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Insurance Agency Vs. Company: A Guide for Agents
Growing your agency’s book of business depends on you being a more trusted source of information than other agents—and in somes cases, than the compan...
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How To Get Life Insurance Leads: The Best (& Worst) Options For Agents
Selling life insurance can be a notoriously difficult and time-consuming process. Upwards of 90% of life insurance agents fail within their first year...
Read more15 Customer Retention Strategies In The Insurance Industry
Is it your insurance agency’s goal to grow your business (and in turn, make more money)? If you’re like 99% of agents out there, you’re nodding yes.
Read moreLeveraging Social Media For Insurance Agency Networking In 7 Simple Steps
You can’t run a successful agency without getting to know people. If you sell insurance, networking is the key to getting high quality referrals and f...
Read more5 Tips to Maximize Your Agency's Customer Retention Through Exceptional Service
For insurance agents, retaining a current customer is less costly and less time-consuming than winning over a new client. But many agents struggle wit...
Read moreTry These Time-Tested Tips & Real-World Scripts for P&C Agents Expanding Into Life Insurance
If you’re a P&C agent, you’ve probably built your agency on auto or home insurance sales. There’s no harm in that! Everyone who owns a home or a c...
Read moreThe Impact of Paid Ads on Insurance Agency Marketing
In the grand scheme of digital insurance agency marketing, paid advertisements might seem like a no-brainer. You commit to investing a certain dollar ...
Read moreFrom Clicks to Clients: Why Keywords Matter in Insurance Agency Marketing
If you’re at all familiar with digital marketing—maybe you’ve dabbled in it a bit or even just done a quick search for insurance agency marketing tips...
Read moreTurbocharge Your Agency With This Stellar Auto Insurance Referral Program Prototype
Scott Grates, insurance agent and co-founder of Insurance Agency Optimization, is renowned for his ability to fuel his business off of referrals.
Read moreInsurance Agents — Here’s How To Make Your Reputation Work For You
When it comes to nurturing your insurance agency’s online business reputation, there are numerous strategies you can use. However, if you have to pick...
Read moreHow To Use Artificial Intelligence In Your Insurance Agency
If the year 2023 had a buzzword, that buzzword was definitely AI. Artificial intelligence took off in the mainstream like never before, leaving busine...
Read moreHow to Recruit Gen Z Employees into the Insurance Industry
Despite current economic complexities, many industries are still hiring at a dependable pace. Among them is the insurance sector, which is facing a si...
Read moreWhy Use Insurance Telemarketing Services In Your Agency?
If you had to name the most tedious, time-consuming, thankless task in your insurance sales job, what would it be?
Read moreHow To Sell Home Insurance: 5 Things You Absolutely Must Have To Succeed
Creating a new insurance agency is a complex process, just like building any new business from the ground up. One of the most crucial—and often intimi...
Read moreLaunch Your New Insurance Agency With This Business Plan Template
Whether you're a brand new agent or one with several decades of experience, the idea of opening a new insurance agency probably seems daunting—where d...
Read moreLooking For Insurance Agency Funding? Here Are Your Options
Creating a new insurance agency is a complex process, just like building any new business from the ground up. One of the most crucial—and often intimi...
Read moreBest Life Insurance Leads For Agents
Is buying warm life insurance leads the right option for your business? It can be! Keep reading for more details that will help you understand what yo...
Read moreUsing Insurance Recruiting Services To Grow Your Agency
At EverQuote, we work with insurance agencies every single day. We hear so many stories of how the process of hiring new agents is fraught with pitfal...
Read moreHiring Insurance Producers During Trying Times
How can you, as an insurance agency owner or manager, successfully hire and retain new agents in today’s economy?
Read moreHome And Auto Insurance Leads For Agents
Not all auto and home insurance leads are equal. Boost your results to the next level with warm EverQuote home insurance leads. Agents often turn to a...
Read moreLooking Forward: P&C Insurance Industry Trends
Right now we're in the midst of a massive ongoing transformation of the insurance industry - particularly when it comes to property and casualty insur...
Read moreShould You Buy Home Insurance Leads For Your Agency?
The majority of insurance agencies buy leads—it’s simply a fact of doing business for contemporary agents.
Read moreHow To Get Started Selling Life Insurance In 8 Steps
If you’re a relatively established agent with experience selling auto or home insurance, you may have asked yourself the question, “How can I diversif...
