2012: Customer experience is the new brand

Co-author: Dana Roytenberg

Lessons for financial institutions to increase brand impact

Most companies spend a lot of time defining their brand – the values they want people to associate with their business – and market to promote that perception. But these days, companies face challenges in controlling how their brand is perceived, because customers have the tools [...]

Emerging Issues – Stay ahead of the curve with your Voice of the Customer program

2011 was an important year for Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs in the financial services industry.  Many banks and credit unions adopted new Voice of the Customer initiatives, and companies with existing VoC programs began to harness their full potential with new types of analyses.  Some companies monitor customer feedback to determine the top [...]

Social media – reflecting and planning for 2012

Where we are in 2011

Social media is providing retail banking with a highly valuable opportunity as millions of consumers are engaging on numerous public forums. Ponder these stats for a moment:

1,000,000+ RSVPs in 2011 for events promoted through LinkedIn, a professional social network. (Source: LinkedIn)
81% of small businesses now use social media, up [...]

How social media fueled Bank Transfer Day

Co-author: Brandon Purcell

Social media analytics of Twitter comments provide answers

By now, you’ve probably heard of Bank Transfer Day, a grassroots movement launched on Facebook® by a disgruntled Bank of America customer. The event, which prompted people to move their accounts from “big banks” to community banks and credit unions, generated a groundswell of social media [...]

How financial services organizations can leverage YouTube

As YouTube™ has gained overwhelming popularity as a video sharing platform for consumers, businesses have been quick to recognize the marketing potential. Reaching nearly 500 million users worldwide each month in 2011, YouTube now sees over 3 billion page views per day on their site alone; with hundreds of millions more videos watched on mobile [...]

How financial services organizations can leverage Facebook

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

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 nearly [...]

Transforming negative sentiment into a winning customer experience

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 in [...]

Using social media to increase the value of sponsorships

For the past 35 years, JP Morgan Chase has hosted the Corporate Challenge, a series of 3.5 mile footraces in cities across the globe. JP Morgan describes the event on its website as “a global celebration of corporate teamwork, camaraderie, and community giving.” So far this year, over 225,000 people have participated in the event, [...]

How to get the most out of customer relationships with customer segmentation and predictive analytics

Customer segmentation enables companies to get more bang for their buck by directing marketing efforts to the most likely targets.

Segmentation is a widely used technique in marketing, a way of dividing customers into groups based on their demographics, attitudes, buying behaviors, and other attributes. Using predictive analytics makes it an even more powerful tool – [...]