The Professionals Guide to Financial Services Marketing: Bite–Sized Insights For Creating Effective Approaches

 

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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 & marketing, as well as those between marketing strategy and marketing tactics.
2. A Marketing Pop Quiz
To keep pace in today′s highly competitive financial services environment, firms must abandon the status quo and transform their organizations.
3. A Marketing Compass.
The most successful financial firms will be those who become early adopters of sophisticated marketing approaches.
4. Seeking the Outstanding Marketing Director.
As a voice of opportunity and the champion of the unconventional, the Marketing Director′s position has grown in corporate importance and stature.
SectionII. Strategic Planning.
5. Strategic Strategy.
Properly conceived and executed, marketing strategy can provide the framework that can help an organization focus its organizational capabilities, talent and energy on those initiatives that will create competitive advantage.
6. The Starting Point.
A clear business definition facilitates the planning process by guiding corporate decisions concerning target markets, product offerings and appropriate marketing activities.
7. You Can Plan on It.
The marketing planning process provides an organization with the opportunity to set goals and plot a course that will help it achieve a differentiated market leadership position.
< b>8. The Best Laid Plans.
A well–crafted marketing plan can serve as a roadmap for management′s efforts to favorably position the organization and its product/service offerings.
9. A Mission Possible.
"What businesses are we in?" How management answers this question can have a significant impact on the company′s ultimate success.
10. What′s The Big Idea.
Every now and then a major marketing idea comes along that revolutionizes the way that marketers approach their craft. The most influential have a significant impact that lasts for decades.
11. New and Improved.
Success, in the form of rapid growth and high margins, comes most often to those organizations that understand the value of innovation and look beyond current competitive practices.
12. In the Beginning.
A knowledge and understanding of common product launch pitfalls can help marketers prevent financial product and service failures.
13. I Have An Idea.
Financial services organizations are increasingly dependent on creative marketing ideas to achieve visibility and competitive differentiation in a cluttered marketplace.
14. Become A Marketing Hero.
It′s not difficult to be a marketing hero when offerings are well received in the marketplace. The real challenge for most marketers is to find a way to “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 measurement—like marketing itself—is 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 organization’s 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 money—the 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 Effecti