看清增员的“误区”

勿庸置疑，自从我国保险行业引进代理人营销机制后，很大程度上促进了保险业的快速发展，个人代理保险渠道已经成为维系保险业可持续发展的重要途径，成为各大保险公司创费创利的生存之本。但是，经过这些年的发展，个人代理人队伍的组织发展正面临着巨大的挑战，“增员难、留存难”正日益成为阻碍行业发展的心头大患，不少保险公司正陷入“突击增员流失快，日常增员速度慢”的增员“瓶颈”，特别严重的是营销主管增员的主动性和耐心都明显下降。     

丁庆年：培训营销解密

前言：保险行业向来以良好的培训称。在选材增员时，主管们总是不忘加上一句：更重要的是，你将会在这个行业里得到最好的培训。很多保险公司的口号是“培训是最好的福利。”不少营销主管本身就是口才极佳的培训讲师。培训，除了推动团队伙伴的成长外，还能带来什么?     

网上展业3种模式

正确选择网上保险营销的模式是保险公司及保险代理人进行电子商务的关键性一步。保险公司和保险代理人应充分利用现代科技，结合自身条件和资源，选择适合自己的网上营销模式。     

精英转型主管五步曲

在其他营销领域，只要业务做得出色，就会被升为业务主管，这是“理所当然”的事。而在保险营销行业，这一规则并不确定。不少高绩效团队主管是从一线营销精英成长起来的，但也有很多精英业务做得特棒，但就是只管得好自己，管不了别人，最终无缘于团队发展之路。作为一个保险职场中人，在“团队致胜”的今天，从业务精英转型团队主管，不只是步步高升，     

人寿保险的和谐营销

目前，我国寿险营销体制仍以个人代理人机制为主。该体制由上海友邦保险公司于1992年引人中国市场以来，得到了充分的发展，并带动了整个寿险行业的快速发展。直到2002年，个人代理保费收入仍占全部寿险保费收入的80％以上。但是，随着时代的发展，市场竞争的加剧，我国建设社会主义和谐社会的步伐不断加快，单纯的以个人代理人机制为主的寿险营销体制已经不能适应市场发展的需要。     

增员的“六个多—点”

保险公司的永续经营主要靠的是人，因此，增员已经成为各家保险公司日常工作，因为只有不断地增员才能不断地促进保险公司的发展、壮大，只有不断地增员才能确保营销业务团队不断地发展，壮大，因此增好人、增对人是我们增员的标准．也是增员的基础．这里我把增员技巧总结为“六个多点”，跟大家一起分享。     

谭启永：让保险成为习惯——平安寿险济南分公司2002年个险第一名

谭启永说做保险要有经营理念，保险营销员就是批发零售商人。他说：“我是代理人，我代理的产品称为保险。保险公司批发给我，我零售给我的客户。”他能成功，是因为他有三条基本的营销原则。     

尊重赢取人心

时下，最困扰保险公司主管的事情，就是业务骨干不断地跳槽，尤其是保险代理人，他们与保险公司本来就是松散型的关系，辛辛苦苦培养出来了，刚能派上用场，说走就走了。到底是哪个环节出了问题，怎样才能留住他们的心呢？以下是我身边的一个案例。     

创新：专业化团队可持续发展的主题

一个大学生即便是营销专业毕业的大学生，绝对没有人会这样说：“个人代理人是我梦寐以求的职业，我会将这一职业进行到底，终生不渝。”为什么？原因就在于这一职业不“养人”，不能为你解决养老、医疗等社会保障，没有底薪不能解决在业务低迷时的“糊口”问题，再加上各保险公司急功近利的培训和管理方式，草草几天的新人培训后就把新兵当老将使，     

电话营销：鱼在哪里？

提起购买保险，可能会让人想起身旁费尽口舌的保险代理人，或是人头簇拥的银行柜台，甚至偶尔能从记忆中想起的一两个保险公司网点。可是，随着“面对面”营销方式的变化，营销员只闻其音不见其人，就可以在电话里面谈妥一桩买卖；人们在家门口的便利店里挑选一瓶鲜奶的同时，也同样可以像购买电话卡那样顺便买一份保单。[编者按]     

Options as a Marketing Tool: Pricing a Promotional Scheme for a Product with a Secondary Market

Adding options to durable products allows new opportunities for manufacturers and retailers in markets with a secondary market to create better segmentation schemes, provide creative means to differentiate their products and services, and increase the value they offer consumers. This raises the need for sellers to properly price such options. This work presents a few examples of incentive programs for the car industry, develops models and calculates their cost to the seller, demonstrating the applicability of the proposed methodology. Our numerical results indicate that such options are surprisingly inexpensive for car manufacturers and dealers. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Advertising a product to face a competitor entry: a differential game approach

We analyze a market in which advertising is the dominant marketing tool to create market share. We assume that an incumbent firm dominates the market during an initial stage, and that a new competitor is going to enter the market. In particular, we analyze the different advertising policies that the incumbent firm can adopt, before and after the entry of the rival. We explore three possible behaviours. In the first scenario the firm knows that the competitor will arrive at a given instant. In the second one we assume the original firm to be surprised, in the sense that it does not anticipate the entry of the opponent either because it does not expect the competitor to arrive, or it is not prepared to react before the entry takes place. Finally, in the third scenario, the original firm knows that the competitor will enter at a constant rate. We characterize a differential game model and compare the firms’ behaviours in a strategic perspective.     

