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... never seen or played with this toy, you'll never appreciate the challenge...60 Yesterday, manufacturers, distributors, and providers w...
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...out it. Jigsaw puzzles are timeless toys and tools. We’ve all done them....se their options were so limited. Manufacturers and distributors controlled mo...
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... Health insurance to someone else. Being all things to all people is impossible. Local hardware store B didn't suffer any sales downturn when the big hardware store opened, either. Store B thrives by selling merchandise the big store doesn't. It specializes in the hardware ranchers and farmers need. By targeting a class of customers, Store B also successfully cross-sells its customers clothing, hunting and fishing equipment, toys, and animals. The key is that the clothes are Western-style or work clothes ranchers and farmers like. The toys are things like tractors, plastic animals, and trucks. Store B found that it can sell its customers almost anything related to farms and ranches. Small independent agencies can thrive by identifying a type of business that large agencies inadequately service. Identify a group of clients, become ... challenge from large stores offering more merchandise, often at lower prices. Two such stores have successfully competed against their huge invaders, setting a great example for independent insurance agencies. Independent hardware store A probably has 1/20th the floor space, stock, and selection of the competition. However, there's plenty of variety among the items they carry. For example, they carry parts for every sink manufacturer. So even though I can't buy a sink at Store A, I can find the parts to fix any sink. More importantly, someone is always available to tell me how to do the repair and help me get the right part the first time. Store A's price is sometimes a nickel or two higher than the competition's, but the free advice and help are worth it. Store ...
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... 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 How Do Companies Set Their Rates?4/30/2013 12:00:00 AM by CompleteMarkets Editor , Chris Burand This content has not been rated yet. The market determines the price of gasoline, toys, and cars. The market, not actuaries, determines the price of insurance, too. Chris Burand examines whether insurance shouldn't be treated any differently than other products whose prices are based on the market. "Do insurance rates have an actuarial basis?" An insurance client might respond, "They damn well better!" A company person might think, "Of course they do. ... Actuarially based rates are the solid foundation on which the entire insurance industry is built!," while another might respond, "Nope. Not even close." On a macro level, consider this: Commercial Lines rates have jumped by 30% to 200% during the past two years (depending on the line) . Because insurance companies have been insuring the same roofers, nursing homes, manufacturers, and contractors for the past 20 years, they have an adequately sized population on which to base rates. They also have strong loss trends, so they should be able to predict losses fairly accurately. Logically it would seem these loss trends would, if graphed, show a fairly smooth line and definitely not one where losses jump 30% -200% for a specific two-year period. ...
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