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... to remove any barriers between your agency and its audience. Remember: Your website is not the relationship. It is a two-way communication hub that helps you – and your clients and prospects – to grow and maintain the relationship. Adrian Holloway is president & CEO of INSOMIS Corp, parent company of CompleteMarkets.com, Insurance Marketing & Management Services, and TransformerMarketing.com. Adrian is the named inventor of multiple technology patents and has been published online and in industry journals such as Rough Notes Magazine. Adrian and his talented team are committed to providing value and support to all insurance industry professionals. Login or Register (for FREE) to gain access to thousands of other great articles. Need more reasons to join? Need insurance for you, your business or your family? Get quality appointments - Save yourself a ... a website, some SEO, paid advertising, and drip marketing be enough? We will examine this in great detail in follow-up articles, but for now, let's stick to websites. The insurance buyer – the all important consumer.A recent survey from Accenture (July 2011), polled 2,500 North American customers and found that: Sixty-five percent plan to purchase insurance from a broker or agent in the next year. Broken down by age group, 60% of 25 – 34 year olds prefer contact by phone or e-mail. Thirty percent will buy online. Twenty-one percent will switch providers at renewal time. If these results are any indication, consumers will research their choices before picking up the phone to make a personal lines purchase: Home, Auto, Life or Travel insurance purchase ...

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... But just what constitutes the nature of these valuable trade secrets? Here's what one court said: "A trade secret may consist of any formula, pattern, device, or compilation of information that is used in one's business, and which gives one an opportunity to obtain an advantage over competitors who do not know how to use it. A trade secret may be a device or process which is patentable; but it need not be that. It may be a device which is clearly anticipated in the prior art, or one which is merely a mechanical improvement that a good mechanic can make. "When money and time are invested in the development of a procedure or device that is based on an idea which is not new to a particular industry, and when that certain procedure or device ... list, the IRS predicates the tax assessment due on the transferable value of that asset. Is this taxable in the form of gain over basis, or is it strictly ordinary income after an initial corporate tax bite? The issue of ownership of expirations and other trade secrets is usually addressed in employment agreements between owners, as well as producers and personnel, in accordance with such distribution systems as independent agents or captive agents. These relationships include: A. INDEPENDENT AGENTS WITH THEIR INSURERS: The agency agreement with your insurance companies state that the agency owns the expirations. The only ownership exception concerns an agency that's in default in payment of premiums to the insurer. However, during our participation in one bankruptcy court case, the court ruled that the expirations were not the property of the insurer, ...

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... be obtained by bringing in someone who is not familiar with the agency to facilitate the process of reviewing the existing structure and procedures. This can be a member of the owner's family, a friend, or professional management consultant. What you want is someone who will not take anything as given and will continually ask why a transaction is being handled the way it is, even if the answer seems patently obvious to those of you who do it every day. It's surprising how much duplication and redundancy can surface when you are asked to defend what you are doing and why! Some outsiders will only be able to help you discover problem areas and may not be in a position to offer solutions. A consultant who specializes in insurance agency operations should be able to go further and recommend specific changes ... have us do for you? Or is there something that you would prefer we not do? Are you receiving enough feedback on the status of your policies? Too much? Not enough? Have your claims been handled well? How could the experience have been improved? A more formal approach would be to conduct a short survey of all the agency's customers. This is much more time-consuming and many agents who have done consumer attitude surveys have been disappointed with the low response rate. If you are serious about it, you might want to offer some incentive for them to return the questionnaire. In any case, there should be no more than 10 simple questions, either short answer or multiple choice. Avoid using insurance jargon and don't lead them or use giveaway words that will slant the responses ...