KIA&B 2015 Volume 20, Issue 3 | Page 12

| TRUSTED CHOICE COMMITTEE | Here they grow again Life & health carriers now being added to Trusted Choice consumer site KRISTY WILSON Trusted Choice Committee Chair L ast issue I talked about the Trusted Choice websites for consumers and for agents and what each one can do for you or your clients. I hope that helped clear up the muddy waters a little bit. Since then, the Trusted Choice board of directors has announced another addition to enhance the consumer site. Life & Health coming online Trusted Choice started out promoting personal lines business, primarily auto and home. Within the last year they expanded their menu to pull in the commercial lines market. Now, Trusted Choice is expanding their menu of options again to include life and health carriers. This will open up the Trusted Choice online quoting capabilities to additional companies, allowing life and health carriers to join the Trusted Choice team and help life and health agents attract more online leads and referrals. rounding out our accounts It seems there are varying opinions when you read articles about whether people are actually buying insurance online or just doing their research online. Online insurance shopping probably varies based on your part of the world, the generation of the client and probably even the type of insurance. Will this new 10 option of having life and health help the agents? Some agencies are really good about rounding accounts with life and others may need a little bit of help. So this new addition to the site may give the Trusted Choice agent a leading edge when people are out on the internet searching for life insurance. one more reason to have a profile This is why it is important for you to have an agency profile on TrustedChoice.com. Having a profile will allow the consumer to find you and the types of business that you sell. People are out there looking so why not make sure that your agency can be found? This is just another tool in our toolbox that will hopefully help the independent agency system compete with the others out there. If your agency has any questions about Trusted Choice or if you are not signed up, contact the KAIA to help you with this process. Also, don’t forget that the Kansas Trusted Choice Junior Golf Tournament is coming up in July and we are hosting the National Trusted Choice Junior Golf Tournament right here in Kansas in August. This is going to be a great way for us to continue to build brand awareness on both the state and national level. Go Trusted Choice! KANSAS INSURANCE AGENT & BROKER |May-June 2015|