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Citcon: Payments Can Be The 'Digital Guide' For Retailers

PYMNTS

Chuck Huang, founder and CEO of Citcon , explores how the pandemic has prompted retailers to capitalize on the surge in demand for contactless, digital payments. "As This helps decrease the cost to market to customers, improving profitability and giving brick-and-mortar shops an asset online.

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COVID-19 Has Devastated SMBs, But It Might Make Their Insurance Policies Better

PYMNTS

For decades, the insurance industry is quite literally a lifeline for those affected by unfortunate events. With more investment comes more innovation, which will be imperative for the sector to adjust its market strategies to fit the new normal of today.

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Skincare Startup Fights The Good Fight For Its Future

PYMNTS

Hundreds of retailers – both direct-to-consumer (DTC) and traditional – have lent their expertise and capital to helping the world recover from the devastation of the COVID-19 virus. The donations to Save The Children show how the altruistic model can pivot based on external events.

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Private Labels Have Their Roots In Coffee And Hats

PYMNTS

The most popular time of the day when people drink coffee isn’t just a factoid: It’s a viable marketing strategy. While the coffee story might be entertaining, it’s not the full history of A&P’s private label strategy. Their answer was 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M., For Everyone.

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10 Big Bank Marketing Lessons from the ABA Bank Marketing Conference

South State Correspondent

Link insights to all community banking growth strategies and market activation so that multicultural banking becomes ingrained in all products, services, and marketing and is not a standalone effort. This effort looks like more multicultural events, targeted education, and tailored products for both banks.

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#BankSocial: A Conference to Attend in Person

NCR

Here’s what we do know: Social media and other inbound marketing strategies are now reported to generate 54% more leads than traditional paid marketing strategies. Those are just a couple of the reasons why a huge majority of marketers, no less than 83%, believe that social media is important to their business.

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Top Social Media Trends to Pay Attention to for Financial Brands

Social Assurance

As financial marketers finalize their 2021 marketing plans, the focus for the the new year will center on executing new organizational goals, addressing changing consumer demands and behaviors and learning and experimenting with new marketing channels and tactics in evolving their marketing strategy.