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Why Millennials Want To Crowdfund Their Mortgage Down Payments

PYMNTS

When one tries to Google the phrase “millennials and mortgages,” something curious happens. Two different – and in some cases, mutually exclusive sounding – accounts of millennials and their home-buying habits, or lack thereof, emerge. Those consumers are buying houses, and are a driving force in some markets.

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Target’s Rapid Reset

PYMNTS

They are increasingly seeing the upper-end of their prime demographic, a group PYMNTS titled bridge millennials. Looking at the data, a significant minority of bridge millennials report Amazon as their preferred shopping destination (19 percent), while a full a 50 percent noted that their preferred commerce experiences are omnichannel.

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Three Ideas for Banks to Reverse the "Silvering" of Their Customer Base

Jeff For Banks

Are your customers older than your markets? A common theme among students that expressed concern about it during our Executive Development Program (EDP) sessions in Seattle, Montana, and Salt Lake City. Customers leave their banks for the 4-D's: Death, Divorce, Displacement, or Dissatisfaction.

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Have Pillow, Will Trade? How Digital Is Stirring A New Age Of Bartering

PYMNTS

Granted, IBW is not exactly an organic event – similar to Prime Day , it seems to be more of a marketing event, focused mostly on bread-and-breakfast experiences. One typical listing – for The Montana , a guesthouse in the U.K. Generally, trading in this manner is done through online auctions and swap markets.”. 8), the U.K.,

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The eCommerce Bachelor: Which City Will Get The Rose?

PYMNTS

Jeff Bezos missed a major marketing opportunity there (as if Amazon needs it). only Arkansas, Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, Wyoming and the Dakotas did not apply. How is the race to be Amazon’s second home city not a reality show? If Amazon were a teenager, it might say some of the 238 proposed sites are trying too hard.). (If