If you wish to establish a partnership between your agency and E-INSURE Services, follow these steps:

• Register for an E-INSURE Agent account. All insurance agencies that would like to receive leads from E-INSURE should contact us to review options for establishing an E-INSURE Agent account.

The leads we provide our agents are highly qualified. You tell us what kind of client you want, and we deliver exactly that. E-INSURE provides a competitive marketplace where a talented agent can flourish. There are no exclusive territories; clients seeking a given product in their area will be presented with a list of agents. We encourage all of our agents to provide a comprehensive profile. Your biggest selling point is your expertise; here's where you get to show it off!

Many of E-INSURE's partners maintain a presence online. Such facilities range from a simple form enabling a prospective client to request contact from an agent, to sophisticated quoting engines that bring together comparison quotes from dozens of sources.

Simply put, what distinguishes an e-Partner is that E-INSURE presents a prospective client with your application and resulting content, rather than our own. This is particularly appropriate for partners who specialize in providing immediate results online, or who have expended considerable resources developing a sophisticated set of online applications.

Many of E-INSURE's clients are repeat customers who have established profiles in our database. This enables us to support your existing process by transferring what data we have via any of a number of industry-standard paths. Pre-filling your applications in this manner reduces the incidence of data-entry errors and pleases our customers by reducing their typing load.

E-INSURE operates under a very strict Privacy Policy. Because of the potential for abuse inherent in such data-transfer technology, E-INSURE will carefully scrutinize a prospective e-Partner's privacy and security policies before establishing this kind of relationship.

If you wish to enroll your firm in E-INSURE's e-Partner program, follow these steps:

• Designate an account administrator. This is the person at your firm who will have the authority to negotiate contract terms with E-INSURE and to approve changes in content related to your firm. Have that person contact E-INSURE Services to establish your corporate account.

As alternative to becoming an approved e-Partner, we invite websites that offer insurance services and related news content to participate in reciprocal/affiliate linking. Please visit our the Partner Links page on our einsurance Journal website for more information.