PW Financial Services Marketing

PW Financial Services Marketing is a comprehensive marketing consulting practice backed by full-service agency capabilities. More than just an agency that “does” financial services, our practice is uniquely led by a 30 year client-side marketing veteran in retail banking and wealth management. This means we bring a client’s perspective to everything we do accompanied by a deep understanding and empathy for what our financial services clients need.

Whether working with our wealth management, retail banking or or lending clients, PW Financial Services Marketing understands the depth of insecurity that financial service customers experience when making a decision to trust their financial future to a company. Likewise, we see and understand the challenges that financial institutions are facing with attracting Millennials. We specialize in developing customer insights that help our clients overcome the difficult trust issues involved with financial decisions. This helps our clients measurably grow their businesses whether that measurement be new loans, net deposits, assets under management, or new clients.

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Citizens Bank

mastercard

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Hilliard Lyons

Company Rebrand

Hilliard Lyons animated image of wealth advisor office

Challenge

In 2017, Hilliard Lyons was prepared to introduce a rebrand of the company designed to better capture the essence of the firm. Outside of a handful of markets, measured brand and contextual awareness of the brand was at levels considered unhealthy by industry standards.

While the ultimate goal of firm marketing initiatives is always business impact, the decision was made to take advantage of the rebrand to build top-funnel awareness of Hilliard Lyons and its unique relationship-driven proposition with various prospective clients. In addition, the newness of the brand required simultaneous message testing to determine what messaging resonated with the audience.

Objectives were to increase brand awareness across key markets by 5-10 percent, increase engagement on and “vetting” of brand on new Hilliard.com website using standard engagement measures, and leverage media to message test different consumer propositions to provide messaging direction for future campaigns.

Solution

PriceWeber launched the campaign in twelve key test markets over a six-month period. We leveraged hyper-targeted TV, print, radio, display, pre-roll, native, and paid search across all key target life stage groups, pulsing media to maximize effect and optimizing creative based on digital performance. In addition, we applied custom research to everything from target client feedback to branch office signage visibility, earned media, competitive presence, and client market penetration to formulate a market segmentation guide that will define future media strategies.

animated digital display ad for Hilliard Lyons wealth management

Results

Creative test successfully defined messaging for each key life stage customer target.

Hilliard Lyons wealth management rebranded collateral materials

Skill Leader(s)

Nick Papachristou, PriceWeber Practice Lead, Financial Services

Nick Papachristou

President, PW Financial Services

Jonathan Bone, Account Director PriceWeber Marketing, Louisville KY

Jonathan Bone

Sr. Vice President, Director of Client Strategy

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Papachristou named President of PW Financial Services Marketing PriceWeber, the digital-forward, full-service marketing and advertising agency located in Louisville, KY, announced today that it has established a financial services marketing practice named PW Financial Services Marketing. The new business will focus on providing 21st century marketing and strategy solutions to banking and wealth management clients. […]

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