Great news for insurance agents! InsurancePen is announcing that insurance agents can now create their own agency listings in our groups effective immediately.
Why is this important you may ask? Well first off, many agents have a static web presence. Essentially a business card or yellow page listing on the internet. This was great ten years ago, but things are changing at an incredible pace.
Agents who create an account at InsurancePen get several benefits. The first benefit is a new link back to their own website(s). This helps out with your search engine placement and driving traffic from local consumers. Being placed in our directory also will help your agency get noticed. You can also start using all our web-based insurance applications.
Setting up your account and creating your agency group page is free and can be done in minutes. You simply create an account at InsurancePen directly, or with Facebook Connect. You then click on "Create Your Own Groups" in the right column of our pages. This application tells us who you are so we know we are keeping our website as free from spammers as possible. Once we get the application we will approve your status as an agent or contact you with questions.
Once you are approved as an agent, you can simply go in and create your listing by clicking on the new link that will appear for you titled "Create New Groups". Trying this link before becoming an approved agent will give you an error.
After you have created your agency group, you have the option of creating other groups as well. Your reasons for doing this may be to attract other agents with clients that are facing the same challenges you are in placing the risk. Whether it is price, coverage or the appetite of your approved markets that are creating issues, InsurancePen is creating the answers.
InsurancePen will start off modestly with our group and application offerings and build it with the demands of the marketplace. Our goal is to create a consumer and agent driven change in the market. We call it "bottom-up" marketing rather than the traditional "top-down" decisions initiated by insurance carriers.
You can help us build this marketplace for the benefit of your agency, customers and prospects. Agents can help each other without actually disclosing anything to each other. They simply are leveraging their client's buying power with others to create a more competitive offering from insurance carriers.
Consumers will use InsurancePen.com too. The website, along with a powerful suite of technology products will help steer these consumers to agents who join the InsurancePenNetwork. The leads come to the agents in real-time into a virtual call center. Click here to learn more about becoming an InsurancePen Network affiliate.
Unlike other lead aggregators, InsurancePen only sends its leads to one agency because we are actually trying to make sales and help consumers with their issues instead of turning them into spam targets.
InsurancePen is also different in that our platform allows us to add an unlimited offering of custom insurance applications. Consumers can fill out their own applications and edit them and share them with agents and groups of their choosing, and insurance agents can fill them out and re-use them as well without giving up their ownership of data or sharing it with unwanted parties.
InsurancePen doesn't cost anything to set up or use for insurance agents or consumers. InsurancePen will get its revenue from advertising and other fees paid by the insurance carriers that want to receive your clients or prospective client's submissions.
So get started today and add all the functionality of social networking and interactivity to your agency's online presence. You get your listing and use of our web applications immediately and can start networking and growing your business in amazing and creative ways!
PS- If you create your account directly at InsurancePen, don't forget to affiliate it with your Facebook accounts so you can share your new activities with your Friends and Associates there!
