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Attract Services Industry Prospects with Digital Content

Why should your clients in the services industry partner with you and State Auto for insurance? Show your expertise by sharing this content in your emails, through social media, or use it as inspiration to write your own blog posts. Services Industry Page on StateAuto.com Direct clients to the Services Industry Page on StateAuto.com for an overview of our expertise in this segment and helpful resources for their business. Tip: Send a prospect the link to this web page and include it in your quote proposal. Infographic: Protecting customer data Data breaches in the services industry are increasingly becoming a problem. The “Protecting Customer Data” infographic shares important data and tips to prevent data theft. Tips: Share on your agency's website, blog and social media (see below for suggested tweets, or create your own). Email to contracting industry prospects along with your quote proposal.  Get a co-branded version with your agency logo on the State Auto M...

The 80/20 Rule and the Law of Small Numbers

"Twenty percent of our insurance clients create eighty percent of our work." Have you heard this line before? I’ve spent a decade in the insurance industry in both the carrier and agency worlds. In my experience, the 80/20 rule seems to be almost universally accepted, and the majority of resources are spent on a small number of needy clients. What’s not universally accepted is this: How much of the resources should be spent on the 20 percent? How can an agency service these clients differently? And, how much stock should an agent put in what these clients say they need? When pressed, many agencies share that the accounts needing the most service are the type of business they don’t really want anyway. So why do they continue to serve those accounts? For some agencies, it simply comes down to pride in providing excellent service to all clients. For most, it’s a symptom of a larger operational problem - lack of data analytics. Spending precious time and resources ...