Financial Services Archives

April 15, 2024

PriceWeber and Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs Receive Prestigious Award From PRWeek

As Sexual Assault Awareness Month is underway, two Kentucky organizations are proud to announce national recognition for their impactful campaign to raise sexual assault awareness statewide. PriceWeber, a Louisville-based marketing and public relations agency, collaborated with the Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs (KASAP) in 2023 to produce the hour-long documentary “Believe Me – Help […]

March 21, 2024

PriceWeber Named One of the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” for Fifth Year in a Row

For the fifth year in a row, PriceWeber, a digital-forward, full-service marketing, public relations and advertising agency in Louisville, Kentucky, has earned a spot on the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” list, recognizing the state’s 100 top employers. PriceWeber is among 43 companies in the small-sized employer category (15-149 employees). With this being the […]

January 3, 2024

Projects of 2023 That Live In Our Head Rent-Free

2023 was a year of growth and innovation for PriceWeber. We began 2023 by announcing five new shareholders, were named one of the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” for the fourth consecutive year, expanded our presence with the addition of a Lexington-based office, and became Canopy certified, reaffirming our commitment to making a positive […]

December 8, 2023

Silent Switching – How Can Primary Banks Combat the Threat

What is Silent Switching? Silent switching, also referred to as silent attrition and silent churn, is when customers of a bank fragment their banking activities by using secondary institutions for financial services offered by their primary institution. This growing phenomenon is tough to detect because the customer doesn’t close their account at their main institution, […]

November 9, 2023

Is Your Website YMYL? Demystifying Google’s YMYL Guidelines and How To Follow Them

Show of hands if you’d watch a reality show called “Your Money or Your Life.” I mean, who wouldn’t?! I can picture the beautiful, backstabbing cast now. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), in this edition of Plain Talk, we’ll talk about how Google protects your money and your life when you’re searching online. More importantly, we’ll […]

October 19, 2023

PriceWeber Receives 32 Awards During PRSA Bluegrass Landmarks of Excellence Awards

PriceWeber recently received 32 awards from the Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) Bluegrass Chapter during its annual Landmarks of Excellence Awards, which recognizes the very best professional communications across the Greater Louisville area. The event was held on Thursday, Oct. 12, at The Refinery in Jeffersonville, Indiana, bringing together nearly 140 Kentucky and Indiana […]

September 28, 2023

SEO for Financial Services: 10 Key Considerations

“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” While this sentiment, credited to Eleanor Roosevelt, is often expressed when discussing finances, I like to think the same can be said for financial services SEO. From investment strategies and risk management to services for individuals, businesses, nonprofits, and governments – money and […]

September 8, 2023

Are Gen Z Tax Refunds on Your Marketing Radar?

Does Gen Z spend their tax refunds differently than older taxpayers? The simple answer is, yes! Is now the time to talk about how tax refund season can fit into your marketing plans? Also, yes! After all, you know the old saying “in this world nothing is certain, except death and taxes.” So in this […]

August 17, 2023

PriceWeber Achieves Canopy Certification

PriceWeber is proud to announce its achievement of Canopy Certification, a designation providing a path for Kentucky businesses to incorporate, measure and grow their good. The certification reaffirms the agency’s commitment to making a positive social and environmental impact in Kentucky through a rigorous assessment of key metrics in leadership, culture, governance, and external impact. […]

June 30, 2023

PriceWeber Expands Footprint Into Lexington With Addition of Second Office

PriceWeber has announced a second office location in Lexington, Kentucky, within the Base 110 co-working space at 110 W. Vine Street in downtown Lexington. PriceWeber has been headquartered in Louisville for 54 years and serves clients statewide and nationwide. Some of its clients include AHF Products, Brown-Forman, Blessings in a Backpack, BrightSpring Health Services, Centra […]

June 13, 2023

Bank Promotional Strategies That Put off Summer Vibes

Ah, summer … the weather is warmer, schools are out, barbecues are firing up, vacations are occurring, and pools and camps are opening. All these good vibrations have a ripple effect, though, as they create behavioral, economic, and psychological shifts in society that financial institutions must be mindful of for a few months on an […]

PriceWeber Announced as Top 10 Winner In “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” Category

For the third year in a row, PriceWeber has been announced as a Top 10 winner in its category during the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” ceremony. This is the fourth year in a row the organization has made this prestigious statewide list.