Read moreSee How This Top Independent Insurance Agency Wrote Over $2 Million In The First Year [VIDEO]
Nick Mathews EverQuote Testimonial from EverQuote Pro on Vimeo. After co-founding Nations Choice Insurance in 2017, independent agent Nick Mathews tri...
Read moreThe Text Message Template Used By One Of The Top Insurance Agents In The US [+ Free Text And Email Templates]
For most Americans, using a smartphone to send text messages is just another part of daily life. So it probably comes as no surprise that some of the ...
Read moreSelling Car Insurance: Top 14 Tips
The cost of car insurance matters—and that’s never going to change. And when a customer is unaware of the other factors at play when it comes to insur...
Read more8 Tips Insurance Agents Can Use TODAY to Streamline Their Hiring Process
According to a survey by renowned global HR consulting firm Robert Half, a bad hire will result in 33% of wasted time; employee productivity will redu...
Read moreHow To Increase Auto Insurance Sales: 9 Do’s & Don’ts (featuring Chandler Hahn)
For many P&C focused insurance agents, auto insurance sales are a huge part of their business. Even increasing auto insurance sales by 10% can hav...
Read moreEverything You Need To Know About Digital Insurance
It’s an online, 24/7 world, even for the insurance industry.
Read moreGetting That Big Sell: The Importance Of Lead Nurturing
When you get a lead from EverQuote or anywhere else, some are bound to convert fairly quickly. But the majority of sales arise over time as the result...
Read moreThe Secret to Great Talent Retention for Insurance Agents
Building a strong team is an essential step for every insurance agency. But once you’ve hired your new staff, you face a new challenge: retaining your...
Read moreWant More Multiline Business? How EverQuote Is Enhancing Home Leads to Supercharge Agents’ Results
When it comes to working insurance leads, writing a multiline policy for a new client is one of the best outcomes an insurance agent can ask for. But ...
Read more4 More Tips for Insurance Agents to Gain and Retain More Millennial Clients
In terms of sheer numbers, Millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996) are now the largest generation in America (according to the US Census Bureau...
Read moreThe Ultimate Guide to Closing The Sale For Insurance Agents (Featuring Steve Wilmer)
When it comes to the art and science of closing a sales deal it’s fair to say that Steve Wilmer is an expert. From the United States Marine Corps to l...
Read moreTired of Calling Leads? Learn How Lead Connection Service (LCS) Can Help (PLUS Best Practices for Using LCS)!
For a significant number of insurance agents today, dedicating hours to calling internet leads is a seemingly unavoidable part of running their busine...
Read moreChoosing The Best Errors & Omission for Insurance Agents
Insurance agents are often so accustomed to serving others that it can feel somewhat "unnatural" when it comes it reversing roles and thinking about p...
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Read moreTop 5 Mistakes When Hiring Agents
The pandemic changed everything—especially in the insurance world—and now, insurance agents are struggling to hire more than ever. Agents are not only...
Read moreInsurance Agency Management Systems: What To Look For
The magic of the second close. It’s every agent’s dream (or at least, it should be) to bind more policies with the clients you already have. And fortu...
Read moreHow To Sell Insurance: Choosing Which Type, How To, And More
One of the most common statements we hear from people interested in taking the leap into selling insurance is that they simply don’t know where to sta...
Read moreJoin EverQuote for BIND Fall Forum 2022 – A Free Virtual Conference for Insurance Agents
We're thrilled to announce that EverQuote’s next virtual conference – BIND Fall Forum 2022 – will be taking place on Thursday, October 27, 2022 from 1...
Read moreBest Upcoming Insurance Conferences In 2022 & 2023
As you look toward professional development in the new year, you may be wondering which insurance conferences you should attend. We’ve surveyed our te...
Read more5 Consejos Para Ganarse a Clientes Hispanos
Read the article in English / en inglés here: https://learn.everquote.com/5-tips-spanish-insurance-customers Si eres un agente de seguros que trabaja ...
Read more5 Tips for Engaging Spanish Speaking Insurance Customers
Read the article in Spanish / en español here: https://learn.everquote.com/5-tips-spanish-insurance-customers-en-espanol If you’re an insurance agent ...
Read moreRefer an Agent to EverQuote & Earn Up to $1,000!
If you know an agent that would benefit from EverQuote's best in class insurance leads or calls, we are currently offering a generous referral bonus! ...
