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4 trending social media tips to know

Independent Banker

The Social Bankers, a collective of community bank marketers, offers inspiration, information and professional development advice to community bankers focused on marketing and social media. We asked them for their need-to-know social tips. Social media can be a recruiting tool. By Julie Kendrick.

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Burger King, Steak-umm And Next-Level Social Media Marketing

PYMNTS

Brands have flocked to social media in an attempt to meet their consumers where they are and display a different side of themselves. Social media can be a terrific place to build bonds with one’s customers and show off a clever, avant-garde sense of humor – if a brand is good at it. In their defense. Did it work?

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Top 5 Banks #Winning Social Media

Bank Innovation

EXCLUSIVE - For all the talk about appealing to millenials, not that many banks or FIs out there have figured out social media. Sure, most of them (if not all) use various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, or even YouTube to promote their products and services, but it wasn’t easy to find ones […].

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HSBC To Staff: Stay Off Bank’s Social Media Accounts

PYMNTS

21) to stay off the bank’s social media sites after a report was leaked to BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). . The 233,000 worldwide employees of HSBC Holdings Plc were ordered on Monday (Sept.

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Instagram Checkout tests power of social media for mobile commerce

Payments Dive

Instagram's new in-app shopping experience with PayPal is testing how social media can influence retail shopping and payment decisions

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Don’t Send Payment Reminders with Social Media, FICO Says

Bank Innovation

Consumers still aren’t comfortable receiving notifications like late payment reminders through social media channels, a study released today by FICO found.

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Social media payments: An ally or adversary of banks

Payments Dive

However, the slow evolution puts banks increasingly at risk of disruption by their social media competitors. Many banks have increased overall focus on user experience within their digital ecosystems and have added new functionality like peer to peer payments into their mobile apps to avoid disintermediation.