For any business to be successful in today’s world, depends a lot on customer experience and the transparency of communication channels. The need is to understand what the customer needs in a fast-moving environment.
Therefore, this year will witness a battle for intense and new relationships with customers and once it has been established, financial marketers would need to strengthen their engagement via onboarding and build value with cross-selling.
Customer Communication Solutions enhancing Customer Experience Banking
Communication like never before would be key to banking customer experience as more and more marketing budgets are being allocated for spending on direct communications for not only acquiring but also for a welcoming, onboarding, and cross-selling to members and customers.
Without an aggressive communication strategy, the investment is done for building awareness and pre-sales engagement would be lost. Effective customer communications would prevent the negative impact of losing a customer acquired after spending a lot.
Here are some of the most effective modes of communication that banks need to adopt:
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- Knowing Your Customer
Consumers want to communicate with their banks to know about the where, when, and how. This requires an increased capacity on the part of banks to be able to open new accounts or complete applications and switch from one channel to the other without the customer starting the process all over again.
Along with the ease of opening or applying for new accounts digitally, consumers also want their banks to know them better, and that too as quickly as possible. They want to be understood and rewarded as well and therefore, digital onboarding as a process is an expected capability.
For effective and consistent communication with consumers across all the touch points need an adequate understanding of their journeys. Banks need to take a look at correct data and know what consumers need, their happiness or unhappiness with the current services, products that they might be interested in, how are they using digital/social media, and how channels are influencing interactions with each other.
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- Putting The Mobile Platform To Maximum Use
Staying mobile is today’s buzzword. Banks need to go beyond simple transactions on mobile if they intend to stay connected with customers. For example, a customer is experiencing issues while applying for a loan- online- requesting information, or executing a transaction.
Here proactive human intervention is required. Banks should define triggers so that employees who are at the help desk or contact center are immediately notified and is able to help the customer. A well-fabricated mobile communications platform will send notifications like status updates and reminders.
Developing prompts that help in completing the application processes, and congratulating tenured customers are a few other ways to let consumers know that there is someone there to care for them and want them to have a positive banking experience. The mobile platform is so versatile that it can help banks to reshape consumer behavior, improve their operational efficiency and also serve as a way to create and strengthen bonds that are so necessary in today’s world.
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- Elimination of digital and departmental silos
This year is all set to see a very important change in organizations having separate teams for communicating with clients via emails, mobile, print, and other digital media. This only leads to operational inefficiency, inconsistency, high costs, and increased risk.
Departmental silos would be removed for making way for a centralized CCM infrastructure that would ensure that customer experience is made better, there are efficiency gains due to the fact that changes are being enforced easily across the various customer channels and touchpoints.
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- Risk reduction by centralizing CCM solutions
Compliance is often taken as a barrier though it is always good to make compliance a part of the development and design team. Customer communication designs and solutions would be made better by their inputs.
There would be a reduction in ‘errors of omission’ because all compliance teams would review the entire communications package in all forms – mobile applications, web pages, hard copies, etc. This would ensure that the customers see the particular communication in the way they ideally should.
Digital Trends for Personalized Banking
Consumers today are in need of better-personalized customer experiences and the competitive landscape is fast changing. A single solution cannot be designed for all and each bank/financial institution needs to develop its strategy as per its unique goals and current capabilities.
The first step is realizing that the “Status QUO” can no longer work and communication strategies need regular changes to meet customer expectations and also meet organizational goals.