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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank. He chose to compete in the women’s luxury segment and looked for a gap in the market. Leveraging social media, Gentle Monster started to get traction.

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Gonzo Goes to BAI Retail Delivery 2014: Sweet Home Chicago?

Gonzobanker

Entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk implored the crowd to get beyond the marketing talk and stop marketing in the past. Vaynerchuk pointed to overpaying for slowly dying traditional media while consumers are actually looking at their phones and engaged in social all the time. The big theme was branch of the future.

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