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Greg Bruner and Jay Jaffe

  Greg Bruner is Senior Vice President of Marketing Strategy and Client Services at Michael Edwards Direct, Inc. For over 30 years Michael Edwards has partnered with insurance companies to offer direct marketing programs that generate more customers and more customer value. Our proprietary policyholder marketing program called You’ve Earned It® drives increased loyalty among policyholders and generates substantial income to agents and their carriers. For more information about You’ve Earned It®, contact Greg at gregbruner@michaeledwards-direct.com or 630-570-4794. Jay Jaffe is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. He is President of Actuarial Enterprises, Ltd. His firm provides creative actuarial and marketing services to insurance companies, agents, banks, and associations. He has helped to create and manage many policyholder marketing programs throughout his career. Jay’s email address is  jay@actentltd.com or he can be reached by phone at 312-397-0099. 

Life and A&H Agents: How to Add P&C Products without Being Licensed

There are several truisms when it comes to marketing insurance products to individuals. For example, it is very unusual for an insurance agent to offer products outside of his or her specialty. Life and A&H (Accident and Health) agents usually won’t offer P&C (Property and Casualty) products and P&C agents feel the same way about marketing life products. Agents stick …

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Shooting Fish in a Barrel: Generating Leads and Revenues from Your Existing Clients

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Historically, agents have generated policyholders for insurance carriers but not enjoyed the full value of these customers. There are many programs marketed by insurance companies and agents which aim to develop more business from an agent’s client base, but they usually fail to create meaningful value, particularly for agents but also for the carriers as well as policyholders. In the …

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