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Flash Report @ AgencyFinder - July 11, 2006

This BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT information is for AgencyFinder Certified Agencies, Agency New Business Executives and agency subscribers. Please forward to others in your firm involved in business development. We communicate with registered member agencies using e-mail. The contents of this Flash Report is the opinion of the writer and is not meant to be an infallible source of fact.

CONTENTS:

1. Did You Get Your Postcard?
2. Agency Special Events for the Forward Thinking
3. Miller & Lawrence Butner - An Agency Alliance 
4. Referrals - Viral at It's Best or Hogwash?
5. Does Your Agency Have a Sticker?
6. First Notice - AF Power Index
7. Significant Website Upgrade

DID YOU GET YOUR POSTCARD?

Very seldom do we resort to good old fashioned mail, but we did so last week when each primary and alternate new business contact were sent a postcard announcing the need to check and update your agency contacts in your AgencyFinder datafile.

We're about to make some substantial changes and upgrades ourselves, and it's increasingly important that we be able to reach you to share prospect and agency search invitations at a moments notice.

Agency spam filters have become so aggressive that I'm not sure how many of you learn about anything new - other than what you're chasing yourself. And that's not good. Frankly, if you have an agency website and associated e-mail addresses, the primary purpose is to be found. If your IT people have successfully shielded you from anyone not "pre-screened", they have done you a disservice. I'd rather plow through some spam to find the "gold", than never to strike precious metal at all.

AGENCY SPECIAL EVENTS FOR THE FORWARD THINKING

I'm pleased to announce that we've struck a working partnership with Tim Williams and his folks at Ignition Consulting Group. You may already know Tim; we're encouraging agencies to consider his special events and we're a sponsor of the two that follow: