How Account Receivables Insurance Can Protect SMBs
Accounts receivables insurance offers small and medium-sized businesses a critical tool to protect their cash flow and provides financial stability while pricing pressures are difficult to control.
Agency Operations
Scaling Smart: Acquisition Best Practices for Independent Insurance Agencies
On this episode of Agency Nation Radio, Peter van Aartrijk, executive vice president with insurance branding firm Aartrijk, hosts a discussion on best practices when making an agency acquisition—whether it’s your first purchase or just your most recent acquisition.
5 Areas Where Alignment Can Make or Break an Acquisition
The landscape of agency acquisitions is as challenging as it is rewarding. To be successful, an acquisition requires a delicate balance between strategic alignment, financial prudence, cultural fit and more.
Declaration of Independents: Stephanie Dew
In 2022, Dew, then 20% owner of WinStar, learned that the other two owners would be retiring. She didn’t want to see the agency absorbed by the large buyers circling overhead and decided she would buy it herself—even if it meant mortgaging her house.
HawkSoft Partners with Input 1 to Enable Premium Finance, Billing and Payments
Input 1 provides digital billing and payment solutions to insurance carriers, managing general agents (MGAs), banks, agencies and premium finance companies.
AN Radio: Jessica Mulder Talks Acquisitions and Transitions
On this episode of Agency Nation Radio, Jessica Mulder, operations manager of Perspective Insurance in Sioux Center, Iowa, reflects on how she played a role in the purchase of three agencies in one year.
AN Radio: Making the Most of Agency Ownership Transition
On this episode of Agency Nation Radio hosted by Harrison Brooks, partner at Reagan Consulting, Doug Smart, president, and Kyle Becker, vice president, from Smart Insurance in Abeline, Kansas discuss independent insurance agency ownership transitions.
