Featured Post
We Want to Hear Your Story
Do you have a great story about how your use of Applied technology resulted in success at your business or empowered you to make a difference in the life of a customer? Maybe your business drastically increased staff productivity or growth. Perhaps you helped a client safely weather a natural disaster. Whatever your story, we want to hear it.
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Best Practices
Best Practices for Managing Change
In this blog, we go through some of the reasons change initiatives go off track, what change management is and three core principles that can help you successfully navigate change.
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Digital Transformation
How to Reduce Cost with Your Commercial Lines Renewals Process
Inefficient tasks are costing your brokerage valuable time, and as the saying goes, time is money. One area that is notorious for inefficient, manual, time-consuming tasks is the application and renewal process.
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Business Continuity
What Chatbots Mean in Claims Management
If you attended Applied Net in 2018, 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.
2020, Business Continuity, Digital Transformation, Industry Trends
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Business Continuity
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
Winning the Digital Revolution of Insurance
We are in the midst of the digital revolution of insurance, which is a tremendous opportunity to take advantage of technology to improve how we market, sell, distribute and service insurance so that we put the customer first.
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Management System
Insider Tips: Switching Agency Management Systems – Pt. 2
In case you haven’t read part 1, we asked Abby Larson, Sr. Manager of Implementation Services at Applied Systems, the most frequently asked questions around migrating to a new system in this two part series to give you an idea of what to expect during the implementation process.
2020, Best Practices, Digital Transformation, Management System
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Management System
Insider Tips: Switching Agency Management Systems – Pt. 1
To give you an idea of what to expect during the implementation process, we asked Abby Larson, Sr. Manager of Implementation Services at Applied Systems, the most frequently asked questions around migrating to a new system in this two part series.
2020, Best Practices, Digital Transformation, Management System
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Industry Trends
2020 Digital Technology Survey: Share Your Feedback Now
The rapid digital transformation occurring in our industry has many businesses focused on determining what technologies they should adopt and deploy to create success and stay competitive. To assist agencies and brokerages with evaluating their digital strategy, Applied developed an annual Digital Technology Survey.
2020, Best Practices, Digital Transformation, Industry Trends, Insurer Connectivity
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Marketing & Distribution
New Year, New Innovation – Q&A with Indio Technologies Founders
One announcement that’s generating buzz throughout the industry is our recent acquisition of Indio Technologies, the leading solution for the insurance application and renewal process. This is an exciting announcement, not only for our company but for the entire industry.
2019, Digital Transformation, Industry Trends, Insurer Connectivity, Marketing & Distribution
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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
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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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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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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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.