Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Help Business Owners Play Beat the Clock
By Dick PleshaHelp Business Owners Play Beat the ClockAlarm clocks kill dreams. And they strike without warning. Alarm clocks are ticking for millions of family-owned businesses in ...
January 26, 2005
A Dream That Wont DieChange is at the heart of the news business and is the thing that most gladdens a journalists heart. In the financial arena, change can ...
January 20, 2005
Enliven your career by telling storiesIf we want to teach concepts that to clients are foreign and complicated, the most effective way to do so is to use stories, says Scott Farnsworth.
January 19, 2005
Analyst Team Questions Reinsurance DealsA Hamilton, Bermuda, life reinsurer could run into turbulence.[@@]The reinsurer, Scottish Re Group Ltd., recently acquired one large life reinsurance business from a unit ...
January 19, 2005
Horse LatitudesI was going to begin this piece by remarking that the long term care insurance business was in the doldrums last year. But then to ...
January 11, 2005
Supreme Court Lets HMO Provider Suit ContinueA major class-action suit against 6 large managed care companies has moved a step closer to trial.[@@]The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review ...
December 01, 2004
Homeland SecurityAn elderly professional couple recently applied for a credit card, in this case from a major oil company, and, to their great surprise, the request...
November 23, 2004
Achieving Success In The Small Business Disability MarketAchieving Success In The Small Business Disability MarketByA growing business segment with underserved insurance needs, the small business sector, represents one of the most promising ...