Online comparison access will now be provided to entire broker base
Quotes2Me, the new online insurance portal for consumers and SME’s, have today announced an agreement with Open GI to provide access to the Quotes2Me platform to the Open GI brokers enabling them to compete more effectively in the online insurance market.
Whilst the Quotes2Me service is available to all intermediaries the new agreement will allow Open GI brokers to automatically download online quote requests or quote opportunities directly into their broker back-office for quoting against even if they don’t have a website.
The service opens up the online market for specialist intermediaries that are looking to focus on niche risks or the ones that wish to use their local office as a key differentiator.
Simon Hughes, sales and marketing director, Open GI, said: “We decided to work with Quotes2Me because we see it as an opportunity to further enable our whole user base to take advantage of changing consumer behaviour. We recognised that the majority of our brokers needed a platform to be able to compete more effectively and generate leads, particularly as more and more insurance is being sourced online.
Quotes2Me gives us a unique opportunity to give our brokers an additional competitive edge. By developing an interactive service that allows brokers to segment quote opportunities within their back-office using Open GI’s InStream technology, they can tap into new leads without the high costs of online marketing.”
Manjit Rana, chief executive, Quotes2Me, said: “We are very excited about the new dynamics that this will introduce into the insurance distribution domain and are looking forward to helping provide Open GI brokers with an additional competitive edge in the new online focussed world of insurance distribution.”
There are now around 15 million plus consumers and SME’s that are using the internet to source insurance quotes each month. The new service will offer access to the broadest range of quote providers in the market. Research shows that consumers are using between two and three price comparison sites now in a bid to find the best product from the widest range of providers because they do not believe any single aggregator covers a sufficient proportion of the market, according to Quotes2Me.