Read more35 EverQuote Reviews From Our Partner Agents
Insurance lead generation companies sometimes seem like they are a dime a dozen. But finding a lead generation partner that actually gives you a retur...
Read more13 Recommendations To Be A Successful Insurance Agent
What are the most important things new insurance agents should do to set the stage for a profitable agency? To find out, we asked agents who have actu...
Read moreHow Agents Can Help Customers Navigate Soaring Property Insurance Rates
Insurance agents and policy holders across the United States are facing an escalating crisis of inflation that is driving across the board increases t...
Read moreThe Ultimate Guide To Captive Agents
When deciding to be an insurance agent, you have two options: You can choose to be appointed as a captive agent or as an independent agent. If you’re ...
Read moreHow Practicing for Meetings Gives Agents the Best Return on Insurance Leads
Nearly any insurance agent who’s been in business for an extended amount of time can tell you that new opportunities can be difficult to come by. So w...
Read moreHow To Become A Risk Manager In Insurance
In any industry, identifying and minimizing the impact of future threats is an important part of risk management. Insurance is one way to mitigate ris...
Read moreHow To Become A Successful Part Time Agent
Being an insurance agent can be difficult, especially at first—only about 8% of new agents survive their first year in business. It’s hard to jump int...
Read moreInsurance Agency Automation: Top 8 Best Practices
Do you hear the words insurance agency automation and imagine robots taking over your business? Think again. When applied to insurance, automation can...
Read moreWhat Do Insurance Agents Do Daily? A Day In The Life
“How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.” -Annie Dillard
Read moreThe Ultimate Guide To Selling Medicare Insurance
In 2020, 18.4% of Americans were covered by Medicare—that’s nearly 60 million people, or close to 1 out of every 5 people in the entire country. Knowi...
Read moreHow Much Does An Insurance Agent Make? An Overview of Contributing Factors
If you’re considering becoming an insurance agent—or if you’re already an agent looking to inform and adjust your salary expectations—you may be wonde...
Read more5 Tips For Selling Insurance To Millennials
You can think of Millennials almost as the “middle child” because they tend to be looked over by other generations. Baby Boomers consider them youngst...
Read moreInsurance Resources For Agents: The 12 Best Companies
Most would-be insurance agents think the only challenge in being an agent lies in finding new leads. But experienced agents know that, while lead gene...
Read moreWhat is the best insurance to sell?
If you’re considering entering into the insurance industry in 2022 and trying to figure out where you should land, one of the first things to investig...
Read moreHow To Become A Work-From-Home Insurance Agent
If you had polled 100 professionals in 2019 and asked them what their work dream was, they’d probably say working from home. Well, that dream has come...
Read moreHigh-Paying Insurance Jobs To Start In 2022
As with most things, there’s no “silver bullet” to becoming successful and extremely profitable in the insurance industry—if there was, every agent wo...
Read more2 Insurance Sales Scripts From Award-Winning Agents
One of the most difficult aspects of implementing any new business initiative is not knowing how to get started, especially when it feels like you’re ...
Read moreSEO For Insurance Agents: 5 Tips
These days, search engine results for nearly any query are stuffed with content. Even if your insurance agency’s website is top-notch, you still need ...
Read more7 Insurance Quoting Tools Every Agent Should Consider
At some point early in your career, you may have had to collect information from prospects in person or over the phone. It may be an unhappy memory; y...
Read more14 Marketing And Advertising Ideas For Life Insurance
“Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard”—or so many athletic coaches like to say. Advertising is hard work, but it’s a necessary step to h...
Read moreHow To Pass The Life Insurance Exam: A Go-To Study Guide
When you’re considering a career as a life insurance agent, the prospect of an exam may feel daunting. (After all, didn’t you finish those for good af...
Read moreJoin EverQuote for BIND2022 – the Free Virtual Conference for Insurance Agents
We're thrilled to announce EverQuote’s virtual conference – BIND 2022 – will be taking place on Thursday, February 10, 2022 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM E...
Read moreTax Deductions For Insurance Agents: Advice From Experts
We all know the saying about the two things you can count on in life, and one is taxes. For many of the 72 million Americans who prepare their own tax...
Read more7 Inspiring Insurance Agent Website Examples
When you originally created your website, probably the first things that came to mind were visual elements—layout, color palette, font, etc. In realit...
