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MoneyGeek's business insurance research has been cited by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Allstate, and LegalZoom as a reference for small business insurance costs and coverage guidance.

Why You Can Trust The MoneyGeek Business Insurance Team

There is plenty of misinformation and inadequate guidance for insurance, especially for business owners. Our aim is to provide the information you need in an accurate, digestible and easy-to-act-on way so you can make the best decision for your company without wasting time. 

In order to be in line with this goal, we do the following:

  • Assign writers by specialty: Our writers focus on specific business insurance products and industries, so each page is handled by someone specialized in the topic. Writers complete onboarding with their vertical manager before creating content independently and continuously research trends, provider changes and coverage issues in their specialty.
  • Review pages before publication: New pages and updates are reviewed by Connor Bolton, the business insurance vertical lead, for coverage accuracy, terminology, pricing assumptions, methodology consistency and practical usefulness for small business owners.
  • Use documented standards for rankings and costs: Our best, cheapest and cost pages are built from our business insurance methodology, including provider scoring, pricing data, coverage and customer experience evaluation standards.
  • Do continuous research on our audience: Past just products, we continuously research business owners' needs through reviews, forums and surveys to not lose sight of who we're writing to.
  • Review standards and pricing annually: We update business insurance content, methodology standards and displayed pricing on an annual basis to keep our guidance consistent, current and manageable across the vertical.
  • Set clear limits on our guidance: Our content is designed to educate and compare options, not replace advice from a licensed insurance agent, attorney, accountant or state regulator.

Meet Our Business Insurance Content Team

You can learn more about who makes, updates and reviews business insurance content at MoneyGeek below:

Connor Bolton: Senior SEO and Content Manager

Connor Bolton

Connor Bolton leads MoneyGeek's business insurance editorial team, setting the research framework, data standards, and content structure writers execute. He directly authors guides and reviews all content for coverage accuracy and consistency with MoneyGeek's methodology before publication. He architected the cost data infrastructure behind business insurance research across 408 industry areas, all 50 states, employee counts from 0 to 49 and 16 vehicle types.

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Angelique Palenzuela-Cruz: Business Insurance Writer

Angelique Palenzuela-Cruz

Angelique Palenzuela-Cruz specializes in general liability, workers' compensation, and professional liability coverage. Before moving into financial content writing, she spent nearly 12 years at Guthrie-Jensen Consultants, one of Southeast Asia's largest management training firms, working directly with business clients as a Training and Managing Consultant. She also helped establish Gladwin Training Consultancy, where she gained firsthand experience navigating the operational decisions that businesses encounter from the inside. That background informs how she evaluates coverage decisions from the business owner's perspective rather than just giving a policy explainer.

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Mark Flores: Business Insurance Writer

Mark Flores

Mark Flores's business insurance specialty is commercial auto, commercial property, cyber, and specialty insurance types. He brings B2B research experience from Clutch.co, where he produced structured provider reviews and analyses, as well as nearly 4 years serving small business clients as a digital marketing specialist. At MoneyGeek, he spent nearly five years in the credit cards vertical before transitioning to business insurance.

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Business Insurance Editorial Team Roles

To support quality content, we specialize our roles for consistency and focus on our mission to help small business owners find the right insurance and understand what they're buying. All team members were assigned roles for product-level coverage, then, based on their specialization, industries most in need of those products were assigned. 

Our roles and ownership are organized as follows:

Connor Bolton

Business insurance vertical lead, methodology owner, author and technical reviewer

High-level business insurance content at the category level

Construction & Contracting; Healthcare & Medical; Financial Services

Angelique Palenzuela-Cruz

Business insurance writer

General liability, workers' comp and professional liability

Arts, Media & Entertainment; Beauty, Body & Wellness; Childcare; Cleaning; Consulting; Education; Fitness; Marketing & Communications; Other Professional Services; Pet Care; Tech/IT; Repair & Maintenance; Food & Beverage; Recreation & Sports

Mark Flores

Business insurance writer

Commercial auto, commercial property, cyber, inland marine, tools and equipment, business interruption, equipment breakdown, cargo, HNOA and other specialty lines

Agriculture & Natural Resources; Hospitality, Travel & Tourism; Manufacturing; Real Estate & Property Services; Retail & Product Rental; Transportation & Logistics; Wholesale & Distribution

How We Create and Review Business Insurance Content

Our editorial process for business insurance content creation and evaluation is as follows:

  1. 1
    Topic selection & intent check

    We choose topics based on what business owners commonly ask, using keyword volume and forum research, and map pages to a clear focus so business owners can get the information they need fast.

