“Remote Work: What To Weigh Before Going Through With It – Episode 035”
by Steve Anderson and Ryan Deeds
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It has become a foregone conclusion that agents and brokers need to manage text messaging as part of their communication mix. We have known for a while this was coming. However, the actual implementation of adding text messaging into the organization’s workflow has been a bit more complicated.
I have written several times about text messaging with suggestions on how to adopt this communication channel within your organization. You can review those articles here, here, and here.
I’ve also talked about texting in two episodes of The Digital Broker Podcast. In episode 11 we talked about The Rules of Engagement, and in episode 12 we talked about How to Implement. You might want to listen to each of these for more detailed information.
Several texting options are available, including management system platforms that have added integrated text messaging as a communication option. These options may be the best for your organization to implement.
Today, I’d like to share with you a new inexpensive text option created by my podcast co-host Ryan Deeds. Ryan saw the problem with managing and documenting text messages within an insurance organization and started thinking about how to create a simple, affordable platform that any size organization could easily implement.
The result is SimplTxt.
“How To Become A Leader In Insurance – Episode 034”
by Steve Anderson and Ryan Deeds
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In this episode of The Digital Broker, Steve and Ryan discuss the principles of leadership and how they figure into running an insurance agency. By listening to this episode, you will learn:
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!
What’s a leader, anyway? Is it someone that you report to? No, that’s a boss.
Is it someone who oversees you? That sounds more like a supervisor.
This is a podcast about operational excellence, and you cannot have operational excellence without a direction—which you cannot have without a clear idea of what to do and how to get there.
Content is still king.
Developing engaging, helpful, and useful content is still one of the best ways to attract the attention of potential prospects — whether personal or commercial consumers. Producing good content continues to be hard. Once created, you want to repurpose that content in as many different formats and media as possible to gain the maximum benefit out of what you’ve created.
One of the ways I’ve been able to repurpose articles I’ve written for TechTips over the last few years is to create ebooks of a single article, or combining separate articles together. It is the same content, but when presented in a different format, it catches a different set of people’s eyes. An ebook also works well as a “lead magnet.” I provide various ebooks as a free downloadable PDF document in exchange for a person’s name and email address.
I use the Designrr platform to quickly and easily create multiple ebooks. Building a new project is fast. You just import your content, add a cover from a template, add some images if needed, and convert the project to a PDF that can be downloaded and shared.
“Insurance Agent’s Blueprint For Digital Transformation – Episode 033”
by Steve Anderson and Ryan Deeds
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In this episode of The Digital Broker, Steve and Ryan continue their conversation from their Executive Management Program presentations at Applied Net 2018 and provide insurance agencies a blueprint for digital transformation.
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!
As the final speaker to present at the Executive Management Program of Applied Net 2018, it seemed appropriate that Steve would talk about the future. Much like Ryan had described data as a hazy thing that people struggle to understand, so, too, does the future seem like something that doesn’t exist. And in fact, it doesn’t — until it becomes the present.
Summary:
In this episode of The Digital Broker, Steve and Ryan examine remote work. 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:
Many people hear “remote work” and envision someone slacking off at home. Actually, remote work is to work from anywhere that isn’t the main office. This is still enough to make some principals cringe. If I can’t see them, how do I know they’re working?
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