Shared Agency Services (SAS) Selects Learn.net For Insurance Industry Training

Shared Agency Services (SAS), representing over $700,000,000 in premiums annually, has contracted with Learn.net, Inc. to be the strategic partner for providing improved knowledge management capabilities to SASs owner-member agencies and personnel.

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 28, 2004 -- Shared Agency Services (SAS), representing over $700,000,000 in premiums annually, has contracted with Learn.net, Inc. to be the strategic partner for providing improved knowledge management capabilities to SASs owner-member agencies and personnel. Solutions for both Property and Casualty and Life & Health programs are provided, as well as on-line skills courses and internal courses.

Learn.net and SAS share the view that the Insurance industry must look for multiple ways to improve results and performance," said Larry Duckworth, CEO of Learn.net. "We are pleased that SAS has chosen Learn.net as their sole learning management provider.

Insurance agencies and agents are actively looking for ways to increase the performance results of agents and customer service representatives," continued Duckworth. We believe everyone in the present and future SAS family will benefit from our combined 100 years of insurance education expertise and knowledge improvement solutions."

The SAS agreement reflects the selection of Learn.net as the Virtual Courses solution for the benefit of SAS owner-agents. Through this solution, Learn.net will provide integrated online Continuing Education (CE) and over 2000 on-line skills and agency procedures classes to SAS owner-agents and to non-owner agents, with other SAS courses and documents to be added in the future.

This industry is human capital intensive, with the quality of knowledge being a critical success factor for excellent performance," said Ray Williams, spokesperson for SAS. The knowledge quality of producers, CSRs and licensed employees is literally 'the racers edge in todays highly competitive world. We are a premium grouping of high performance agencies and people and are excited to be a customer of Learn.net."

Our success has been based on being 'Best-in-Class for Insurance companies as a specific expertise and results-providing focus," continued Duckworth. We are highly different from other solutions in ten important ways. Our 'KX5 Solutions Family includes industry specific expertise, many integrated CE and Skills classes, a commitment to helping improve insurance business processes, the 'MAPLE knowledge life cycle system, and many support services including content development and video-streaming solutions. The SAS relationship will allow their carriers to improve their top and bottom line results. We are impressed with their proactive focus on helping owner-members receive more benefits."

About SAS

Shared Agency Services, L.L.C. is a cooperative venture owned by 58 independent insurance agents in eighty seven locations for the purpose of expanding their markets in Georgia. These agents' shared resources, strength, and expertise help them improve the quality of service to policyholders by using a wide variety of insurance products to fit a wide variety of exposures at affordable prices.

S.A.S. owner/agents write in excess of $700,000,000 in combined premiums for well over 100,000 personal and commercial clients with 100 of the finest companies in the industry. With office locations throughout the Georgia, their services are available to every community in Georgia.

About Learn.net

Based in Atlanta, GA, Learn.net provides the unique, proven MAPLE" (Multi-Adaptive Performance Leveraging Environment) solution. It is the knowledge platform in multiple major corporations, including major insurance carriers, where improving the Combined Ratio is a key benefit. Its benefits also apply to independent brokers and agencies that want to improve commissions, lower learning costs, and significantly improve managements control of knowledge certainty. Numerous types of knowledge content are integrated and supplied, including Insurance CE content, over 2000 other on-line courses (e.g., Word, Excel, Diversity, Sexual Harassment and much more), and custom content. Learn.net is the strategic partner of the American Insurance Association (AIA) and the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA). Learn.net can be contacted at 678-589-0100, or at info@learn.net. The Web site is www.learn.net.

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