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International Marine Underwriters Marketing

IMU’s Marketing Campaign- It’ll Knock Your Socks Off

Last month, IMU’s Boston team decided to shake things up by organizing a fun marketing campaign for their producers.  They came up with the idea to send IMU branded socks to each of their agents with a note that read “We’ll knock your socks off with exceptional service and pricing. Call IMU today!” As you can see in the photo, the socks were bright and fun, as IMU’s hope was to have the socks put a smile on everyone’s face.

“The idea came to me while riding home on the train,” Meredith Atwood, New England Regional President, said. “I wanted to do something different and provide something useful.”

This is the first snail mail campaign the region has done and it was a huge success. The team received nothing but positive feedback, in addition to some great pictures! Below are just a few of the responses the IMU team received.

“Thank you so much for my socks!!! I love them! Can’t wait to wear them at the marina!!”

“Love, love, love the socks! Wondering what the flags meant hopefully not S.O.S. …HA”

“Thanks so much for sending me those oh so brightly colored IMU socks! (I hope they will stretch onto my size 13 hoofs and if not I know my granddaughter will love them!)”

“Thanks for sending- classic look! Now I need to find a yacht club to join to wear them to…”

“Sometimes we get gifts from companies that have little use, but I love these and will wear them all of the time!”

“I got my socks! Thanks so much- I love them and I’m going to look up the flags to see what they spell…such a great idea- I cracked up!”

 

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Boston Producers Meet Team OneBeacon

Recently, eight business units assembled “trade-show” style at Boston’s Langham Hotel to showcase our specialty capabilities to local producers. Representatives from Aon, Marsh, CRC Swett and other distribution partners stopped by for breakfast and to get better acquainted with OneBeacon. Each producer already works with one of our groups, so this forum was a chance to learn about our broader capabilities.

This was OneBeacon’s second product fair, modeled on a successful event organized by St. Louis’ IMU team late summer. Like the inaugural fair, the Boston event resulted in new business submissions within 24 hours. And importantly, it personally connected producers with people they’ve worked with from afar. According to an RT Specialty participant, “It was great to meet Kansas-based Kellie Murray, who I’ve worked with for years.” Kellie is a media liability specialist from our Entertainment group who handles the Eastern region. And the face-to-face connections were welcomed by the OneBeacon hosts as well, who appreciated meeting their underwriting and risk control colleagues from different segments and locations.

Next month, a holiday-themed product fair will be hosted in Chicago, with ten businesses participating. And as we look ahead, we plan to establish a product fair calendar and toolkit to export this best practice across OneBeacon! In the meantime, questions can be directed to anyone in the Marketing & Communications team.

Our team
Eight business units participated in Boston’s recent product fair.

 

Financial Services' Rebecca Riekofski & Barbara Winsor
Becky Riekofski and Barbara Winsor represented OBFS.
Hosts mingled with producers.
OBML’s Ryan Sardelli and OBTI’s Dave Molitano network with producers.