The Professional s Guide to Financial Services Marketing

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The Professional′s Guide to Financial Services Marketing is directed to any financial services professional–from individual representatives to executives of large financial services companies–who is looking for better ways to create the relevant marketplace differentiation and competitive advantage needed to increase productivity and profitability. The purpose of this book is not to provide a how–to manual, but rather to offer practical information, examples, and thought–provoking tips that provide ideas and insights that will enable financial services professionals to improve their own marketing approaches and achieve ambitious marketing goals. With examples drawn from basic marketing approaches and successful consumer marketing, this book provides a fresh perspective on a variety of marketing issues that can make a significant difference to corporate success.
 

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Preface. Foreward. Introduction. The Professional's Guide to Financial Services Marketing offers a different perspective on some basic marketing approaches and explores marketing concepts that are often overlooked by financial services practitioners. Section I. Creating An Extraordinarily Effective Marketing Organization. 1. Getting Started. Marketing is integral to almost every activity that takes place both before and after the sale is made. Therefore, it is important to recognize the differences between sales save the day when there is a difficult sales situation. Section III. Tactical Implementation. 15. Brand Aid. A strong brand communicates a corporate value proposition that helps a company create relevant marketplace differentiation and competitive advantage. It can also help to significantly accelerate the sales process. 16. Branding: Step One. Naming is the important first step in the branding process. The right name can play an important role in creating a strong emotional connection with the target market. 17. Write Right. Hard working copy should get attention, relate to the target market, intrigue the reader, focus on the product or services' superiority, create a desire and provide a call to action. 18. The Color of Marketing. Astute marketers understand that color can play an extremely important role in helping a company both express its positioning and corporate purpose, and influence market perceptions and attitudes. 19. Did You Get My Message? Shaping marketplace perceptions through effective messaging can provide differentiation to largely undifferentiated products. 20. Big Bucks. The HNW market holds untapped opportunities for those financial services marketers who are ready to abandon long-held misconceptions about the affluent and focus resources on under-prospected niche segments. 21. Unite and Conquer: Strength in Collaboration. Since traditional organizational structures often lack the resources to support expanded business models, companies must devise creative new solutions. 22. A Tale of Two Categories. The Pareto Principle stands as a continual reminder to focus eighty percent of your efforts on the twenty percent of issues that will achieve eighty percent of your results. 23. How Do You Measure Up? Effective marketing measurementlike marketing itselfis an ongoing process that is both an art and a science. This area is in its formative stages, but promises to be a significant future trend. Section IV. Promotion. 24. The Secret of Successful Advertising. While most advertising messages get lost in the clutter and fail to accomplish their objectives, astute marketers know the secrets to creating advertising that attracts attention and gets results. 25. Us vs. Them. In the proper situation, targeted comparative advertising can provide a powerful centerpiece for a financial services organizations marketing campaign. 26. Speak Up. Creatively conceived and effectively executed, campaigns utilizing a corporate spokesperson can take an organization one step further in its quest to effectively deliver its marketing messages. 27. Let Your Fingers Do the Walking. Even in this age of information and advanced communications, the Yellow Pages continue to be an important initial touch point for marketing financial products and services. 28. What It Takes to be Well Connected. Creative use of new IVR technology has the potential to significantly and cost-effectively improve communications in brokerage, insurance, mutual fund and banking arenas. 29. Start Spreading the News. A well planned and effectively orchestrated Public Relations program can help establish and maintain goodwill and mutual understanding between a financial services organization and its constituencies. 30. Best In Show. Trade shows can be a meaningful part of a company's marketing efforts or a significant waste of time and moneythe difference lies in careful planning and judicious resource management. 31. Just Cause. Cause Marketing offers an excellent opportunity to generate awareness and goodwill while enhancing corporate image and promoting a sense of corporate integrity. 32. Go Ahead, Judge That Book By Its Cover. Naming a new venture, product or service can be one of an organization's most important marketing decisions. Section V. Effective Sales Support. 33. Experience Counts. By creating a customized interactive marketing program that is meaningful to prospects and customers, a firm can create relevant differentiation and strong competitive advantage. 34. Going Up. With a little planning and creative marketing, you can prepare your entire organization to effectively represent your organization and provide unconventional sales support. 35. Mobilizing an Effective Sales Force. A well structured referral program can help an organization cut through marketplace clutter and accelerate prospects' decision-making. Section VI. Supporting Strategic Decision Making. 36. Slice and Dice. An effective market segmentation strategy can also significantly help increase sales and improve overall market performance. 37. Turning Marketing Information into Marketing Insights. Focused market intelligence can help marketers deliver the right products and services to the right target markets using the right messaging. 38. I Know Where You're Coming From. Influences that occur in individuals' formative years establish a common generational value system that can be more meaningful than mere demographics. 39. Getting the Right Marketing Answers. The right research approaches enable you to get meaningful answers to marketing research inquiries by working smarter rather than harder. 40. Giving Them What They Want. Organizations need to make effective use of market research applications in order to become attuned to needs of the marketplace. 41. Some Trendy Thoughts. Effective planning enables an organization to anticipate trends and make decisions based on an understanding of future circumstances, rather than those of the past or present. 42. Check It Out. An effective benchmarking program can make valuable contributions and trigger ongoing improvements throughout an organization. 43. Know Thy Neighbor. Financial services organizations that are tuned in to the competition can avoid unpleasant surprises. 44. Focus Groups: Is There a Financial Fit? While focus groups are quite applicable in the retail sector, financial marketers need a more sensitive, personalized approach. Section VII. Promotion In The Internet Age. 45. A Brave New World. The internet has drastically changed the face of financial services marketing, introducing new communications opportunities and challenges alike. 46. Searching for the Answer? Maybe the Answer Is Search. Any financial services organization that wants to drive traffic to its web site must ensure that it appears in the first few pages of search results. 47. Cashing in on Clicks. Paid search can revolutionize your marketing effort, but careful program design and planning are prerequisites for search engine success. 48. The Domain Name Game. A domain name that reflects a company's brand attributes and value propositions is an important corporate asset that should be carefully chosen and protected. 49. Plug into Directed Marketing. Directed Marketing combines tried and true direct mail principals with new techniques that enable marketers to interrelate with an electronically connected world. Section VIII. Strategies For Long-Term Success. 50. Follow Me. In the commoditized financial services business, a company's future can depend on management's willingness to invest resources to conceive and implement an effective strategy to achieve market leadership. 51. GoodBetterBest. A program structured to share corporate knowledge can be one of the fastest and most effective ways to achieve organizational improvements. 52. Be Prepared. It is critical that every financial services organization be constantly prepared to respond to a crisis in a way that will preserve credibility. 53. An Older Subject. To achieve success in the senior marketplace an organization must be willing to make seniors a meaningful part of the its focus. 54. Bringing Order to the Meeting. An organization should encourage key inter-functional representatives to work as an effective team in order to foster productive communications and solid decision-making. 55. And They Lived Happily Ever After. Effective post-merger integration focuses on ensuring that newly formed companies are not only bigger, but better, than before. 56. Putting Humpty Together Again Companies that respond appropriately to challenges will survive. Companies that anticipate change and develop appropriate strategies to manage will thrive. 57. Counting Dollars and Making Dollars Count. Focused research and well-crafted marketed marketing messages enable a company to communicate value propositions commensurate with their pricing. Afterword. Some Parting Words. About the Author.