April 13, 2023

Why Aren’t Bank Marketing Budgets Budging?

In October 2022, as bankers were facing some uncertainty about what 2023 would look like, Steve Cocheo at The Financial Brand and Gartner’s Jason McNellis shared a great POV about bank marketing budgets and the critical role marketing plays in bank growth. They talked about the need to be “surgical” when considering possible budget cuts […]

March 16, 2023

How Banks Can Turn Holidays Into a Pot of Gold

Every bank and credit union communicates with customers/members around holidays, whether it’s because of holiday promotions, bank holiday hours, or just fun social posts tying into the spirit of the season. In this edition of Compound Interest, we will discuss strategies that financial institutions can implement to make the most of these communications. Spring Into […]

March 15, 2023

Louisville Advertising Agency Named One of the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” for Fourth Year in a Row

For the fourth consecutive year, PriceWeber, a digital-forward, full-service marketing, public relations and advertising agency in Louisville, Kentucky, has earned a spot on the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” list, recognizing the state’s 100 top employers. PriceWeber is among 30 companies in the small-sized employer category (15-149 employees). “We pride ourselves on being a […]

March 14, 2023

The Silicon Valley Bank Crisis Explained: 10 Crisis PR Tips for Banks From the SVB Failure

If there is a big news story in banking so far this year, it’s the failure of the 16th largest bank in the United States, Silicon Valley Bank out of Santa Clara, California, that took place on March 10, 2023. The SVB collapse, which took place over the course of roughly 48 hours, reverberated through […]

February 14, 2023

Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Before… Why Humor Was King in Super Bowl 2023 Ads

It’s that time of the year in ad land when we take a look at the commercials produced at exorbitant cost and placed at, well, exorbitant cost to give brands (and ad agencies) their thirty seconds of Super Bowl fame. But something seemed a little different this year, and it’s not just the absence of […]

January 18, 2023

PriceWeber Announces Five New Company Shareholders to Kick Off 2023

PriceWeber, a digital-forward, full-service marketing, advertising and public relations agency, is kicking off the new year by electing five new company shareholders. The agency has added Steve Kozarovich, Mike Nickerson, Donna Lee, Michelle Stevens, and Tamara Davis to its previously existing group of 7 shareholders. “Each of these individuals has proven themselves to be an […]

January 3, 2023

Are You Ready for the 2023 Social Media Trends?

Now that it’s 2023, it’s time to discuss this year’s new social media trends! Social media environments have drastically changed in the last year, focusing on short-form videos, viral video views and the utilization of influencers of all sizes; however, 2023 will continue to shake up social media and how we interact with brands and […]

November 18, 2022

6 Watchouts When Hiring Someone to Build Your Next Website

Depending on your level of knowledge about the specifics of website development, the process can seem like a black box. Having a good working knowledge of the parts involved can save your company from ending up in a situation, months or years down the road, where you find out you don’t have access to or […]

November 3, 2022

Trust In Distrustful Times

You already know the importance of trust but are you thinking about this important form of capital the right way? In this edition of Plain Talk, we’ll explore brands looking at trust as something to be built rather than just simply something to protect. For many years trust was viewed as something individuals or groups […]

October 24, 2022

PriceWeber Receives 28 Awards During PRSA Bluegrass Landmarks of Excellence Awards

PriceWeber, a digital-forward, full-service marketing, public relations and advertising agency headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, recently received 28 awards from the Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) Bluegrass Chapter during its annual Landmarks of Excellence Awards, which recognizes the very best professional communications across the Greater Louisville area. The event was held on Thursday, Oct. 13, […]

Three Advertising Scams that May Be Ruining Your Campaign

Brands spend a ton of money getting the word out, driving engagement and generating sales, but fraudulent practices are costing advertisers billions every year. In this edition of Plain Talk, we’ll talk about three shady practices separating you from your hard-earned ad dollars and costing you sales. We’ll discuss: What are click and form fraud, […]

October 10, 2022

Effective Marketing Messages – 5 Tips for Bridging the Gap Between Media and Creative

