Study Dissects Agency CompensationBigger is definitely better for insurance producers, as bigger insurance agencies provide agents with bigger paychecks, a new survey has found.Revenues and ...
RMs Face Daunting Renewal ChallengeRisk managers facing Jan. 1 renewals have many challenges, including "selling" their risks to underwriters and using caution when considering captives, ...
Tech World Will Be Tower Of Babel If Global Standards Are Not DevelopedI just returned from the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers' annual meeting ...
Time Is Money: Agents Try Tech To Limit Training CostsThe biggest training expense for independent agents is not necessarily the money spent on courses or ...
Hard Times Call for Creative Training Approaches In these days of budgetary and time constraints and a quickly changing insurance landscape, one major challenge for ...
Training Budgets Must Be Sacred CowsAs the property-casualty industry struggles to manage expense ratios, training and education budgets become a tempting target.It becomes relatively painless ...
Is Videoconferencing Affordable? While videoconferencing technology has existed for some time, agent associations who have considered the idea say the high cost is a major ...
Agents Have Opportunity To DominateInsurance consumers have spoken, and theyre choosing independent agents loud and clear.Some well-quoted "industry observers" didnt believe in independent agents. The ...