Alex Strautman, Author at The Insurance Broker Blog

Broker Basics

3 Tips to Helping Your Clients Find the Best Health...

October 20, 2023 / Alex Strautman

As part of Word & Brown’s commitment to provide our partner brokers with the resources needed to quote and write more business, we’ve developed three useful tools. They are designed...

Broker Basics

3 Halloween Ideas to Consider for Your Insurance Agency

October 13, 2023 / Alex Strautman

Whether your agency employees are back in the office five days a week or working some sort of hybrid arrangement where they’re on site only a few days weekly, doing...

Sales & Marketing Tips

Measuring Your Success: Identifying Important Insurance KPIs

September 29, 2023 / Alex Strautman

No matter how long you have been selling insurance, you know there are certain measurements to help you judge your success. These are often called Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). KPIs...

Broker Basics

Health Care and Insurance Stocks to Watch in 2023-2024

September 6, 2023 / Alex Strautman

There are many theories about what is (and what is not) a good indicator of a stock’s future performance (up or down). As most financial columns note, past performance is...

Expert Ave.

Everybody Loves a Good Health Insurance Joke, Right?

September 3, 2023 / Alex Strautman

The health insurance business is usually no laughing matter. We often deal with clients’ health challenges, claims, provider access issues, and so much more. However, it’s important to recognize the...

Broker Basics

Understanding Workers’ Compensation Insurance

August 23, 2023 / Alex Strautman

Regardless of how much care is taken by employers and employees, accidents can happen at work or when doing work-related activities away from the jobsite. Workers’ Compensation insurance provides benefits...