We’ve all seen the headlines – job openings in the U.S. are at a record high. According to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employers nationwide are struggling to fill more than 9.2 million job openings. The events of 2020 have created an unusual workforce environment, marked simultaneously by higher unemployment and a labor shortage.

Tags: corporate culture, human resources, collaboration, MRM, marketing technology, customer experience, marketing resource management, brand experience, recruiting

As you may have heard, Direct Options recently became part of the Vya family. This gives us the opportunity to share our customer data management and analytics experience and knowledge with the growing community of Vya friends and followers. I am thrilled to be able to kick off this knowledge sharing with some thoughts on what I believe is the essential element of any data-driven marketing strategy: usable data.

Tags: marketing data analytics, data-driven marketing, customer data management, Actionable Marketing Data

 

Our Guest: Laura Sullivan Ethridge, EVP Chief Marketing Officer

Company: Hancock Whitney

Tags: brand experience, financial services marketing, Bank Marketing Today by Vya, podcast, brand story, data and analytics

 

Our Guest: Charles Freeman

Company: Academy Bank

Tags: customer service, customer experience, brand experience, financial services marketing, banking customer experience, Bank Marketing Today by Vya, podcast, data and analytics

A primary goal of industry conferences is to make important connections – with customers, prospects, partners, peers and others, who can help you advance your business goals. So, it was great to be doing just that – after more than a year away from the in-person event circuit – at the recent Restaurant Franchising & Innovation Summit, in Atlanta.

Tags: employee engagement, brand consistency, QR Codes, direct mail marketing, local marketing, franchise marketing, data-driven marketing, Actionable Marketing Data, Restaurant marketing

Be honest… is your marketing resource management (MRM) system (marketing portal) in need of the Marie Kondo tidying up treatment? Do your users have to sift through years of outdated materials to find a marketing piece that matches their current needs? Are new materials going unused simply because users can’t find them amidst the volumes of outdated assets?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, it may be time to declutter your marketing portal and put some simple processes in place to easily keep things fresh moving forward.

Tags: MRM, marketing resource management, financial services marketing, streamline marketing, distributed marketing, marketing portal, marketing resource management best practices

For marketers, a primary goal is to maximize marketing ROI by ensuring marketing spend produces the best results. This means sending campaigns to the right people, at the right time, with the right message. But how can you know what’s right?

Tags: marketing ROI, campaign management, brand consistency, marketing campaign, target marketing, marketing data analytics, data-driven marketing, market research, data-driven marketing campaigns

Technology has made it easier than ever for distributed organizations to execute marketing campaigns at the local level. With marketing resource management (MRM) systems, programs can be centrally managed by corporate marketing to maintain control over things like brand standards, custom requests, messaging, regulatory compliance, and approvals, while also empowering local teams to customize campaigns to provide greater relevance to their local customers.

Tags: campaign management, marketing campaign, MRM, marketing technology, Insurance Marketing, marketing resource management, local marketing, financial services marketing, distributed marketing, franchise marketing

Our Guest: Sean Hampton, SVP Chief Marketing Officer

Tags: corporate branding, marketing technology, marketing operations, relationship-building, strategic marketing, financial services marketing, banking customer experience, martech, Bank Marketing Today by Vya, podcast, Actionable Marketing Data

For the first time ever, the Big Four U.S. banking institutions—JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo—saw their combined assets exceed $10 trillion, which represents more than half the U.S. total. Mid-size banks face increasing competition from these mega banks that have been investing for over a decade in fintech solutions such as payments platforms, mobile banking, investment apps and automation of financial services and processes.

Tags: customer retention, financial services marketing, market research, customer satisfaction