Mastering Insurance Marketing: How to Make Your Agency Forward in the New Media Age

Mastering Insurance Marketing: How to Make Your Agency Forward in the New Media Age Review

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Insurance marketing is changing rapidly. It's critical that you not only stay on top of the latest insurance marketing tools available to you, but that you constantly push to revamp your existing practices.  Mastering Insurance Marketing talks about specific marketing and sales techniques used by successful insurance agents across the country to grow their agencies.

Using the customers of InsuranceAgents.com as a base of knowledge to pool ideas from, the book covers real-world insurance marketing techniques used by captive and independent agents to not only increase sales, but to also increase retention rates.

• Discover how traditional marketing is no longer effective.
• Learn about how social media is having a large impact on insurance marketing.
• Learn about new techniques for increasing referrals from existing customers.
• Hear about interesting new twists on increasing customer retention.
• In-depth coverage of lead management systems and how they work for you.
• Learn techniques on how to make internet leads profitable.
• Find out how successful agents deal with objections during the sales process.
• InsuranceAgents.com's detailed guide to closing on the phone and in person.
• Read about several new techniques to improve your follow-up process.

Mastering Insurance Marketing is designed to serve as a guide to making the transition from old traditional ways of insurance marketing such as cold calls, the phonebook, radio and TV, door-door, flyers, and direct mail to embracing the new modern ways of marketing.

On My Own Two Feet: A Modern Girl's Guide to Personal Finance

On My Own Two Feet: A Modern Girl's Guide to Personal Finance Review

Sure, most young women would love to live a carefree lifestyle filled with lunches, Louis Vuitton and lattes, but what many don't know is that doing so can lead to a serious financial breakdown down the road. "On My Own Two Feet" teaches young women what they need to know about savings in language that matters and makes sense to them. Financial planners Manisha Thakor and Sharon Kedar will show readers how to: make a budget; avoid the perils of imprudent credit card use; invest for the future by harnessing the magical power of compounding interest; guard against the unexpected with the appropriate types of insurance; and prepare for the future. By offering women the key 20 per cent of financial advice (minus the complex mumbo jumbo) that drives 80 per cent of a person's financial wealth, the authors will show women that the sooner they learn to apply these basic strategies, the more likely they are to achieve the typical lifetime financial objective of owning a home. Along with other financial objectives, it provides for oneself and/or a family, being able to take fun vacations (and yes, wear designer labels), and retiring in comfort - free of financial stress. Succinct, straightforward, and visually appealing "On My Own Two Feet" will redefine "personal finance 101" for women in their 20s and 30s.

Generalized Linear Models for Insurance Data (International Series on Actuarial Science)

Generalized Linear Models for Insurance Data (International Series on Actuarial Science) Review

This is the only book actuaries need to understand generalized linear models (GLMs) for insurance applications. GLMs are used in the insurance industry to support critical decisions. Until now, no text has introduced GLMs in this context or addressed the problems specific to insurance data. Using insurance data sets, this practical, rigorous book treats GLMs, covers all standard exponential family distributions, extends the methodology to correlated data structures, and discusses recent developments which go beyond the GLM. The issues in the book are specific to insurance data, such as model selection in the presence of large data sets and the handling of varying exposure times. Exercises and data-based practicals help readers to consolidate their skills, with solutions and data sets given on the companion website. Although the book is package-independent, SAS code and output examples feature in an appendix and on the website. In addition, R code and output for all the examples are provided on the website.

The Wealthy Barber, Updated 3rd Edition: Everyone's Commonsense Guide to Becoming Financially Independent

The Wealthy Barber, Updated 3rd Edition: Everyone's Commonsense Guide to Becoming Financially Independent Review

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" . . . quite simply the best financial self-help book."
--Money Book Club, Book-of-the-Month Club
In this new and updated edition of one of the biggest-selling financial-planning books ever, David Chilton simplifies the complex puzzles of personal finance and helps you achieve financial independence. With the help of his fictional barber, Roy, and a large dose of humor, Chilton shows you how to take control of your financial future--slowly, steadily, and with sure success. Chilton's plan (detailed in an entertaining story) is no get-rich-quick scheme, but it does make financial independence possible on nothing more than an average salary.
This third edition has been updated with assistance from the Arthur Andersen Corporation, and covers the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and other recent developments.
Even if you consider yourself a financial "basket case," Chilton explains how you can easily put an effective financial plan into action.

