Featured Post
Visualize the Benefits of Being a Digital Agency
As noted in the news daily and discussed at every industry event, the insurance industry has entered into a new digital age.
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Digital Transformation
We Want to Hear Your Story
Everyone loves a good story. Whether it's sitting around your family's Thanksgiving table, a campfire chit-chat in the woods, or a friendly exchange with a stranger at the dog park, humans have always had a propensity to gravitate toward storytelling.
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Digital Transformation
4 Ways Technology Can Improve the Benefits Renewal Process
The annual benefits renewal is a cumbersome, frustrating process for employers. The traditional process of presenting plans with spreadsheets turns the essential employee benefits decision into a complex maze of numbers to navigate.
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Digital Transformation
What Chatbots Mean in Claims Management
If you attended Applied Net last year, you may remember that we introduced and demonstrated an early prototype of a new chatbot capability to be made available in Applied MobileInsured™ this year.
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Digital Transformation
Visualize the Benefits of Being a Digital Agency
As noted in the news daily and discussed at every industry event, the insurance industry has entered into a new digital age.
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Marketing & Distribution
Insurtechs Working Together: A Different Way to Cover Small Businesses
Any agent who has worked with small business owners knows that the process is a complicated one. There is typically a lot of work involved, including working through complicated insurer appetites, policies that don’t properly cover customers, and what feels like endless forms to fill out in order to submit and underwrite a risk.
2019, Digital Transformation, Insurer Connectivity, Management System, Marketing & Distribution
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Digital Transformation
The Google and CapitalG Investment in Applied Systems: Good News for Independent Agents & Brokers
At last month’s Applied Net, 4,000 insurance agents, brokers and insurers gathered to hear about the latest trends and technology developments driving opportunity for their business.
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Cloud
Be There When Your Customers Need You Most
Given that the U.S. experienced a historic year of weather and climate disasters in 2017, as an insurance agent it’s important to consider how you will effectively support customers and manage operations during an unforeseen event.
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Digital Transformation
Survey Says: Insurance Agencies Progress Towards Digital Transformation
Technology is rapidly changing the world we live in. It has created a new kind of consumer who expects mobile access to information and online self-service from every company they do business with – and insurance is not immune.
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Digital Transformation
A Digital Transformation Roadmap
For years, we’ve been talking about the impending digital transformation of insurance. Well, it’s no longer just coming – it’s here.
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Industry Trends
2017 Digital Technology Adoption Trends
From new industries to new economies, technology is changing the way we live and work. All of us are experiencing a more connected life in a more connected world.
2017, Digital Transformation, Industry Trends, Management System
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Digital Transformation
Technology & Insurance: Yes, They Can - and Should - Coexist
I am an insurance advisor in a small town agency in Ohio with five office locations, all located in rural areas.
2017, Digital Transformation, Industry Trends, Management System, Mobile
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Industry Trends
2016 Best Practices Study - What the Latest Report Says About the Industry
Since 1993, Reagan Consulting and the IIABA, “Big I,” have conducted the Best Practices Study to identify the top performing agencies in the United States. Conducted on a three-year cycle, the study measures the operational performance of nominated agencies against critical industry and business benchmarks.
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Digital Transformation
What it Takes to Be a Digital Insurance Agent or Broker Today
Technology is now essential to how insurance agents and brokers run their businesses, including how they serve existing clients and attract new ones. To fully realize the benefits of being digital, forward thinking agents and brokers are embracing technology to fully automate all aspects of their operations and customer service.