Summary:

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:

• How to get a better read on the future by distinguishing between hard trends and soft trends.
• How to chart your way to change, be it incrementally or transformationally.
• How ideas, even the bad ones, fuel your organization forward.
• How technology is changing the very nature of insurance, and what you need to do about it.

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:

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.

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Summary:

In this episode of The Digital Broker, Steve and Ryan unpack the contents of the talks they gave at the Executive Management Program of the Applied Net 2018 conference.

By listening to this episode, you will learn:

• How to tell bad data from good and develop an eye for data quality.
• How to identify soul-sucking tasks and enlist the help you need to remove them.
• How to find and evaluate the solutions you might not even know you have, such as customized API’s.

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:

Talking about data management is as easy as talking about exercise: everybody agrees it’s good for you, but to work it into everyday life is more difficult.

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Summary:

In this episode of The Digital Broker podcast, Steve and Ryan talk directly to Reid French, CEO of Applied Systems, about CapitalG’s earth-shaking investment in Reid’s company Applied Systems.

By listening to this episode, you will learn:

• What the deal represents, not only for Applied but for the insurance industry as a whole.
• How Reid and Applied plan to leverage this investment for the benefit of the independent insurance channel.
• What the practical implications of this might look like.

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:

AppliedNet is an insurance superpower. In the course of eight years, it has grown from a little over 1,000 attendees in its first year to over 4,000 in 2018, its biggest turnout ever. Typically, the show highlights innovations and products in the insurance space, but this year, the light was shining on the conference producer itself. Just a few days before the show began, Applied Systems secured a nine-figure investment from CapitalG, the investment arm of Alphabet, which owns Google (3:38). (more…)

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!

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!