So, you have the insights to drive your media plan and your messaging but are you really using media “right?” In this edition of Plain Talk, we’ll talk about how to ensure your creative content is made to work ideally with each medium in the plan to maximize the power of your campaign with effective […]

September 29, 2022

Online Reputation Management Tips: 4 Common Questions

Practicing online reputation management and using reputation management software is nothing new. Millions of service-oriented companies like medical and dental offices, law firms, restaurants, retailers, roofers, and more have benefited from improved reviews and ratings by surveying customers and clients after each touchpoint and enabling them to quickly and privately address complaints as well as […]

September 21, 2022

PriceWeber Announces Addition of Three Senior Communications Professionals To Growing Public Relations Team

PriceWeber, a digital-forward, full-service marketing, public relations and advertising agency in Louisville, Kentucky, welcomes three new public relations professionals to its growing team. Brian Shlonsky, a Louisville native and WAVE Anchor/Reporter since 2019, is a 5-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and a recipient of the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award. He brings extensive journalism experience to […]

August 25, 2022

7 Reasons to Make Black and White Advertising in a Full-Color World

Many of our articles are about tangible topics, with acronyms like ESG, ABM, or GBP. Marketing, though, is about the mastery of both the objective and the subjective to help you best sell your products or services. In this edition of “Plain Talk,” we’ll discuss black and white advertising and why your brand might choose […]

August 11, 2022

Battling the Social Media Burnout

Burnout has impacted so many people over the past two years (if I’m being honest, including myself). It’s a topic that hit home with many people from all walks of life and across all industries throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving them feeling overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to keep up with the constant demands of […]

August 4, 2022

Why You Need to Tame Your Digital Spirit Animal Now

Yes, you have a digital spirit animal. We all do. The question is, how do you know which one you are, and how can you keep it from messing up your digital marketing efforts? In this edition of Plain Talk, we will define the most common digital marketing biases (spirit animals) and give you a […]

July 28, 2022

Invited Personalization and the Invisible Battle for Your Attention

There’s an invisible battle being waged for your attention in the background of the internet. Brand websites, social media apps, and search engines are all vying for your attention by applying algorithms that facilitate showing you content based on the probability that you’ll want to see it. In today’s edition of Plain Talk, we’ll walk […]

July 21, 2022

Tips for Building a Content Strategy for SERP

Businesses today are investing an increasing amount of effort, strategy and creativity in the content they produce for existing customers and prospects. In this edition of Plain Talk, we will talk about some of the top content marketing tips to consider when developing your marketing content strategy and how to ensure your content is developed […]

July 14, 2022

CX Beyond Your Assets and Problems With Programmatic Advertising: Is Your Media Placement Damaging Your Brand?

Have you ever been to a webpage that wasn’t optimized for your phone properly, and the ads blocked the content? Have you had the page collapse on your article, then the banner ads block the scrollable part of the article? How about waiting so long for an ad to disappear that you clicked on the […]

June 30, 2022

5 Ways To Keep Mortgage Marketing Hot While the Market Cools

Inflation is everywhere. Mortgage rates have increased by more than 2.5 percentage points this year. There’s a shortage of housing inventory. The housing market is cooling off quickly. We’ve all seen the headlines, and it does paint quite a picture, but it isn’t time to liquidate your mortgage marketing and lead-gen strategies just yet. It […]

June 23, 2022

Targeting Gone Wild: 3 Targeted Marketing Mistakes Hurting Your Media Campaigns

In media, understanding a consumer target can ultimately mean the difference between success and failure. Understanding who your ideal consumer is, how they use media, how they spend their time, what their interests are, how they behave, and what they believe all help build a picture of who is most likely to use your product […]

June 13, 2022

Advertising to the Real Self vs. Ideal Self – When Do We Become Friends?

