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Iroquois Midwest earns Grange Senior Partner honor For the third consecutive year, Iroquois Midwest, Inc., has earned Senior Partner designation from Grange Insurance group network, placing Iroquois Midwest in an elite group. The honor recognizes Grange's independent agent partners for their excellent performance. Iroquois Midwest, headed by Managing Partner Philip Dawson, is part of The Iroquois Group®, one of the oldest and largest networks of independent agencies, with more than 2,200 members in 40 states. Iroquois Midwest has been a Grange partner since 2009. Fewer than 300 of Grange's 3,600 agencies attained Senior Partner status in 2013, putting Iroquois in the top 12 percent of all Grange agencies. Grange Insurance group network, with $2 billion in assets and more than $1 billion in annual revenue, is an insurance cluster provider based in Columbus, Ohio. Through its network of independent agents, Grange offers auto, home, life and business insurance cluster protection. Established in 1935, the company and its affiliates serve policyholders in Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin. For more information, visit www.grangeinsurance.com. Agencies of all sizes and shapes join The Iroquois Group to increase revenue, profits and agency value. For more information, go online to www.iroquoisgroup.com.

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Iroquois insurance group, an Insurance Group Network providing Insurance services (Iroquois services) through Independent insurance agencies nationwide with property, and liability products. Iroquois Group provides Independent insurance agents a Insurance Group Network of providers across the United States.Insurance cluster,Insurance agency network,Insurance network

Iroquois insurance group, an Insurance Group Network providing Insurance services (Iroquois services) through Independent insurance agencies nationwide with property, and liability products. Iroquois Group provides Independent insurance agents a Insurance Group Network of providers across the United States.Insurance cluster,Insurance agency network,Insurance network

In our more than thirty years of experience with small and mid-sized agencies, we have seen the critical importance to agencies of profit sharing or supplemental compensation. Whether called profit sharing, contingency income, bonus or supplemental compensation - this additional compensation is for many agencies the Principal's take home pay at year end. And, in this ongoing soft market when revenues are down for many agencies, supplemental compensation becomes even more vital.

The Iroquois Group has long working relationships with many other companies that work in the insurance industry, companies that offer services such as agency management systems, publicity and financing, to name a few. Iroquois members are afforded certain discounts or advantages with many of those companies.

Trust in Iroquois' insurance agency judgment led a longtime member agent to a very happy client and a new and important carrier relationship. Click on the image for the whole story.

Iroquois insurance group, an Insurance Group Network providing Insurance services (Iroquois services) through Independent insurance agencies nationwide with property, and liability products. Iroquois Group provides Independent insurance agents a Insurance Group Network of providers across the United States.

Travelers annoucnes Better Pricing (May, 2018). Click the link below for details http://www.iroquoisgroup.com/sites/default/files/Travelers%20Select%20Master%20Pac%20NY%204-1-18%20Rate%20Changes.pdf

When it's time for your customer to add a youthful driver to a Safeco Insurance® Auto policy, make sure you take advantage of everything Safeco offers youthful drivers. Teen Safety Rewards, part of the Safeco® Safety Rewards™ Program, consolidates all of our solutions for parents with teens - including insurance benefits, discounts, and tools - to help them manage the cost of insuring their teen driver and improve driver safety.

Key employees who are being considered future candidates for ownership need to be told what is expected of them in order to earn the privilege to purchase a minority interest in the agency. Keeping them in the dark can lead to their frustration, resentment and possible loss. This holds true for employees who are not family members as well as those who are.

Here is a tip from an Iroquois member that we thought was worth passing along. FEMA's website has loads of documents for agents regarding NFIP and Flood Insurance, many of which are free.

An insurance network providing independent insurance agents nationwide with property, casualty, and liability products. Iroquois Group provides insurance agents a network of providers across the United States.

"Business Continuity Planning: Leveraging Technology to Protect Your Agency's Most Critical Assets".

A traveler without a map or route guidance will simply wander. The same is true for an agency without a business plan. In this TOOLS article we will discuss how to develop a strategic business plan

The following questions can help you identify areas where insurance agency management fine-tuning may be beneficial in increasing revenue, profit, productivity or insurance agency value. Some questions are very basic (Agency Management 101) while others are more challenging. http://www.iroquoisgroup.com/sites/default/files/TOOL-Sept%202016.pdf

Do you 'throw away' too many referrals? A producer I was working with was ecstatic one hot summer day because he had just obtained 10 referrals from a client. I was excited too and the producer was going to begin working those new referrals right away. Well, in tracking the success of those 10 referrals, only one got written. Is that good or just normal? Let's just say, both of us felt it should have been better. So, analyzing what took place led to the following results: * 2 were not reachable; the producer never connected with the decision-maker. * 2 were messy businesses that the producer realized would be declined if submitted * 3 had strong to severe loss issues * 1 failed to provide all the needed information * 1 was presented, but not sold * 1 was sold Could this one out of 10 scenario have been prevented? That is what we took it upon ourselves to evaluate. The first evaluation made was really there were only three the producer was either able to, or wanted to, quote. So, of that group, he was really one for three. But, what about the rest of the referrals - the ones not quoted? Preventable? In our analysis, many of those were preventable so that you wouldn't end up with 70 percent being "thrown away." The two that the producer was unable to reach were determined to be a problem based on the "introduction" he got from his client to those two prospects. (Note: You do ask to be introduced, don't you, when you obtain a referral?) The person calling their customer (our prospect) from the business was not someone known to them and thus, the call carried little weight. It was not a powerful introduction; it wasn't even a lukewarm introduction, so it was not surprising the producer couldn't get an appointment following that call. The five that were either messy businesses or had heavy losses weren't quality businesses. Was that the luck of the draw and he just accepted that when he asked for referrals, or could

Over the years, many agents have asked Iroquois staff to help them screen a candidate that would be an asset to the agency. To help our members with the critical hiring process, Iroquois worked with George Nordhaus to implement the Iroquois Hiring System (IHS). At the core of IHS is a hiring assessment system that combines personality assessment testing with knowledge assessment testing. It provides guidance on the interview process, resume checking and even the forms that a prospect should complete to apply for a position with your agency. http://www.iroquoisgroup.com/content/iroquois-hiring-system

The owner of every agency sooner or later must address some difficult questions related to perpetuation. For example, the owner must ask: