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Willis’ FINEX National Strengthens VEAGIS for UK Property Experts

Dec 23 2010 // FINEX National, which handles financial, professional and management liability insurance for clients of Willis Group Holdings, announced that it has launched a new offering under its VEAGIS brand, a professional indemnity...

Lowder Joins Insurance Network of Texas

Dec 20 2010 // Chris Lowder has joined Giddings, Texas-based Insurance Network of Texas, as director of Marketing and Advertising. A sales and marketing executive with expertise in brand development, Lowder will be responsible for...

Insurer Launches Ad Campaign Within Facebook Game ‘Car Town’

Dec 15 2010 // Building its brand messages directly into the game play of the popular social game Car Town – the only game on Facebook built around licensed automotive brands –State Farm today launched a six-month advertising...

Willis Appoints Two New Regional Managers to UK Broker Network

Nov 15 2010 // Willis Group Holdings has appointed two new Regional Managing Directors for Willis Networks, the global insurance broker’s alliance with local, independent brokers in the UK. Mike Rush will be responsible for Willis...

Use Digital Marketing to Attract Smart Young Producers

Nov 14 2010 // In one way, today’s high unemployment rate is helpful in the agency business. It assists when it comes to recruiting new, youthful producers. There are tons of young, smart, educated people out there today who...

Branding Passion

Nov 9 2010 // Recently, I have been working with a client on branding. When you think about creating a brand, where do you begin? The word “Brand” in our society is a Goliath. Branding encompasses an immense landscape of...

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Nov 1 2010 // Todd Kilkenny joined the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) as director of agency management resources. He will be responsible for developing, implementing and managing strategic agency management initiatives and...

10 Ways to Make Insurance Agencies More Successful… Now

Nov 1 2010 // A revolution is underway that is having dramatic effects on insurance agencies, and the entire world. In the simplest terms, no one wants to do anything they don’t want to do.The supermarket delivers groceries, the...

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Nov 1 2010 // Juan Andrade stepped down as Commercial Markets president at The Hartford to join Ace as president of the insurers’ Global Personal Lines and Small Commercial Insurance division. He will assume the new position with...

ACE Names Polyblank as UK & Ireland Marketing, Communications Mgr.

Oct 20 2010 // ACE UK announced the appointment of Ruth Polyblank as UK & Ireland Marketing and Communications Manager.She will report to Richard Pryce, President of ACE UK, and will be responsible for providing strategic oversight...

Ex-AIG Executive Indicted in New York Horse Farm Fraud

Oct 20 2010 // A former Deutsche Bank AG and American International Group Inc. managing director and her husband have been indicted for fraud for allegedly conspiring to illegally extract money from those companies to help run their...

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Oct 18 2010 // Hylant Group, headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, promoted Tammy Vaughn Cameron to vice president, marketing and branding. Cameron joined Hylant Group in 2006 as director of marketing and public relations. In this role, she...

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Oct 18 2010 // The Hartford appointed Lisa Morgan senior vice president of its middle market commercial insurance business. She will lead The Hartford’s $2 billion middle market commercial insurance unit that provides the...

The Wheel Way to Market Your Agency

Oct 18 2010 // It seems that it’s all social marketing all the time whenever you peruse an industry publication or attend an agent’s meeting. All of this attention makes it easy to imagine that the world we trade in has...

The Future for Independent Insurance Agencies

Oct 6 2010 // I believe the future of independent insurance agencies is at a tipping point. A number of forces are pushing agencies toward the precipice of major change. A few of those forces include: legislation, case law, the Web,...

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Oct 4 2010 // Watkins Insurance Group, one of the largest full-service, locally owned independent insurance agencies in central Texas, added agent Andy Webb to its sales team. Webb began his career in the insurance industry in March...

Captive Audience Marketing in a Social Marketing World

Oct 4 2010 // Social media has an intrinsic flaw as a promotional tool for insurance marketers: it’s too darn distracting. For instance, Facebook is a self-contained and ever expanding universe that’s packed with...

Swiss Re Announces Major Division & Leadership Structure Reorganization

Oct 1 2010 // Swiss Re announced that it will “adjust its senior leadership structure to strengthen the company’s core capabilities and market presence with a focus on three key areas: Reinsurance, Corporate Solutions and...

Hylant Group Promotes Cameron to VP, Marketing and Branding

Sep 30 2010 // Privately owned insurance brokerage firm Hylant Group, headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, has promoted Tammy Vaughn Cameron to vice president, marketing and branding.In this expanded role, she will be responsible for...

Marketing Strategies Group’s Evarts Passes Away

Sep 29 2010 // Longtime insurance marketing strategist, Nanci Evarts, passed away on Friday, Sept. 24, after a brief but courageous battle with cancer.Founder and President of Marketing Strategies Group, a California-based marketing...