Growing up surrounded by entrepreneurs, my grandfather, a short order cook and owner of a local diner, my father, owner of his handyman business and the family business, was printing, I was taught that “No man is an island!” My grandfather would often recall how, when he was young, “Business people would stick together. Everyone in the community knew each other and was more than willing to ‘help out their neighbor’”. That was then – the day of the small business; today, big box stores and chains have made being a small business owner a greater challenge than ever before.
But, as a small business owner, we can provide something that is near impossible for a large chain store to replicate, a competitive advantage of sorts – localness. And with the help of the Internet, Social Media, and our community, we can get our “local” message out there and be “social” together.
Encharter Insurance is proud to partner with local businesses in the Reading and Stoneham area – together we can help each other to get the “local” message out there and reclaim our business community from those large chain stores. By advertising your business on our website, promoting your business on our social media sites and spreading our knowledge of social media, we can help you grow your small business, and in the process, continue to grow our small business.
What makes us so confident? Well, for the last 2 years our Partners of Encharter program has successfully helped businesses increase their Internet presence and grow – check out this video: Ace Fire and Water – and all the while, we have increased our own business with new accounts up 68% and client retention above 94%.
We have Partners that are Massachusetts business insurance clients and many that are not – and that is okay with us, our goal is to help you grow! Therefore, while we hope that, if we can help you, you might allow us to earn your business, but you are not required to be an Encharter Insurance customer in order to be an Encharter Partner. We want to help you grow your business! So check us out and sign up today!
by Kenneth Petersen, CEO of Encharter Insurance
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