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How to Navigate Slip, Fall, and Injury Risks for Self-Storage Facilities
Self-storage facilities, sometimes perceived as low-risk environments, can unexpectedly become targets for liability issues, particularly in the category of slip, fall, and bodily injury claims. Picture this: An excited college student, arms full of boxes, takes a serious fall while walking down an interior hallway to their rented unit due to a small puddle of water. An investigation reveals that the puddle resulted from a leak in the roof. The student sustains a...
Customer Feedback is the Lifeline of the Insurance Agency
Customer service and customer feedback are two things that can make or break an insurance agency. Customer service is something you have direct control over. However, even seasoned insurance agents with the best customer service skills can’t control the customer feedback that is received. Turning customer feedback into positive reviews and...
Is Cold Calling Dead?
There are hundreds of different ways to communicate to a prospect today, more than at any other point in time. It seems like a new app or communication tool is introduced every day. Telephone calling has been a tried-and-true communication tool for marketers for many years, but is it still relevant today? With all these different forms of...
Discover the Correct Type of Website for Your Agency
A lot goes into building a website. Have you noticed how different types of companies have websites formatted in a specific way for their industry? This is because the most important reason for having a website is to convey important information to your audience quickly and with ease. Some businesses have a lot of services and products, which can...
Why Your Clients Need Collectibles Insurance
As long as items hold value, there will be insurance coverage to protect them, and there are many different types of insurance needs. It’s your responsibility as an agent to offer your clients appropriate coverage for their valuables. If any of your clients are collectors – and millions of people are – collectibles insurance is a great way to...
Self-Storage Squatters │ Potential Signs to Look Out For
Self- storage facilities generally have a list of items in their rental contracts that are prohibited from being stored in rented units. Tenants are prohibited from storing flammable items, hazardous materials, and food, to name just a few. Most of these restrictions are due to the damage that they can cause, such as accidental fires or unwanted...
MiniCo Insurance Agency Named Best Of Business In Self-Storage Commercial Insurance For Ninth Year
For the ninth consecutive year, MiniCo Insurance Agency has claimed the top spot in self-storage commercial insurance among voters in the self-storage industry. MiniCo Insurance Agency has been selected by readers of Inside Self-Storage magazine as a Best of Business winner in the category of best commercial insurance for the ninth...
Cybersecurity and Cyberattack Facts
Accidents happen. No matter how careful you are, an online security breach can happen to anyone. According to a report by the Ponemon Institute, only 24% of breaches resulted from human error and 25% from a system glitch. Malicious attacks were responsible for 51% of breaches in 2019. Big Impact Data breaches can be costly events. The United...
MiniCo Insurance Agency Wins Internet Advertising Competition Award From The Web Marketing Association
The award recognizes MiniCo’s integrated marketing campaign launching the company's upgraded specialty business owner policy for self-storage risks. MiniCo Insurance Agency has won an Internet Advertising Competition Award from the Web Marketing Association in the category of insurance integrated advertising campaign. MiniCo was recognized for...
Cybercrime Trends for the Global Pandemic
All businesses are vulnerable to the risk of cyberattacks and data breaches, but many owners of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) underestimate the threat. In fact, SMBs are prime hacking targets precisely because they tend to downplay the risk and devote fewer resources to cybersecurity. The financial impact of cybercrime can be...
Protecting Sports Memorabilia
It seems like almost everyone has heard a story about someone's cherished collectible that either went missing or was destroyed. Maybe you or one of your insurance clients are the someone who experienced this loss. For serious collectors, it can be an emotional and often financial loss to discover that a treasured item has disappeared or has been...
A Hardening Insurance Market Signals Changes for Business Owners
At the start of 2019, insurance industry analysts predicted market hardening, but the pace and severity of the changes is such that the impact being felt in the third quarter is much greater than was anticipated earlier in the year. The publication Business Insurance in June reported reinsurance rate increases of up to 30 percent, which is an...
Get to Know Your Insurance: Insuring Jewelry
Get to Know Your Insurance: Insuring Jewelry Along with the excitement of the winter holidays and the New Year, lots of things could be changing in your clients' lives. Did a client get engaged? If an expensive ring or other precious jewelry came into a client's life, you should have a talk with them about protecting their newly acquired...
Winter Temperatures: Know Your Weather Risks
Winter Temperatures: Know Your Weather Risks In most areas of the country, winter means colder weather. Frigid temperatures, slippery ice, and frozen pipes aren’t the only things to worry about. Hail and wind can cause a lot of damage. Be sure you are aware of these cold weather risks and take steps to prepare for them. Cold weather Cold...
Level up Your Agency!
Take Your Small Insurance Agency to the Next Level If your agency has been around for a while and you feel like numbers and leads are flat, consider making a few changes. People like companies that are exciting and engaging. Follow these tips to start getting out your message in new ways that can help attract and keep clients. Standing Out Stand...
Back to the Roots: Classic Insurance Marketing Methods
Old Marketing Tricks That Still Work Being fully immersed in the digital age, it can be easy to forget the basics of traditional marketing. Remember that some of the most effective ways to market don’t always have to be about email, SEO, and social media. Here are few traditional marketing methods that can freshen up your way of doing things....
3 Tips for Preventing Water Damage in Self-Storage
Protect Your Stored Valuables from Water Damage Water damage is no joke. Flooding and water damage is not a concern only for people in coastal regions. No matter where you are, water can find its way into a self-storage unit. Here are three ways to help protect stored valuables from potential moisture and water damage. Insurance Self-storage...
MiniCo Insurance Agency Introduces Cyber Insurance Program For Small And Medium-Sized Businesses
MiniCo's enhanced sports and activity insurance program provides expanded coverage and features a newly streamlined agent portal for self-service quoting and binding. MiniCo Insurance Agency has introduced a cyber insurance program to provide monoline coverage for small and medium-sized businesses for costs resulting from a data breach by the...
Storage Unit Fire Hazards and Fire Prevention
Are Your Clients Aware of Fire Risks? Fires can be a very serious risk for self-storage units. While your clients may be responsible storage tenants, the tenant in the next unit may not be. Self-storage facilities do not provide insurance for your clients' items stored in the rented unit. They need to provide their own insurance coverage to...
Insurance Agency Management: 3 Ways to Improve Employee Productivity
Agency Management: 3 Ways to Improve Employee Productivity As a busy agency owner, it’s critical that your employees have the ability to work independently and productively, allowing you to focus on sales. The following are four ways you can increase agency productivity without having to hire additional staff. Establish a basic training program...
4 Ways to Keep Books Safe While in Storage
4 Ways to Safeguard Books Kept in Self-Storage Units Whether someone is in the middle of a move or has outgrown capacity at a current location, there are many reasons for people to put books in storage. And, although books aren’t as fragile as breakables, they are vulnerable to humidity, insects, mold, and other hazards. If you have clients who...
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