A.M. BestTV: Selling Insurance Means Leveraging Data, Technology and Communications

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In this ^A.M.BestTV episode, insurance sales experts explain how better access to customer and risk data, aided by an expanding array of communication platforms, are remaking how brokers and agents are working with clients and prospects. Click on http://www.ambest.com/v.asp?v=sales117 to view the entire program.

Over the past 30 years, insurance sales have changed in a variety of ways. One is the velocity of sales, as the speed with which clients are looking for solutions has increased exponentially. Douglas Turk, chief marketing officer, JLT Group, sees the increasing amount of data in the sales process as being another major change.

“The fact that companies are now looking at analytics, exposures and loss histories very early, has fundamentally changed where the industry is going. Sales are much faster and this requires companies to move much quicker and use data more efficiently,” said Turk.

The panelists also addressed how using technology more proficiently, as well social media and data mining, has changed how insurance sales are conducted.

To view this entire webinar, titled, “Succeeding in the Data-Driven Insurance Sales Environment,” visit http://www.ambest.com/webinars/sales16 .

Other people that appear in this episode:

• Marya J. Propis, U.S. commercial head of broker engagement, American International Group, Inc.;


• Cynthia Beveridge, deputy chief executive officer, AON InPoint;


• Bob Howe, placement & market leader, Marsh; and


• Kabir Syed, chief executive officer and founder, RiskMatch.

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