Rhoads Online announces PCRM, its Web-based compliancemanagement system for insurance carriers and agencies/brokers, isoffering insurance licensing renewal alerts via Facebook and allmobile phone service providers.

“Insurance agents and their managers operate in an online,on-the-go world. To help make dealing with the complexitiesof professional compliance easier, more certain, and less costly,we've added notification services that fit in with their work- andlifestyles,” says Steven Milton, Rhoads Online's senior vicepresident of sales. “By leveraging the reach and convenienceof Facebook and mobile communications, PCRM 'works the way youwork, where you work.'”

Facebook and mobile phones are logical extensions of PCRM'semail-based alert function. Today thousands of producers usesocial media to build relationships and sell policies. Arecent survey among agents 40 years-old and younger found 71percent use Facebook.

Producers simply need to let their managers or licensing team“friend” them so renewal alerts can be posted to their Facebookaccounts. Similarly, by supplying their mobile phone numbers,the notifications can be sent as text messages. Email alertsissued by the PCRM system continue as a way to keep producers awareof the status of their licenses.

The new notification services are available now on PCRM Carrierand PCRM Broker versions of the system.