This virus could have a a serious affect on your insurance agency operations and how your producers, CSRs, and agents continue to work.  You might have to start working remotely, add additional software, and enhance your phone and other communication systems.  Let's review a plan of action and small steps that you can take now to make things easier as people start to work from home and things change when clients and your staff starts working from home.

In your insurance agent career, you are going to have choices to make:

• What insurance should I sell?
• What types of customers do I want?
• What product lines do I want to sell?
• Do I hire someone, outsource, or do it all myself.

These are the tough questions that an insurance agency owner and agent often have to answer.  We will review some options in this episode.

Whether you like it or not, you are competing with the internet and technology companies that are selling insurance. There are some simple pieces of technology that you can use to make your agency more efficient and make it easier to communicate with your clients.  Not all technology is expensive, and some of the smallest changes could help you improve your business.

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Starting an insurance agency is both challenging and exciting.  Whether you are a small independent insurance agent or looking to start an agency, you can do it, if you stay focused and chase your dream.  I started with no customers by going door to door.  Today, technology has changed insurance marketing, but you can still grow your business, acquire new clients, and retain them.  I'm sharing my story in the hopes that you will learn from it and keep writing your own.

Technology for insurance agents is so limited.  What can you do to help your insurance agency compete in this century. You have to keep up or fade away.  You probably won't have the technology of big insure tech companies, but there are a few things that you can implement.

What's happening in the property and casualty insurance business?  Things are changing, can you keep up?  Insurance carriers and consumers are evolving.  Will your P&C insurance agency be relevant in the future?