Archive for February, 2011
Insurance Lead Provider All Web Leads Aquires InsuranceLeads.com
Austin-based All Web Leads Inc., which sells online customer leads to the insurance industry, will announce today that it has acquired a competitor. The purchase of Los Angeles-based InsuranceLeads.com triples All Web Leads’ customer base and will boost its revenue to more than $100 million in 2011, said CEO Bill Daniel . All Web Leads [...]
Video: Tips For Agents To Market In The Digital Age
Marketing in the Digital Age Dr. Ayelet Gneezy, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego, shares her advice with Tim Saywer about how agents should approach marketing in the new digital age. Prior to graduate school, Dr. Gneezy was a consultant in marketing, servicing companies in various industry [...]
Free Guide to Insurance Marketing From InsuranceAgents.com
InsuranceAgents.com releases 50+-page free guide to insurance marketing. InsuranceAgents.com has released Our Master Guide to Insurance Marketing, 50+ pages of detailed tips and instructions to help agents sell insurance quotes more effectively. The guide is available on the firm’s website. The guide was created as an educational resource to help insurance agents utilize their leads [...]
Video: The Right And Wrong Way To Buy Online Insurance Leads
The right and wrong way to buy insurance leads NetQuote is a provider of home, auto, life, health and commercial insurance leads for agents. With 20,000 insurance agent customers around the country, NetQuote provides tools and training techniques to sell to the online customer. NetQuote CEO Paul Ford advises agents new to online selling to [...]
Allstate Set To Open 140 New Agencies Across Texas in 2011
Allstate Insurance Company aims to break recruiting records in Texas this year, by opening at least 140 agencies across the state. The company’s expansion goals parallel steady population growth in the Lone Star state. Texas’ population jumped more than 20% in the past decade—twice as fast as the nation as a whole—according to newly [...]
Video: SEO And SEM Is Essential To Growing Your Insurance Business
Technology Advanced and Relationship Driven Tony Alessandra, president of Insurance Solutions, speaks Tim Sawyer about the buying behavior of the modern online consumer. Tony’s company specializes in search engine optimization and search engine marketing and in this segment he shares insights into the creating a website that can be found by bots and spiders — [...]
Video: Find Out How Blogging Can Help Build Your Insurance Business
A day in the life of an insurance agency blogger Adam DeGraide speaks with blogger Josh Wilson. Josh’s enviable job is to browse the Internet to find interesting and unusual nuggets of pop culture to expound upon. The blogger’s goal is to help build relationships via social media and to generate traffic for the independent [...]
Video: With Admitted Carriers in the E&S World, Innovation Carries the Day
Alan J. Kaufman, president, chairman and CEO of Burns & Wilcox; Rob Lala, senior vice president of Liberty International Underwriters; and Chris Timm, president of Century Insurance Group and executive vice-president of Meadowbrook Insurance Group, share their ideas with Insurance Journal’s Stephanie K. Jones on the foray of admitted insurance carriers into the excess [...]
Video: Pennsylvania Pushes Again For Tort Reform
A renewed push for tort reform in Pennsylvania has many fans in the insurance world. The Keystone State is one of the few in which one defendant can be held fully liable for the actions of another in a civil lawsuit. But that would all change now that lawmakers are poised to resurrect legislation known [...]
Video: How To Successfully Use Internet Marketing to Get More Business and Sales
Astonish Results CEO and Founder Adam DeGraide interviews President Tim Sawyer setting the stage for the e-Marketing Minute for 2010. This is a powerful interview for insurance agents to help them learn how to serve the Modern Consumer on the Internet and when used effectively an agent will be able to generate their own [...]