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IICF Share Your Thanks! Campaign

​The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) is proud to partner with Our Military Kids to share our gratitude for the dedication, service, and sacrifice of military families. This summer, we invite you to join us and Share Your Thanks.From July 4th - September 11th, insurance industry professionals, families, and friends are invited to write a note, create a drawing, share your own story, or provide words of encouragement for the children and teens who make daily sacrifices while their parent is deployed or in recovery.Together, as a united industry, we can show our appreciation for military families!​Our Military Kids supports military children (ages 3 -…

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On Our Mind

​By Jim Lombardo, CPCU, AAI, AIM, MBA, AVP of Learning & Development​Boy am I glad things are finally getting back to normal! Or are they? I actually am seeing what I will call “A NEW Normal”.Think about it- did you learn any new habits (good I hope) that you can continue to practice even after things return to normal? What do I mean?  Have you and/or your staff learned to work efficiently virtually? Have you implemented some new customer service protocols that should be sustained? Have you been able to regularly contact your team, vendors and clients by using email, Zoom, text or other means of communication that…

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7 TIPS ON HOW TO IDENTIFY EMAIL SCAMS & A FREE WEBINAR

​A guest post by Walter Contreras of Motiva​Join us for a FREE webinar by Motiva on July 13th: 5 Cyber Security Protections EVERY Agency Needs NOW​​​As the number of spam and phishing emails continues to rise, it is increasingly more valuable for you and your staff to be trained how to recognize a scam when you see one.Do you know how to identify and handle email scams that want to infiltrate your business? Let us start with these tricks to recognize an email scamLook at the email headers: Some of the first pointers you’ll get are the email headers, i.e. the subject line, the sender name, and so…

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