MarketScout, a Dallas-based e-commerce company specializing in the distribution of property and casualty insurance products, has received funding from High Ridge Capital Partners. MarketScout provides independent insurance agents access to specific industry specialists, selected based upon their technical skills and …
The Internet rocks! And if you don’t believe my best imitation of a 15-year-old web wonder, then look at this growth pattern. In April, www.InsuranceJournal.com recorded 471,664 hits. By May the number hit 995,758 and in June it surpassed 1 …
Although every business should be taking full advantage of e-commerce opportunities, not all businesses are e-commerce companies. Yet even those that don’t currently fit an e-commerce model can take advantage of Internet strategies. Over the long-term, it may be just …
The economy is booming. New millionaires are being created every day. American business has never had it so good. So being an insurance agent is the fast track to financial freedom, right? Wrong. No one is setting up charities for …
As most people with experience in the movie industry could tell you, it’s an easy way to lose a lot of money. That may happen to several insurance companies, notably France’s AXA, if they lose the lawsuits that have been …
Workers’ compensation benefits and claim costs in Texas differ by nearly 50 percent within the state, even when adjusted for regional differences in industry composition and wages, according to a recent study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The …
There are a number of sins to which those providing services for money are susceptible: product ignorance, market ignorance, administrative incompetence, disloyalty and betrayal, slothfulness, untruthfulness, and stealing. Bullying and rudeness are usually not large problems. After all, they are …
MarketScout.com: Diamond in the Rough
Volunteers—without them, most nonprofit organizations would not exist. They are the common soil in which most mainstream nonprofits are planted, providing services in countless different areas. Yet although property/casualty coverages are fairly easy to find in today’s soft market, volunteers …
As oil and gas prices have increased over the last year, so has the oil production and exploration activity in Texas, the country’s largest producer. But the activity has somewhat lagged behind the increasing pace of prices because producers remain …
