News & Updates
Plans are nothing. Planning is everything
I attended my daughter’s graduation from St. Louis University, and the commencement speaker was the United States Ambassador to Ireland, Kevin O’Malley. A double SLU graduate (Business, Law) began his comments with a simple statement from former President Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.” The President’s statement referred to the United States’…
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Conrade Insurance Group, Inc. Included In IIABA’s 2020 Best Practices Study
NEWTON, Kansas, August 26, 2020 – Conrade Insurance Group, Inc. once again became a part of an elite group of independent insurance agencies around the United States, Conrade retains its Best Practices status. This status comes by participating in the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) Best Practices Study…
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KAIA Member Appointed to Big “I” Committees
The Big “I” has appointed several Kansas agents to national committees. Bob Fee (Fee Insurance Group), will remain Big “I” Chairman-elect for another year and will be installed as Chairman at the 2021 Big “I” Fall Leadership meeting in Kansas City. More details will be following on that. Cindy Hower (Kellerman Insurance) will start her…
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What should you do when buying, selling, and merging an agency?
One of the most significant decisions of your professional insurance carrier comes when you decide to either sell the agency you’ve worked long and hard to create, or to buy another agency that someone else has worked long and hard to create. You’ve met with the owners of the agency, looked at the book of…
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Masks and Your Agency
Today, Governor Kelly released guidelines for wearing masks in public that will take effect at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, July 3, 2020. While these guidelines are issued for the state, based on the legislative action taken at the end of the 2020 session, county authorities will have the ability to create guidelines that work best…
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Top 3 Tools to Manage Remote Workers
Today’s employees use Zoom, Skype, Jabber, FaceTime, GoToMeeting, and chat in Google Hangouts and Webex. When they’re not videoconferencing, they’re emailing, collaborating in Microsoft Teams, and instant chatting on Slack. They’ve already got the tech tools they need to make it easy and convenient to work remotely, but do you have the right management tools…
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Virtual Recovery Summit Now Available On-Demand
Innovation. Growth. Not typically two words that your agency is thinking about these days in the midst of a global pandemic. We’d like to change that. Four Big “I” state associations, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas, joined together to host a one-day, virtual summit to provide your agency with strategies to map out…
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KAIA Launches Member Scavenger Hunt
Update your membership profile with KAIA for a chance to win $50 KAIA has been working to update the membership database over the past several months. Now we need your help to verify that your information is accurate. We also need your help to fill in a few blanks that will allow us to provide…
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Will You Be Welcoming a New Employee?
Compared to 2019, new hiring looks very different. Still, new employees are joining agencies every day. New Level Partners connected with hiring managers and new hires to learn what’s different about the onboarding process. Many things have changed, especially when agencies’ employees are working from home or a smaller staff rotate in-office times. Below are…
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