TowerStreet Helps Insurance Agencies Drive Web Traffic; Free Web Tool Kit Provides Advice, Resources.Business/Technology Editors WINDSOR Windsor, British royal family Windsor (wĭn`zər), family name of the royal house of Great Britain. The name Wettin, family name of Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, consort of Queen Victoria, was changed to Windsor by George V in 1917. , Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2001 TowerStreet, a leading provider of insurance software and services, is offering a free Web Tool Kit containing information, advice, and resources that insurance agencies can use to create and enhance their Web sites. The kit is available to any agency by calling 800-634-7283 or by visiting www.towerstreet.com. TowerStreet created the kit with the help of its marketing partners (listed below), which provide complementary services, including Web site design and marketing. All of the marketing partners have extensive insurance experience, and some of them are agents. A key component of the tool kit is a publicity program that promotes the Web sites of insurance agencies that use QuoteNETWorks(TM), TowerStreet's online rating tool. TowerStreet will help drive traffic to agencies' Web sites by writing and distributing press releases to news and business media in the agencies' geographic areas. The releases will publicize pub·li·cize tr.v. pub·li·cized, pub·li·ciz·ing, pub·li·ciz·es To give publicity to. publicize or -cise Verb [-cizing, -cized] the agencies' services and capabilities, including 24/7 online quoting with QuoteNETWorks. The publicity program is provided by TowerStreet, at no cost, as an additional benefit of using QuoteNETWorks. "We've we've Contraction of we have. we've have always wanted to make it easier for agents to do business with us," says Frank Amoruso, TowerStreet's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "This is our way of making it easier for agents to do business -- period. With extra traffic driven to their Web sites, and with opportunities to quote more business and track more leads, QuoteNETWorks shows its value as a tool; and TowerStreet shows its value as a business partner." About QuoteNETWorks QuoteNETWorks is an application service provider (ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). ) that enables agents and other insurance professionals to offer consumers comparative quoting from their Web sites 24/7/365, no matter which rating systems they use. With QuoteNETWorks, a consumer answers a few questions from the agency's Web site, then receives comparative quotes from multiple carriers. The agent receives an e-mail from TowerStreet that includes the information entered by the consumer. For agents that use TowerStreet's desktop rating system, QuoteNETWorks downloads the consumer's information, including underwriting Underwriting 1. The process by which investment bankers raise investment capital from investors on behalf of corporations and governments that are issuing securities (both equity and debt). 2. The process of issuing insurance policies. information, directly into the agent's rating system for follow-up follow-up, n the process of monitoring the progress of a patient after a period of active treatment. follow-up subsequent. follow-up plan . QuoteNETWorks is available in 41 states for personal automobile and homeowners and in 19 states for business owners policy insurance. QuoteNETWorks' 220-plus agency customers already have downloaded more than 20,000 qualified leads and quoted more than $17 million in potential premiums. Marketing Partners The following companies provide a variety of Web site services, including design, hosting, e-mail, marketing programs, and search engine placement. More complete information on these marketing partners is available in TowerStreet's Web Tool Kit. Affordable Web Pages, Inc. (www.alocalagent.com) City-Quote.com LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (www.city-quote.com) Insurance Marketing & Management Services (www.imms.com) InsuredCo.com (www.insuredco.com) InsureWebs (www.insureweb.com) iTempo Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Solutions (www.itempo.com) National Service Group, Inc (www.go-nsg.com) The Computer Studio (www.WebBusConnect.com) Web for Agents (www.webforagents.com) Website Department (www.websitedepartment.com) XChange Insurance Network (www.XChangeInsurance.com). About TowerStreet TowerStreet is the largest provider of desktop and Web-hosted comparative rating systems, underwriting reports, and automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. solutions in the insurance industry. Strengthened by its consolidation with Insurance Information Exchange (iiX) and Rating Services in February 2001, TowerStreet streamlines the delivery of insurance information and services to more than 20,000 customers. For more information, visit www.towerstreet.com. |
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