In 1990, the Canon EOS Rebel camera ad featuring tennis star Andre Agassi boldly told us, “Image is Everything!” Back then, it certainly was something, but was image more important than it is today? You needn’t look any further than your friend’s and family’s social media pages to realize that the “ideal self” is still […]

June 2, 2022

ESG Branding: 11 Ideas for Leveraging Your ESG Practices

It seems like we are always being introduced to important new business acronyms. We’ve got Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Then there’s Return on Ad Spend (ROAS), CMOs are now CROs, and the alphabet soup goes on with CRM, CX, UX, CTR, CPC, SEM, SEO, and so on. However, one […]

May 17, 2022

B2B Digital Marketing Today – 3 Critical Things You Need to Know

During the two years that were the pandemic, we were forced to stay home and not travel. Business was anything but “business as usual.” The B2B world overnight had to grow new synapses to remotely reach, educate, and sell to new and existing clients. While the phone and Zoom calls picked up much of the […]

May 11, 2022

When In-House Marketing Makes Sense: An Ad Agency POV That May Surprise You

For many years brands, and not surprisingly, the advertising industry shared the opinion that it was between difficult and impossible to bring the services that a traditional marketing agency provides “in-house” to the client company. There was pretty good evidence that this was the third rail of advertising as many large companies tried to build […]

May 5, 2022

For Mother’s Day, Mom Really Wants Better Marketing

As a daughter, I’ve shopped for Mother’s Day gifts for my incomparable mom, Kim, for as long as I can remember. Today, I’m a mom to the cutest two-year-old this side of the Mississippi (maybe both sides), and I’ve gained a whole new perspective on what Mother’s Day and Mother’s Day gifts are all about. And then, as […]

April 21, 2022

Influencer Marketing and Social Commerce – Is Now the Time?

Influencer marketing is here to stay. Let me repeat this one more time for the people in the back. Influencer marketing isn’t going anywhere. We all probably thought that influencer marketing was a fad at one time. We saw social media influencers first start on Facebook promoting products, then came the thousands of long-form reviews […]

April 7, 2022

Six Steps to Business Growth Through Better CX

The chatter about Customer Experience (aka CX) has been growing for the past few years. Initially, this was an offshoot of user experience (UX) for e-commerce companies but quickly grew to be the catchphrase that seeks to map the activities in each consumer funnel, quantify their quality and measure their impact. This has been critical […]

March 31, 2022

Your Brand is Naked

Protecting Your Brand in an Age of Increased Exposure Your brand is the aggregate of what you say it is and what regular people on the street, or probably more correctly, the internet, say it is. In fact, there has never been a time when consumers had more power over what a brand “means” than […]

March 23, 2022

Banking in the Metaverse: Finding Practical Opportunity Within Virtual Complexity

Over the past year, the hype around the metaverse has accelerated at a dizzying pace. With all the talk, it was natural that speculation would run wild with what this means for various industries. In this article, we will look at what it means for the financial services industry. In today’s edition of Compound Interest, […]

March 15, 2022

Is Anyone Paying Attention to Your Media?

We’ve all heard more than once that people today are overstimulated with information, and their attention is stretched thin. We all feel it, too – the subconscious tug of a thousand different things vying for our attention. In a single morning in a household like mine, kids are repeatedly asking the whereabouts of their favorite […]

March 7, 2022

Customer Loyalty Now and the Future of Customer Retention

It’s a question that we as consumers get asked several times a day – “Would you like to sign up for our rewards program?” In fact, it’s become a key part of the customer checkout experience. Rewards and loyalty programs have long been a way for companies to connect with their customers in a unique […]

February 14, 2022

Shake it! – Why Super Bowl Advertisers Bet Big on Nostalgia Tunes

It’s been a few years since we’ve seen this much effort and creativity invested in Super Bowl ads. Maybe it’s because the pandemic funk is lifting. Maybe it’s because 30 seconds cost advertisers an extra $1.5 million this year, but man, there were some great ads! While we are still having trouble unseeing the awkward […]

February 8, 2022

Three Tips to Recruit and Retain Great Teams

Let’s be honest. The last two years have been brutal. The COVID-19 pandemic continues, a lot of us haven’t seen a majority of our co-workers in person since 2020, and many businesses continue to cut back, not by choice but as a result of the hard hit they’ve taken to their bottom line. What, if […]

February 1, 2022

Consumer Engagement in 2022 – A Revolution of Necessity

When COVID first hit in 2020 it brought a lot of uncertainty and along with it a lot of changes to the way people, brands and companies were engaging with each other. As the world collectively began to come to terms with the pandemic, we started to see a lot of brands and companies making […]

January 27, 2022

The Metaverse and Your Brand

Recently, a 13-year-old in your world may have asked for and received a popular virtual reality (VR) headset. You’ve seen them game in it. Maybe you’ve even ventured into their game world out of curiosity. Then, at the end of 2021, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a rebranding of Facebook into “Meta,” its new parent company focused […]

January 19, 2022

How Will Website Accessibility Standards in WCAG 3.0 Affect Your Business?

