Grow your bank at least 10% per year with an effective Loan Acquisition Strategy With the right approach to loan acquisition, significant loan growth and bank growth is going to occur. Unfortunately, many community banks take a backward approach to the
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Bank of America outperforms Florida’s Community Banks A first time for everything! Banks spend large amounts of money driving business into the bank. The first experience for many customers will be on the telephone. Here is our latest survey of
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Don’t be fooled by the Pirates Profit Pirates are a sneaky bunch, but if you know what to look for, they’re pretty easily seen. There’s a high probability that 30% of your coworkers are pirates. We’ll assume you’re not one
Read more →30% of your current employees are involved in Pirate activity In today’s banking environment, many community bankers are pressing for ways to generate additional income by finding new fee sources or raising fees. Some are falling back on mass marketing, while
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Where is the time going? The dream of technology freeing up countless hours of time and allowing us to experience the mythical 40-hour work week still persists to this day as only a dream. With instant access, mobile apps, and 24/7 banking it
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The microwave and community banking Years ago it was said with technology we would all have more free time than ever. The microwave mentality of having technology and resources at our fingertips would reduce our time at work and with
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The smartest community bankers are living the good life Opportunity abounds and the best community banks are taking advantage of it. Competition from the weaker community banks and the large banks is limited at best. The weaker community banks are drowning under the weight
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Oxymoron: A combination of contradictory words In our last post we discussed the Oxymoronic Community Bank Employee. Today we are taking a look at the oxymoronic community bank manager. Here are a few more examples of the oxymoron… Bitter Sweet,
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Generation stereotypes and your community bank There have been so many articles and blogs written recently on how to win the millennial banking business or how to change your bank to fit the desires and needs of the millennials. Just google “millennials
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How do I motivate my team? With thousands of books, seminars, workshops, and training about motivation, one would think that motivating your team would no longer be an issue. Being that the question keeps coming up, could it be that managers
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