How financial services organizations can leverage Facebook

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With over 800 million users as of October 2011, Facebook® has become one of the most powerful business tools for reaching new customers and building relationships. More than two billion posts are “liked” and commented on each day, and the average user –strongest in the 18-44 age group– connects to up to 80 community pages, [...]

The state of social media in financial services

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Retail banking is now witnessing a change similar to when banks began embracing the Internet in the 1990s. Back then, banks actively pursued the opportunity but their efforts lagged that of other industries and consumer demand.

Fast-forward to 2011, where social media is providing retail banking with a similar opportunity; some 750 million consumers spend [...]

Transforming negative sentiment into a winning customer experience

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When customers have a bad experience, they’re often more connected to how they FEEL about it, than the issue itself. That’s why you need to sharpen your focus on how people react to your business. Timely and effective communications can help you manage negative sentiment, rebuild trust, and promote loyalty.

If customers voice disgruntled opinions [...]

How financial services organizations can leverage Twitter

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As Twitter has taken the social media sphere by storm –over 300 million users and 1 billion pieces of content per day, as of May 2011— it’s no wonder that businesses around the globe are relying on this venue to communicate with customers. Despite strict regulations, even financial services organizations are jumping into the game, [...]

How to deliver great customer experience through a merger – 4 keys to effective communications

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When your company takes on a merger or acquisition, you may see great opportunities, but you should also keep a sharp eye on how the transition affects your customer experience. With all the challenges of change–how do you retain customers and strengthen brand loyalty so you can capture the full value of the deal?  In [...]

Improving customer engagement in social media with predictive analytics

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To capture more value from social media, companies are moving from listening to engaging.  Predictive analytics can help businesses plan strategic responses across a wide spectrum of customers to maximize the value of their social media interactions.

Using techniques from data mining and text mining, predictive analytics lets you look at historical patterns and make [...]

Build more power into customer experience efforts – use text mining of unstructured data to complement structured data

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Capturing data from unstructured sources such as open-ended surveys, phone and email support, and social media networks like Twitter and Facebook provides valuable opportunities for financial services organizations. This “voice” data offers direct, candid feedback from customers and prospects.

But how can you combine this unstructured data with traditional structured data to gain a more [...]

Using sentiment analysis to improve customer experience

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Although “sentiment” has been tracked since the 1960’s to measure consumer confidence, automated sentiment analysis is only recently emerging as a compelling business tool for managing customer experience efforts. Sentiment analysis allows you to track both facts and opinions –such as customer transaction history as well as their comments on Twitter and Facebook– to more [...]

Making communications more effective by leveraging customer insights

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In today’s business world, real ROI and long-term profitability come from optimizing the customer experience –and a key part of this is effective communications. From marketing to servicing, through interactions across all touch points, you need to communicate in ways that resonate with your customers.

So how do you figure out what to say and [...]

Bank of America insights make a case for social media data analytics

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To demonstrate the power of text analysis for gaining customer experience insights, Beyond the Arc analyzed publicly available data on social media websites Facebook and Twitter to identify key trends in what people were saying about Bank of America.  As the largest bank in America by assets (over 12% of US deposits), industry analysts note [...]