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Archive for the ‘Alliances’ Category

Top 10 Ways to Get More Value from Your ICMG Membership (Part 2)

Here are five more tips to help members get more value working with peers through ICMG. These ideas will boost your networking presence throughout the entire year: 5 – Blog: The new ICMG blog is written by, for and about members. It’s new, and it focuses only on topics that members care about. The ICMG [...]

70 Percent of Insurance Companies See Peer-To-Peer Networking As the Way to Find Alliance Partners, ..

Seven of 10 insurance executives look to their peers to find their next strategic alliance opportunity, found a sample of insurance professionals conducted by Inter-Company Marketing Group (ICMG). Events such as the ICMG annual meeting and other industry gatherings are the next-most-frequent place to look for strategic alliances, cited by 56 percent of respondents. Likewise, industry peers [...]

F2F Networking, even Facebook does it

F2F is important even to the internet generation. Was interested to read in today’s NYT that the Instagram/Facebook connection came about through traditional F2F networking. As ICMG has shown over and over, the relationships that develop over years can lead to unanticipated results. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/technology/instagram-founders-were-helped-by-bay-area-connections.html

Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? (Or, Redundant Processing and Needless Inconsistencies)

ICMG is all about the deal. But once a carrier and distributer agree to do business, then comes the part of contracting the agency and their distribution with the insurer.  Face it: Carriers do not utilize standard agent appointment and contracting documents. We understand how and why contracts differ, but don’t all carriers collect relatively [...]