Read moreYour Mini-Guide To Auto Insurance Retention Rates
In an ideal world, every new customer your insurance agency signs on would stay with you forever. However, insurance professionals know this isn’t rea...
Read moreThe Insurance Quote Email Template Used By A Lifetime President's Club Member [+ More Free Email Templates!]
When was the last time you checked your email? Chances are, it’s not been too long—one study shows that 82% of people check their email at least daily...
Read moreInsurance Lead Generation: The Ultimate Playbook
For agents, insurance lead generation isn’t just a good idea—it’s a way to grow your business, reach goals, and make more money. This thorough guide w...
Read moreInsurance Agents: 5 FAQs About Chargebacks
Every sales role has moneymaking potential. This is true for many industries, including insurance. Regardless of the type of insurance you sell—auto, ...
Read moreGet Inspired: 11 Motivational Quotes For Insurance Agents
Insurance can be a tough game to play. Even after talking to multiple clients in a day, they still might all wind up saying no to a winning sales pitc...
Read moreHow To Get Warm Leads For Your Insurance Agency
Warm leads and warm transfer calls are some of the best kinds of insurance leads an agency can invest in. It all has to do with math—time cost and opp...
Read moreWhat Are Warm Leads? How To Heat Up Your Agency’s Conversion Rates
Bringing in new clients is one of the most difficult challenges insurance agents face. You need a continuous flow of leads—people who may have an inte...
Read moreAn Agents Guide To Employee Retention Tax Credits
With 2021 coming to a close, insurance agents –like many other small business owners in the U.S.– are thinking about end of year tax planning. The goo...
Read more10 Best Books For Insurance Agents In 2021 & Beyond
Whether you’re new to the insurance industry or a decades-long veteran, one thing is certain: The learning never stops.
Read moreWarm Leads vs. Cold Leads: What’s the Difference?
Every sale starts as a lead, but—as salespeople in every industry know—not all leads are the same. As an insurance agent, it’s important to know the d...
Read more6 Hiring Tips from Independent Insurance Agency Leaders
Hiring top talent is a crucial part of any business. With around 400,000 current insurance employees likely to retire in the next few years (according...
Read moreGetting A License To Sell Car Insurance: The 6-Step Process
Want to be a successful agency owner? Then your team needs to write a lot of policies. Want to write a lot of policies? Then your agents and producers...
Read moreWhy Gen Z Should Go Into Insurance
As more members of Generation Z start transitioning into the workforce, there's one industry that may not be high on many priority lists — but it shou...
Read moreHow Is The Auto Insurance Market Evolving?
Insurance Agency Vs. Company: A Guide for Agents
Growing your agency’s book of business depends on you being a more trusted source of information than other agents—and in somes cases, than the compan...
Read morePersonal Lines Endorsement Checklists: Protection Against E&O Claims
When natural disasters strike, it's inevitable that Errors & Omissions (E&O) claims will follow, as consumers claim that their insurance polic...
Read more11 Habits of Top-Performing Agents
There is no one single way to be a successful insurance agent; every agent or producer strives to figure out what works best for them in terms of effi...
Read morePivoting to Life, Health and Benefits: Why It's Worth It for P&C Agents
Analyzing data and interpreting metrics are important tasks for any insurance agency. In this recent article, author Paul Buse sets up a useful metaph...
Read moreHow Do You Sell If No One Answers the Phone?
Outbound phone calls are an unavoidable fact of life for most insurance agencies. However, the average person typically receives numerous calls a day ...
Read moreInfluential Agency Leadership
Impactful and influential leadership is key to any company's success. Leadership sets the tone from office morale all the way to your company's result...
Read moreAchieving Digital Balance in an Agency
In today’s era of digital technology, it can often seem like just when we get used to one software, a “new and improved” product is released and it ca...
Read moreTips On Using Customer Retention Emails Effectively for Your Agency
While acquiring new customers is vital for any agency's growth and success, it is just as important to retain your current customer base and make sure...
Read moreDo You Really Want The Cheapest Auto Insurance Leads?
With COVID bringing a temporary pause to community networking, auto insurance agents have had to seriously rethink how they maintain their outbound pr...
Read moreMap Out Your Clients - A Different View of Your Agency
With all of the new opportunities for consumer insights awarded to us by technology and data, insurance agents are able to learn more about their clie...
