While banking is very much a human-focused business, it’s also an industry that increasingly relies on technology to connect with its customers. As such, technologies like marketing automation perfectly support the banking sector’s focus on building and maintaining trust, fostering long-term relationships, and enhancing customer experiences.  But what is marketing automation, and how can it help marketers in the banking sector connect with their target audience more timely, efficiently, and effectively?  What is Marketing Automation?  Marketing automation technology streamlines and automates essential marketing tasks by combining complementary marketing channels, including […]

Email marketing offers banks and other financial institutions a powerful marketing channel to engage with clients, provide valuable insights, and promote financial products and services. In many respects, email marketing for a bank is just like email marketing for any other retail business. Despite this, many marketers believe that email marketing can be challenging or even risky in an industry where trust and security are crucial. However, the benefits of email marketing, when done right, far outweigh the risks, making it a strategy worth considering for banks. In this post, […]

Click-to-open rates (CTOR) are valuable metrics to track because they give marketers like us insight into how well our content is resonating with subscribers. While there are numerous ways to determine how successful email campaigns are, CTORs are easy to calculate, analyze, and communicate, making them a powerful metric for showcasing email campaign performance.  What is a Good Click-to-Open Rate for Email? Now that we’ve established why CTOR is an important metric for email marketers to look at, the real questions come into play: How do we know whether what […]

The age of the Internet means information is readily available all the time. But just because this information is available does not mean it is easily accessed by everyone. What if you rely on a screen reader to see the email for you? What if you are unable to operate a mouse and require the use of a keyboard only to navigate a web page? Or perhaps you are one of 300 million people with some type of color deficiency. How can you read the text if the color contrast […]