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10 Data-Driven Ideas To Increase Branch Engagement

South State Correspondent

Despite that increase in profitability, banks need to be mindful of how they manage their branch and customer base to increase profitability further. The operative question is: given online and mobile banking, what is the new role of the branch? Our point here is branching isn’t a passive activity.

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Growing a new branch

Independent Banker

They know how to treat our customers well, and when you treat customers the right way and do the right things, they’re going to talk about it. Back to branch strategy. Fortunately, one vital employee, Jeff Tobias, commercial banking manager, was already in place.

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Efficiency now: 8 smart strategy tips

Independent Banker

Before 2022, says Thomas Grottke, managing director at Crowe LLP, “a lot of factors were going right. I counsel my community banks to be careful about extreme growth in rising rate environments,” says Jim Adkins, managing partner at Artisan Advisors in Barrington, Ill. Consider your branch strategy. Connors, Jr.,

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

How Banks Can Leverage: While not exactly a banking innovation, banks can better allocate capital to COIs. Banks know how to target COIs well, but banks underestimate their COIs’ influence and often under-resource the effort. Pair the newly hired COI with an organized banker and the new accounts will follow.