2010: The Year of Surety Transformation

  December/2009
Surety Carriers Need My Business 
Which Carriers Deserve It?
Tough DecisionThat answer is easy! As a surety agent, the carriers who deserve your business are those who invest in developing a successful PARTNERSHIP with you. How are carriers investing in this today? They...
  • Provide fancy cocktail receptions
  • Send you on elaborate vacations
  • Take you on exotic golf outings
You get the idea. While these events are great personal relationship builders there isn't a single item in that list that helps make your business more successful. An example of a REAL investment is the investment in a web based tool that helps agents better manage their business. Providing agents with the tools they need to more efficiently grow their business is a true sign of loyalty to an agent and can certainly result in more money in your pocket. Those carriers that have tried developing these tools themselves have not only failed at doing so but have made the process even harder on the agent by:
  • Forcing the agent to learn multiple proprietary systems
  • Providing tools focused on the carrier's benefit & not the agent's
  • Supplying, at best, horrible search functionality which forces the agent to e-mail or fax the application anyway!
  • Locking the agent into a bond purchase instead of providing a quote

This list could go on forever! What if every surety carrier had the SAME web based system in place and the agent only had to learn ONE system? That sounds too good to be true! Is that even possible? It absolutely is with e-SURETY™!

To see a list of carriers that have invested in providing efficiencies for their agents please click here. 

 To get a better understanding of how e-SURETY™ benefits your agency, for FREE, please read the next article.
Surety Agency Formula for Success 
Increased Productivity with Less Resources
Tough DecisionWhat do surety agents want to do daily? They want to make money doing what it is that they love! What do agents love? They love to..
  • Help contractors
  • Build new relationships
  • Maintain existing relationships
  • Grow their business
That's just the beginning! What is important to remember here is what keeps agents from doing what they love. These include..
  • Hours of endless paperwork
  • FedEx and fax machines
  • Horrible carrier turnaround times
  • Technology issues on the carrier side
  • Internal technology issues
Just about every agent can relate to the majority of these issues. What's the solution? e-SURETY™. The best part about this solution is that it's absolutely free to agents! It's an investment in your agent/carrier partnership, made by the carrier. It will enable you to..
  • Apply for bonds in minutes
  • Focus on growing your business and not on technology
  • Significantly reduce turnaround time which will enable you to better service your customer
  • Process more bonds and generate more profits with less resources 
  • Take transactional information from the carrier and push it to your backend accounting system
  • Begin looking at renewals as an EASY revenue driver instead of a troublesome task
 That's just scratching the surface!
Execution  
It is up to you....
 
What is keeping you from taking advantage of this solution? A phone call. That's it! Call your carrier and ask why they aren't strengthening your partnership with such a solution. The least they can do, FOR YOU, is to look into it. Don't you agree? Make 2010 YOUR year of transformation!
 
Best regards,
 
Alex Buckles
Focus!... On Innovation, Inc.
Producers of e-SURETY™
3787 Palm Valley Road; STE 201
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
904-395-1610, Ext. 5904 - Office
 
 

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 e-SURETY™, Dan Buckles, recently received an award for his decade of success with the development of this industry changing product. This award was presented by The Heartbeat of America, hosted by William Shatner. To see the interview and award presentation please