Reevaluating waste as a resource under a circular economy approach from a system perspective: Findings from a case study

The circular economy (CE), definable as a system focused on the reorganization of material, information, and energy flows to achieve greater resource efficiency through the reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling of materials, is a concept widely discussed by practitioners and scientists of many disciplines. Waste recycling is integral to the CE, but there are still few articles focused on waste, and only few studies shed light on CE implementation at the company level. This paper focuses on a particular type of waste, that is, absorbent hygiene products (AHPs), which represents a nonnegligible fraction of municipal solid waste, considered an increasingly serious global challenge. We conducted our analysis on FaterSMART, an Italian firm that developed a unique worldwide technology able to totally convert AHP raw material wastes into recyclable materials, under a CE approach. The case study findings are based upon semi-structured interviews, direct observations, and analysis of FaterSMART's archival documents and are analyzed according to a framework developed for the research and focused on the place of waste from a linear economy, in which waste is considered a burden to CE, in which waste is considered a resource. The latter case is what we found that happens at FaterSMART. FaterSMART's findings could contribute to open up new management scenarios and stimulate further research into how this and similar types of technology will help societies to change from the “use-it-once-and-throw-it away” mentality of linear business models to the sustainable CE model that fully conceptualize waste as a resource for the system.     

Between a rock and a hard place: managing diversity in a shareholder society

This study examines whether the appointment of racial/ethnic minorities into top management positions has a different impact on share price than the appointment of Caucasians into equivalent positions. Our dependent variable is the degree of change in share price following the announcement of racial/ethnic minority and Caucasian men into senior management positions. Market reaction to the naming of racial/ethnic minorities into corporate leadership positions is significant and negative, while the market's reaction to the naming of Caucasians is significant and positive. However, the negative market reaction to the appointment of racial/ethnic minorities into top management positions is mitigated in those firms that have explicitly incorporated diversity into their strategic growth plan. Our findings suggest that to successfully introduce diversity into upper management, firm decision makers must first signal the importance of diversity to market actors.     

Simulation of a blood-inventory-bank system in a hospital

A blood-bank inventory system has been analysed viewing it as an inventory-hank system where the demand forecasting forms a part of the inventory model. A simulation model incorporating the “desired-beginning-inventory-level” policy has been used for the analysis of system-performance. Optimal inventory policy-guidelines have been suggested for a hospital blood-bank using blood shortage and blood out-dating as the two important components of the measure of effectiveness. Numerical results have been given.     

一个人和一本杂志的奇迹

曾经接近倒闭的台湾《商业周刊》在俞国定手中奇迹般地成为今天台湾业界发行量、广告额排名第一的杂志。他掌握了媒体成功的秘笈了吗?     

Without a vision, a business may perish

The process described is not only viable for a company, but also can be used by any group that is gathered to perform any task. The process serves to explore strengths and weaknesses so the group can use one and shore up the other. It looks at the outside forces that may affect the work and allows the group to place its effort in the areas it can influence. By looking at what is or about to occur, the process may be able to create synergism or prevent disaster. A vision or direction statement that many if not all had some input into is easier to understand and support. Referral to these benchmarks or compass points makes the journey easier.     

Was George a Dreamer or a Realist?

Abstract . The republication of Steven Cord's Henry George: Dreamer or Realist? makes available once more a work which dealt with insight and depth of analysis with the misconceptions, factual inaccuracies and offhand dismissals of the American economist and social philosopher's theories. Although he alienated many in the academic community, George attracted many leading scholars in it to significant research on basic problems of our times.     

Congestion in a city with a central bottleneck

We consider dynamic congestion in an urban setting where trip origins are spatially distributed. All travelers must pass through a downtown bottleneck in order to reach their destination in the CBD. Each traveler chooses departure time to maximize general concave scheduling utility. We find that, at equilibrium, travelers sort according to their distance to the destination; the queue is always unimodal regardless of the spatial distribution of trip origins. We construct a welfare maximizing tolling regime, which eliminates congestion. All travelers located beyond a critical distance from the CBD gain from tolling, even when toll revenues are not redistributed, while nearby travelers lose. We discuss our results in the context of acceptability of tolling policies.