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Are You Too Afraid to Start Your Own Broking Business?
Are you secretly too afraid to start your own broking business and becoming your own insurance boss? There has been talk of “pervasive pessimism” holding back the entrepreneurial spirit of Brits. Do you suffer that? Or maybe imposter syndrome? It’s time to focus on the positives. By backing yourself to succeed, you could open up […]
How Property Agents Can Easily Sell Insurance in-house as an AR
Do you know what an insurance AR is? Well, if you are a worrying about impacts to your income as a property managing agent, following changes to insurance sales regulations, it could pay to find out. You could consider selling insurance in-house, using Gauntlet’s AR appointed representative option. This article tells you how. Property managing […]
Carpe Diem: the Appointed Representative Opportunity is NOW
It’s Carpe Diem Day (February 26) – one associated with seizing the day. For those dissatisfied with their insurance broking lives, there may be no better time to embrace this motto and grasp the appointed representative opportunity. You may wish to seize the day because the realities of insurance consolidation are hitting home. Perhaps not […]
4 Ways to Become an Insurance Appointed Representative
Appointed representatives are a lesser-known breed within the insurance industry, despite ARs, as they are also known, having used the AR model to start up an insurance brokerage, and become an insurance appointed representative, for nearly two decades now. Why is this the case? Well, perhaps it’s because many observers merely see a name above […]
10 Things to Look for in an Appointed Representative Network in 2025
Looking for an appointed representative network? As we head into 2025, many account executives with a dream of running their own insurance brokerage may be contemplating how to become an appointed representative and examining which appointed representative or AR networks are out there. With the appointed representative route the only feasible way of starting an […]
11 Reasons for Directly Authorised Brokers to Become ARs
It’s the season of the elf on the shelf. So, with elf being German for eleven, the Gauntlet AR Network is giving you eleven things to mull over during the festive period, to assess which may resonate. If any do, perhaps you will see that being a directly authorised broker may no longer be in […]