Midwest Kev
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Good afternoon,
First post here as I am working on opening an independent after years of being a captive. I have been evaluating the different AMS platforms and have narrowed it down to Epic vs Ezlynx.
Our agencies are located inside car dealerships and we speak to every customer who is purchasing a new car to do an insurance review and we also talk with many of the service customers. We will be writing heavily PL to this market. We are looking for something that has thorough reporting and tracking with strong automation capacity.
We do however, also want to write commercial package policies for all of the dealerships, and other local body shops/mechanic shops in the business group. We will also be looking to get our foot in the door with the aviation industry. We are working on having a dedicated agent to service customers of a local FBO that offers sales, service and detailing operations for individuals/business operating air craft.
Given the connections we have to these industries I would imagine we would be writing at least $1-2MM new business in PL a year and approximately $350-500K in new CL business.
We would also as we are trained and capable like to do the health plans/benefits for these companies as well as act as retirement planners for the employees (potentially administer their 401(K)) as well.
From my perspective:
Ezlynx is cheaper, and "easier" to use and looks "pretty."
Applied Epic has much more functionality and data, but takes a lot to get it to work right.
It would appear from what I have learned, that EzLynx may be the easiest solution for the first 1-2 years until we are deeper into commercial and other lines. But I almost feel like its worth it to spend the first couple years becoming adept at the system so once we start expanding we don't have to learn a new system and new products. I would appreciate feedback on my thoughts, and am open to suggestions on systems outside of these two. Just arrived at these two looking at popularity data and from word of mouth from successful (semi) agencies.
First post here as I am working on opening an independent after years of being a captive. I have been evaluating the different AMS platforms and have narrowed it down to Epic vs Ezlynx.
Our agencies are located inside car dealerships and we speak to every customer who is purchasing a new car to do an insurance review and we also talk with many of the service customers. We will be writing heavily PL to this market. We are looking for something that has thorough reporting and tracking with strong automation capacity.
We do however, also want to write commercial package policies for all of the dealerships, and other local body shops/mechanic shops in the business group. We will also be looking to get our foot in the door with the aviation industry. We are working on having a dedicated agent to service customers of a local FBO that offers sales, service and detailing operations for individuals/business operating air craft.
Given the connections we have to these industries I would imagine we would be writing at least $1-2MM new business in PL a year and approximately $350-500K in new CL business.
We would also as we are trained and capable like to do the health plans/benefits for these companies as well as act as retirement planners for the employees (potentially administer their 401(K)) as well.
From my perspective:
Ezlynx is cheaper, and "easier" to use and looks "pretty."
Applied Epic has much more functionality and data, but takes a lot to get it to work right.
It would appear from what I have learned, that EzLynx may be the easiest solution for the first 1-2 years until we are deeper into commercial and other lines. But I almost feel like its worth it to spend the first couple years becoming adept at the system so once we start expanding we don't have to learn a new system and new products. I would appreciate feedback on my thoughts, and am open to suggestions on systems outside of these two. Just arrived at these two looking at popularity data and from word of mouth from successful (semi) agencies.
