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Insurance
7 Strategies for Enhancing Insurance Agent Recruitment
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Recruiting and onboarding new insurance agents can be a challenging process for insurance companies. It requires a careful balance between attracting top talent and ensuring that the agents feel engaged and supported from day one. By implementing effective strategies to better engage insurance agents during the recruiting and onboarding process, agencies and brokers can create...
Financial Services
Insurtech Trends Uncovered at ITC Vegas 2023
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I had the privilege of attending ITC 2023 in Las Vegas last, gathering with insurance leaders, tech entrepreneurs, investors, and clients to learn about the latest insurtech trends and how technology is helping insurers navigate industry shifts. There was amazing networking, insightful thought leadership, new technology capabilities that can be leveraged to help insurers, and...
Insurance
How to Improve Customer Experiences in Volatile Markets
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Look up “volatile” in the thesaurus, and you’ll likely see synonyms like unstable, unpredictable, and precarious – all of which are perfect adjectives for the flux of today’s markets. Rising inflation and other financial crises are wreaking havoc on the interest rate environment and impacting the insurance industry. Rates had been at historic lows, but...
Insurance
7 Salesforce Features Empowering Insurance and Underwriting
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In the fast-paced world of insurance, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. Salesforce, a leader in customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, has introduced several game-changing features in 2023 to enhance insurance and underwriting claims processes. These cutting-edge tools leverage Salesforce’s expertise in technology and customer-centric solutions to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and deliver exceptional...
Financial Services
How Plaid Helps Customers Securely Connect Financial Accounts
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According to Plaid’s third annual Fintech Effect report, consumers rank convenience (54%) and security (38%) as the top factors impacting their decision to adopt a new fintech app. Consumers feel more secure when a fintech app asks them to verify their identity (70%) and prefer them over apps that don’t (80%). Silverline partner Plaid makes...
Insurance
7 Key Areas to Leverage AI in Insurance Solutions
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Between World Tour NYC ‘23 and CNX23 in Chicago, the announcements of Salesforce AI have been a major buzz around the ecosystem. Learning how to apply it to your industry is important due to its transformative potential and numerous benefits. Since I’ve been focusing on the insurance industry for several years, I want to put...
Insurance
The Smarter Approach for Recruiting Insurance Agents and Faster Onboarding
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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...
Insurance
Digital Transformation in Insurance Quote to Issue
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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....
Insurance
How to Improve the Claims Management Process
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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...
Insurance
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...