Read more11 Insurance Agency Growth Strategies From 4 Successful Agents
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained.” You’ve probably heard this saying before—and if you’re an insurance agent intent on growing your agency, take it t...
Read moreRefer an Agent to EverQuote & Earn Up to $1,000!
EverQuote is currently offering a double referral bonus! That means you can receive a payout of up to $1,000 for every qualified agent you refer! If y...
Read moreHow the Insurance Workplace Has Changed for Women
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to significantly affect our ways of life, especially regarding the workplace. With many industries, jobs...
Read morePositivity In The Workplace: Setting The Tone For Success
Can a positive attitude really help bolster sales performance and set your producers up for more success? Absolutely—data shows that there’s a correla...
Read moreBuying An Insurance Agency's Book Of Business: Advice From Agents
If you’re considering buying an insurance agency, you’re probably doing a lot of research. We wanted to assist in that process by providing some first...
Read more5 Ways Insurance Agents Can Compete Against Direct Carriers
It can be challenging for insurance agency owners to retain customers and generate new leads while competing against the advertising, pricing, and rea...
Read more7 Ways To Get More Reviews For Your Insurance Agency
The online reputation insurance agencies earn sticks with them for a very long time—what you see on Google is hard to erase, or even alter, especially...
Read moreThe Five Biggest Mistakes Agency Leaders Make
Making mistakes is an inevitable part of running an insurance agency (or any business for that matter). However, mistakes can also provide great learn...
Read moreThe 8 Best Insurance Software Solutions For Your Agency
From a business standpoint, insurance agencies are either changing or dying. If your agency isn’t continually evolving technologically, professionally...
Read moreTop 7 Technology Trends In The Insurance Industry
Long gone are the days of insurance agents carrying Blackberries and dealing with limited access to email (though, really, those days weren’t too long...
Read moreShortening the Conversion Cycle for Insurance Leads
Converting leads efficiently and effectively is vital for any insurance agent or agency. While shortening the conversion cycle can be tricky, there ar...
Read more20 EverQuote Pro Reviews From Our Partner Agents
Insurance lead generation companies sometimes seem like they are a dime a dozen. But finding a lead generation partner that actually gives you a retur...
Read moreFive “Out-of-the-Box” Tips on Hiring Top Talent for Your Agency
One of many challenges for agency owners is hiring top candidates and overcoming employee turnover rates. It can be a difficult balance to provide gre...
Read moreHow to Grow Your Insurance Business With Social Media
For insurance agents looking to drive traffic and boost sales, social media can prove a very powerful tool. In this recent post from the Insureon Smal...
Read moreUsing the Internet to Grow Your Agency
For many insurance agents, the internet is an ideal tool to connect with consumers and grow your agency, especially with the significant digital shift...
Read more4 Tips for Insurance Agents to Increase Retention
Increasing and maintaining retention levels is one of the best ways to improve the profitability and revenue of an insurance agency. While there are m...
Read moreBringing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion to the Insurance Workplace
Incorporating and fostering a more diverse and inclusive workforce is becoming increasingly important for businesses today. As National Association fo...
Read more15 Best Insurance Sales Tips to Get Ahead
It's no secret that for most agents, getting a steady flow of new clients month after month can be one of the most difficult parts of being an insuran...
Read more11 Example Social Media Posts For Insurance Agents To Try Right Now
Statistics show more than 68% of consumers prefer to use online channels to look for information about insurance—with this many people using the inter...
Read moreAgents Are Here To Stay
We've all heard the dire predictions: insurance agents are going the way of the dinosaurs and consumer self-service is the way of the future for the i...
Read moreBuying Leads For Insurance? 5 Important Questions To Ask
It seems like insurance lead companies are everywhere nowadays. All of them promise to deliver “high-quality” leads, but how do you ensure that what y...
Read moreInsurance Telemarketing Services: Does Your Agency Need Them?
You’ve got a lot on your plate—between mining your books, managing referrals, building requotes, and so much more, it can be hard to find where to tri...
Read moreInsurance Agent Resources: 15+ Things To Make Your Job Easier
What are your biggest pain points as an insurance agent? Over the years, we’ve spoken with thousands of agents about what they find to be the most str...
Read moreA Better Alternative To Aged Auto Insurance Leads
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Read moreAsking the Right Questions
Often times producers are amazed to learn that asking the right insurance sales questions will make a huge difference not only in closing the sale, bu...