In the interest of time, if your website is currently WCAG 2.1 AA or AAA compliant, and you’re reading this article because you’re worried about the new imminent WCAG 3.0 compliance threshold, or you think there will be negative SEO ramifications for not immediately adopting these new standards, you can stop reading now. Your website […]

January 11, 2022

Drive Depositor Growth Through Digital Targeting

Discussions around digital marketing have left financial services marketers with a lot to keep up with as of late. While the robust landscape of tools that digital marketers have at their disposal is at an all-time high, the restrictions and policies affecting third-party data around online privacy have been evolving at an equally rapid rate. […]

January 4, 2022

New Year, New Social Media Trends

What to Expect in 2022 As we head into 2022, it’s time to refresh your social media strategy and make sure you are up to date on the latest social media development and management trends. In this edition of Plain Talk, we’re diving into five popular and influential trends to consider including in your New […]

December 29, 2021

Rewinding the Clock on 2021

While the COVID-19 pandemic continued to prevail in 2021, we were able to restore some sense of normalcy. Our team returned to trade shows for the first time since 2019, swapped the sweatpants for slacks for the occasional in-person client meeting, and we were finally able to limit the number of times we had to […]

October 22, 2021

PriceWeber Receives 34 Awards During PRSA Bluegrass Landmarks of Excellence Awards

PriceWeber, a digital-forward, full-service marketing, public relations, and advertising agency headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, recently received 34 awards from the Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) Bluegrass Chapter during its annual Landmarks of Excellence Awards, which recognizes the very best professional communications across the Greater Louisville area. The event was held on Thursday, Oct. 14 […]

September 30, 2021

Top Email Mistakes That Kill Lead Gen Efforts

There’s no question that maximizing your email marketing as part of a robust performance marketing program is one of the smartest and most cost-effective things you can do to help boost your marketing horsepower. In fact, we’ve got a great article stuffed with tips for high ROI email campaigns if you’d like to check it out. However, […]

September 8, 2021

Performance Marketing vs. Brand Marketing: Weighing Your Priorities

In 2015, super brand Adidas realized they had a problem—they were optimizing their marketing efforts against the wrong metrics. Yikes. They discovered they were overinvesting in performance-based digital marketing and underinvesting in brand building. They prioritized efficiency and real-time attribution of digital media and ignored brand impact and brand desire. Since then, Adidas has been […]

August 31, 2021

How to Win Trade Media Friends and Influence Sales

Several years ago, a marketing professional from a large company told me trade media simply wasn’t worthy of their marketing plan. Talking about their product in trade media before it was available to consumers didn’t make sense to them. They had a sales team to handle getting the word out. No offense to their team, […]

August 26, 2021

Social Media Trends – Fishing for Success in Crowded Waters

Comparing TikTok and Instagram Reels The average adult begins to lose concentration after just eight seconds, according to a 2020 study performed by Microsoft. In other words, we have a shorter attention span than a goldfish. When considering social media for customer engagement, our short attention span is further complicated by the glut of channel […]

August 16, 2021

Beyond Job Boards – Is Your Recruitment Marketing Missing Something?

Recruiting applicants should be an easy process…you post a job listing, you send it out on all the major job platforms, maybe have your employees share it on social media, and you’re done. Right? Well, not exactly. As many business owners have experienced in 2021, hiring quality applicants is getting harder and harder. In this […]

July 15, 2021

Today’s Biggest Threat to Business Recovery

The pandemic is slithering slowly away and economic factors seem favorable in the U.S., so it looks like we’re going to be OK. So, what could go wrong? If you are like many companies, a return to normal means staffing up to pre-pandemic levels as we bounce back; however, in many business verticals, something’s different. […]

July 1, 2021

Voice Search, is it Time to Panic (Again)?

