Symmetry Technology Labs provides All ACORD Forms online for fill-in, print and email. InsureHub.com annual subscriptions are available to all Iroquois Group members at the special discount price of $79 – a $20 savings!

CONTACT: Dave Plante at dplante023@earthlink.net or visit their

website at http://www.syminc.com/

EBIX offers a state-of-the-art Internet based full service agency management system called EBIXASP. Every agent can have the power of a world-class agency management system at his or her fingertips anytime, anywhere. EBIXASP System features include:Complete agency management system (from accounting to marketing)

• Remote access capability and firewall protection
• “No-Downtime” guarantee
• Comprehensive training and full technical support
• Discounted set up fees
• Low monthly user fees

CONTACT: Jeff Larson at 800-433-5744 ext. 2038 jlarson@ebix.com

Insurance Management Solutions (IMS) is a powerful, innovative system from Xanatek that offers comprehensive agency management and document imaging capabilities. Designed by insurance agents, IMS helps to increase your office productivity through:

• Improved Customer Service
• Enhanced Office Communication
• Increased Sales
• Reduction in Paper Storage

Iroquois Discount

Iroquois members will receive a discount off the retail price of the IMS software, plus three free months of support.

For More Information

If you would like to receive additional information on Insurance Management Solutions from Xanatek, please contact the sales office toll-free at 800-875-6033 or e-mail us at sales@xanatek.com.

Many Iroquois Member Agents have found the EZLynx Comparative Rater an excellent time saver for their producers and CSR’s.  EZLynx enables agents to generate accurate home and auto rate quotes from multiple insurance companies’ sites with a single data entry point.

Iroquois members recieve a discount on EZLynx.  Ask your Iroquois

Representative for more details.

Iroquois® has made a special arrangement with CEU.com to provide web-based continuing education courses for its member’s licensed insurance professionals in a convenient, time saving manner – and at a discounted rate.

CEU.com is a spin-off from Yale University and their courses are approved by all 50 state insurance departments, the District of Columbia, the American College , the CPCU Society, the CFP Board, the Insurance Regulatory Examiners Society, and Insurance Educational Association.

Iroquois member agency personnel will have unlimited access to all of CEU.com’s courses in 2009 for a flat, prepaid fee per licensed professional. This price includes:

· All courses and tests, with unlimited test retakes;

·State insurance department approved completion certificate;

· The filing of the CE credits on the student’s behalf within two business days in states that allow us to do this;

· Reporting of CFP, CPCU & American College Designation CE credits, if appropriate;

· The retention of all state insurance department required documentation; and,

· An agency tracking feature, if desired, so that the agency principal or administrator can see the status of each employee’s course completion.

View the courses CEU.com has available by state and learn more about them at www.ceu.com. See the attachment for instructions on registering, or contact Erin Short at 800-295-9010 or email her at eshort@ceu.com.

EIS provides Property/Casualty education programs approved for CE in 28 states. EIS is a certificate program and a professional designation (EISP) program. EIS offers both personal lines and commercial lines programs and  specializes in endorsements and their proper use. EIS offers in-house classes and can reduce your education expenses by as much as 40%.

Contact: Dr. Larry Morrison
Phone: 417-683-0188
Email: eis@getgoin.net

Allied Professional Resources (APR), one of the leading insurance recruitment firms in the nation today, specializes in Property and Casualty as well as Life and Health lines. They provide suitable candidates for commercial and personal lines CSR’s, account managers, account executives, producers, and Department Managers. They also place candidates for similar positions with employee benefits expertise.

APR charges a percentage of first year compensation to recruit, evaluate and help hire a suitable candidate, and Iroquois members receive a discount on the cost of this service. (Ask your Iroquois Representative for details.)

For more information on APR, visit their website at www.allied-resources.com or contact Jay Mays at 866-271-9158 or jmays@aprcareers.com.

Iroquois has formed a relationship with iPeople, LLC, an executive search firm that specializes in placing key insurance professionals. Beyond presenting well-screened potential employees, iPeople presents clients with an unbiased and objective assessment of top candidates, provides support in the negotiations between the client and candidate, and follows up with the successful candidate and the client to insure a smooth transition.

Iroquois Member Agencies receive a discount on iPeople’s fee structure and an extended “warranty” for employees placed through iPeople’s efforts. For more information, visit the iPeople Website at www.theipeople.com  or call Mark Shlien, principal, at 202-544-7675, or email him at Mark.Shlien@theipeople.com.

Financing Program from Oak Street Funding

Iroquois has negotiated a special arrangement with Oak Street Funding for the benefit of our Member Agents.  Oak Street Funding (OSF) is a commercial finance company dedicated to serving the needs of insurance professionals. It is their mission to provide capital to insurance agents and agencies in order to expand their business and increase sales.

Oak Street Funding Website

Iroquois’ 1,700 Member Agents share a common need to find, hire, train and develop the right employees to help their agencies grow and thrive. To help its members with this critical function, Iroquois worked with insurance consultants George Nordhaus and Virginia Bates to introduce Iroquois Hiring System (IHS).

