LIBERTY MUTUAL STRATEGIC AND MARKETING REVIEW – TEN AREAS Drawn from the interview dossier, the six-lens strategic review, the marketing and positioning review, the three one-page summaries, and the 100-suggestion focus group record. ANALYSES BASED ON PUBLIC INFORMATION. NOTHING HERE IS INVESTMENT ADVICE. FOR NO POSITION / NO COMPENSATION / NO MNPI. How to read…
Category Archives: Insurance & Actuarial
The AI Search Models are Picking Insurance Sides among Lemonade, Root, State Farm and Progressive
AI rewards signals Google never counted: Lemonade outdraws State Farm and Root outdraws Progressive in AI answers on a fraction of the domain rating, because what decided it wasn’t their content – it was everyone else’s.
Client Case Study: The Salary Survey Actuaries Actually Trust
Salary survey research & actuarial recruitment marketing · Ezra Penland Actuarial Recruitment The Client Ezra Penland Actuarial Recruitment, a national actuarial search firm. Before I was the founder and business strategist behind 1000 Startups, I was a founder and partner there, and the salary surveys were mine – built them, ran them, defended them at…
The Renewal Is the Sale
Insurance grew up around a book that renews whether anybody calls or not, so the whole industry is built around keeping it. Everyone else staffs the renewal with nobody. 1. Costco makes its money on the renewal, not the sale. Membership fee income has for years accounted for a sum broadly comparable to Costco’s entire…
Price the Churn Like a Reserve: Stop Guessing at Lifetime Value
Marketers compute LTV by dividing one by the churn rate. Actuaries have spent a century learning why that number is a work of fiction. 1. One divided by churn is not a lifetime. It is a lifetime only if churn is constant forever, which it never is. Early customers leave fast, survivors leave slowly, and…
Client Case Study: Insurance Services Firm Nobody Could Find
Marketing & business strategy engagement · small insurance advisory services practice (anonymized at the client’s request) The Client An insurance advisory practice in a licensed, credential-gated field, two years old. Forty combined years at name-brand employers, signatures carrying personal liability, a hard-deadline busy season, and profit from the first invoice. Almost nobody knew it existed.…
Translate the Jargon
Why the person who explains it out-earns the person who knows it Every industry has a word it says fifty times a day and has never once defined out loud. Ours is “social inflation.” Here is how to hand it to somebody who does not sell insurance for a living, and why that skill is…