by The Emmerich Group | Mar 27, 2025 | Bank Marketing, Marketing Plan, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, USP
What if you can use extreme differentiation to get 150 basis points or more on the loan side and improve your deposit pricing at the same time? If you’re the kind of leader who feels strongly that you can’t follow the herd and believes that net interest margin...
by The Emmerich Group | Mar 19, 2025 | Bank Marketing, Marketing Plan, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing
You deserve to get paid more. Rate matching is the most destructive force in community banking today. And because of it, as a community bank, you are underpaid for the value you deliver. Get ready because you could stop your prospects from asking you to match your...
by The Emmerich Group | Mar 6, 2025 | Deposits, High Quality Loans, Increase Net Interest Margin, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Strategic Planning
Everyone has patterns of disbelief. Some people believe that in politics, there is one side or the other, and they’re unwilling to look at the alternative. Still others believe that the moon is made of cheese. You may have a belief system that’s true. You...
by The Emmerich Group | Oct 10, 2024 | Cross-Sales, Deposits, Get More Cross-Sales, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Process, Sales Training
I believe that most people working in banks perform at a fraction of their potential. In this session, I will show you how your people (like many bankers before them who couldn’t but now do) can average 6–7+ cross-sales and ALL the deposits in a way that never feels...
by The Emmerich Group | Sep 19, 2024 | Cross-Sales, Deposits, Employee Engagement, High Performance, High Quality Loans, NIM, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Process, Sales Training
I’ve heard it a thousand times—a CEO will say to me, “I am so tired of lenders walking into my office and saying, ‘Boss, I’m going to lose this deal unless we match the pricing.'” Yes, this is true, but only because they didn’t...
by The Emmerich Group | Sep 12, 2024 | Cross-Sales, Customer Success, Deposits, Employee Training, Fast and Low-Risk Loan Growth, Get More Cross-Sales, High Performance, High Quality Loans, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Process, Sales Training
When everyone is competing for a scarce item, it becomes difficult unless you improve at it. This is exactly what we need to do with low-cost deposits. Let’s face it, there is no end in sight to the competition for low-cost deposits. Even when your bank is flush...