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Social Media Innovations And SMB Challenges

PYMNTS

Burberry has created a “mini program” with Tencent that provides exclusive content and tailored experiences that can be unlocked on WeChat, at a time when China has millions of mini-communities on the social media platform.

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank. Being months away from bankruptcy, Kim launched a bold five-step plan driven by a strategy around innovation.

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Banks Build Communities, Attract Customers with Social Media

Accenture

By 2017, close to three billion people will be using social media. 1 This near-ubiquitous channel presents financial institutions with a tremendous opportunity to create new relationships or strengthen existing ones. We are encountering more and more financial institutions taking. Read more.

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Top OpenSim communities of 2017

Bank Innovation

One of my top sources of OpenSim-related news this year has been OpenSim Virtual and similar Google Plus communities. Largest multi-grid communities. Communities that grew the most in 2017. Largest single grid Google Plus communities. Largest multi-platform communities. The full list of communities is here.

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Market your community bank with first-party data

Independent Banker

Community banks own an enviable amount of data, but not all are leveraging it to its fullest extent. By Mindy Charski People share important data about themselves with their community bank in myriad ways. Data about existing customers can even help community banks improve their efforts to find new customers.

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Visual Storytelling: Create Meaningful Gifs

Perficient

Gifs grab the viewer’s attention – if a person is scrolling through social media posts and sees movement or animation, they are more likely to stop and check it out. Though gifs have conventionally been traded between social media users, they have become a go-to marketing tool for modern companies appealing to modern audiences.

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These 12 Startups Are Competing in the Demo Contest at Bank Innovation Ignite

Bank Innovation

The 12 startups demoing to try to win the “best in show” award at Bank Innovation Ignite have been unveiled. Community Capital Technologies, Denizen Financial, Diro Inc., The startups are:[link] Avocado Payments, Budgit Inc., Exagens Corp., Fintel Labs, iGTB, JUDI.AI, KapitalWise, OpenDoor Securities, and Operant.AI