Tales of the unexpected
The summer brings events galore for your clients, but what if it all goes wrong? Cheryl Chapman finds outWith the summer party season in full swing, your clients will be planning weddings, balls, shoots and garden shows. With any luck, these events will go off without a hitch, but there’s always the potential for things to go wrong.
What if the bride’s car breaks down on the way and she can’t get to the venue in the allotted time? Or perhaps guests at a charity event contract food poisoning, or a fire starts in the marquee. The possibilities, unfortunately, are endless.
That’s why it’s important for your clients to have event insurance, which can protect them from financial and legal costs should things not go as planned. Insurex Expo-Sure is one of the largest suppliers of events insurance in the country and has just launched a new online service for event organisers, which allows you to quote for and buy insurance for corporate and private events instantaneously.
You and your clients can buy online in minutes: six easy steps take you to completed documentation, which can be viewed online and emailed directly to you or your client.
Hiscox can set up a personalised web address for your brokerage – many of you will already have received a letter giving you this unique address.
You can forward your web address to your clients so they can buy online themselves or, better still, you can set up a link directly from your own website. One of the advantages of using the online link is that the business you introduce through the site can be tracked and your commission allocated accordingly.
The service gives you the chance to cross-sell to your clients. Mark Trevor, Managing Director of Insurex Expo-Sure, explains: “This is an excellent cross-sell product for brokers, given that your clients comprise private individuals and businesses who organise events. The fact that it is online and can be accessed via your website with ‘no touch’ makes it a valuable addition to your offering.”
Now your clients can go ahead and organise that gala charity event in their back garden, knowing that they’re fully covered.