I'm not a big fan of the "canned" newsletter as you lose the personal touch. We use constantcontact.com and create our own. Have had great success. It takes me about 30 minutes a month!
Cindy Donaldson - Director of Marketing, Founders Insurance Group

Is anyone using Salesforce.com to manage their producers? We are currently using ACT! but like the remote features of salesforce Huge cost investment though. I'm looking for feedback from agencies that have had success with either Our agency sells Personal, Commercial and H/L Thanks! Cindy Donaldson

Kudos Andrea!

MHutch, Sorry to confuse you - our media campaign included social media - ie Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress and E-newsletters. We also did some traditional marketing - print display ads in local newspapers. We are getting definate buzz from our social media efforts - as well as from our traditional ma...

Hi all, If you haven't read your IA Magazine for May 2009 you should. cover story - Find us on Facebook. If you don't embrace Web 2.0 practices you are going to miss out on the younger generation.It is the marketing wave of the future. Our agency was just featured in an online blog discussing this s...

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D' I need to clarify a few things before I get into the social networking questions you asked. Prior to coming on board with Founders I owned my own advertising firm - my current bosses were one of my clients. They hired my firm to brand their elite division - Founders Platinum which caters to high ...

I am new to the insurance world - Just joined an independent agency in CT as their marketing director. Prior to insurance I owned my own Ad agency and worked with many companies on branding and sales training. The key to success and ultimately growth is becoming an expert in your field - when that h...

We are an independent insurance agency in NW CT, and recently started a blog (www.foundersgrp.wordpress.com) and have had amazing response. Our target market is high end personal lines and commercial - although we do write a fair amount of main street business. Social networking will hit all of our ...

I'm not sure a small local independent agency will necessarily gain from advertising on Facebook as much as having a presence and branding themselves in the web 2.0 enviroment. FB is on my to do list - we have had great success with our blog which was recently started. www.foundersgrp.wordpress.com....