Johannesburg, 11 Jul 2012
Retail banks will need to pursue every cross-selling opportunity available if they are to grab the hearts and minds of the modern consumer - but to do this, they'll need to understand the customer intimately and be able to have meaningful conversations with them.
That's the key message that Ozkan Erener, the head of the Istanbul-based CRM specialist Veripark, will be sharing at this year's Annual Retail Banking Africa 2012 Conference, at the Hyatt Regency, from 10-12 July. Veripark will share a platform with Microsoft as they take the message of “cross-selling at every opportunity” to the local banking sector.
“To acquire customers and stand out from the competition, financial institutions need integrated and co-ordinated channel strategies. Every customer touch point should be carefully designed and structured, and banks need to move to multi-channel delivery architecture - including social media and mobile and tablet applications - with revamped and modern user interfaces,” said Erener.
Bruce Nicholson, Dynamics CRM architect for Microsoft Consulting Services at Microsoft SA, says theirs is a clear trend of customers moving from branch channels to more direct channels as they embrace technology. “The current wave of mobile banking and touch computing has brought a new series of customer touch points, where customers can do banking more easily.”
Today, says Erener, Veripark is seeing banks doing as much as 40% of their product sales through non-branch channels, and as more consumers embrace these channels, so too are customers seeing more transactions being performed in the online world, equating to massive savings.
“It's time businesses made a giant leap into the online world, and we will be showcasing two international case studies that will show just how beneficial this move would be,” he says.
Microsoft Consulting Service's Nicholson says delegates to the conference will be privy to the insight gained from both local and international deployments that have listed more efficient internal processes, enhanced customer service delivery, more competitive business approaches, improved operations and particularly enhanced cross-selling, as some of the benefits already being experienced.
Delegates interested in attending the conference are invited to visit www.fleminggulf.com for more information.
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