by Mark Arnold | Marketing
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” —James Clear, author, Atomic Habits Marketing is creative. Marketing is branding. Marketing is sales. While all those are true, marketing is also something else. ...
by Taylor W. Wells | Branding
Branding is not a project. Branding is not one person or department’s job. Branding is not your logo or your look. Branding is who you are. Branding is your positioning strategy. Branding is how your employees represent your credit union or bank. In other words,...
by Taylor W. Wells | Branding
Think about all the competition your bank or credit union faces. There are all the other banks and credit unions around town, not to mention payday lenders, upstart online banking options and even crowd-sourced lending options. It’s definitely a crowded playing...
by Taylor W. Wells | Strategy
It’s hard to believe, but summer is behind us and fall is here. Kids back at school, Friday night football, homecoming, the whole kit-and-caboodle. Fall is also typically bank and credit union strategic planning session season. All over the country, banks and...
by Taylor W. Wells | Branding
Increasingly, banks and credit unions recognize the importance of regular and deeper-level consumer engagement training for their employees. And rightly so – as competition in financial products and services only deepens, banks and credit unions that thrive are those...
by Taylor W. Wells | Branding
As a Star Wars geek, one of the movies I’m looking forward to most this December is Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. As an all-new adventure it is sure to be a box office success. However, when it comes to your credit union or bank brand, you never ever want to “go...
by Taylor W. Wells | Marketing
Convenience services – those services designed to make your life easier. In banking, that covers mobile apps, debit cards, payment systems, online banking, online chat (when available), and e-mail customer service, among others. To be honest, I expect e-mail customer...
by Taylor W. Wells | Marketing
For the past couple of decades, if you wanted a go-to dump-on source when it came to talking about poor customer service, the cable television industry was your guy. Consumers routinely (and usually rightfully) griped about lousy service, bad attitudes and those...
