I agree with you regarding brands and insurers – these new additions to our panel will give us increased coverage in both.

We actually do have a number of whitelabel partnerships at present, but we also have a number of other marketing initiatives in the pipeline.

We’ve recently expanded our staff levels particularly in our marketing department and as a result, you should see a lot more of Quotezone in the coming months.

Many thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment Greg. And congratulations on your recent successes. I’ve not looked at your panel recently but brands are one thing, having the right insurers to cover as many risks as possible is another. Let’s hope you’re on the right road.

Even if breaking into the top 6 seems like an impossible task, I wasn’t insinuating that everyone else should pack up and go home. I’m sure you’ve managed to position Quotezone into a health and attractive position – perhaps for investors, which is probably what it would take to push into the big league. Or you could consider white label partnerships to add to your current traffic levels.

How are you aiming to achieve growth and catch up with the big boys in the playground if you don’t mind me asking?

Despite being in competition with James over the last 9 years, this feels like the loss of a friend and I do very much wish him well.

The loss of a friend?! Sounds very terminal Richard?! As @Greg Wilson has alluded, I suspect you’ll be seeing more of James Harrison if his contacts and expertise are anything to go by. But, it is still a massive shame to see Insurancewide go to the wall at the hands of HMRC. They were one of the first and probably one of the best for the white label market even if they didn’t crack into the top league.

By the way, our insurance comparison site launches very soon and yet again your “insiders view” is more short sighted than any out sider.

…or we simply regard “talk” of a Money Extra insurance comparison tool as being of little substance? ;o) We’ve heard talk of Money Extra building a combined personal finance tool for customers for about 4 or 5 years now, and we’ve “seen” nothing. So you’ll have to forgive us if we don’t comment on more “talk” about future releases until they are exactly that …released.

We’ll be more than happy to review whatever Money Extra release to the public. But be sure to tell us if an early releases are still in Beta or if you don’t quite consider it to be the polished article – so that we can give it a fair review.

We are continuing to expand quite raidly in terms of panel size (we have more than 15 additional brands due to launch shortly on car insurance alone) , product offering (we have a number of new comparison systems in development) , and quote volume (we have seen our quote volumes on car insurance more than double within the last 12 months) . I believe we are somewhere around the position 6 mark in terms of car traffic volume at present.

Whilst there have undoubtedly been some casualties in what has become an increasingly competitive aggregator market, I dont think its time to call it a 5 horse race just yet!

On a related note, Im sure with James’ considerable business expertise he will be able to put this set back behind him and I wish him the very best in his next venture.

Despite being in competition with James over the last 9 years, this feels like the loss of a friend and I do very much wish him well.

By the way, our insurance comparison site launches very soon and yet again your “insiders view” is more short sighted than any out sider. Do you ever use google?

In hindsight, yes, it was a little stilted in tone, but I wasn’t claiming we were bigger than the four sites you cite, what I was pointing out is that we are still growing (witness our latest White Label partnership with Daily Mail) and our plans are to continue in this vein. The “struggling too” aspect does not apply to us.

What, however, do you mean by “… reputation in the industry is not great”? In what sectors and in what way? That’s certainly not the feedback I get from our panel – we speak regularly and have very good working relationships, but maybe you know better?!

I’d like to clarify for the readers of this blog that I can’t see how anybody can take you seriously when you claim to be out performing all of the UK aggregators! If I set up a random site tomorrow and get 1 quote, and then 4 the next month, will that mean my 400% increase in qualified traffic is out performing all other UK aggregators??

Trust me, BTQ are no way near the same league at GC, CTM, MS and Confused.

On this basis, I suspect BTQ are struggling too. They’ve always been known for their aggressive sales approach and their reputation in the industry is not great. I can’t see that changing very soon. Perhaps some waste bits from the Insurancewide fall out can be picked up but that’s the best BTQ can hope for IMHO.