by Steve Shepherd | Sep 26, 2013 | Customer Service, Sales
While attending the Florida-Tennessee football game this past Saturday, I had a most pleasurable customer service experience…from a most unexpected place. It all happened…at one of the concessions stands. It was a perfectly humid, Florida day in “The Swamp,” and at...
by Kathleen Davis, CPCU, CIC, ARM, API | Sep 4, 2013 | Compliance, Industry News, Underwriting
Well you don’t, but the Feds do. Before I get into that, can I just say that I think there’s a competition between the government and the insurance business to see who can come up with more acronyms. So far, I think it’s a push. The Office of Foreign Assets Control...
by Steve Shepherd | Aug 27, 2013 | Customer Service, Sales
This past Thursday, I started my day at 7:00 to set up for a From the Tower meeting in Palm Beach Gardens and ended my day up in Maitland, preparing for the next day’s session. I checked into my hotel room…feeling every bit of the exhaustion from speaking to a group...
by Steve Shepherd | Aug 20, 2013 | Sales
Well, friends…the time has come. I am getting my 2-20 license. Yep…you heard me correctly…I will not only have my license this coming October, but I will also be able to identify with all of you as well. You can either congratulate me…or console me. Either works. So...
by Steve Shepherd | Jun 27, 2013 | Sales
This past weekend my wife Terry and I had the delightful opportunity to meet a neighbor a few streets over within our subdivision. While walking our family beagle, ‘Charlie’, we happened upon an elderly man, who previous to this day, we only spoke to briefly in...