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Maryland Agency Success Story – Jerry Nicklow

"I feel [being recognized on TrustedChoice.com] is important because it puts us at that level where we stand out."
Published: August 20, 2020

Jerry Nicklow

Huff Insurance

Pasadena, MD

“We wrote like a $60,000 transportation account, so right out of the gate we knew it was going to pay for itself for several years, so that was very encouraging. On average, we probably write about $50,000 to $75,000 in premium a year from the leads directly coming from TrustedChoice.com.”

“Our traffic has increased… we’ve started taking some advice from the folks at TrustedChoice[.com]… adding video and doing other things as well, so in the last 4 years our traffic definitely, it’s probably tripled.”

“I feel [being recognized on TrustedChoice.com] is important because it puts us at that level where we stand out as opposed to the standard listings.”

“You guys [TrustedChoice.com] have a very powerful backlink, so people need to understand the credibility of the source of the backlink is important for SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and TrustedChoice.com has a lot of credibility with Google, which in turn helps the independent agents’ rankings as well. So we piggyback onto your credibility when it comes to SEO and helping our website.”

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Keywords: stand out, backlink, SEO feature, Google rankings, credibility, SEO, web traffic: tripled, transportation insurance, premium amount: $60,000, premium amount: $50,000 – $75,000 annually, large accounts written

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