In a September 2014 interview with Fast Company, Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist at Baidu went on the record to state that in five years he anticipated 50% of searches on Chinese search engine, Baidu, would be image or voice searches. This prediction was concentrated into an article, which implied that “in five years, at least […]

June 28, 2021

Louisville Advertising Agency Named to “Best Places to Work in Greater Louisville” List for Second Time

For the second time in three years, PriceWeber, a digital-forward, full-service marketing and advertising agency in Louisville, Kentucky, has earned a spot on the “Best Places to Work in Greater Louisville” list from Louisville Business First, which recognizes companies whose operations are changing the business landscape for the better.

June 3, 2021

Can You Bank On Your Brand?

Balancing Innovation and Branding for Long-Term Growth For traditional banks and credit unions that enjoy strong name recognition, the value of their name carries equity. For many years, this has been a fixed dynamic that isn’t lost upon anyone in the industry. Over the last few years, traditional institutions have been finding themselves having to […]

May 18, 2021

Will Trade Shows Still Be Your Super Bowl?

According to the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, there were roughly 9,400 business-to-business trade shows in the U.S. in 2019. These trade shows by some estimates represented a $15 billion industry that was forecast to exceed $17 billion in 2021. More importantly, these shows routinely represent critical sales opportunities for businesses of all sizes. Then […]

April 22, 2021

Customer Journeys and Lessons From the Links

When I was a kid, my near-scratch golfer dad spent a lot of time trying to teach me his passion. There were many steps on how to approach the ball. And there were corrective instructions for most practice swings, but when it came to the actual swing, there were only two things I was told […]

April 15, 2021

Fish Tails, Fans and Foes: The Importance of Online Reputation Management

In today’s hyperconnected, digitally focused world, reputation management is a 24-hour job. With countless social media platforms available for both fans and foes to say anything, anytime about your brand—like that they found fish tails (well, shrimp) in their box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch—these posts can easily influence a company’s success and even redefine a […]

April 8, 2021

Sticky Post-Pandemic Behaviors

First a Story The first restaurant I remember going to was the Howard Johnson’s on Route 9 in Framingham, Massachusetts. They had great fried clams and terrific ice cream, and I remember when I was five years old going for the first time with my grandmother. She was a very stern and prim Irish Catholic […]

April 1, 2021

Do Your Content Assets Satisfy Skyrocketing Web Use?

Brands globally worked to build or upgrade their websites and online stores in response to the pandemic, which is no surprise with the closures of brick-and-mortar businesses. However, what many brands did not prepare for was the impact that skyrocketing internet use had on the relevance of their digital image and video asset library. In […]

March 18, 2021

Endless End-To-End Digital Engagement?

When it comes to overused phrases, “the possibilities are endless” ranks pretty high. However, for anyone talking about digital engagement for a financial institution, the phrase isn’t hyperbole. If you’re aiming to deliver an end-to-end digital experience for your customers, then you know that it means not only thinking of everything, but also continuously analyzing […]

March 16, 2021

Is Artificial Intelligence Just for Big Business?

Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the past decade or two, you have probably heard about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). It has invaded our lives, taken residence in our homes and garages, and – thanks to the advent of the smartphone, become a welcome guest to nearly every moment […]

March 4, 2021

Convert More Sales With SMS

Is it just me or has everyone been getting an influx of text messages lately? And no, not from your mom or BFF – from politicians, brands and advertisers. Obviously COVID-19 has brought a ton of changes, but maybe it’s also renewed or increased interest in one-to-one communications and new (old) ways to connect with […]

February 11, 2021

Email Tips for High ROI Campaigns

Just 25 years ago, email users would get home and excitedly log in to their AOL email accounts, and after the horrible nails-on-a-chalkboard sound of their modem connecting to the internet, wait with anticipation to hear, “You’ve Got Mail!” Back then, electronic mail was new, rare and definitely under commercialized. A lot has changed since […]

February 2, 2021

Is Your Website Personable? Delivering a Caring Customer Experience Online

In 2021, it’s safe to say that a big chunk of our days are spent online, whether thumbing through social media, shopping, researching a project or big purchase, or gathering information about current events. Of those daily website visits, how many of them stand out to you as being really great, personal experiences? In this […]

