Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
100 Best Sales & Marketing Ideas: Tips 60-51
By Daniel WilliamsA golf course. Charity events. Prospects are everywhere.
May 23, 2012
EBSA Ready for Public Comment on TDF DisclosureThe DOLs Employee Benefits Security Administration is reopening the period for public comment on proposed regulatory amendments relating to enhanced disclosure concerning certain qualified plan funds.
May 23, 2012
How to Leverage Social Media to Get in Front of the Right PeopleThe old saying its a small world captures the tangled webs of relationships we often discover by accident relationships that can be a valuable business development tool.
May 23, 2012
FSOC Examines Volcker Rule, JPMorgan Losses; Provides SIFI-Label Protest ProceduresThe FSOC met this week and had a lot on its plate: Volcker Rule and financial stability in light of JPMorgan's losses, and the approval of new procedures that nonbanks and FMUs can follow to protest a SIFI designation.
May 23, 2012
100 Best Sales & Marketing Ideas: Tips 80-71Work "orphans" and workshops to get in front of more prospects.
May 22, 2012
GAO: Fewer Small Employers than Expected Using Health Insurance Tax CreditFewer small employers claimed the Small Employer Health Insurance Tax Credit in tax year 2010 than were estimated to be eligible, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.
May 22, 2012
If a Business Owner Dies, Who Can Access the Web? (Wall Street Journal)How man people have access to the company's online accounts? Hint: if it's "one," it's the wrong answer.
May 22, 2012
Saybrus Partners: More than Half of Advisors Don’t Incorporate Life Insurance into Planning DiscussionsAccording to the poll, 56% of financial advisors do not speak regularly to their clients about life insurance. And only 34% of advisors say they are very comfortable recommending life insurance to their clients.