Non-Life Insurance Pricing with Generalized Linear Models (EAA Series)

Non-Life Insurance Pricing with Generalized Linear Models (EAA Series) Review

Non-life insurance pricing is the art of setting the price of an insurance policy, taking into consideration varoius properties of the insured object and the policy holder. Introduced by British actuaries generalized linear models (GLMs) have become today a the standard aproach for tariff analysis. The book focuses on methods based on GLMs that have been found useful in actuarial practice and provides a set of tools for a tariff analysis. Basic theory of GLMs in a tariff analysis setting is presented with useful extensions of standarde GLM theory that are not in common use. The book meets the European Core Syllabus for actuarial education and is written for actuarial students as well as practicing actuaries. To support reader real data of some complexity are provided at www.math.su.se/GLMbook.

Directory: investigative services.(Directory): An article from: Risk & Insurance

Directory: investigative services.(Directory): An article from: Risk & Insurance Review

This digital document is an article from Risk & Insurance, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1480 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Directory: investigative services.(Directory)
Publication:Risk & Insurance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 17 Issue: 7 Page: 49(1)

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Heterogeneous INAR(1) model with application to car insurance [An article from: Insurance Mathematics and Economics]

Heterogeneous INAR(1) model with application to car insurance [An article from: Insurance Mathematics and Economics] Review

This digital document is a journal article from Insurance Mathematics and Economics, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The bonus-malus scheme shows how the history of claim arrivals determines the dynamics of insurance premium. It is important to distinguish to what extent changes in the insurance premium are explained by lagged claim counts introduced among explanatory variables and by unobservable heterogeneity included in the model, which needs to be regularly updated. For this purpose, we introduce the integer valued autoregressive (INAR) model with unobserved heterogeneity. The model is applied to premium updating in car insurance and compared to the standard method based on the negative binomial distribution. We find that the premium depends on the claim history and that the timing of claim arrivals matters. This result is different from the outcome of the standard framework in which the average number of claims per year is the only relevant factor.

How to Sell Anything to Anybody

How to Sell Anything to Anybody Review

"Salesmen are made, not born. If I did it, you can do it."

-- Joe Girard

In his fifteen-year selling career, author Joe Girard sold 13,001 cars, a Guinness World Record. He didn't have a degree from an Ivy League school -- instead, he learned by being in the trenches every day that nothing replaces old-fashioned salesmanship. He insists that by building on basic principles of trust and hard work, anyone can do what he did.

This bestselling classic has helped millions of readers meet their goals -- and you will too. Joe will show you how to make the final sale every time, using the techniques he has perfected in his record career. You too can:

TURN ONE SALE INTO 250 MORE

CREATE A WINNING GAME PLAN FROM LOSING SALES

KNOW THE FIVE WAYS TO TURN A PROSPECT INTO A BUYER

MOVE PAST THE CUSTOMER'S LAST HURDLE TO CLOSE THE SALE

SELL AT A LOSS AND MAKE A FURTUNE

How to Repair Your Car (Motorbooks Workshop)

How to Repair Your Car (Motorbooks Workshop) Review

From Motorbooks, the leader in automotive publishing for over 4 decades, comes the most practical car care guide ever produced to help the average car owner maintain and repair his or her vehicle - How to Repair Your Car. In this easy-to-follow guide, author Paul Brand, a nationally known automotive expert, takes you through the steps of auto maintenance and repair—simple steps that could add years to a car’s life and save a driver thousands of dollars in repairs. This is also the only car maintenance and repair guide on the market to contain 50 do-it-yourself projects in full-color, step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow and understand.

 

Focusing on post-1985 cars (with occasional explanations about earlier models), Brand introduces readers to the rudiments of automotive systems—from electrical, fuel, and cooling to drivetrain, suspension, tires, brakes, and exhaust—and discusses problems that arise in each system. The book includes practical advice for readers with only a passing knowledge of cars, as well as the basics of caring for a car’s exterior and interior.

How to Repair Your Car is a must-have for any car owner who wants to extend the life of his or her car, learn how to perform car maintenance or repair instead of paying a mechanic, diagnose simple noises and knocks, as well as learn tips for knowing exactly what they're paying for when their car goes to the shop.

