Tuesday, October 1, 2013

WEEK 10 Blog-The Impact of Social Media on Increasing ROI in Banking Sector














 The Impact of Social Media on Increasing ROI in Banking Sector




 There is an increased concern of engaging customers via innovative social media such as Facebook and Twitter in banking sector. It is also interesting to note that many banks have received benefits from incorporating with social media. So the question that raise to the mind, what are benefits? Facebook has been identified as the strongest social media used to quick access to bank staff and system. Twitter has also follow the same pattern as Facebook, where it helps customers in notification purposes and priority access to new products and services. Other benefits may include financial guidance and links to other relevant processes. It is quite concern in banking sectors to use mobile devices in increasing investment. That’s said, by incorporating this service and other social media and mobile banking, levels of customer advocacy and loyalty could be improved.   




As with any banking strategy, social media needs to be effective from a financial and ROI perspectives. The finance departments of banks have the responsibility to provide intangible benefits in order to deal with real value of sales, and help to connect between the investment and the return. So that using accurate financial measurements and appropriate social media can directly continue to grow bank marketing channel. 




How banks could determine the ROI of a social media services? Developing a social media strategy is a critical step in promoting the communication between the customer and bank staff. Four steps should be made in order to determine the ROI of a social media program in banking sector. First step include evaluating the current social media environment. ROI need to be aligned with three business objectives: customer acquisition, customer service and community engagement in order to evaluate the current banking situation. The second step includes benchmarking social media performance using sentiment analysis, which can shape each media channel to evaluate the effort. The third step includes develop insights and taking action, which target to evaluate customer experience problems and potential risks. The last step is more important, which includes ROI Metrics: Track your success. In this step, one of the biggest issues is achieve company goals and objectives by setting of metrics that can promote social media and implement new actions of measuring social media's ROI. Let’s now see the interesting below link.


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