IHS is a web-based Human Resources portal, providing valuable tools and information on the candidate assessment and hiring process.

IHS takes you beyond simple resume review and standard interviewing, enabling you to focus on objective assessment techniques to learn who a candidate is and what they do, not just what they say. Iroquois Hiring System assessments help:

• Zero in on a candidate’s thinking style, behavioral traits and insurance skills all at once.
• Insure that candidate interviews are incisive and productive.
• Remove the uncertainties of the selection process.

 
The assessment tools available to Iroquois members at a 15% discount from what other agencies would pay for the same assessment tool.

We strongly encourage you to review this website and all of its resources. You can access IHS through iMember, the private portion of our website.

National Marketing Services (NMS) will provide our member agents with discounted commercial and personal lines leads, telemarketing services, and database management services. NMS has developed custom telemarketing programs for Fireman's Fund, Zurich, State Farm and other major carriers, and thousands of insurance agents and other businesses. National Marketing Services offers the following telemarketing services:

• Custom list purchasing
• Lead generation and qualification
• Direct mail follow up
• Appointment setting
• Web enabled call center

CONTACT: 800-736-9741. www.nationalmarketing.com

Iroquois® has arranged with Cole Information Services to offer its Cole X-Dates on-line database to Iroquois Member Agents at a significant discount.

The purchase of Cole X-DATES OnLine provides you with homeowner insurance expiration information in an easy-to-use-format. You can:

· See expiration dates by month

· View names, addresses and phone numbers of homeowners, plus purchase price and purchase date of home

· Sort by streets and zips

· Select by home value

Download custom, targeted prospects lists in an Excel format that can be sorted by many data fields and uploaded to your agency management system.

Use Cole X-Dates surname filters to target ethnic markets or leverage current insured referrals through a “neighborhood search” referral tool. Find Renters, Condo and Coops (including unit numbers and names.) You can also indirectly obtain auto, life and other financial product leads.

Create your own direct mailings or use Cole’s customized, 4-color, postcard mail postcard program.

Business/commercial leads are also available by SIC code.

For more information or a demo, view Cole’s website at: http://www.coleinformation.com or call 800-475-2479.

Join NetQuote, the Industry’s #1 lead provider, and receive 15 FREE LEADS! Plus, receive special discounted rates as an Iroquois Group Member. NetQuote is dedicated to delivering the highest quality leads and tools agents need to be successful. Enjoy these benefits with NetQuote:

· Test drive NetQuote with 15 free leads

· Get a 10% discount on all leads as an Iroquois Group Member

· Already working for over 6,000 Independent Agents

· Receive free training at NetQuoteUniversity.com

· Target the specific lead types and zip codes you want

· Receive pre-qualified, ready to buy consumers

· Integrate with top raters & management systems

· No sign-up costs or hidden fees.

SaleSource-ASP is an integrated agency marketing campaign and sales management system designed by people with property/casualty and life insurance agency selling experience. SaleSource can be tailored to specific target markets including, but not limited to, commercial lines, specific business classifications, personal lines cross selling, and target life and accident and health markets.

SaleSource is a time proven contact process to keep you in touch with every prospect and client with pre-planned strategies to implement a successful marketing campaign. It reminds you of dates, appointments and commitments, types perfect letters, and makes sure that you follow-up-resulting in increased sales.

With "one click" of your computer, SaleSource:

• Generates and prints letters
• Generates calls
• To-do-lists
• Time-and-date stamps all contacts
• Provides follow-up reminders
• Prints custom tailored reports

Iroquois has a marketing affiliation with SaleSource to provide Iroquois member agents with substantial discounts for the SaleSource marketing and sales management system.

 CONTACT: 414-258-5996. www.aspsalesource.com

The National Underwriter Company is proud to partner with The Iroquois Group and provide Iroquois Members with a special 20% discount offer on all products and services including the renowned FC&S! (Discount does not apply to any service or magazine renewals.)

To see everything The National Underwriter Company has to offer visit their website at www.nationalunderwriterstore.com

Iroquois Member Agents can get a quick quote on their E&O coverage from Utica National.

For a limited time, Specific Software Solutions will provide Iroquois Members complimentary training and educational materials that will benefit their staff as well as clients and prospects, AND they will receive a free trial of the popular ModMaster software for calculating, analyzing and communicating the experience mod.

With the resources from Specific Software, Members will be able to:

• Help an employer determine their current mod, their minimum mod, and their controllable mod. Many employers think a mod of 1.0 is good, but it’s only average!
• Translate an employer’s mod analysis into premium dollars they could be saving if they reached the minimum mod.
• Show the impact that specific losses have on the employer’s premium.
• Watch on-demand, web-based videos to learn key concepts about the mod, critical to both the sales and service processes.
• Redistribute content from Specific Software’s award-winning WorkCompEdge blog in agency newsletters, blogs, or other materials (please contact the company for reprint permission).

For more information, or to register for a free trial, contact Helene Pellett at 800-929-4052 x 201 or www.specificsoftware.com/iroquois.asp