Read moreB2C Lead Generation: Everything You Should Know
The trick to generating more leads as an insurance agent is connecting your agency with the right consumer and the right product, at the right time.
Read more12 Habits of Successful Insurance Agents
Have you ever wondered what really successful agents do that the other agents don’t? What new habits can you adopt to bring your agency to the next le...
Read moreWhy Insurance Companies Can't Afford to Overlook Diversity
The insurance industry has come a long way in its approach to diversity and inclusion, but there is still progress to be made. Today, leaders of insur...
Read moreHow Many Insurance Leads a Day Should an Agent Be Taking? Understanding “True Cap”
How many insurance leads should producers be working?
Read moreHow Servicing Your Community Strengthens Your Book
Serving your community not only builds purpose and improves the lives of others, but it can also build your book of business. Donating your time, mone...
Read moreInsurance Agent CRM Solutions: What's The Best Option?
Insurance Agent CRM Solutions: What's The Best Option?
Read moreDemand Generation vs. Lead Generation: What’s The Difference?
If you’re an insurance agent focused on making sales and growing your business, you may have wondered about the differences between demand generation ...
Read more2021: The Great Reset in Insurance
Plenty has been written about COVID-19, but with the end within sight, what is still unclear is how different the post-pandemic world will be as a res...
Read morePaycheck Protection Program Update: 3 Takeaways for Agents on the New Financial Relief Package
Originally published on: https://blog.club.capital/3-takeaways-for-agents-on-new-financial-relief-package
Read moreBrooks Baltich’s Winning Sales Conversation Process: 8 Steps
Imagine if you could sit down with a successful insurance agent who’s led one of the fastest-growing agencies in his market, and learn the exact proce...
Read moreLearn How This Insurance Agent Tripled His Monthly Production With One New Product
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Read more10 Crucial Insurance KPIs & Metrics For Agencies In Growth Mode (Plus 60+ You Should Be Tracking)
Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that help you understand your personal or organizational performance. As an insurance agent, you may be ...
Read moreFacebook Insurance Leads: 5 Tips & Tricks
No matter the type of social media marketing you’re considering for your insurance agency, focusing on relationship-building via social media can help...
Read moreLinkedin For Insurance Agents: Top 4 Tips
Engaging in conversation, being helpful, being present—these are all relationship-building techniques that help insurance agents make sales. If you’re...
Read moreForget Insurance Sales Pitch Examples—Try These Tactics Instead
If you landed here by searching “insurance sales pitch examples,” let me caution you: Using generic scripts is not always the best thing to do. If you...
Read more15 Proven Insurance Sales Prospecting Tips for Producers
If you spend a few minutes talking to the most successful P&C agents, many will tell you that part of their "secret" is so simple it's almost ridi...
Read more5 Best Insurance Sales Closing Techniques [DATA]
Taking an inbound lead and turning it into a bound policy is an art. Learning to listen to your prospective customers’ needs and masterfully close dea...
Read moreLearn How One Product Helped This Captive Agent Save His Business By Increasing Monthly Sales 4X
Launching a New Insurance Career During a Pandemic When insurance agent Dustin Wadlow decided to leave a successful career in financial services and o...
Read moreJoin EverQuote for BIND2020 – the First Virtual Conference for Insurance Agents
Introducing EverQuote’s first virtual conference, BIND2020! BIND2020 will feature the country’s top insurance agents, speakers, and thought leaders. T...
Read moreThe Best Interview Questions To Ask When Hiring Insurance Producers [+ Free 30 Interview Questions Download]
An All Too Common Insurance Hiring Scenario
Read moreShared Vs. Exclusive Auto Insurance Leads For Agents: What’s the difference?
Wondering what the difference is between shared leads and exclusive auto insurance leads for agents? Keep reading to find out how they’re similar, whe...
Read moreDirect Mail For Insurance Agents: Is It An Effective Lead Source?
Direct mail is a classic lead generation tool that insurance agencies have been using for decades. But is it still worth your time and money with so m...
Read more4 Basic Tips For Selling Insurance Over The Phone
Say goodbye to the days of in-person visits to your prospects. Thanks largely to COVID-19, even if you wanted to, you can’t go to someone’s house and ...
Read moreOvercoming Objections In Insurance Sales: What To Do (& Why)
Let me ask you a question, and be honest with your answer: How confident are you in your approach to selling insurance to internet leads?
