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4 Ways Technology Can Improve the Benefits Renewal Process
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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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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Inside Applied
The Giving Season
The holidays are in full swing. The halls have been decked, and people around the world are joining together to celebrate the joys of the season. This time each year also presents an opportunity to give back to our communities and to those in need.
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Inside Applied
Taylor Rhodes By the Numbers
Hello everyone! My name is Taylor Rhodes, and I’m Applied’s new CEO. I recently attended this year’s Applied Net in Las Vegas and all I can say is wow.
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Management System
An Inside Look: Applied CSR24 Favorite Features
Making your business more mobile is no longer an option – your customers expect 24/7 access to their information. Applied CSR24®, a cloud-based client self-service software, enables your business to meet today’s insurance consumer demand for anytime, anywhere service by providing 24/7 access to policy information, claims filing and processing, premium payments, and insurance documents through an online client portal and mobile application via Applied MobileInsured™.
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Analytics
Data Analytics: Insurance in a League of Its Own
It’s that time of year again. The leaves are changing and baseball season is at its peak. For many casual fans, in the stands or on the other side of a television, the game appears unchanged across history.
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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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Best Practices
6 Business and Leadership Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List
Summer is a time when many of us devote extra time for reading, diving into fascinating stories or learning important life lessons.
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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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Best Practices
3 Ways to Approach Your Next Benefits Renewal Conversation
We all know the traditional way of presenting plan options for renewal. The broker goes in and shows the client several plan options with different benefits, including the total cost of each plan.
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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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Inside Applied
Applied Systems’ New CEO – Q&A with Taylor Rhodes
Taylor Rhodes has taken the helm as Applied’s new CEO. We recently sat down with him to discuss this new chapter in his life and learn more about his perspective on the insurance industry, digital transformation and more.
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Industry Trends
The Technology Behind Being a Digital Agency
The Digital Age of Insurance is here. This means that agencies can no longer afford to remain un-automated and rely on manual processes or traditional methods of conducting business.
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Industry Trends
Celebrate Earth Day, Go Paperless
With Earth Day here, now is the perfect time to think about changes you can make around your business to reduce your environmental impact.
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Industry Trends
Applied Systems Recognized in G2 Crowd’s Best Software Awards 2019
Peer-to-peer business solutions review platform G2 Crowd recently announced the 2019 winners of its annual Best Software Awards.
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Industry Trends
Celebrating Women in Insurance: How Two Female Professionals Are Shaping the Future of Insurance
Women’s History Month is a time to look back and honor the many achievements of women through history and the vast strides made by women today.
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Best Practices
Why You Should Participate in the Best Practices Agency Study
Since 1993, Reagan Consulting and the IIABA, “Big I,” have conducted the Best Practices Agency study to identify the top performing agencies in the United States.
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Industry Trends
The 5 Whys of Becoming a Digital Agency
For years, we’ve been talking about the impending digital transformation of insurance. Well now that it’s here, how is digital transformation impacting our industry?
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