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Insurance
5 Pressures Facing Auto Insurance Companies (+ How to Deal with Them)
Reading time: 5 minutes
The cost of claims across insurance sectors have been dropping over the past few years, with automation and technology reducing the cost of claims as much as 30%. At the same time though, there’s a host of pressures on auto insurance companies to change their premium pricing model to stay competitive with the market. What’s...
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The Smarter Approach for Recruiting Insurance Agents and Faster Onboarding
Reading time: 2 minutes
We cannot yet know the long-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. The outbreak has presented major challenges to all kinds of financial service businesses as they rush to shift strategies and tactics in response to changing customer needs. For insurance carriers, likely effects of the pandemic will include slower growth, additional pressure on profitability, as...
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How to Improve the Customer Experience in Insurance
Reading time: 3 minutes
Growing a base of satisfied and engaged policyholders will pay significant dividends for any carrier, agency, or brokerage. A great customer experience isn’t just a nice-to-have anymore – your customers demand it. The average customer spends 67% more in the 31st-36th months of their relationship than in their first six months. And 33% of Americans...
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Digital Transformation in Insurance Quote to Issue
Reading time: 4 minutes
Now, more than ever before, prospective clients have higher expectations of Insurers. In many cases, especially in direct-to-client distribution models, the first meaningful interaction between the applicant and carrier is a quote. So that quote needs to provide more than just numbers, it needs to provide an experience — and a good one at that....
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How to Improve the Claims Management Process
Reading time: 4 minutes
What does your claims process look like? Most insurance carriers typically have confusing multi-tiered processes that the average customer struggles to figure out and ignores the emotional journey the claimant is most likely going through. Customers expect digital self-service experiences in everything from food delivery, same-day shipping, to breaking news on social media; they’re going...
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Achieve an Improved Underwriting Process with Salesforce
Reading time: 2 minutes
Changes in the insurance industry have recently resulted in increased efforts to ensure new data points and pricing logic can be leveraged to maximize outcomes. This means that insurance underwriting processes need to catch up. By combining both engagement and transactional capabilities within a single platform, insurers can improve time to value and increase tactical...
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Top Insurance Highlights from the Salesforce Spring ’23 Release
Reading time: 7 minutes
The Salesforce Financial Services Cloud Spring ’23 release is coming out in a few weeks. We’re excited to see that many of the new capabilities offer solutions for the technology goals that insurance companies are looking to achieve, including: Digitizing the recruiting and interview process to create a unified experience that flows from the first...
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Insurance Industry Trends 2023: Talent Shortages and Climate Change
Reading time: 4 minutes
In the first part of our look at 2023 insurance trends, we covered how inflation and interest rates are impacting insurance. Now we turn to other trends we are seeing around talent shortages and climate change. We’ll also take a closer look at industry-specific issues, such as insurtech and producer consolidation, and share how Salesforce...
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Insurers, Are You Using Salesforce to See More ROI on Agents?
Reading time: 3 minutes
It takes a significant amount of time, effort, and resources to secure and onboard an agent before they sell anything. Many carriers have had experiences in which an agent sells one opportunity and then never sells another product. How does a company avoid this loss of ROI? And how can a carrier take an agent...
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Insurance Industry Trends 2023: The Impact of Inflation and Interest Rates
Reading time: 5 minutes
The insurance sector is not for the faint of heart. The massive insurance landscape is a fast-changing world of ebbs and flows, and the industry is continually influenced by trends that are beyond its control but that organizations need to overcome in order to succeed. Here we’ll dive into some of those insurance trends around...
