Time to End the Market for Ignorance By Jay Feinman Insurance is sold on the basis of ignorance, not information. Innovators can change that dynamic -- but regulators may need to step in.
6 Tricks and Tools for Securing Your Data While cybersecurity threats should keep brokers on their toes, they don’t have to transform you into a tech-fearing Luddite.
How High-Performing Salespeople Persuade Are there qualities or attributes that enable the best salespeople to be persuasive? I have only been able to identify one.
The Need to Educate on General Liability Painful misunderstandings arise over what general liability policies actually cover and what risks they simply won’t mitigate.
Will You Be the Broker of the Future? By Sally Poblete How can brokers adapt to the increasing complexity of the healthcare business, attract more customers and grow their businesses?
Dear Sales Leader: Read. Digest. Apply. By Dan Swift Here are seven ways to use empathy and compassion to transform the growth trajectory of your sales organization.
6 Tips to Augment Sales and Prospecting By Mary Ann Cook While the days of a dedicated sales assistant are long past, tools like LinkedIn can augment our existing sales approaches.
3 Ways to Improve Agent/Insurer Links By Thad Bauer While digital has created huge efficiencies for agents, three underutilized approaches provide opportunities for even bigger gains.
Auto Insurance in an Existential Crisis By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers The 125-year-old, $300 billion U.S. auto insurance industry is caught between runaway inflation and strained consumer wallets.
The Promise of Continuous Underwriting By Bill Deemer Bobby Touran Typically, a risk is underwritten, bound... and forgotten. But new streams of data and automation allow for continuous underwriting.
Convergence and the Insurance Ecosystem By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers Companies must anticipate the future, innovate beyond their core and transform their capabilities as rapidly as technology allows.
Lemonade's 'Synthetic Agent' Nonsense By Matteo Carbone Desperate for growth, Lemonade produces another howler: A lender receiving a 16% interest rate is presented as a (synthetic) agent.