Growing Your Business—Is Your Business!

Strategies to attract new business and make your income grow

What business development strategies are used by the top 1% sales people? If you're like most people, you use only two or three business development strategies—and generally the least efficient ones. Would you like to sell more, faster and more easily than ever? In this highly stimulating session, you will learn a series of practical, proven strategies that you will be able to adopt in order to make your sales explode and get ahead of your competitors who undercut you.

Market outlook

Get a market outlook overview from renowned experts. What will be the consequences of the Eurozone troubles? Will the repercussions be as serious as the 2008 market crisis? This overview will provide both a national and international outlook so that you can be informed in advance about developing trends that could impact your clients!

Are direct insurers and banks using the internet to take a bite out of your business? Fight back. Become a web-based broker!

We will show you how others are winning business and profiting from this new business model. Come to this seminar and demystify technology related to social networking, internet marketing and eBusiness development. And your distributors? Are they contributing enough to your online success? You will come out a winner from this seminar!

Wanted : Highly skilled salespeople!

Find out the typical skill profile of the 100 best sales people in Quebec! Come learn how to develop these skills for yourself and your sales staff. Also, discover how to look for these skills in potential job candidates. We will show you where to look for the employees that you need, how to integrate them effectively within your team and how to evaluate your sales team’s performance.

Participants registered for this seminar will be given a free personalized profile!

Can entrepreneurs optimize profits using critical illness insurance?

Is it possible for a client, who is an entrepreneur, to withdraw dormant funds from his company in a tax efficient manner? Is it possible to protect an entrepreneur whose daily responsibilities can become a source of financial and human stress if critical illness strikes?

A special event not to be missed: the Convention lunch banquet!

Attend this banquet for a pleasant break during your day. All the industry will be gathered together for this splendid lunch and a keynote speech. Quebec’s Chambre de la sécurité financière will also present its Excellence Awards during this event.

Register now as availabilities are limited!

New in 2010: Free access to the Exhibitors Hall!

Exhibitors can expect a high level of kiosk traffic this year: the Exhibitors Hall will be open to the entire industry this year free of charge! Only seminar attendance will be subject to registration fees. Now more than ever, the 2010 Insurance and Investments Convention will be THE business and networking place for everyone in the industry.

Insurance industry still suffering from automobile theft!

Despite several victories, the industry could lose the gains it has made over the past 10 years. Organized crime, troubling practices in the industry and ineffective governmental regulation are a few of the issues involved. Attend this seminar to learn about the road travelled and that which needs to be taken in the future!

Will your commissions disappear?

Fee-based or commissions? What does the future hold for compensation? Attend this seminar and inform yourself about the trends developing in the industry following the examples of Australia and England.

Asset allocation strategy at risk: some products could disappear within 5 years!

Following the financial crisis, guaranteed withdrawal benefits, segregated funds, annuities, RRIFs and life income funds are under scrutiny by regulators! Higher capital requirements on insurers and new accounting standards in 2011 could endanger the future of these products.

At such a time, what is the best asset allocation strategy for your clients? Industry experts will answer these questions and share with you the best retirement income strategy for your clients!