Deliver delight
Andrew Carrier
Strategic marketing and communications leader | Financial Services | Fintech
Marketing is pointless unless your customers are delighted with your product.
This is an extract from IMTW № 96.
Read on to learn why:
① If you get service wrong and you’ll likely lose a customer.
② Marketing should be tightly integrated with your customer service function.
③ The big City bonus is back.
④ Institutional capital markets players are embracing blockchain.
⑤ The foundations for a post-search online world are being laid now.
⑥ Humans need to be trained and empowered to manage AI tools.
⑦ Power comes from economic prosperity and technological sovereignty.
What's new
Bank of Ireland made a significant investment in its customer service this week, FinTech Futures reports.
In short:
Why it matters
News of this investment broke just a couple of days after it was revealed that the number of complaints received by the Financial Ombudsman Service had jumped by a fifth in the second half of 2023. Banking and credit complaints were the main drivers of the rise – with current accounts and credit cards making up more than 40 per cent of its cases. Both these stories matter because they remind us how - in financial services - service remains the single most important factor in ensuring customers are happy and would recommend your product.
① Get it right and you’ve earned yourself an advocate. Get it wrong and you’ll be looking to marketing to acquire a brand new customer to replace the one you just lost. But there’s not much point spending money acquiring new customers if you’re going to lose them to poor customer service shortly thereafter.
Customers don’t distinguish between an interaction with your marketing, your sales people, or your service team. These are all touchpoints with your brand and should be consistent in tone, messaging and quality.
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What to do about it
Take action
First, review a couple of previous issues of IMTW to remind yourself why customer retention is better than customer acquisition and marketing is every single touchpoint your customer has with your brand.
② Now, if it’s not already the case, I suggest you take the time this week to ensure your marketing team is tightly integrated with your customer service function. That doesn’t mean Customer Service should report to your head of marketing but he or she certainly needs visibility on that team’s activities and an opportunity to influence, guide and train them if required.
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To learn why:
③ The big City bonus is back.
④ Institutional capital markets players are embracing blockchain.
⑤ The foundations for a post-search online world are being laid now.
⑥ Humans need to be trained and empowered to manage AI tools.
⑦ Power comes from economic prosperity and technological sovereignty.
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10 个月"Customers don’t distinguish between an interaction with your marketing, your sales people, or your service team." Thanks Andrew for labouring this again! i don't get how people don't get this... especially because we most likely ALL experience this with any service provider outside of our branch... it's beyond me...