In our fast-moving world of Insurance, do you write a personal thank you letter or send a simple email, to thank your clients for their business? When was the last time you received a handwritten thank you from anyone? What would it mean to you if you received a handwritten thank you from your insurance agent? First off, why is it important to...

When building a relationship with a client, what does it mean to you? What steps do you take to build a lasting relationship? What can you do to be a better agent? MiniCo Insurance Agency wants to help you become better at building a lasting relationship with all of your clients. Your clients can potentially lead you to the best reward for any...

MiniCo President and CEO Mike Schofield will be a featured speaker at the upcoming Inside Self-Storage World Expo to be held March 31-April 1, 2014, in Las Vegas. The Expo is the largest annual trade show for the self-storage industry. Mike’s presentation is entitled Social Media and Online Marketing: Avoiding Exposure and Mitigating Risk. He...

MiniCo Insurance Agency has created a one-page contact information sheet to help agents quickly and efficiently locate the person they need to reach. Whether you are writing self-storage business, have a client interested in collectibles insurance, or need more information about insuring a local sports team or activity, all of MiniCo’s business...

For insurance agents, this is a time of great uncertainty. Ongoing social and political upheavals are creating new challenges for driving your insurance sales. So, as we start to near the end of the year, let's take a look at the biggest problems on the horizon that your agency should already be thinking about! The Top Three Insurance Challenges...

Despite protests to the contrary, there's little doubt that cold calling is on a decline, along with the rest of interruption-based marketing. While it's still possible to drum up some insurance sales through cold calls, generally speaking, that well has a lot less water than it had a few years ago. Social media is the new driving force behind...

There are a lot of components to insurance marketing online, including content marketing and SEO, but sometimes good old-fashioned advertisements are what you need to push your insurance business, especially among local visitors. If you've never dealt with online pay-per-click ads before, Google offers a service that makes it quick and easy for...

Facebook is a great tool for promoting your insurance agency. It's free for anyone to use, and it can get you a vast new worldwide audience. Plus, its advertising options are both affordable and extensively customizable. So let's look into getting the most out of Facebook insurance marketing! Five Tips For Advertising Your Insurance Business On...

Social media has become one of the most important ways of gaining new contacts and leads, and LinkedIn is currently the king of business networking. If you approach LinkedIn with the right strategies, you'll quickly have an effective new tool for your insurance marketing strategies. We've put together a quick list of five ways you can start...

One of the easiest ways to boost exposure for your small business marketing is to find a way to get involved in the local community. Even if you, personally, are already active in your community, your small business should be as well. It gets your brand out there and ensures the community knows about you, as well as creating goodwill between you...

For a long time, Internet marketing was a big question mark: It was so new that nobody knew what would work in advertising online, and there were a lot of experiments, good and bad. Finally, in the last few years, we've started to work out a cohesive theory for how to efficiently market online. Content marketing is now the name of the game for...

“Adopt, adapt, improve.” Though this phrase is commonly credited to King Arthur and the Round Table, it is actually part of a 1927 industrial speech. But “adopt, adapt, improve” rings just as true today, especially when applied to your insurance business marketing strategy. If you are still dependent on the tactics of just 5 to 10 years ago, you...