by Shaun Heuerman | Mar 21, 2024 | 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 Shaun Heuerman | Feb 29, 2024 | Consulting, Effective Leadership, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Training, Strategic Planning
Marketing isn’t what it used to be. For many banks, it’s changing how you should be investing your marketing dollars and the strategies that you should be using. Video: Bank Marketing Isn’t What It Used To Be In my book, The Breakthrough Banking Blueprint, I quote...
by Shaun Heuerman | Jan 18, 2024 | Bank Marketing, Sales & Marketing, Sales Process, USP
If you don’t care about premium pricing, you can stop listening right now. This is for bank executives who want to figure out how to command premium pricing despite the too-common assumption that banking is a commodity. Therefore, they cannot command premium...
by Shaun Heuerman | Jan 11, 2024 | Bank Marketing, Marketing Plan, Sales & Marketing
How much do you invest in your marketing budget every year? Now divide that amount by the number of calls or inquiries it generates. For most banks, the marketing budget is driven by shiny new ideas from conferences that marketing people attend or based on what was...
by Shaun Heuerman | Dec 28, 2023 | Effective Leadership, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Training, Strategic Planning
There was a day, back when I started as a commercial and agricultural lender, that we did everything. We did the channel checks, we did the credit analyst work, we did the business development, and we did the account management. We did it all, and we collected the...
by Shaun Heuerman | Nov 30, 2023 | Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Training, Strategic Planning, Workplace Culture
Isn’t it fascinating how for years and years and years, people would fight wars by standing in line with red coats on, in formation, shooting guns, while the other side would come at them when they had guns standing in line, running with swords, thinking that...
