Marketing in banking has shifted from a support role to a strategic driver of the bank’s vision. Beyond brand and customer engagement, marketing now helps shape the enterprise narrative, ensuring relevance and loyalty in a digital, customer-centric, and highly competitive market. Marketing’s Strategic Contribution to Banking Enterprise Strategy Marketing teams are integral to shaping and executing enterprise strategy in the modern banking industry. In these new financial markets, they act as strategic and executional drivers, ensuring top-level priorities are clearly defined, effectively communicated and successfully implemented across the organization. Here […]
In a perfect world, every visit and subsequent click on your website landing pages, email campaigns, and social media posts would come from a living, breathing human being who wants to engage with your business and potentially buy your products or services. Sadly, not all traffic is created equal. According to Statista, 50% of all traffic on the internet comes from bots. To confuse the situation further, some bot traffic is good (even necessary), and some bot traffic is downright dangerous. This creates big problems for marketers. In this post, […]
Successful email marketing is built on trust. Your subscribers trust you to deliver timely, relevant, and engaging emails. As a marketer, it’s your job not to disappoint these people. Trust in email marketing is hard-won and easily lost. Losing the trust of your email subscribers can have significant consequences. In the short term, this might mean a reduction in email engagement and website conversions as your emails are ignored. In the long term, it could result in subscribers leaving your lists, spam complaints, and your email deliverability falling off a […]
Student recruitment will always be an uphill struggle if you think a printed prospectus and a basic website are enough to attract students to your college or university. To succeed in today’s higher education market, marketers must embrace a more agile, digital-first approach that addresses evolving student expectations through compelling storytelling, strategic lead generation, and effective student acquisition techniques. In this article, we’ll explore how student’s expectations of higher education institutes are changing, how the education market is being disrupted by new technology and trends, and how marketers can fight […]
Not so long ago, banks didn’t have to worry so much about customer acquisition and retention. People opened accounts at their local branch, often based on their parent’s recommendation, and stayed with them for life. This multi-generational relationship was good business, and as such, marketing a bank’s services was reasonably straightforward. Is it safe? Is it friendly? Does the manager know my name? Yes, yes, yes! The money rolled in. But banking has changed. Traditional banks are no longer just competing with their Mainstreet rivals. Banks are now challenged by […]
