Long-Term Care Awareness Month
November is Long-Term Care Awareness Month. If you’re going to educate your clients on LTC insurance and highlight this service, you too should know the basics (or at least brush up on your knowledge) and learn of its importance.
Retirement funds pay for your client's daily living expenses and ext...
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No Shave November
In November 2009, the American Cancer Society began a Facebook campaign called "No Shave November." Since its inception just four years ago, the annual event has grown (see what we did there?) into a worldwide tradition, gaining popularity with each passing year and influencing a few similar campaign...
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Tech Tip: Utilize Instant Messaging
If you’ve been following the Pinney Insurance Blog, you’ve seen us provide a few tips designed to save you time. From automating your e-mail marketing campaigns to text messaging your clients, we want to help you maximize every second of every minute of your day. The less time you’re wasting on typin...
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Effective Habits Series: Be Proactive
There is a popular notion out there that life “just happens” without any control. But if you truly think about it, you have more control than you think. In fact, life is designed based on the choices you make. For example, you can choose to let something funny make you happy, or you can be indifferen...
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Tech Tip: Automated E-Mail Marketing
You want to create a sophisticated e-mail marketing campaign — one that allows you to avoid having to send out multiple emails individually by copy and pasting over and over again. It’s heartbreaking when you put in hours, or even days worth of work only to watch as 80 percent (or more!) of those ema...
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Tech Tip: Text Message Your Clients
Have you ever considered text messaging your current clients or future prospects? If you haven’t, you might want to try it out.
Consider this: According to international nonprofit trade association CTIA, over two trillion text messages were sent in 2012. That’s a breakdown of more than 171 billion p...
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Leaders vs. Managers
I was asked to write a blog article contrasting leadership and management. I’ve always thought of myself as more of a leader than a manager, yet I value the management abilities of others greatly. I view them both as extremely beneficial to businesses large and small.
At Pinney Insurance Center, Inc...
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All Things Vision
Vision and dental plans are typically offered through employers as additional health coverage. Others receive coverage through Medicare or Medicaid. But for some, this coverage is not offered or they don’t qualify, and going without makes it difficult to acquire necessary medical exams and products n...
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All Things Dental
Typically, vision and dental plans are offered through employers in addition to health coverage. For those who qualify, federally-funded programs like Medicare and Medicaid also work to protect individuals against exuberant costs. But for some, coverage either isn’t offered or they just don’t quali...
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Breaking Down Medicare Supplement Insurance
The first thing to know about Medicare Supplement Insurance is that its name is interchangeable with Medigap. The two terms describe the same product.
Here’s the short answer of what Medigap is: It does exactly what you’d expect. It supplements and fills in gaps left by Medicare.
Medigap breaks d...
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