Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Think you can’t take a vacation? The sound business reasons you really should (Fast Company)
By Staff WriterSkipping a vacation doesnt impress anyone, and it shows you are too unorganized to leave the office for a length of time.
June 25, 2012
IRI Launches Research Initiative to Support NARABThe IRI plan is to launch a new research initiative that would identify regulatory burdens facing broker-dealers that impede their ability, and financial advisors willingness, to sell such products as annuities.
June 25, 2012
Countdown to the Supreme Court's ruling on health care (NPR)Without the law, adult children remaining on their parents' insurance plans might be taxable.
June 25, 2012
Majority approves of Arizona immigration law (Pew Research)Arizonas immigration law, which requires police to determine the immigration status of people they have stopped whom they suspect might be in the country illegally, made it all the way to the Supreme Court.
June 25, 2012
Make everyone a risk manager (Harvard Business Review)The University of California employs more than 170,000 faculty and staff, so aligning their risk appetites with what the system can tolerate can be a challenge.
June 25, 2012
Rubio won't talk about VP prospects (Politico)ABC News reported that Rubio was not being vetted by the Romney camp, but Romney himself said the senator was in the mix as a potential running mate.
June 25, 2012
Email Marketing: Is Anybody Out There? Part 1Can the spam. Here are two strategies for email marketing success.
June 24, 2012
Obama, Romney Seek Advantage on PPACA RulingPresident Barack Obama ardently defends his federal health care overhaul. Republican challenger Mitt Romney adamantly opposes it. But this coming week, when the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the law, both sides will be scrambling for political gain no matter the outcome.