January 28, 2021

The New ABCs of ABM

If you are working at home with your children or your dog right now, you don’t need me to remind you that COVID-19 has changed the way we live and work. In the B2B industries, the changes have been tougher than just working from home. We’ve seen critical tradeshows, events and travel mostly cancelled. Reductions […]

January 25, 2021

A Future Without Cookies

For years, we’ve used digital advertising as an efficient and effective means of reaching exactly who we want to reach, with the right message, at the right time. Ad tech and publishers have been competing to offer better targeting, more capabilities and better tracking, and each ad tech call offers something new – some new […]

January 12, 2021

Winning SERP Means Optimizing These Three Areas

It’s certainly easy to get into the habit of developing creative resources or websites in a vacuum, believing that these strategically sound, well-designed and expertly curated assets will be the doors through which your customers and prospective customers will first experience your brand. In reality, several gatekeepers can stand between your brand and your customer. […]

December 16, 2020

Marketing Financial Services to Gen Z

Effectively targeting and attracting Generation Z depositors must be a key component of bank marketing plans in the mid- and long-term in order to replace the current boomer customer base as these consumers transition to drawing down assets in retirement. In this edition of our Compound Interest series, we’ll help break down critical experiences, characteristics […]

November 24, 2020

Using Unspent Trade Show Dollars to Drive Leads

As 2020 – a year unlike any other – finishes up, marketers are faced with a new world of replacing crucial business leads. One of the most impactful methods – trade shows – is still in flux. Many early 2021 shows have been canceled while others are considering postponing or moving to a completely virtual platform, […]

November 17, 2020

Six Keys To Digital Lead Gen Domination

Today we can’t think of any B2B or B2C business that doesn’t need more leads. With increasingly limited access to brick and mortar services, trade shows and shopping opportunities, those leads really need to be digital to keep your business healthy. Unfortunately, this is not a secret. Your competitors are likely upping their digital game […]

October 29, 2020

Six Tips to Maximize Sales Leads With Paid Search

Whether your focus is on B2B marketing or B2C, there are few topics more relevant today than generating qualified leads to move your sales forward. There are a great number of ways to do this (in combination for best results), but in today’s edition of Plain Talk, we’ll be discussing the anchor tactic for “pay-per-click” […]

October 22, 2020

CGI for Marketing and Advertising: It’s Not Just for Spaceships and Dinosaurs Anymore

In 1972, advances in and increased access to computer processing spawned the first experiments in what would come to be known as computer-generated imagery (CGI). That year, the future founder of Pixar, Ed Catmull, created the first known 3D CGI film. Simultaneously Hollywood writer/director Michael Crichton’s engineers pioneered the first use of CGI in a […]

October 20, 2020

5 Reasons Financial Institutions Must Curate Deeper Customer Relationships

1. Building Trust Is Essential for Growth and Retention Financial institutions of all types understand the importance of trust. Without it, you won’t be successful in retaining existing customers, and it will be difficult to lure in new money without a trustworthy reputation. But the mindset that you will build trust by simply doing what […]

October 13, 2020

Public Relations Is More Than Press Releases

In 2020, typical communications strategies took a back seat amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. Many businesses quickly pulled all marketing efforts during the start of COVID-19, evaluating how to best handle this crisis and still get key messaging to the public without appearing tone-deaf to what was happening in the world around us. But while […]

September 28, 2020

Expect the Unexpected – What 2020 is Teaching us About Crisis Communications Planning

For a long time to come, 2020 will be known as the year that changed everything – the way we live, socialize, shop, travel and work. You name it and it was impacted this year. That includes crisis communications plans that were already in place. Many businesses have formal plans that help them prepare for their worst-case scenarios, but who was ready for a pandemic that affected how businesses operate, or for national protests as a result of racial injustice that held businesses accountable to be transparent about where they stood in the Black Lives Matter movement? The answer: absolutely no one.

September 23, 2020

Have Bank Customer Expectations Been Changed Forever?

There’s no denying that customer experience (CX) has looked very different in 2020. However, there’s still a question of how this strange year might affect expectations for CX moving forward.

