Category Archives: Insurance & Actuarial

Unsolicited – Not a Client – Liberty Mutual – Full Audit and Strategy Document

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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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