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Direct insurers talk about aggregators in the same way that corner shop owners talk about Tesco. They’re the enemy - voracious entities bent on world domination, trampling everything in their path. They take advantage [...]
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Posted on May 26th, 2008 by Roberto Hortal
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2007 was the year of the price comparison site. uSwitch had been operating on the utilities space for quite a while and product price comparison has been available for quite some time as well through i.e. Google Shopping. Yet it’s been the arrival of Insurance price comparison and the deep pockets of Confused.com, MoneySupermarket and [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Roberto Hortal
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This February, MORE TH>N Business are giving away a pair of tickets to see a premiership match of your choice. The competition, available to business owners nationwide, is open now. You can increase your chances by entering once per each insurance product you have a renewal date for!
Don’t delay - add your name today and [...]
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Posted on February 8th, 2008 by Roberto Hortal
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The poster child of the online insurance market just launched a redesigned website. Gone is the challenger spirit that aimed to redefine insurance the way easyJet redefined holidays. Swiftcover has been assimilated.
The tired chicken-wearing-a-headset picture still features large on their homepage, which is still clean and clear and features a large amount of real estate [...]
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Posted on November 28th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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I’ll be doing what I guess will be my last speaking engagement of the season at Competitive Distribution Strategies For The Insurance Sector in central London on 8th October.
The event is clearly focused on Insurance, with quite an international collection of speakers from Europe, Russia and the Middle East. I’m really looking forward to meeting [...]
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Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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Always looking for ways to add value to customers, MORE TH>N have published a page with great advice for people affected by floods. It is part of the MORE TH>N Living website, where we regularly publish articles and advice on topical issues related to the things people value.
MORE TH>N Business also have a resource for [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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