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How to Easily Test Your Website on Multiple Browsers

Browsershots Browser Testing

In last week’s TechTips, I provided you with a chart of the market share for different Internet browsers. Google Chrome’s browser commands a 60% market share. I’ve included the chart again below.

This chart got me thinking that it is essential for you to make sure your website displays correctly on multiple browsers. It would help if you made sure the pages of your website render correctly on at least the top three Internet browsing platforms.

You could install each browser on both a Windows and Apple computer so you can load your website and test all of the pages. However, this is at best a cumbersome process.

Enter browser testing websites.

“Confronting Agency Fears To Step Outside and Try New Technologies – Episode 030”
by Steve Anderson and Ryan Deeds

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Confronting Agency Fears To Step Outside and Try New Technologies – Episode 030
October 16, 2018

Summary:

This week on The Digital Broker podcast, Steve Anderson and Ryan Deeds discuss insurance technology, also known as insurtech, and why insurance agencies are so hesitant to look at new technologies. They explain easy ways agencies can assess technology without risking anything, for example, by going to conferences such as InsureTech Connect.

By listening to this episode, you will learn:

  • What InsureTech Connect is and what you can expect to find there.
  • Why you won’t find any brokers there, and why that’s a problem.
  • How to improve broker representation by taking a more inclusive view of technologies.

 

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!

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Your Website Security is Important

Two recent events prompt today’s post.

website security

First, in the last few weeks, I have come across a significant number of agency websites that have yet to add a security certificate. Website security is especially important if you have any forms that collect personal information — like a “request a quote” form.

The second event was an article I read describing how Google will be strengthening Chrome’s security with the next release. I realize that many agencies continue to use Internet Explorer, but the world — by an extensive margin — uses Chrome. The graphic below provides an indication of browser market share globally. Most people coming to your website are using the Google Chrome browser.

This next release will also “not trust” older Symantec security certificates (pre-June 2016). Access to the website will not be blocked. However, it will pop up warnings that will be annoying and might discourage your prospects from entering your site.

“How To Utilize Email Technology To Improve Insurance Agency Operations – Episode 029”
by Steve Anderson and Ryan Deeds

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How To Utilize Email Technology To Improve Insurance Agency Operations – Episode 029
October 8, 2018

Summary:

In this episode of The Digital Broker podcast, Steve Anderson and Ryan Deeds discuss email technology management for insurance agencies and brokerages.

By listening to this episode, you will learn:

  • How DMARC and an archive can save your agency time and money.
  • How to handle underwriters who refuse encrypted email.
  • Noninvasive ways to monitor employee use of work email on personal devices.

 

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!

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How to Use Copernic to Find the Needle in the Haystack

We are creating more digital information today than ever. Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF proposals, pictures, video — all are piling up on our hard drives. The trick is finding a document when you need it. “I wonder… in what folder would I have stored that document?”

Copernic Desktop Search

This question is all too common. The more information we have, the harder it is to find that one piece of information we need right now.

Searching for an email in Outlook is better than it used to be, but still not great. The Windows 10 operating system also has a much better search, but still not great.

That’s why Copernic Desktop Search is such a great tool.