You may know that Jackson Sumner and Associates takes our in-house Halloween Costume Contests very seriously. We allow YOU to vote on your favorite and the JSA winner has bragging rights - that they exercise often and loudly - all year long. We often say that who we dress up as for Halloween is the closest to [...]
Congrats to The Golden Girls! Haley, Andrew, Allison and Elizabeth have won the 2018 JSA Halloween Contest!
When Wayne Sumner started Jackson Sumner & Associates, it was just Wayne Sumner and Mimi Dobbins. Mimi and Wayne. That was in 1981. For 37 years they've been a team. And they STILL are a great team. When you see working relationships like that as an employee, it tells you that you're working somewhere that [...]
When we go through our archives, we find all sorts of things that take us way back. This banner is one of those. One year, JSA hosted the NC Insurance Women's group in Boone at Shadrack's - an all-you-can-eat buffet with barbecue, and other Southern foods, that was hugely popular in the high country in the [...]
The simple Rolodex: the original contact list; the OG database. Nothing fancy. Just a way to keep your contacts and phone numbers in alphabetical order. You met someone, they went in your 'dex. And often times that card would get scratched out and re-written many times over the course of business relationship. The Rolodex was [...]
At the IIANC Annual Convention was held October 21st - 23rd, 2018 in Myrtle Beach, SC at the Marriott Resort & Spa at Grande Dunes. Please enjoy these convention highlights. Visit IIANC to learn more about this event. Convention Highlights
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Boone, NC - Jackson Sumner & Associates (JSA) has been named the 2018 Managing General Agent (MGA) of the Year by the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) during the PIA Fall Governance Meeting award luncheon on Sept 28th in Portland, Maine. The PIA judging criteria for this award included [...]
This is JSA's first adding machine, from way back in 1981. It was in active use in the day to day business of JSA until just a few years ago. But we couldn't get rid of it,...because of the sticker. In the early days of JSA, it was just Mimi and Wayne. Wayne had two [...]