Pros
American National is one of the oldest and major insurance companies in America. It offers a great range of insurance products that allows to serve all your customer needs. It has a uniqueness. This company is rather conservative. From my experience, it has been beneficial for my business to have that conservative approach to product offering, marketing style and client base. On-line marketing support is very appealing for those who like to experiment with marketing through FB and LinkedIn and other similar sites. They have a service through Hear Say Social, which allows the agents to mass-market on-line. This is invaluable in our age of the Internet. Despite the fact that agents are "captive", the company offers industry partnerships with a other insurance carriers that enlarge your product offering to the clients even more. Management provides local training and development, ideas are freely shared, marketing materials are available at no or little cost.
Cons
Slightly lacking marketing presence on-line compared to competition.