A no compete usually states you cannot solicit to your past clients; however, if they reach out to you there is no law against that. basically your old agency provided you free advertising.

E&O was the hardest thing for me to do as a start up (besides appointments). It can cost a new agency like $2000+ I say start looking there.

I've been thinking about using quick books for my agency. Can anyone comment on how well it works for managing payroll (1099 and W-2).

Does anyone know where I can get a non-compete or no-compete agreement. I need something stating that any agents working for me cannot contact any of the customers they close while working for me for X amount of time after they stop working for me. Thanks in advance.

I am an indy broker in California who is currently using FSC Rater. I have quite a few issues with FSC my major one being that you cannot import/export quote data. I started out without any management software and now that my agency is expanding I'm stuck having my data trapped in FSC or manually ex...

Right now my biggest pain is customer service. Its hard to sell, market and service as a one man shop. It never seems like there is enough time in the day.