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Is online insurance right for you?
The Internet is a
powerful tool for the savvy online consumer. You can review
products, compare prices, research companies and purchase almost
anything. Following this trend is the increase availability of
insurance online. Insurance companies are providing coverage
information, quotes and even contracts online. This includes
automobile, homeowners, life, medical and even pet insurance.
Insurance has traditionally been a high customer service field with
direct human contact with your insurance agent. Because of the
change in customer contact, the migration towards providing online
insurance has not always been a smooth one. Instead companies are
finding some tools work and others only cause frustration or confusion.
Indeed, the availability of online insurance is still fluctuating and
developing...
Researching and obtaining online insurance is much easier today.
Many websites now offer comparison tools that will provide
quotes and coverage information (Click
here for more info). Keep
in mind if you choose a carrier from these searches, you will then be
contracting with that carrier for your insurance, not the original site.
This will either be done by forwarding you to the carrier's website or
the comparison site will forward your information to the insurance
company and they will then contact you. Many insurers still prefer
to have a representative call you and discuss your coverage over the
phone. Although not the same as meeting with a personal insurance agent,
it allows them to make certain you understand the coverage provided.
Also, because buying insurance online is new, many companies believe
that individualized customer care is still the best way to get your
business and a follow up call still provides some of this customer
service.
For
the complete article on Insurance Online, click here.
The Brick-and-Mortar
Insurance Industry in the Online Market
An online presence is expected
of most businesses today and the proliferation of insurance
companies and agents advertising their websites and online
services are no exception. But what does the growing online
market mean for the brick-and-mortar insurance industry? At
one time it may have been suggested that these personal
services would lose ground and gradually disappear
altogether. Recent trends suggest that is not the case.
For the complete article on in-person vs online services,
click here.
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similar to the online help desk service being utilized on many
commercial websites, including Target, BestBuy, and Wal-Mart, and it has
proven to be a very effective tool in communicating with clients and
improving customer satisfaction. A recent article on ClickZ,
entitled ‘Customer Service Is Even More Important Now,’ states
“Customers want convenience. This means letting them contact you through
whatever channels they want. This might mean the telephone, but other
channels may be more preferable, such as live chat or e-mail. Investing
in 24/7 live chat…if analytics bear out, is a must.” (See
http://www.clickz.com/3633004.) With more and more people accessing
the Internet to conduct research and communicate with one
another, staying current with your avenues of online
insurance customer service not only makes sense, it’s a
necessity.
To read more about Live
Help (by enlighten™), click here.
Understanding Your Homeowners Insurance
Many
of us obtain our homeowners insurance when we purchase our home.
After this initial purchase, we do not give this insurance
another thought. It is not until the roof is damaged
during a violent thunderstorm, a major appliance fails and
floods our basement, or the neighbor's kid slips and fractures
their wrist in our living room that we dust off the policy and
ask ourselves, "Am I covered for this?" Don't
wait until damage or an accident happens to discover what your
insurance policy covers. Instead, you should have a good
idea of what you are covered for and what is not included.
Every year you should assess if your coverage should increase or
if there is any optional coverage you may want to add. The
purpose of this article is to point out some general
characteristics of homeowners insurance and help in determining
if you have the right coverage. Obviously this cannot
substitute for a consultation with your insurance provider, but
it will give you a better idea of what questions to ask.
For the complete article about Homeowners
Insurance, click here.
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directories of Attorneys, Private Investigators, Consultants and many
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