eAgency Forms Agreement With Allianz Life Insurance Company of North AmericaLife Insurance Industry Solutions Leverage the Power of the Web to Increase Sales, Connectivity, Business Operations.5/22/2002Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life), a member of the Allianz AG Group (NYSE: AZ), one of the world's largest insurance groups, has signed a contract with eAgency, creators of high-performance sales and customer management solutions for the insurance industry, to better empower the relationships between life insurance companies, agencies, agents and their customers. In addition, Allianz Life intends to benefit from the increased customer and agent retention available from the application of eAgency technologies. Allianz Life will introduce eAgency’s strategic online packages to their entire U.S. agent sales force of approximately 150,000 independent agents, financial planners, and registered representatives through a nationwide lineup of education workshops, home office universities, seminars and other marketing events conducted by Allianz Marketing, Inc., Allianz LTC, USAllianz Securities and USAllianz Investment Advisors, LLC. eAgency solutions have been in development for over eleven years, helping life insurance agents achieve markedly greater levels of productivity than that of the average agent in the industry. Now combined with the Allianz Life sales force and the power of web and wireless services, eAgency has the products, technology, and channel to successfully empower the life insurance market. These integrated solutions become valuable life and business applications available anytime, anywhere, and from any device. Insurance agents now have always-on access to critical applications, financial planning tools, their entire book of business, and the ability to provide immediate assistance to their clientele. Chuck Kavitsky, Chief Marketing Officer for Allianz Life, said "eAgency’s business model is unique in that everyone’s situation is improved from the corporation to the consumer. We will be able to better communicate with those who make Allianz Life successful--our agents, registered representatives and their customers. They will have an incredible product and value-added services to offer their customers, and we expect that Allianz Life will gain invaluable business intelligence and communication tools.” Allianz Life will be working with eAgency to offer eAgency’s life insurance agent web and wireless services to their contracted agents and representatives via as many as 750 workshops, seminars and other marketing meetings over the next 12 months. Said Bob Lotter, Chairman and CEO of eAgency, Inc. "We’ve developed technology proven through a decade of exceptional achievement in the life insurance industry. With eAgency, we have successfully taken this mission-critical technology and made it web-centric, boosting the existing efficiencies and measurably increasing production for every agent using the applications. Our agreement with Allianz Life represents a milestone for the life insurance industry as a recognized world leader transitions to the new frontier of internet and wireless technologies using eAgency’s solutions."Interested insurance companies, MGA’s, and agents can see the benefits offered by eAgency simply by visiting and registering at their home site, www.eagency.com. You can also reach the company by calling their corporate offices at 1-888-377-8200, or email sales@eagency.com. About eAgency SystemseAgency is a leader in web and wireless tools for the financial services industry and was recently recognized as the winner of the Cingular 2002 Best Solution Award for the Insurance Industry . eAgency is improving the efficiency, effectiveness, profitability, and customer retention for the over 1,500 insurance companies and nearly 800,000 life insurance agents nationwide. The company can be reached at www.eagency.com, via email at info@eagency.com, or by calling 949.253.9131. Before founding eAgency, Robert Lotter established R.A. Lotter Financial Group, a leading life insurance and marketing agency, with ten years of consecutive growth, and numerous industry awards. Mr. Lotter was elected as Ernst & Young's CEO of the Year for Orange County in 2000. eAgency does not sell insurance or keep commissions from the sales of insurance products. eAgency technology partners include Microsoft (MSFT), Network Commerce (NWKC), Yellowbrix, Inc., and eAgency, Your Portal To Success. About Allianz LifeAllianz Life, a 104-year old company based in Minneapolis, MN, is a member of the Allianz AG Group, one of the world’s largest insurance groups. Allianz Life offers fixed life and annuity insurance, long-term care insurance and variable annuity products nationwide in the US. Both are rated A++ by A. M. Best and AAA by Standard & Poor’s. These are the highest ratings assigned by these independent insurance company analysts. The ratings are based on an analysis of financial results and evaluation of management objectives and strategies. |
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