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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 [...]

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 [...]

The Secret to Success

It’s been a couple of months now since the ICMG Conference in Phoenix. What an exciting time that was. It’s funny but I believe that this last conference was the best for me in several years. I had made several promising contacts there and left very excited about the possibilities of at least two new alliances. The secret is [...]

I’m glad I didn’t miss out!

Once again, ICMG hits it Out-of-the-Park with another fantastic annual meeting at the Arizona Grand in Phoenix. So far, 2012 has been non-stop with meetings and seeing familiar faces, old colleagues and some new folks that I had not met in-person previously. What do you think!?!?! This is truly a great group of insurance professionals [...]