The Catapult PR Show: PR Insight (UK)

5 Ways to Start, Recharge or Relaunch Your Own Insurance Broking Business

Jane Hunt, managing director of Catapult PR, which has won a large chunk of its 68 awards, to date, for insurance PR and content campaigns, talks to Roger Gaunt, managing director of Gauntlet Group and the Gauntlet Appointed Representative Network. Jane discovers the rationale behind Gauntlet's driving of the local broker renaissance at a time when market transformation has left some clients in fruitless insurance relationships, with call centres or advisers who do not understand their needs ins...

The De-risked New Insurance Business That Paul Deftly Built

Jane Hunt talks to Paul Howley, the very first insurance account executive who was selected for Gauntlet Group's new initiative, Gauntlet Brokerage Builder - a unique entry scheme into the world of insurance broking for anyone who wants to de-risk their future insurance business or who does not have the financial buffer to move straight from employment into self-employment without an instant client base. This programme, part of Gauntlet's championing of a local broker renaissance in the UK, thro...

Time for an UK Insurance Marketing Wake-up Call

Jane Hunt offers an overview of the insurance marketing research that Catapult PR has recently conducted, to show what UK consumers think of their insurers and insurance companies and their marketing, in 2023. Jane urges insurers, insurance providers and brokers to change the grey into scarlet, highlights how nobody will burn them at the stake for doing so and shows what rewards can be achieved by those who are bold, brave and creative in their insurance marketing. She also signposts them to the...

Re-evaluating Life Thanks to Channelling My Inner Axl

On Re-evaluate Your Life Day, multi-award-winning PR consultant and two times winner of the national CIPR Outstanding Independent Practitioner Award, Jane Hunt, offers an honest assessment on her need to re-evaluate life this year and explains how her passion for Axl Rose and Guns N'Roses, plus a trip to Toronto, where she saw the band play, has been the catalyst for this.

Gauntlet Brokerage Builder: the try before you fly way to become your own insurance broking boss

Jane Hunt talks to Roger Gaunt, managing director of Appointed Representative network, Gauntlet Group, and Glyn Arundale, the quality assurance manager at Gauntlet, about the new and groundbreaking Gauntlet Brokerage Builder programme. andnbsp; The interview discusses how Gauntlet Brokerage Builder allows insurance account executives, who cannot afford to set up an insurance brokerage from scratch, or who lack the confidence to do so, to build their future insurance broking business during 22 mo...

Dashboards, Delivery Drivers and Damage Limitation

From Start-up to Award Surprise: An AR Brokers Four-Year Journey

Jane Hunt interviews Robert Bradley, an appointed representative of Gauntlet Group, who achieved his dream of starting his own insurance brokerage just four years ago. Jane discovers what it means to Rob to run his own brokerage - Bradley Gauntlet Insurance Services in Scunthorpe - and learns what he can pass on to other insurance account executives considering life as a start-up broker.

The Launch of Heritage Buzz

Introduction to the new marketing concept for heritage visitor attractions in the UK - Heritage Buzz - with an explanation of why the new concept has. been launched, how it can assist museums, stately homes and gardens, heritage visitor attractions, heritage railways and other heritage-focused businesses and what sort of support is available. The launch details provide food for thought for any UK visitor attraction or museum in the heritage sector, or stately home and gardens in the historic hom...

Reborn as a Broker

Jane Hunt interviews two insurance brokers who were both formerly directly authorised by the FCA in the UK, but who have taken the decision to go through broker de-authorisation, using the pioneering system pioneered by Gauntlet Group - Gauntlet De-authorisation Fast-track. Jane explores the reasons why these brokers took the decision to become Appointed Representatives and how they have been 'reborn' and given a new lease of life in their insurance broking businesses. Jane also gets the views o...

How to Start an Insurance Brokerage

Jane Hunt interviews Roger Gaunt, managing director of Appointed Representative Network principal, Gauntlet, to discover the best way in which an insurance account executive can start their own insurance brokerage and become their own boss.

Insurance Broker De-authorisation: the Advantages & the Opportunities

Interview with Roger Gaunt, Managing Director of Gauntlet Group, a well-established principal for a network of insurance Appointed Representatives and dynamic local insurance brokers, and with Roger Smith, an insurance broker who has recently de-authorised and joined Gauntlet Group as an Appointed Representative (AR)

UK Visitor Attraction Survey: Part 2

The second part of a podcast reviewing the results of a consumer survey into UK Visitor Attractions and assessing what the PR and content marketing responses to these should be.

UK Visitor Attractions Survey 2019: Part 1

First part of a two-part podcast highlighting the findings of Catapult PR’s 2019 UK Visitor Attractions Survey that reveals interesting insight into what consumers feel about UK Visitor Attractions and aspects relating to them, such as pricing, their offering and visitor experience, their relevance, their visitor interpretation, servicescape and more. The podcast provides an overview of the full findings, which have been encapsulated into a downloadable PDF available online. As importantly, the ...