Is there anything worse than planning a trip, buying travel insurance, and navigating busy airports, only to arrive at your destination feeling utterly exhausted?

It’s known as “desynchronosis” by those who trade in $10 words. Most people know this condition as “jet lag,” and it affects even the most seasoned travelers. Click here to read more.

Shopping for a new home can be fun and exciting, but with all the associated expenses, it can be stressful as well. One item that homebuyers rarely consider is the cost of home insurance.

Things like having to replace floors or kitchen cabinets may sway a homebuyer’s decision, but the cost of insuring the home is rarely considered. What many homebuyers don’t realize is that by considering a couple of additional factors in their buying decision, they can easily save a few hundred dollars on their home insurance costs every year. Click here to read more….

Happily Single from Aviva Canada on Vimeo.

Amanda is a 27-year old single mother. An optimist at heart, Amanda questions how her divorce could have affected her car insurance rates.

For more videos, visit ChangeInsurance.ca/InYourShoes/

In Your Shoes

We have launched the very first insurance industry customer centric online video site and that to in record time! Check out the video’s on In Your Shoes and feel free to leave your comments. If you do enter the In Your Shoes contest and win please feel free to let them know you were refered to the site by Gavin Lobo – Brand Marketing.

Know Your Stuff™ is Insurance Bureau of Canada’s home inventory tool. Now creating and maintaining an accurate home inventory is easier than ever. The Know Your Stuff™ tool will help you to build a room–by–room record of your belongings and calculate replacement costs. Check it out.

For all of you who were wondering where Aviva Canada stands in the Insurance company ranking:

Source: CANADIAN P&C INSURANCE INDUSTRY: 2007 total direct written business.

My first seven days at work were focused on learning everything about the Aviva Canada Change Insurance sites (EN/FR). The English site can be found here – www.changeinsurance.ca. Feel free to leave me comments, feedback, and usability regarding the site as I would love to hear from you. If you are more interested in interacting with the site you can get involved through the Blog. A cool tool on the site is the premium impact calculator that calculates changes to your premium based on certain driving criteria.