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  • Markets in Motion: Solar Manufacturer Warranties

    The alternative energy market has many complicated angles to it, including solar warranties, which are essential to solar manufacturers as well as to the development and funding of solar projects.
    According to Mike McMullen, president of PowerGuard Specialty Insurance Services, banks are hesitant to lend against some larger solar projects because of the severe credit [...]

  • Optimizing Search Engine Marketing

    Paradiso Insurance president Chris Paradiso says successful use of search engine marketing has given his agency a 30% conversation rate in sales this year. But the agency’s recent sales success doesn’t come at a cost. In this interview with Adam DeGraide, Paradiso explains how monitoring closing ratio and a commitment to finding the right employees [...]

  • Textile Restoration Specialists Partner with “Extreme Makeover”

    Certified Restoration Drycleaning Network (CRDN) is a textile restoration organization specializing in laundry and drycleaning services for the insurance industry. In 2006 CRDN was invited to participate in “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition“, a hit show on ABC-TV. Four years later, CRDN has participated in 87 episodes in 40 states. In this interview with Claims [...]

  • Markets in Motion: Going Green

    One of today’s biggest insurance trends is green insurance as businesses look at ways to become more sustainable and cut costs. According to underwriters, the regulatory environment for green is changing dramatically as well. For example, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is requiring publicly traded businesses now disclose their climate risks and what they’re [...]

  • Online Commercial Niche Marketing

    Using the internet to help you find, sell and keep more business can work for commercial niche markets. In this interview with Adam DeGraide, Lisa Sherer, president of Berrier Insurance Agency, discusses the benefits “friending” truckers on Facebook and the rewards of referring business to others.

  • How Green Roofs Are Changing Insurance Claims

    Commercial roofing, already complicated, is getting more so as new types and materials are being introduced. Kenneth R. Gilvary, a senior engineer with Dallas-based Haag Engineering, specializes in assessing roof losses for insurers. Gilvary says claims professionals need to keep up with how green technology, including vegetative rooftops, and new building standards are changing the [...]

  • Mission: To Honor and Empower Wounded Warriors

    Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) began when several veterans and friends, moved by stories of the first wounded service members returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq, took action to help others in need. What started as a program to provide comfort items to wounded service members has grown into a complete rehabilitative effort to assist warriors [...]

  • Growing Insurance Coverage for Trees, Shrubs and Landscapes

    With a database of nearly a million wholesale base prices of horticultural assets and a nationwide network of certified arborists and licensed and insured tree crews, Horticultural Asset Management Inc. specializes in helping insurers come up with the replacement cost for lost trees, shrubs and other landscape assets. In this interview with Claims Journal, HMI [...]

  • Continuing Education for Claims Adjusters

    With over 600 courses and 24/7 access online, Vale Training Solutions provides quality instructors to anyone desiring improved job skills or a change of careers. In this interview with Claims Journal, Vale Training Solutions president Jon McCreath explains the qualifications for his school, the advantages of online training, and what he thinks about the current [...]

  • The Importance of Great Phone Skills

    Ken Peterson, CEO of Encharter Insurance knows that driving traffic on the web is good for business, but good marketing doesn’t stop there. In this interview with Tim Sawyer, Peterson talks about beefing up his company’s phone skills in order to make his sales team successful.

  • Helicopter Business Revolves Around Safety

    Corporate Helicopters is a San Diego business focusing on charter, tours, aerial filming and helicopter sales. In this episode of Watching the Risks, Corporate Helicopters president Ivor Shier explains how looking through the lens of risk analysis from the formative years to the present has led to a safer company.

  • Making Money Using YouTube

    Scott Purves, president of Purves & Associates, is putting together video vignettes for his clients — for free. In this interview with Adam DeGraide, Purves talks about his foray into video production, and how YouTube has helped him market his business and gain new clients.

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