Smart Choice^® Insurance Centers embody the best practices of both sides of the insurance industry. Take the best of the independent agency system — complete agency ownership; total control of what types of insurance products and services to offer and to whom; and product choice for consumers — coupled with education, training, support and operating systems and practices hallmarked by captive companies. The result? Smart Choice Insurance Centers.

TRAINING and EDUCATION
There’s more. Smart Choice Insurance Center owners and their employees benefit from training and education that goes beyond traditional continuing education or company-sponsored offerings. Smart Choice University gets you started quickly with an intensive two-day orientation when you become a Smart Choice Insurance Center — but it doesn't stop there. The Peak Performance Agency Model™ (PPAM), an exclusive program of Smart Choice Insurance Centers, gives you the roadmap and the resources to obtain unlimited success and income potential. The University also features proprietary workshops and training modules presented by some of the industry’s most noted experts. For your convenience, sessions will be offered in a variety of in-class, online and self study sessions.

MARKETING
And to assist you in gaining and retaining customers, Smart Choice Insurance Centers provides marketing programs, from day-to-day techniques to exclusive marketing “tool kits” to consultation and advice about your own marketing efforts (up to four plans a year!). And you’ll want to be part of the exclusive MasterMind Network — agents like you who meet to discuss successes and brainstorm new and better ways to make their agencies successful.

EMERGING CONSUMER BRAND
Even more exciting will be reaping the benefit of remaining an independent agent but having strength in numbers. Smart Choice Insurance Centers will work, from the ground up, to build a recognizable consumer brand . . . a brand consumers will trust to be the best choice for their insurance and related needs. A brand that means determining an insurance plan based on each individual’s needs, developed through the choice of the best coverages possible, and offered at the fairest price.

Smart Choice® Insurance Centers. An exciting new concept designed to give you the type of independent agency you’ve always wanted — one that operates efficiently and effectively and lets you spend time on building customer relationships. One that gives you the strength of a recognizable consumer brand. One that allows you unlimited potential in creating the successful agency you’ve always wanted. One that truly gives you the “Freedom to Succeed.”

Each day, you face challenges that impact your ability to be a successful independent agency owner. Increased competition from within and outside the industry; rising costs of marketing and advertising; lack of extensive training and support; and simply too many things to do each day are just some of the issues that prevent you from growing your agency.

And while these challenges will always exist, you no longer have to face them alone. Now, you can have all the benefits of being an independent insurance agent coupled with the best practices of the industry and enhanced by the experience and knowledge of one of the country’s leading independent insurance agent networks.

Smart Choice^® Insurance Centers — possibly the most exciting innovation in the independent agency system to date!

For more information contact your state director.