What’s More Important, Product or Product Distribution?

Banker discussing checking accout options with prospective customer

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…

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The 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…

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What’s in a Name?

Customers and bank employee reviewing account benefits at desk.

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…

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Stop Trying to Talk Your Customers Into Liking Your Checking Accounts

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Recently I was reading an article from Chris Nichols, Chief Strategy Officer of Winter Haven, Florida-based CenterState Bank, entitled Public Perception of the Cost of Checking. Nichols shares how CenterState interviewed 200 randomly selected potential customers about what they thought about the bank’s pricing and value of its checking accounts. The pricing ranges from a fee of $5.95…

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Retail Checking Realities

Woman making an online purchase

Forty percent of retail checking relationships are unprofitable, so crafting retail checking accounts that deepen customer relationships, drive deposit growth, and enhance the bottom line is a challenge faced by most financial institutions. How can bank leaders tackle this issue?

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