Insurance Agents Invited to Search Engine’s One-Year Anniversary Celebration

Metuchen, NJ (PRWEB) January 19, 2011

FocalPoint Marketing is commemorating the one-year anniversary of iWebHound.com, the search site specifically for retail P&C insurance agents. It starts with an exhibit booth at the PIA MetroRAP event in New York City on January 20, 2011. In addition to the giveaways and promotions they will have on hand for local show attendees, they'll use the venue to announce the details for the online festivities. Plans include prizes like gift cards and an Amazon Kindle that show attendees and site users can win just by visiting iWebHound.com at their booth or leaving comments on their blog, Facebook page or via Twitter. Agents can visit http://www.iWebHound.com/more for details and links needed to participate.

Since iWebHound.com’s launch, tens of thousands of insurance professionals have used the site to search the websites of all known wholesalers, program administrators, and managing general agents. Aside from being easy to use, there is no charge or login required to find and use the results. While there is limited space for sponsors and advertising, the raw results are unbiased and completely relevant to placing business. FocalPoint endeavors to maintain every wholesale/MGA level website in the index and will readily add any that have been missed upon request.

“The agents using the site have not been shy about giving feedback.” says Fred Ey, President of FocalPoint. “In addition to the expressions of gratitude for providing a tool that makes it easy for them to start writing more risks, they have also provided some great suggestions for enhancing the site. We’ll be looking at bringing some of these ideas to life in 2011. The giveaways are just our way of saying thank you and encouraging them to stay involved.”

“All we ask in return for this free resource is that agents refer more users to the site.” points out Melissa Peterson, FocalPoint’s Director of Client Services. “Search engines are much more than the new yellow pages. Many people would not dare make any kind of purchase without at least conducting some online research, and they usually start with a search engine. Why not adopt this mindset for business, too? Maybe that’s because until iWebHound.com there was no thorough and free site where retail agents could search all the websites they need.”

FocalPoint Marketing, LLC is an e-marketing company founded in 2003 and focuses solely on providing marketing and communication services to the insurance industry.