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Five P/C Carriers Earn DCC Elite Status for 2022
Certified in Ease of Business by Independent Agents We’re thrilled to announce that Deep Customer Connections has awarded 2022 DCC Elite™ certification to five property and casualty insurance carriers. The honor represents exceptional performance in, and commitment...
P&C Agents Value Underwriting Stability
Previously we talked about the importance of Underwriting Flexibility to P&C insurance agents, especially for agents who write Commercial Lines. Agents place more of their best business with carriers that they perceive to be flexible in their underwriting. If you...
Nurturing Underwriting Responsiveness
In our last article we discussed how underwriting responsiveness impacts the value of technology transformation. Underwriting Responsiveness remains the #1 opportunity for P&C carriers to improve their agents’ ease of business experience. In 2020, only 38% of the...
Super Charge Your Technology Investment
A friend of mine loves fast cars. Recently he went to a “tuner” school where they taught him how to enhance a normal automobile from its factory settings up to 1000 horsepower. To put this in perspective, a NASCAR racing engine produces about 750 horsepower. “Tuning”...
Opportunity for Innovation: Provide a Better Quote Experience
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or...
How to Reinforce Common Purpose in Virtual Relationships
Data from Independent Agents indicates that they crave a shared feeling of common purpose with their P & C insurance carriers. This is almost as important to agents as excellent service with underwriting and claims. We discussed this dynamic in a prior blog...
Did P&C Carriers Make Progress on Ease of Business in 2020?
2020 was a year that many of us are happy to see in the rear view mirror. For the P&C Industry it presented large challenges. The pandemic required companies to quickly transition to remote work. We had to learn new processes and get used to communicating in new...
Nurturing Profitable Underwriting Flexibility
In a previous article, Flexibility Improves Ease of Business & Underwriting Profitability, we discussed the value of profitable underwriting flexibility and identified four steps to achieve it with your agents. In this article we take a closer look at how...
Buying and Selling: Succession Planning
Today I’d like to share some insights into Deep Customer Connections from a more personal perspective. Recently Deep Customer Connections founder Nort Salz and I were interviewed for the podcast Beyond Juris, Episode #4. Check out the interview below, or the podcast...
The #1 Opportunity for P&C Carriers – Improved Responsiveness
Metrics from Independent Agents consistently show that improving responsiveness is the single greatest opportunity for P&C Carriers to improve ease of business—a critical consideration in choosing which carrier gets their business. You may be inclined to think...