Are You Providing Solutions or Just Selling Insurance?

Last time, I talked about surprised by insurance as a transformational concept that helps customers and prospects reevaluate how they perceive their relationship with their agent.  Using tools such as the Internet — but not necessarily just the Internet — I’ve suggested that your goal should be to develop relationships with your customers that transcend […]

Surprised by Insurance, Part Three

In my last two articles about “Surprised by Insurance,” I talked about surprise as a distinguishing feature of your brand.  I want to broaden the concept this time.  I’d like to suggest getting surprised by insurance as a way of re-imagining or re-inventing how you do business — and more importantly, how your customers perceive […]

Optimizing Your Insurance Agency News Release

A few weeks ago, I wrote about what I referred to as an SEO insurance agency news release, which I described as a news release that doesn’t go out to the traditional newswire services, such as BusinessWire or PR Newswire. Rather, it’s a news release that’s placed instead on one of the “free” or nearly […]

Writing the Traditional News Release for Insurance Agents

In my last post, I started to explain some of the basics of how to write a news release. To illustrate, I used a draft of a news release announcing SmartsPro’s new website service for insurance agents, which I will refer to here. In terms of style, I already mentioned the importance of using the […]

How to Write a News Release

I’ve written several posts about news releases, but not about writing the news release itself and what goes into a proper news release. Although the SEO news release does not always maintain the objective, reportorial tone taken by a traditional news release, where opinion and superlatives about the subject of the news release are confined […]