Read moreRefer an Agent to EverQuote & Get Paid Up to $2,000!
EverQuote has extended our double referral bonus through September 30, 2020! That means there’s only a limited time left to take advantage and receive...
Read moreInsurance Goal Setting: The Ultimate Guide
Insurance agents, it’s time to revisit your goals and objectives for 2020 and beyond. Due to COVID-19, most agents in our industry have seen a complet...
Read moreWhat's The Best Incentive Program For Insurance Agents?
For many insurance agents, the question is when, not if, they will have to take action to improve production in their insurance offices. But how to do...
Read moreInsurance Leads For Sale—What You Need To Know Before You Choose
For insurance agents who are looking to write more business consistently week after week, chances are you’ve considered buying leads for your business...
Read more9 Digital Tools Insurance Agencies Shouldn’t Be Without
For independent insurance agents looking to get ahead of the competition, it’s critical to take advantage of every resource at your disposal. Digital ...
Read moreInsurance Cold Calling: The Ultimate Guide
Ask any insurance agent or producer their thoughts on insurance cold calling, and you’ll quickly learn—it’s the worst. Even for experienced agents, in...
Read moreThe Insurance Sales Process
Building a strong sales process is a proven way to improve your close rate and is perhaps the most important thing you can do as a sales manager. No m...
Read morePPP Loan Forgiveness Updates
Originally published: https://blog.club.capital/ppp-forgiveness-updates Will the coverage period get extended? What do I need to know about FTE Headco...
Read moreInsurance Agency Hiring: Tips For Getting Started
When it comes to hiring and staffing, how can agents find qualified candidates? Should you hire someone with insurance experience for a producer role?...
Read more13 Foundational Insurance Marketing Ideas For Insurance Agents
Great marketing is a necessary component for any successful business, insurance included. There’s no shortage of marketing ideas for insurance agents ...
Read moreBest Insurance Marketing Strategies For The Digital Age
As insurance marketing continues to become increasingly digital, many agents are wondering: What are the best insurance marketing campaigns, strategie...
Read more25 Best Insurance Sales Ideas For Agents
Whether you’re a new agent just opening your agency’s doors or an experienced one looking for novel ways to reach a new generation of insurance buyers...
Read moreWhat To Do With Bad Phone Leads
Most insurance agents have experienced getting bad phone leads with wrong numbers. And it’s no wonder—with the prevalence of spam and robocalls these ...
Read more13 Most Pressing Questions About The SBA's Paycheck Protection Program For Insurance Agents
Earlier in April, we hosted a webinar, Forgivable Loans for Agency Owners: Paycheck Protection Program (SBA Relief Loans) Overview, with insurance age...
Read moreGamification: When Insurance Work Is Fun, The Job Gets Done
Originally published on: PropertyCasualty360.com Gamification enables you to focus your team on the exact metrics that will drive your business forwar...
Read moreUrgent: Agents Should Apply For The Paycheck Protection Program Today
Through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the U.S. Treasury Department has established a $349 billion fund that is available to help small busine...
Read moreHiring Insurance Producers: The Complete Playbook
If you want your insurance agency to be successful, you have to have a great team of people behind you. So where do you start? Tips for hiring salespe...
Read moreWork From Home Best Practices for Insurance Agents
At EverQuote, we understand that the learning curve of going from working nearly 100% in person to 100% remote is steep. To help agents whose business...
Read moreResources for Agents and Small Businesses During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Right now small business owners across the country are facing an unprecedented situation. It’s unclear how long the COVID-19 pandemic will last, and t...
Read moreThe Ultimate Social Media Playbook For Insurance Agents
This is an excerpt from our latest guide, The Ultimate Social Media Playbook For Insurance Agents. Click the link to download the PDF. Want an effecti...
Read more15 Best Ways To Get Insurance Referrals For Your Business
If you could run your entire insurance agency only on referrals, you would, right? Insurance referral programs are the holy grail of lead types for ag...
Read moreInsurance Agency Marketing: Best Practices For Your Marketing Plan
As you look to grow your insurance agency in 2020 and beyond, one of the first things you’ll need to do is create an insurance marketing plan. But how...
Read more8 Top Insurance Conferences In 2020
As you look toward professional development in the new year, you may be wondering which insurance conferences you should attend. We’ve surveyed our te...
Read moreEverQuote Partner Spotlight: Interview with Ricochet360’s Brett Schickler
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