Agency Nation Meets: Jess Butler
Butler leads the strategy for Vertafore’s connective products for commercial and personal lines, identifies market hurdles and establishes go-to-market plans to ensure launch readiness and success.

Butler leads the strategy for Vertafore’s connective products for commercial and personal lines, identifies market hurdles and establishes go-to-market plans to ensure launch readiness and success.
The famous phrase, “Coffee’s for closers,” from the classic motion picture “Glengarry Glen Ross,” is the perfect example of some of the sales tactics still used today. While perks today are mostly monetary, a CRM takes the same concept but digitizes the experience.
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On this episode of Agency Nation, Dana Dattola, principal of Weaver & Associates, shares how she implemented diverse work and marketing strategies at her family agency, which provided a platform for the business to adapt to the pandemic.
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