“Sales and Marketing: Successful Processes for Insurance Producers – Episode 050”
by Steve Anderson and Ryan Deeds
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This week’s TechTip is a Public Service Announcement (PSA) for those of you who are using the Chrome browser.
Several security researchers identified a “Serious Chrome zero-day” vulnerability. This just means that there is a vulnerability in the Chrome browser that hackers could exploit to gain access to your computer.
A zero-day threat is a threat that exploits an unknown computer security vulnerability. The term is derived from the age of the exploit, which takes place before or on the first (or “zeroth”) day of a developer’s awareness of the exploit or bug … Attackers exploit zero-day vulnerabilities through different vectors.
It’s quite simple to take a look and make sure your Chrome browser has been updated to the latest version which fixes the problem.
“Operationalizing Sales and Marketing: First Steps for Insurance Agents – Episode 049”
by Steve Anderson and Ryan Deeds
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In this episode of The Digital Broker, Steve and Ryan talk about sales and marketing as an operational process. By listening to this episode, you will learn:
The Digital Broker podcast is brought to you buy Indio Technologies. Indio turns the application and renewal process into an online TurboTax like experience for your clients. As a result, the 1,000+ agents using Indio provide their clients with a top-rated customer experience, reduce their E&O exposure, and outgrow their competition. To learn more about Indio, click here!
Though we’ll talk about sales and marketing as a single process, they ought to be defined differently. Marketing is the process by which you identify leads and prospects—people who might have an interest in what you’re selling. Sales is everything you do after that to get a check.
Here, we won’t be so concerned with how to market or sell better, but rather the operational aspect of either process. How do you integrate sales and marketing into your agency’s operations so that the process is more sustainable, repeatable, and scalable?
When Microsoft released Windows 10 nearly four years ago, it included a new updated and modern browser called Edge. While Internet Explorer lived on due to some underlying code in Windows and for compatibility with legacy business websites, Microsoft no longer provides updates for Internet Explorer when new web standards are released.
That’s a problem for the insurance industry.
Way too many insurance companies and technology vendors require the use of Internet Explorer to make their websites and web platforms fully functional.
Microsoft has tried some different ways to push businesses to improve their older web apps but, unfortunately, IT administrators have naturally taken the easy route of continuing to rely on Internet Explorer and its various compatibility modes.
“Making Goals Happen: Strategic Planning for Insurance Agencies – Episode 048”
by Steve Anderson and Ryan Deeds
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In this episode of The Digital Broker, Steve and Ryan talk about goals and strategic planning. By listening to this episode, you will learn:
The Digital Broker podcast is brought to you buy Indio Technologies. Indio turns the application and renewal process into an online TurboTax like experience for your clients. As a result, the 1,000+ agents using Indio provide their clients with a top-rated customer experience, reduce their E&O exposure, and outgrow their competition. To learn more about Indio, click here!
Are you familiar with the following scenario? You’re in an all-hands meeting to discuss the future of the agency: how are you going to grow revenue, cut losses, overhaul certain routines and make space for new ones? Your employees are sharing ideas, setting benchmarks for themselves. Goals are emerging. You commit the agency to achieve some of them within three to five years. Everybody’s on board. They leave the meeting feeling good about themselves and their work.
Come to the end of the fiscal year, it’s like the meeting never even happened. You’re no closer to achieving your goals than you were before the meeting started. Why? Everybody seemed so excited and sincere!
Summary:
In this episode of The Digital Broker, Steve and Ryan talk about the challenge of holding producers accountable to a process. By listening to this episode, you will learn:
The Digital Broker podcast is brought to you buy Indio Technologies. Indio turns the application and renewal process into an online TurboTax like experience for your clients. As a result, the 1,000+ agents using Indio provide their clients with a top-rated customer experience, reduce their E&O exposure, and outgrow their competition. To learn more about Indio, click here!
Recap:
Any talk of sales and marketing inside an insurance agency must involve producers. There can be no sales and marketing reform without their approval and participation. If you’re serious about integrating your sales and marketing processes into your operations, which we’ve recommended doing in a previous episode, you’re going to have to hold your producers accountable to a process.
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