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Media & Entertainment
Ensuring Greater Visibility for The MBS Group’s Stage and Studio Scheduling
Reading time: 3 minutes
As the world’s largest studio advisory and production services company, The MBS Group services more than 500 sound stages across North America and Europe and supports more than 450 productions a year. The MBS Group provides studio management, studio design and development, and equipment inventories for lighting, grip, and expendables. The company has more than...
Insurance
Insurers, Are You Using Salesforce to See More ROI on Agents?
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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...
Insurance
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...
Salesforce Platform
Why Salesforce Data Stewardship is a Team Effort
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“Our Salesforce has bad data, it’s unreliable.” That’s not something any leader wants to hear after a company invests into the platform, but it’s easy to get into a “this is just the way it is” mindset. Don’t let that happen. The data in Salesforce is a combination of many factors. In many orgs, users...
Media & Entertainment
How to Ensure a Seamless Migration to Salesforce Media Cloud
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No one likes moving houses. It’s a hassle to pack and unpack and set up all your new services like internet and electricity. But as much as it’s a pain to make the move, the outcome of a better living situation is usually worth it. Moving houses is similar to moving between Clouds. You know...
Financial Services
5 Essential CRM Project Management Tips from a Salesforce Expert
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Silverline’s Transcending CRM podcast explores how the Salesforce ecosystem has impacted the careers of fellow Trailblazers and the businesses that have leveraged dynamic growth from the platform. The podcast is hosted by me, Silverline’s Managing Director of Banking and Lending, and my colleague Elliott Spence, Principal Consultant. A recent Transcending CRM episode featured Greg Blausey,...
Insurance
Understanding Underwriting in a New Era of Workers’ Comp
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Workers’ compensation is the most highly regulated line of insurance, especially when it comes to underwriting policies. The pandemic exposed many outdated regulations, such as requiring paper documents that are physically signed or using checks instead of electronic banking or debit cards. Another challenge of the pandemic was rethinking the definition of workers’ compensation. It...
Insurance
How Digital Experiences are Transforming Workers’ Compensation
Reading time: 6 minutes
Insurers can expect accelerated premium growth in the coming year. While other insurance sectors, such as cyber insurance, have seen rates soar by 25.5% due to ransomware attacks and breaches of remote work locations, only workers’ compensation showed a rate decrease, down an average of 1.74%. This is likely due to U.S. unemployment remaining higher...
Insurance
8 Steps to Build a Strong Carrier-Broker Relationship
Reading time: 5 minutes
As more and more organizations now consider keeping remote or hybrid workforces, they are facing a whole new set of workers’ compensation challenges. Insurers must now consider the safety of a company’s remote work locations in the insurance and underwriting process. They are looking at details such as if employers are accurately reporting the state...
Media & Entertainment
How to Improve Your Ad Sales Process
Reading time: 4 minutes
Do you know where your fax machine is? Probably stuck back in the ’90s with your CD player and VCR. While some industries still rely on faxes, the media industry is not one of them. They have moved on to automated, digital processes. Or have they? Some media companies have taken steps to modernize but...