Strong‘ s Insurance
front row: Jana rice, Teri glenn, Jeff malone, shawnae ditgen. middle row: laverne Taylor, renee ruckle, sharon schmidt, robin Inslee, stephanie westhoff, nikki Humble, greg Cleveland, gloria Theis. back row: Jeremy doggett, scott strong, Jake graber, sheila deweese, Jody schwartz. not pictured, Tracey Hansard, marilea struble, laurie mathes, macaley Hall, Abbi smith.
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Strong‘ s Insurance
Location: 201 s. main nashville, ks 67112
Branches: Anthony Cheney kingman medicine lodge pratt
Year Established: 1921
Years in Business: 96 years
Full-time staff: 21
Principals: scott strong gloria k. Theis
Brief History: My Grandfather, Earl W. Strong started an insurance agency in Nashville in 1921. He ran the agency until his youngest son Joe E. Strong left the service in 1954 and joined him in Nashville. Uncle Joe sold the agency to Scott M. Strong and Gloria K. Theis in November of 1990. Since then several agencies have been acquired and all of the other locations established.
What makes your agency unique? The most unique thing about us is the location of our home office in Nashville. With a population of 63 people Nashville is not on some maps.
What are your agency’ s future plans? We want to grow our business organically. Sounds easy but it is far from it. We are also moving into more social media and trying to figure out how to effectively advertise.
Any marketing that has really taken off for your agency? We have not actively marketed ourselves, but are beginning to start the process.
Any technology that has made your organization more efficient? Our management system is Applied Systems Epic and it has made us more efficient, but not by itself. We were not able to see a lot of efficiencies from Epic until we designed a workflow that allow us to use Epic as it is intended to be used.
Anything else you would like others to know about your agency? Not really we have to keep some secrets.
How has AScK helped your agency? No much in the past, we are fortunate to represent several insurance companies that offer us great market access. We are also a member of CAA( Combined Agents of America) and they give us access to markets that an agency of our size would never be able to contract with.
Now that AScK is starting to write E & S business they will begin to play a larger role in the agency.
22 kAnSAS InSURAnCE AGEnT & BROkER | January- February 2017 |