Customer Intimacy: Connecting through Cross-Selling
| Published: | August 13, 2008 |
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| Length: | 12 pages |
| Author: | Savannah Barnes |
A senior analyst stated that consumers with four or more accounts are twice as likely to stay with their financial institution.1 To achieve this customer loyalty, institutions can increase wallet share by using optimized cross-sell technology—and strategy—to enhance the customer experience at the moment of sale, as well as over the life of the relationship with the lender. This long-term view of the customer experience lays the foundation for large banks to apply technology in ways that allow them to act like small banks with increased personal connections. In turn, this will differentiate your services in a world where billboards, pop-up ads, and batch direct mailings are generically bombarding everyone with offers for new products and better prices. Overall, enterprise cross-sell will increase your ability to satisfy all your customer’s needs— before somebody else does.

