The Silverline Blog
Industry insights, Salesforce news, and more
Industry insights, Salesforce news, and more
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The world of auto insurance is changing fast, with customer expectations shifting rapidly toward auto policies that leverage usage-based pricing models, something traditional insurance IT systems can’t typically support. Even before COVID-19 changed driving habits, consumers already started to demand behavior-driven pricing. In April 2020, Americans drove 64% fewer miles, and KPMG predicts as much...
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Legal & General is one of the world’s leading multinational financial services companies — and has been since 1836. Headquartered in London, the firm is the ninth-largest global insurer, with more than $1.5 trillion in total assets under management. Legal & General America (LGA), their U.S. division, has provided life insurance and other financial services...
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NEW YORK, NY—February 4, 2021—Silverline, a Salesforce digital transformation consultancy headquartered in New York City, today announced that Mike Piehl has joined the Financial Services practice as Vice President, Insurance. Concurrently, Paul Peterson will take on the role of Sub-Vertical Leader, Payer for Silverline’s Healthcare and Life Sciences practice. As a part of Silverline’s Financial...
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Silverliner and Salesforce Insurance guru Danielle Laffey recently sat down with Anthony Lamot, the CEO of DESelect, for an episode of their Heroes of Marketing Cloud series. Check out their chat, where they cover all things Marketing Cloud and insurance. Want to work with our great team? We’re hiring!
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Are you ready for 2021? Salesforce’s winter release comes out starting January 8. I recently had the privilege of sitting down with Tom Everard, Principal Solution Engineer at Salesforce, during my Salesforce for Insurance Trailblazer Community meeting. (That’s just one of the perks of being a Trailblazer Community leader and Salesforce MVP!) Tom distilled the...
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Business today is all about relationships. That’s nothing new. But how you go about managing and maintaining those relationships is completely different in today’s business world. If you want to build relationships with potential and existing customers, increase revenue, and deliver the right information at the right time, you need more than industry expertise —...
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On October 15, 2020, Salesforce hosted its Salesforce Industries Summit for Financial Services. After the day-long event, our FS leadership got together on a LinkedIn Live session to chat through what they learned. Read on to hear hot takes from the following Silverline experts: Geoff Merrick, SVP & GM, Financial Services Jill Harrison, VP of...
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In the span of just a few months, digital transformation went from important to essential. We’ve seen in the last five years how new technology-based players in the property and casualty (P&C) insurance space forced traditional insurers to play catchup. Earlier this year, we talked about how 2020 was the year to invest in digital...
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In this webinar, Silverliners Danielle Laffey and Amanda Somma discussed the largest overall business challenges Insurance carriers experience: hiring and developing effective producers. Effective recruiting and onboarding of producing agents, and reducing the time it takes for those agents to begin writing business, is critical for carriers to exert their market presence and blunt the...
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So a successful candidate for your insurance agent opening has been moved to the offer stage — great! If you’re already leveraging Salesforce for your candidate community, you can seamlessly onboard new hires. The following are key considerations for automating and personalizing the process. An intuitive onboarding portal An automated email can be sent to...