What is Astonish Kickstart?
Astonish is a full-service digital marketing, training, and consulting company focused specifically on helping the local insurance agency grow their business.
Using a system and methodology developed over the past fourteen years, Astonish agency partners are among the fastest-growing insurance agencies in the country!
The Astonish Kickstart System has been developed specifically to allow smaller agencies a competitive advantage to reach the modern consumer. Whether you’re located in a highly populated metro area or a small town, the Astonish Kickstart Digital Marketing System can help bring your agency to the next level!
Why Astonish Kickstart?

- Differentiate yourself from your competition with a high quality web presence
- Attract and retain more customers and prospects
- Gain access to the most effective marketing solutions in one seamless package
- Leverage information and knowledge from some of the industry’s most successful sales and marketing professionals
- Effectively represent your agency on the Internet to current and prospective customers, building value and customer loyalty
- Receive monthly webinar training on the tool and digital marketing best practices from the comfort of your own agency
- Astonish agents are among the fastest-growing insurance agencies in the country!
What comes with Astonish Kickstart?
Astonish Kickstart Virtual Insurance Office ™ (VIO) – Your Astonish Kickstart Virtual Insurance Office (VIO) promotes all of your profit centers on the web 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Your VIO builds value in your agency, people, and products. Your VIO features high-end graphics, product information, and lead-converting forms.
Astonish Kickstart VIO Performance Metrics
Astonish will track your VIO’s overall performance through analytical reporting.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – Your VIO is designed from inception for optimal natural search performance. To improve your local search results, we will also create an optimized Google Place listing for your main office location as well get it listed in over 100 local directories through Localeze.*
*From time to time Astonish may review and change its local listing provider; local optimization for incremental locations available for a fee.
Astonish Kickstart Virtual Profit Center (VPC) - (in certain packages)
The Astonish Kickstart VPC is designed to help you organize, manage and track all your existing and inbound opportunities as well as give you the power to create, edit and execute your own email and digital marketing campaigns.
- Lead Management – The Astonish Kickstart VPC is a proprietary software application which allows you to manage and track all your vital existing and prospect customer information.
- Status Driven Email Marketing – The Astonish Kickstart VPC allows you to logically segment your customer database and send targeted email messages to each “status” (auto prospect, home prospect, commercial prospect, etc.). *
- Bulk Email Marketing – Once your customer database is properly segmented, the Astonish Kickstart VPC allows you to send specific messages to each segment as a one-time event, helping you capitalize on sales opportunities. *
- Email Tracking – The Astonish Kickstart VPC also allows you to track each and every email sent to your prospects so you can proactively contact those potential customers who you know read your email.
Technology Upgrades – As Astonish Kickstart makes upgrades and enhancements to the system’s core functionality, we will automatically apply those upgrades to your system. There will always be an opportunity to make sure all Astonish Kickstart partners have the latest and greatest technology available to help grow your business.
Discover how Astonish Kickstart can help your agency grow!





