Today, the working from home (WFM) paradigm is undoubtedly here to stay. WFM became the new normal the moment COVID-19 entered our lives, and many independent agents in the insurance industry have since discovered its virtues. If you want to stay produc ...
How To Guide: Finding, Binding, and Delighting Young Policyholders
By now, your client base likely includes some young policyholders consisting of Millennials (ages 24–39) and possibly some older Gen Zers (ages 8–23). Millennials have already surpassed Baby Boomers as the largest generation, (72.1 million), with another ...
The 2020 InsurTech Award Has Concluded
… And the results are in! The 2020 InsurTech Award, presented by ePayPolicy, closed applications at the end of September. Since the award launched in May of this year, we have been receiving applications from agencies all over the country, reviewing answe ...
7 Cybersecurity Tips to Keep Your Agency Safe While Operating Remote
Take the right steps to protect your agency and embrace these 7 best practices around cybersecurity plus a bonus tip that every agency should implement today.
When Your Agency Goes Digital It’s Not Just Your Clients Who Will Be Thanking You.
The term “payment environment” is used a lot these days. It describes consumer preferences and trends in paying for goods and services. Notice that the phrase contains the word “environment.” It’s not by accident: paper-based billing and payments seriousl ...
Are Paper Checks Putting Your Insureds and Agency At Risk?
Why do people buy insurance? For protection. It’s ironic, then, that paying for insurance could leave them—as well as your agency—exposed. (Spoiler alert: it doesn’t have to.)We’re referring to the security risks of paper checks. The insured writes a prem ...
Sell Smarter with Insurance Agency Buyer Personas
What are personas and why would my insurance agency need them? The fact is, buyer personas help you sell smarter by focusing your resources and messaging on attracting the clients you want. Buyer personas for your Insurance Agency are easy and inexpensive ...
Optimizing Your Agency Tech Stack For Your New Remote Workforce
There’s one lesson we’ll all take away from the coronavirus pandemic: remote work is here to stay. It’s a viable and even preferable way of conducting business. Why? Because it expands our productivity outside the physical office. Even with your agents a ...
Is Your Agency’s Customer Experience at Risk with Paper Payments?
It’s Friday at 4:00 and you just ordered takeout from your favorite restaurant. Ideally, the ordering process was quick and easy, because your payment information was already in the system. Now, imagine instead that the restaurant would not accept your cr ...
InsurTech Pioneers, ePayPolicy & Veruna, Ink Integration
AUSTIN, TX– June 16, 2020 – ePayPolicy and Veruna have entered into a vendor-partner agreement to add the digital payment processing capabilities of ePayPolicy to the Veruna AMR, the company’s open-platform agency management system (AMS).Both companies a ...