  2. 2
    Source gathering and referencing

    We reference primary and reputable sources where available, such as carrier forms/endorsements, insurer product documentation, state insurance resources, and established industry organizations. To not lose sight of our audience, we also connect with them through review forums and Reddit to stay in touch. In addition, we use in-house product-specific review standards and quote-based modeling datasets, assisted by AI tools, to comprehensively and accurately evaluate providers when creating content.

  3. 3
    Brief creation

    The business insurance content lead (Connor Bolton) creates briefs for writers on specific page topic sets, such as industry-level cost pages, outlining article structures and noting execution expectations, nuances and potential pitfalls that can come with a topic's territory. These structures evolve over time, incorporating new insights from our research to better serve our readers.

  4. 4
    Drafting

    Writers create first drafts based on provided page structures, external research, and cross-validation against our review standards. Standard structures are also modified as needed to provide personalized information where necessary to communicate what a potential reader may need.

  5. 5
    Technical accuracy review

    Connor Bolton, the business insurance content manager, reviews for the following after a draft is completed:

    • Coverage accuracy (terminology, policy mechanics, exclusions)
    • Structural clarity (correct section order and hierarchy)
    • Scannability (headers, bullets, tables, callouts, flow)
    • Reader delivery (plain-language framing, decision support, minimizing jargon)
    • Content consistency across the business insurance hub (ensuring terminology, coverage explanations, and structural patterns stay aligned across related pages)

    Revisions are then done based on this round of feedback before going to editorial review.

  6. 6
    Editorial review (pooled staff)

    Our pooled editorial staff edits the content for:

    • Grammar, punctuation, and readability
    • Consistency with conversation style and tone
    • Disclosure language and formatting standards
    • Uniform editorial rules across the site
  7. 7
    Publication & maintenance

    We publish the content once it meets review standards and update it throughout the year to reflect changes in industry norms, availability, and reader needs. We aim to update all content at least annually to keep our guides fresh.

Contact Us and Learn More About Our Process

You can contact Connor Bolton at connor@moneygeek.com with any questions about content created within the /insurance/business/ subfolder of our site regarding any inaccuracies, concerns, questions or other communications. You can also access our methodology here for transparency purposes to dig deeper into our processes.

About Connor Bolton


Connor Bolton, Senior SEO and Content Manager (Business & Pet), MoneyGeek

Connor Bolton is Senior SEO and Content Manager at MoneyGeek, where he leads the business and pet insurance editorial teams. He sets the research framework, data standards and content structure for his team. All content goes through his accuracy review before publication. Connor also writes in-depth guides and has spent more than four years covering insurance products across personal, commercial and specialty lines.

The research infrastructure Connor built covers auto, home, renters, life, health, business and pet insurance across pricing analysis, carrier research, customer experience and coverage evaluation. It includes over 6 million data points for business insurance across 408 industry areas, all 50 states and 16 vehicle types. The pet insurance side covers over 5 million profiles across 18 major providers, 100+ breeds and ages up to 20 years. Connor’s insurance research and his team's work have been cited by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Allstate, Liberty Mutual, CBS News, Forbes and LegalZoom.

Connor also talks with underwriters and carrier liaisons at Ethos, The Hartford, ERGO NEXT, Nationwide and State Farm, and monitors business and pet owner communities on Reddit. Those sources shape how his team evaluates carriers, structures rate analysis and writes content for real pet owners.

Questions about MoneyGeek's business or pet insurance content? Reach him at connor@moneygeek.com or on LinkedIn.