Hi

We have been redesigning our cover4letproperty website for a couple of months and after successfully passing the testing phase, it goes live today!  This is very exciting for me as the look and feel of the old site, whilst good for it’s time, has been grating with me for the past year.  I hope that you will find the new site and quotation forms easier to use, clearer, and more consistent with the professional service expected of us.

The site offers quote and buy for landlords insurance, unoccupied property insurance and holiday homes from a panel of insurers.  As part of this ‘revamp’, we have added two new insurers; Equity Red Star and a Lloyd’s secured market, Protector.  Our quote engine provides terms for 93% of enquiries.  This means that we ask a few more questions than some but you get the correct premium and terms first time.

If you have any comments about this new site, please either post a reply to this thread or email me at nickb@alanblunden.co.uk.

In addition to this development, we have also been improving our back office infrastructure with an upgrade of our paperless office system.  At the time of writing, the new server is not working but, as is usually the case with IT, each party involved thinks it is something to do with the other.  Hopefully by next week I will be able to write something positive here, time will tell.

My day yesterday was very interesting on a number of levels.  I went to Ad tech to see if there was anything we were missing with our online campaign.  We go every year to try and keep on top of developments.  This year there was a real push for online video ads.  Watch this space as I will be appearing in my first online video next month.  It was interesting to note that the event did not seem as big as last year and there seemed to be many more American firms represented.  Still worthwhile though.

Have a good week!

Nick Blunden