Category Archives: Finance Guide

4 Home Insurance Pitfalls to Avoid During Hurricane Season

The 2020 hurricane season could spell financial disaster for homeowners living in coastal states. Named storms are coming in at an unprecedented pace. There are 25 storms expected to hit the Atlantic this season, twice the average. Hurricane Laura, which battered the Louisiana coast in August, could be responsible for up to $12 billion in insured losses. […]

Shop Insurance And Reading The Riot Act To Your Business Insurance Company

After witnessing in horror the riots, civil disturbances that broke out like wildfire in many British cities in 2011, businessmen and women now wonder if their property and premises are covered under their existing business insurance policies. Many shopkeepers and traders in the UK who were displaced by the riots of last year have not […]

Surviving As an Insurance Marketing Recruiter

This information will show you why it is difficult to survive and how failing fellow insurance marketing recruiters is an everyday occurrence. FACT Only half of agent recruiters consider agent recruitment a sole, full-time job. Others find it more difficult to be an insurance marketing recruiter than they initially thought. It is important to immediately […]

Insurance Agents – Career Success Versus Survival

How likely is it that new agents will succeed? A thorough analysis of records of licensed Department Insurance agents has revealed that only 6% survive for more than 4.3 years. Let’s examine the facts and discover why success stories and retention rates for insurance agents are so low. Many of the myths surrounding recruiting new agents for […]

How Copyright Protection Works in the IPR and Entertainment Industry

Copyright refers specifically to laws that protect the rights of creative works from their original creators and subsequent legal owners for a set period. An industrial patent protects inventions or designs of tangible objects. A copyright, however, is not the same as one. Instead, copyrights relate to intellectual property, music, books, art, films and technology […]

Director’s and Officer’s Insurance Coverage – The Basics

There is a sharp rise in lawsuits against corporate officers, and those who sit on boards of corporations, for both profit and tax-exempt purposes. Towers Watson’s 2011 study found that nearly 7 in 10 publicly traded companies were involved in shareholder lawsuits against the Board of Directors within the past ten years. Private companies weren’t […]

The Cost of Having Professional Indemnity Insurance Vs Not Having Coverage

What kind of IT services are you providing? Are you a website developer, an IT&T project manager, software developer, or a provide IT&T support services? Or perhaps you are IT&T Consultant or Contractor? It doesn’t matter what profession you are, there is an expectation that you will provide accurate advice. There are always mistakes and […]

Insurance Self Help Motivation – 11 Musts to Upgrading an Insurance Agent’s Career – Guidance

The first day of self-help motivation in insurance is the most important. The sales manager does not provide career guidance for insurance agents. These are 11 ways to help you ignite your self-help motivation skills and make a successful career as an insurance agent. The biggest obstacle to a career as an insurance agent is learning how […]

The Pizzeria Has a Problem: Cyber Liabilty and PCI DDS Compliance

Electronic transactions are becoming more popular with retailers. Many consumers have switched to debit cards and credit cards as their preferred method of payment. To ensure retailers adhere to security standards, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard was created (PCI-DSS). According to AIG Cyberedge, a pizzeria was found to be the common place of […]