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			<title>Finding Producers and Keeping Them...</title>
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			<description>Finding sophisticated producers and adequately compensating them is important to organic growth at any agency.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Looking Ahead from Year-End 2008 </title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Sales Management in the Independent Agency</title>
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			<description>When I started consulting to independent p/c insurance agencies back in the 1980s, I began to observe that sales management was the most poorly performed of all the management functions. This inadequacy, as I saw it, was not universal but widespread.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The Economy and the Outlook for Independent Agencies</title>
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			<description>I have been bullish on the independent-agency business for a long time...</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>View through the Windshield - Developments in Independent-Agency Value</title>
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			<description>I ended our last Burke Ink with the comment that I would follow up with observations on theimpact of economic trends on agency value. Here they are.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Agency Social Networking Goes Tech Through Social Media Efforts</title>
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			<description>The growth of social media over the Internet is something insurance agents can embrace and learn to use as another tool to help grow their business, experts in its use said earlier this year. </description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Forcing Agencies to Protect Their Clients' Personal Data</title>
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			<description>All businesses with customers in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will have to comply with this legislation by March 1, 2010.  Here is a unique look at regulation from the standpoint of effective agency operations.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 6 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>20 Insights&lt;br&gt; &lt;s&gt;$20 Grand&lt;/s&gt;</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Time To Fix the Roof</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Employee - Benefits Insurance -- Storm Clouds </title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Out Over Their Ski Tips? </title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>A Composition in C Major&lt;br&gt;Contingent Commissions, Carriers, and Customers</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>An Incident of Employee Dishonesty</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Appraising Independent Insurance Agencies </title>
			<link>http://www.bhbco.com/News/customer-files/Appraising_Independent_Insurance_Agencies.pdf</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>FAQs Regarding 201 CMR 17.00 </title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Public Hearing Notice - 201 CMR 17.00 </title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The Impact of Consolidation Economies on Business Value </title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The Impact of S Corporation Status on Fair Market Value </title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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