 

The Claim Game: A Homeowner's Guide to Avoiding an Insurance Catastrophe

The Claim Game: A Homeowner's Guide to Avoiding an Insurance Catastrophe Review

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In these troubled economic times a home is a precious commodity. Protecting that investment has never been more important for homeowners and property owners. When Mother Nature or good old fashion bad luck cause damage to a property, homeowners turn to their insurers to help them restore their property.

Insurers, meanwhile, are as equally interested in enhancing their bottom lines as homeowners are in protecting their investment. When these interests collide, the claim game begins and the fight to protect your home and get what is owed you becomes a high stakes game of chance. Without the right guidance, without knowing the Rules of the Game, rules written by and for the insurers, you could find yourself on the losing end.

The Claim Game: A Homeowner s Guide to Avoiding an Insurance Catastrophe levels the playing field between homeowners and insurers by giving homeowners the knowledge and tools needed to empower themselves so that they can get every penny owed them and claim victory.

Discover the secrets to homeowners insurance settlement with the only step-by-step guide to property insurance claims written by an insurance insider. Exposing little-known methods that enable you to expedite your claim and get every penny owed you, The Claim Gameis your comprehensive resource for property damage claims.

The Claim Game will teach you how to:
-Settle claims quickly and fairly.
-Reduce or eliminate your deductible.
-Decipher your insurance policy so it makes sense.
-Discover hidden coverages that protect you and save money.
-Organize claim information to expedite your claim.
-Get a denied claim covered.
-Understand an estimate from a contractor or an insurer.
-Select the right contractor to repair your home or property.

Also included:
-Claim-specific guidance for many types of losses including hurricane, tornado, earthquake, hail, fire and many others.
-An in-depth examination of the most common issues and concerns homeowners encounter.

Massachusetts Auto Accidents:The 5 Biggest Mistakes Massachusetts Consumers Make When Buying Car Insurance

Massachusetts Auto Accidents:The 5 Biggest Mistakes Massachusetts Consumers Make When Buying Car Insurance Review

In this important book, you ll learn what you need to know about Massachusetts Automobile Insurance coverage, including: Why Most Consumers Are Underinsured; Why You May Get Nothing If You Are Hurt in a Car Accident; Why Agents Do Not Sell You Enough Coverage; What Amount of Insurance You Need; How to Get the Right Amount of Coverage. PHILLIPS & GARCIA, P.C. Massachusetts Insurance Attorneys

How to Live Well Without Owning a Car: Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life

How to Live Well Without Owning a Car: Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life Review

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You don'¬?t need to own a car to live well in America. In fact, you'¬?d probably be better off without one. In this groundbreaking guide, award-winning journalist Chris Balish exposes the true costs of car ownership and shows how car-free living can put anyone on the path to financial freedom. Using the book'¬?s car cost worksheet, first figure out how much owning a car really costs-you'¬?ll be surprised. Then, see how easy it is to transition to a car-free or car-lite lifestyle using Chris'¬?s strategies for commuting, running errands, taking trips, dating, socializing, and more. You'¬?ll also find hundreds of tips and success stories from car-free people in cities and suburbs across America. Without car payments, rising gas prices, and traffic jams to worry about, you'¬?ll have more money and leisure time to spend as you choose. Discover why getting rid of your car may be the soundest and sanest lifestyle change you can make.ReviewsView a video clip from NBC's Today Show: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25609661/ "Chris Balish offers a mix of the practical-a worksheet to figure out a car's total cost and impact-as well as the horrifying: The average American walks just 300 yards a day."-Sierra Magazine "If ever there was a practical inducement to get out of the car trap, this is it. For the multitude of Americans stuck in traffic and spending thousands of dollars a year on their cars, Chris'¬?s lively and pragmatic step-by-step solutions provide a way out."-Jane Holtz Kay, author of Asphalt Nation"Chris Balish's book can help environmentally conscious Americans live their values. If you're concerned about pollution and global warming, follow the program in these pages. There can be life without a car. And a good life at that!"-Ed Begley, Jr., actor and environmental activist"[Chris Balish's] prescriptions are feasible and most important, reasonable."-San Antonio Express News"Even if living car-free or car-lite isn't for you, you'll still learn a lot from this book. I did."-Michelle Singletary, Washington PostListen to Chris Balish talk about living car-free in Los Angeles on NPR's Morning Edition.

