A recent LIMRA study has found that 57 percent of middle-market American households are not saving regularly. This number jumps to 69 percent for households with children who are under 18 years old.
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Are You Communicating Effectively?
Images and messages used to explain financial products don’t seem realistic or relatable to many consumers, according to a recent survey.
A new joint study by LIMRA and Maddock Douglass reveals that there are 19 million “stuck shoppers” of life insurance in the United States . “Stuck shoppers” are consumers who believe life insurance is valuable and necessary but have been derailed during the shopping process.
Topics: Grow Your Business
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Lower Cost Increases for Medical Plans
Projected cost increases for all types of medical plans are anticipated to be down by between 0.1 and 0.5 percent in 2014, according to a survey by Buck Consultants. The survey notes that this continues the favorable trend of slow, steady declines generally experienced since 2010.
Topics: Health Care Grow Your Business Industry News
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How to Gain Strategic Insight from Digital Metrics
Most social media metrics report tactical results, not strategic impacts that achieve objectives.
Few topics give executives more fits than choosing metrics—the counts, percentages and ratios that are supposed to measure the performance of digital marketing initiatives. The great majority of digital metrics put a number on tactical results—the things that campaigns encourage people to do, such as opening emails, clicking links, reading pages and viewing videos, posting and commenting, sharing, downloading content, installing apps, "liking," checking-in,"friending," connecting or following.
Topics: Grow Your Business Social Media
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Survey Finds Americans Consider Work a Major Aspect of Well-Being
Consumers would go to great lengths to get back to work as soon as possible rather than let an injury or illness hold them back.
Topics: Disability Insurance Grow Your Business DIAM
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Companies Struggle to Fill Positions in Financial Services
Skills Gap Plays Key Role in Hiring Difficulties
Nearly half of financial- services companies are struggling to fill certain positions, but the reasons behind their recruiting challenges are nuanced, according to a new survey by MoneyJobs.com, CareerBuilder’s job site for finance and accounting professionals.
Topics: Grow Your Business Finance Industry News
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'If I Could Only Get Around to It'
A recent blog entry in LIMRA’s Industry Trends: “If I Could Only Get Around to It” might help you motivate your prospects into making the critical decision to buy from you. The blog post appears below.
Topics: Grow Your Business Industry News LIMRA
Success Strategies from a Leader: AT Podcast Series
Listen carefully to this podcast interview as NAIFA member and Top Producer Michele Lee Fine describes the critical steps she took on her way to the top.
Topics: Grow Your Business Podcast
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Safeguard Your Most Important Asset
With the Disability Income Awareness Month campaign currently under way, now is a good time to get the NAIFA Advantage Plus Group Disability Income Insurance Protection Plan. NAIFA has teamed up with Kelsey National to offer this plan to its members.
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