Description: As part of the SOA’s July 22, 2020, COVID-19 Virtual Symposium, Marketing and Distribution (MaD) Section Council members presented “Selling Insurance Six Feet Apart” with insight into emerging sales and marketing processes, challenges, and opportunities for the product spaces noted

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Presenters examined alternative marketing methods that bridge buyers and sellers. Subjects discussed: 1. Work-site marketing. 2. Nontraditional marketing survey presentation. 3. Marketing through property and casualty agents.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Presenters discussed ways in which nontraditional methods of distributing insurance products are continuing to evolve and offered their views on where that evolution may lead for the industry.

Description: This article describes some of the traditional profit measurement standards for direct marketing and then presents a more comprehensive and up-to-date foundation for insurance direct marketers and actuaries to use when reviewing individual direct marketing campaigns or total marketing programs.

Description: This article gives an overview of the worksite marketing/volutary products market and addresses the pros and cons of this marketing approach.

Description: The article offers a discussion about future products, distribution, insurance laws, and contracts. Some ideas might not be possible today, but it is offered as food for thought.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. This is Table 1 Product/Channel Directory that is associated with Building Bridges with Session 136IF: Building Bridges with Alternative Marketing Methods

Description: This article describes various insurance products now offered to SOA members as an affinity group.

Description: Building on our previous newsletter article (“Who Sells and Distributes”), we continue here in our attempt to define and clarify sales and distribution terms that may be confusing or misunderstood. In this article, we focus on seller and distributor compensation, which includes payments to customer-facing sales experts and separate allowances for the entities supporting those experts

Description: Overview of call center and digital sales platforms for the development of distribution strategy in the individual insurance market.