GLG News by Individual and Group Long Term Care Brokers

As Home Builders see declining credit ratings and some of our most well known Builders and developers go insolvent, Surety Bonds are now very difficult to obtain.

With so many licensed Insurance agents in the market place these days competing for the same household and many unrelated  companies offering insurance to their customers, it's not only hard to grow a new agency, it's hard even to grow an established one.

Even after the Business Owner's Policy has paid a party/parties injured by the company, those that run the company could, and most probably will, face litigation in which they are the subject

Competition, not regulation, has brought about the first stages of recovery.

This article is extremely important for three reasons. First, it is out of the box creative thinking. Endowment building has been using the same approach to high net worth donors and frankly these approaches are over used and hard to understand. Second, HNW donors need to be enthralled with a presentation...

How hard could it be to start an insurance agency and make it profitable?Would it be wiser to learn first under mentors?

Insurers and Agencies must change their marketing philosophies and evolve into high volume insurance retailers, not only to grow but survive.

With the majority of carriers filing for rate decreases nationally, this proves to be a great time for the customer, insurer and agency.How can the carriers do it? What happens to those few carriers who refuse to follow the current market trend and adjust their business plans?

Staff will do all they can to ensure the growth and profitability of agency in which they have a vested, financial interest. Staff whom have such a benefit will stay longer as most competing agencies (meaning those competing for experienced insurance professionals) do not offer lucrative benefit packages...

Is it enough to hand out business cards, go to network meetings, tell everyone you know you're "in insurance" and work sixty hours a week for a policy a day? Should an agency principal invest the money and use the latest technology to promote the agency without the exhausting and often fruitless "face...