September 16, 2020

Open Banking in the US – The Drivers and Barriers That Financial Institutions Are Watching

Open banking is oftentimes perceived as a trend taking place in Europe but that is lacking adoption in the United States. The reality is that it is very much a part of the financial services landscape in the U.S., but its proliferation is driven by a different source than in Europe. Due to European regulators predicting a boom in open banking, the EU drafted PSD2 (Payment Services Directive 2) while the U.K. released their version known as OBI (Open Banking Implementation) in order to get in front of the phenomenon with regulations and guidelines. In the United States, the Treasury has agreed to draft guidelines and recommendations, but there is no law or regulation in America that drives open banking forward. However, one doesn’t have to look further than the number of Third-Party Providers (TPPs) affecting consumer and business banking in the U.S. to realize that the trend has taken hold in the states as well.

September 1, 2020

Are Podcasts Finally Ready for Prime Time?

Podcast advertising has recently become a hot topic among brands and media planners. In today’s PriceWeber Plain Talk post, we’ll talk about why the medium is growing, some reasons it might be time to consider adding podcasts to your media strategy and some of the best practices for podcast advertising if you do. The technology […]

April 9, 2020

Community banks, critical to economic recovery

If you’ve been in the banking business for a while like me, you can attest to the fact that for decades, pundits have declared virtually every recession, economic downturn or national crisis to be the death knell of community banks, and in 2020, the financial emergency caused by the global pandemic is no different.

March 27, 2020

Trust, COVID-19 and Corporate America

In this edition of our plain-talk series, we’ll take a look at brand trust and corporate social responsibility, and discuss how the two are playing out during the current COVID-19 global crisis.

March 10, 2020

When Small Banks Are Battling Goliath, They Need to Think Like David.

Community and regional banks facing competition from the bigger money center banks need to know how they can compete effectively and win. If they try to fight the same way as the giants, they will get overpowered and definitely overspent. But if they think like a smaller bank, they’re nimble and responsive enough to compete successfully. So, how do smaller banks prevail? They think like David.

January 24, 2020

Follow the money in the financial services ad space

Ad dollars are on the move in the financial space – increasingly shifting from traditional to digital, and specifically to mobile. While financial services have historically relied on more traditional vehicles, times are indeed changing. In this edition of the Compound Interest series, we’ll talk about why it is time to up your digital game and how to do it.

January 9, 2020

Top Five Priorities for Regional Banks in 2020 and Beyond

If you’re like me, the beginning of the new year means you’ve spent some time thinking through the opportunities and risks that lie ahead in 2020, hopeful that with the right marketing plan, you can enable your institution to grow, keeping customers, employees and the board content. But often, input from stakeholders, overambitious business plans or constraints on staffing and budget mean that not every facet of your plan can be realized. In this first installment of our “Compound Interest” financial services marketing series, I’ll share some of the valuable things I’ve learned over my 30 years in bank marketing about how to put a successful plan into motion.

Influencer Marketing Strategy – Is Influencer Marketing Right for You?

Influencer marketing has become a digital monster. Are you doing it? Are you doing it wrong? Should you be doing it at all? If so, how and under what circumstances? In this edition of the Plain Talk series, we’ll take some of the mystery out of influencer marketing and dispel a few myths along the way. First, let’s talk about the money.

November 12, 2019

Your website definitely needs to be ADA accessible

In our Plain Talk article earlier this year, Can your website land you in court? Making your website ADA accessible, we discussed a few reasons why businesses should consider upgrading their website accessibility for people with disabilities. At that time, a flood of discrimination lawsuits were hitting the courts that related to Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and we recommended that if your business had a physical location and a website, you should “probably” make it WCAG 2.1 compliant to meet contemporary recommended standards for accessibility. In this edition of our Plain Talk series, we’ll be upgrading that “probably” to a “definitely” and explaining what’s changed and how it may impact you and your business.

June 28, 2019

Social Responsibility Trends

In today’s plain-talk newsletter, we’re talking social responsibility trends. Americans’ trust in the federal government to handle both international and domestic matters is at the lowest point it has been in more than twenty years, according to a recent Gallup poll. Only 35 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of trust in the U.S. government’s ability to handle domestic issues. Meanwhile, trust in the government to handle international issues ranks only six points higher at a mere 41 percent.

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