Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’
What’s More Important, Product or Product Distribution?
By Mike Branton Ask 100 retail bankers, and 99 will tell you they’re working on some sort of digital distribution channel for their consumer banking products: online account opening, digital loan application, digital cross-selling, mobile marketing, etc. Nearly every survey you see published shows financial institutions making digital product distribution at least a top-five priority…
Read MoreThe Name of the Game? Product Value
By Dave Pond During a recent episode of the Marketing Money podcast (helmed by John Oxford, director of marketing at Renasant Bank, and Mabus Agency owner Josh Mabus), I was excited to hear the topic of conversation turn from product naming toward product value. >> Marketing Money Ep. 125 (31:00) | LISTEN After all, nothing…
Read MoreWhat’s in a Name?
By James Mason My friend and her six-year-old daughter were listening to music. Her daughter said that she’s never heard the song playing and that it was “weird,” so my friend said, “This was a popular song when I was a teenager in the ’90s.” Her daughter replied and said, “Oh. You mean in the…
Read MoreAmazon’s Case for Offering Free Checking Accounts
The speculation around Amazon’s potential entrance into banking has only heightened, thanks to the recent reports of Amazon being in talks with big banks like JPMorgan Chase and Capital One. While it’s unlikely that Amazon actually plans to become a bank itself, these types of partnerships further reveal that getting in on the banking action is moving up on its “take over the world” to-do list.
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