How to Build a Successful Low-Cost Rally Car (Speedpro)

How to Build a Successful Low-Cost Rally Car (Speedpro) Review

This book sets out in graphic detail a hundred tips that cost very little but which will transform your car. For example, how a wire coat-hanger transforms an exhaust system so that it can survive the Sahara Desert, how a tube of bathroom silicone sealer waterproofs an engine, and how a garden chain ensures you don't break the engine-mountings. Simple, cost-effective, basic and reliable tips to ensure any rally car stands a chance of reaching the finishing line. From the lanes of Devon at night, to romping the wilderness of Mongolia, this book is full of illustrated detailed tips, as well as pictures of typical low cost cars setting out on international events. If you are planning any road-based rally, don't even think of leaving home before reading this book and implementing the tried and tested modes it describes so well.

Insurance Settlement Secrets: A Step by Step Guide to Get Thousands of Dollars More for Your Auto Accident Injury Without a Lawyer!

Insurance Settlement Secrets: A Step by Step Guide to Get Thousands of Dollars More for Your Auto Accident Injury Without a Lawyer! Review

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This book provides a behind-the-scenes look at how insurance companies process automobile accident injury claims. Knowing how insurance companies process these claims can make the difference of receiving thousands of dollars more for your Insurance settlement! Written in plain English, the book gives readers all the tips they need to ensure they receive the settlement they deserve. Written by an insurance company insider who has worked in the industry for years and negotiated hundreds of injury settlements. Readers will learn: Steps to take if they are injured in a motor vehicle accident. How to deal with insurance companies when they call. How to take the advantage against the insurance company. What medical information is crucial to your claim. How to push the same buttons an experienced lawyer would push. When and how to negotiate for a fair settlement. "Insurance Settlement Secrets" shows readers how they can do all of this themselves without hiring an expensive lawyer.

Insurance Glossary

Insurance Glossary Review

Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of potential financial loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a potential loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for a premium and duty of care.

Working for Yourself: Law & Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers & Consultants

Working for Yourself: Law & Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers & Consultants Review

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Be your own boss -- easily, efficiently and successfully -- with this bestseller!

Whether you're an independent contractor, freelancer, or consultant, it all adds up to the same thing: You need to be more aware of laws and taxes than the average person.

Fortunately, Working for Yourself provides all the information you need to stay on top of it all. An independent contractor himself, Stephen Fishman shows you everything you need to know to:

meet business start-up requirements

pick a business structure

set up home or outside offices

obtain permits and licenses

price your services or products

comply with strict IRS rules

establish sound business relationships

avoid unfair contracts

draft good agreements

keep good records

get paid in full and on time

and much, much more

The 8th edition is completely revised to provide the up-to-date information you need, including the most current tax rates and legal rules for contractors. Whether you already work for yourself or are thinking about making the move, Working for Yourself will help make sure you do it right.

Car Insurance Secrets

Car Insurance Secrets Review

Car Insurance Secrets - The Road Map to Survive the Insurance Maze & Avoid Vehicle Repair Swindles.

Car Insurance Secrets is about the tricks and secrets you must know in order to buy the right auto insurance, from the right companies, as well as having a smart recovery plan in place to recover from any mishap quickly and easily. This book is a step by step manual on how to manage your auto insurance portfolio as well as a Vehicle Accident Management Plan.


Why should you invest .97 to own this E-book?

* For the price of a car wash you will get over dozen ways to win against the insurance companies and never feel powerless against them again.

* Fender bender? Three people to call before you call the insurance company – call them in the wrong order and you are guaranteed to lose time, money and effort. Call them in the right order and you paralyze the insurance company just when it was about to sting you.

* They want to pay you a fraction of what it costs to repair your car? 5 laser edged ways to make them wish they had never tried that old trick on you!

* Your car is totalled and they want to pay you half what it will cost to get one of similar value? Use the “Smackdown Method” in Secret # 7. Many people just roll over when they find themselves looking at court costs, lawyer costs, lost work time, etc. But the secrets Secret # 7 makes the insurance company glad to pay you and pray that you don’t take them to court!

* Think the T.V. spokes-lizard saves you money on your insurance? Think the funny lady with the red lipstick can do even better? We'll show you how to beat their deals not just once, but every year -- again and again and again, for the coverage you really want!

* Bonus... Auto Wreck Management Plan.