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... you're going to do this at all, do it right. This requires some hard thinking and some demanding work — but most things of value do. So let's get to it! RE-VISIT YOUR BUSINESS PLAN Don't even think about looking for a new carrier until you decide exactly what you want to do. What do you want your agency to be? Agencies come in all shapes and sizes from small mom-and-pop agencies to the mega-brokers. Just how large do you expect your agency to become? What are your growth expectations? How many producers do you expect to have? How will you manage them? Can you demonstrate to a new carrier that you have an aggressive marketing and sales management program? If not, why would a carrier want to do business with you? It costs a company ... the agency is missing contingency opportunities, etc. Many agencies have too many carriers in terms of numbers and not enough carriers with a meaningful, mutually beneficial relationship. If you can serve your strategic customer segment by leveraging an existing relationship, why not do it? If the fit isn't there, then you're ready to begin your search for a new carrier. David M. Stambaugh, CPCU, ARM, can be reached at Stambaugh Associates, 430 Ranch Road, Cle Elum, WA 98922, (509) 857-2119, or e-mail [email protected] . 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 whole lot of ...
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... come in all shapes and sizes from small mom-and-pop agencies to the mega-brok...le, many large brokers have abandoned Small Commercial and Personal Lines beca...
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... of Motor Vehicles, Insurance Commissioner, and insurance consumer sites) . For comprehensive listings that you can install on your Web site, go to Ultimate Links and Useful Links on the IMMS.com Members Page. Because carrier marketing departments already have these lists, it would make sense to put them into HTML format and make them available for agency Web site linking. This is a great way to leverage a small amount of work across hundreds or thousands of agencies. CONCLUSION To help integrate agency Web sites into the Independent Agency distribution system, carriers need to add content on their sites for direct consumer use and on agency sites for indirect consumer use. Even though these recommendations are easy and inexpensive, few carriers have done a good job with agency Web site locators, let alone considered providing content that their ... customer service Web site functionality, I believe they're totally off base. Independent agent carriers, who achieve a top ranking or aspire to one, might also be far off the track. Why don't Independent Agency System carrier sell direct? It'll never work. Consumers won't buy that way. Why not provide online customer service? Because it confuses the customer and disintermediates agents - the carriers' key distribution arm. Why do site-ranking groups use faulty criteria? Why do carriers embrace these useless rankings? THE PROBLEM: COMPANY-CENTERED SITES It's possible that ranking services don't understand the realities of the insurance business - the psychology of insurance buying, the necessary flexibility of the market, the complex role of the independent agent, and so on. They don't realize that carriers' best strategy isn't to promote themselves and ...