You may have heard of CoverWallet as a new insurance technology startup that offers small business insurance coverage direct to consumer. Most traditional insurance agents consider CoverWallet as the enemy trying to take their business.

While that may still be the case, last week CoverWallet announced a new service for insurance agents allowing them access to CoverWallet’s technology platform. The platform is called CoverWallet for Agents.

I had an opportunity to preview the platform and hear details of how the service will work. Following is a bit more information so you can decide if this is an opportunity worth exploring or a continued threat to your business.

Where did 2018 go? It is hard to believe that 2018 will be history in a short 25 days.

2018 was a great year for me. My net business profit increased by 46%. My first book will be published in September 2019 (with a second book available in the spring of 2020). I have spent more fun time with my wife Karen and our 6 (almost 7!) grandkids than ever. And I am having more fun than I deserve! Each of these started as a goal set at the beginning of 2018.

It was my best year ever. What about you? How many of your 2018 goals were you able to see completed?

Achieving these goals would not have been possible without a system. For the last few years, I have taken time in early January to review the past year and think about what I want to accomplish by the end of the coming year. It is hard and at the same time a rewarding process.

Traditional Goal Setting Doesn’t Work

Thinking about what I want to achieve in the new year and strategizing on how to get there is deceptively tricky.

PowerPoint has been used as a presentation tool in business meetings for a very long time. It’s a powerful tool that seldom gets used effectively. I have used PowerPoint to create hundreds of presentations that I hope will engage the audience both visually and emotionally.

Unfortunately, a PowerPoint presentation is all too often dull, but transitions and animations can help provide a more interesting visual component to any presentation. I have recently discovered a new transition included in the Office 365 version of PowerPoint that makes creating object transitions easier than ever.

Enter the PowerPoint Morph Transition

The morph transition is a more manageable and automated way to move objects, so they appear to be floating across your screen. Other transition types have been around a long time that allow you to do similar things with objects. With the morph transition, you don’t have to be a PowerPoint expert to create more engaging visuals.