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Rebeca Romero Rainey: Stories worth telling

Independent Banker

This Community Banking Month, I invite you to try something new to spread your story. Share a new development, community project or initiative. As community bankers, we know relationships matter. Consider Watermark Bank in Oklahoma City, Okla., It’s about taking that next step to communicate how we engage.

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Member Benefits: Advocacy through digital channels

Independent Banker

Digital media gives community bankers a platform for advocacy, and ICBA’s Virtual Advocacy Primer details how you can put it to work. How can a community banker best connect with a member of Congress? So, how can you take advantage of this reinforced media connection? What’s your end goal?

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Capitalize on social payments

Independent Banker

Social payments methods like Venmo and Cash App continue to grow in popularity, and the data is there to prove it, creating an opportunity to give customers what they want: 24/7 access to cashless, P2P and mobile transactions. So how do social payments fit in community banks’ long-term future? By Colleen Morrison.

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10 Big Bank Marketing Lessons from the ABA Bank Marketing Conference

South State Correspondent

Bank Marketing Lesson 9: Goal Setting – A Common Theme. Many sessions discussed the importance of setting clear goals for any marketing effort, such as the talk by Jessica Reese (graphical notes below), the Social Media Manager for Arvest Bank (AR, $27B). The audience learned from these banks’ mistakes and successes.

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It Started with a Tweet #SocialMedia #Banks @ICBA

Independent Banker

A status update on banks and social media. According to a statistic released as part of the ICBA 2014 Top 50 Community Bank Leaders in Social Media, nearly 2,500 banks have a Facebook or Twitter presence, and the numbers continue to exponentially grow. .* It is no wonder banks are joining in.

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Good News from Gen Next

Independent Banker

And the great news, according to “American Millennials and Banking,” a major new study commissioned by ICBA, is that Bauhs and the 80 million other people in his generational cohort are prime potential customers for community banks. This is really the moment for community banks to show that they’re a fit for millennials.

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Top Social Media Trends to Pay Attention to for Financial Brands

Social Assurance

In a recent article from Social Media Today , they shared their social media marketing predictions for 2021. Here we have broken down some of those social media trends that you should be paying attention to as a financial marketer. A recent study by Accenture predicts that a total of 2.7 Facebook Pay.