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The insurance industry can benefit greatly from connectivity solutions like text message marketing, voice broadcast, and call tracking from CallFire.
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Know your consumer base • When seeking connectivity solutions for your insurance agency, consider the clients first • What type of insurance do you specialize in? What are your most common policy issues/questions?
Keep it personal • It’s important to maintain a level of personality even within automated communications • Don’t settle for robotic, outdated IVR systems
Create custom phone trees • Streamline inbound call menus as per your branch’s needs • For example, if you specialize in workman’s compensation insurance claims, organize menus to cater to this (don’t make clients wait through pet insurance, car insurance, etc.)
Voice broadcast • Utilize voice broadcast technology to send notifications en masse • Useful for bill pay, account/service changes, scheduled meeting reminders, etc. • Provide ‘press-1’ option for clients to connect and pay immediately
Voice broadcast cont’d • Easily conduct customer satisfaction surveys, encourage back and forth communication with clientele • Periodically thank long time customers for their continued business (i.e. birthdays, anniversaries, etc.)
Call Center solutions • Maximize individual agent efficiency by relying on smart predictive dialer to weed out bad phone numbers and answering machines • This guarantees that employees’ phone time is productive and spent on calls, rather than listening to dial tones or hand dialing numbers
Harness the power of SMS • Text messaging can be useful for a multitude of insurance related communications, including text reminders and accounts receivable. • Create compelling opt-in to entice potential new clients to join subscriber list • Text messages are exponentially more likely to be opened and read than email, ‘snail’ mail
Ask questions • Use voice broadcast, SMS to determine ways to better serve your client base • Surveys, giveaways, raffles, etc. are great ways to engender goodwill and create loyalty • Involve the whole family whenever possible
Invest wisely with call tracking • Carefully monitor real time returns on various ad media • Applicable to voice broadcast and SMS campaigns • Don’t waste money on fruitless ad pursuits