by Shaun Heuerman | Mar 10, 2022 | Consulting
What if you’re going about loan growth in all the wrong ways? Now, you’re probably not doing it all wrong. But there might be some ways that you could be doing it a whole lot better. That’s because all loan growth is not the same. The quality of the deals...
by Shaun Heuerman | Mar 3, 2022 | Consulting
I bet your strategic plan does not have anything in it that says, “We want to match rates. We want to shrink our net interest margin. Oh, what can we do to match the rates of our desperate competitors?” Of course, those words aren’t in your strategic plan. And yet...
by Shaun Heuerman | Feb 24, 2022 | Consulting
Do you ever think you’re worth more? Yeah, you probably do. We all do. So doesn’t it feel like a violation whenever somebody says, “Hey, we can do business with you, but you’re going to have to match the rate.” That never feels okay. As soon as we match...
by Shaun Heuerman | Feb 17, 2022 | Consulting
“If you want to reach people no one else is reaching, we’ve got to do things no one else is doing.” Andy Stanley said that, and it starts my chapter on debunking the five biggest myths of loan growth in my Breakthrough Banking Blueprint book. Those five...
by Shaun Heuerman | Feb 10, 2022 | Consulting
Dear Banker: A Message from COVID to You I go by many names: Co-Ron A. Virus, Coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, ‘Vid, “The Big One.” Some of my names are downright hurtful. The 2020 Plague. The Dirty ‘Rona. Those are actually some of the milder ones. And yes, for some, I...