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A.M. Best's E-Fusion Podcast Explores Online Insurance Marketing with Jaimie Pickles of InsWeb.


OLDWICK, N.J. -- The latest edition of A.M. Best's E-Fusion Podcast takes a look at InsWeb, one of the earliest online insurance aggregators, and a survivor of the twists and turns of e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. .

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, executive vice president of InsWeb Inc., describes the company's current strategy, which includes gathering leads and working closely with organizations and agents to deliver prospects. InsWeb will be at A.M. Best's E-Fusion Conference, set for Oct. 23-24 in Boston Boston, town, England
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In the decade since it launched, InsWeb has evolved beyond a strictly e-commerce model. Now publicly traded, InsWeb weathered the challenges of online boom-and-bust cycles. In the interview, Pickles elaborates on how InsWeb is reinventing the traditional model for online financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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The two-day E-Fusion Conference focuses on developments in insurance technology, insurance issues and operations. Part of the conference involves finalists making presentations for the E-Fusion Awards. The awards, which are independently judged, seek to recognize innovative uses of insurance technology.

In conjunction with the conference, A.M. Best Co. has launched a new podcast series focused on insurance technology and the E-Fusion Conference. The audio series covers technology developments, conference details and the E-Fusion Awards. Each episode includes an interview with a technology leader associated with the E-Fusion Conference.

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 the E-Fusion Podcast are available at http://feeds.feedburner FeedBurner is a news feed management provider launched in 2004.[1] FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to s, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. .com/e-fusion2006. Conference information is available at www.efusion2006.com.

A.M. Best Co., established in 1899, is the world's oldest and most authoritative insurance rating and information source. For more information, visit A.M. Best's Web site at www.ambest.com.
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