services consolidators, and others have descended on the traditional distribution system in recent years. Though in aggregate these competitors have captured less than 10% of the insurance distribution ...

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