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How to sell the Next Best Product
DMA Financial Services CouncilPalmer House Chicago
Luncheon SpeechApril 11, 2002
Arthur Middleton HughesVice President / Solutions
ArchitectKnowledgeBase Marketing
Financial Services Customer Retention varies with products The more products they have, the
more loyal, and the less likely to leave.
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Cross selling has four goals:
Make a profit on the additional product
Build the loyalty of the customers who buy them
Keep the existing products Increase balances and
participation
How to sell the next product?
Traditionally, banks and other financial services use campaigns: credit card, home equity, CDs, auto loans.
This is OK, but we are treating all customers as prospects.
Loyalty is created when you treat customers as valued friends.
Two kinds of database people
Constructors People who build databases, do merge
purge, provide access, create models Creators
People who know how to turn a bunch of names, addresses and transactions into a profit center: make a profit from the DB
You need both kinds
Financial companies have silos
VP for Credit Cards VP for Home Equity VP for Retail VP for Mortgages VP for Auto Loans All working for bonuses No one working for the customer
Customers see us a one institution
They don’t understand the silos They think that the home equity folks
should remember what they said to the auto loan manager.
They want to be loyal to the bank, not just to a silo.
To build their loyalty, we have to share information and treat them as individuals
How to treat customers as individuals
Build a MCIF available to all who have customer contact.
Monthly, determine customer profitability and append it to customer records
Segment customers by profitability Use models to determine likelihood of
defection. Determine lifetime value
How one bank segmented their customers by profitability
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This 28% lost 22% of the bank’s profits!
Create a Risk Revenue Matrix
Probability of Leaving SoonLTV High Medium LowHigh Priority A Priority B Priority CMedium Priority B Priority B Priority CLow Priority C Priority C Priority C
By concentrating on Priorities A and B, you save 56% of your
marketing dollars
For each customer, determine the Next Best Product First, see what products they now
own Next, what could they own based on
their assets, liabilities, age bracket, employment status.
Determine the likelihood of their buying each of the possible products
Determine the profit to you if they were to buy each product.
Determine your marketing costs
Some products are easier to sell than others.
Figure out your qualification and marketing costs
Use a matrix to determine Susan’s Next Best Product
Possible Bank Products10 = High 0 = Very Low A B C D E FWill Susan Buy this Product? 3 8 6 4 7 9Will Susan's Purchase be profitable for bank? 9 3 5 8 6 3How qualified is Susan for the product? 10 4 2 9 6 0Marketing ease (low cost) to sell product 5 6 2 4 7 8Has she expressed an interest in the product? 1 4 8 4 8 8Next Best Product Rating 1,350 2,304 960 4,608 14,112 -
What to do with the information?
Put the Next Best Product on Susan’s database record.
Show it on the main screen for Tellers, Customer Service, Officers.
Use it in promotions Use in monthly statements
How to prove that your system is working
Set aside a control group for whom you determine the next best product, but do not show it on the customer record.
Do not promote the product to the controls
In other ways, treat the controls the same as all other bank customers.
Determining the Profit from a Next Best Product
Test
Bought Percent Increased Average Gross Marketing Net Totals NBP Bought Balances Profit Profit Costs Profit
Tests 400,000 37,600 9.4% 10.2% $90 $3,384,000 $1,200,000 $2,184,000Controls 40,000 760 1.9% 2.4% $90 $68,400 $0C @ 400,000 400,000 7,600 1.9% 2.4% $90 $684,000 $0 $684,000Test Gain $2,700,000 $1,500,000
Communications work!
Write customers thank you letters. Send them thank you emails. Call them on the phone. Prompt customer contact personnel
to greet people by name, and thank them for their business.
You can prove this by using controls.
Event driven communication:
Dear Mr. Hughes:
I would like to remind you that your wife Helena’s birthday is coming up in two weeks on November 5th. We have the perfect gift for her in stock.
As you know, she loves Liz Claiborne clothing. We have an absolutely beautiful new suit in blue, her favorite color, in a fourteen, her size, priced at $232.00.
If you like, I can gift wrap the suit at no extra charge and deliver it to you next week, so that you will have it in plenty of time for her birthday. Or, I can put it aside so you can come in to pick it up. Please call me at (703) 754-4470 to let me know which you’d prefer.
Sincerely yours,
Robin Baumgartner Robin Baumgartner, Store Manager
Ridgeway Fashions
Leesburg, VA 22069
How one insurance company sold the next best product
Thousands of independent agents Program: 10% discount on one policy
if customer buys another policy Method: set up lead delivery system Created personal letters to customers
from the agent. System delivered through the web
Success of the program: Communications Work! Logging on, agent sees 300 leads
selected by model for Next Best Product Name shows discount customer gets Agent adds personal greetings Letters sent automatically: 11% bought Model predicted who would buy: 2/3 of
all sales from top 50% 89% of agents participated
Database Marketing can be Fun!
Try out new ideas. Don’t think big, think small. Test ideas on a small segment of
your database, using controls. Take those that work, and roll them
out. This is an exciting, accountable, art.
Books by Arthur Hughes
From McGraw Hill. Order at www.dbmarketing.com
New Book This Year:
What Works (And What Doesn’t) in Database Marketing
(McGraw Hill 2002)