Here are a couple of favorites from the week. Both happen to be tied to Amazon and both pretty perfectly show the future of personal insurance.
Monthly Archives: October 2015
What if they made a baby
So I was in a moment of frustration and tweeted this out;
if @Zappos_Hsieh @amazon & @IBMWatson should produce an offspring So I can have #insurance company of my dreams #bigdata #fintech
And I meant it. Let me elaborate. I read Tony Hsieh’s Delivering Happiness and really, really, enjoyed it. I also realized that many of the things they were doing, I already was successfully using as well. People really liked being treated good. They liked the lack of pressure. They liked the random but thoughtful gifts. Honestly, I have never even ordered from them and my wife has only used them a couple of times. But the fact is we really like them and if they had the products we needed we would buy from them.
Timing is important
Sat in on a webinar a week or so ago. The title of it intrigued me since I could not figure out why it was setting such a low expectation for a certain metric. Then I gave them an hour of my life and they basically explained why.
Some people don’t think big enough
Kind of reinforced me to not pay much attention to consultants who are paid for time not necessarily results. Anyhow, Lots of goofy ideas where talked about but two stood out;
- The times you should be cross selling a current customer/client
Dont be perfect, just get better
Dear Big National Insurance company who I want to bring more business to;
We have had a nice relationship so far and I think we both like each other. I’m confused though, some days it seems like you just don’t want my business. Now I understand you won’t want everyone but I am still left disappointed. See we know each other pretty well, I have a nice understanding of who you want to be insured but somewhere in there, something is not working.
It’s not you, it’s me?