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Financial Services Marketing

An international guide to principles and practice

  • 1st Edition - October 3, 2006
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Christine Ennew, Nigel Waite
  • Language: English

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Financial Services Marketing: an international guide to principles and practice contains the ideal balance of marketing theory and practice to appeal to advanced undergraduates and those on professional courses such as the Chartered Institute of Banking. Taking an international and strategic view of an increasingly important and competitive sector, Financial Services Marketing adopts a fresh approach in terms of structure, and is organised around the core marketing activities of marketing for acquisition and marketing for retention. Financial Services Marketing features:
* Strong international focus: case studies and vignettes representing Asia-Pacific, Europe and the US.
* Comprehensive coverage, focusing on both B2B and B2C marketing.
* Expert insights into the latest innovations in the sector, from technological developments, CRM and customer loyalty to issues of social responsibility.

Financial Services Marketing will help both the student and the practitioner to develop a firm grounding in the fundamentals of: financial services strategy, customer acquisition, and customer development. Reflecting the realities of financial services marketing in an increasingly complex sector, it provides the most up-to-date, international and practical guide to the subject available.

Key features

* Comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of: financial services strategy, customer acquisition, and customer development
* Strong international dimension: Asian-Pacific, European and US examples
* Draws on both academic theory and practitioner experience, ensuring a blend of academic rigour and insight from practice

Readership

Predominantly a student audience but moderately specialist.
Level 2: 2nd/3rd year undergraduates in business/management degrees with services marketing and financial services marketing modules; and broad financial services degrees.
Some appeal to:
masters level modules in management/marketing
students of professional qualifications (e.g. Chartered Institute of Banking, Institute of Financial Services) - potentially a substantial market although many professional bodies have their own material.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

PART I: Context and strategy


1 The role, contribution and context of financial services


1.1 Introduction

1.2 Economic development

1.3 Government welfare context

1.4 Lifetime income smoothing

1.5 The management of risk

1.6 Financial exclusion

1.7 Mutual and proprietary supply

1.8 Regulation of financial services

1.9 Summary and conclusions


2 Marketplace structures, products and participants

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Some historical perspectives

2.3 The geography of supply

2.4 An outline of product variants

2.5 Banking and money transmission

2.6 Lending and credit

2.7 Saving and investing

2.8 Life assurance

2.9 General insurance

2.10 Summary and conclusions


3 Introduction to financial services marketing

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Defining financial services

3.3 The differences between goods and services

3.4 The distinctive characteristics of financial services

3.5 The marketing challenge

3.6 Classifying services

3.7 Summary and conclusions


4 Analysing the marketing environment

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The marketing environment

4.3 The macro-environment

4.4 The market environment

4.5 The internal environment

4.6 Evaluating developments in the marketing environment

4.7 Conclusions


5 Strategic development and marketing planning

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Strategic marketing

5.3 Developing a strategic marketing plan

5.4 Tools for strategy development

5.5 Summary and conclusions


6 Internationalisation strategies for financial services

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Internationalisation and the characteristics of financial services

6.3 The drivers of internationalisation

6.4 Globalisation strategies

6.5 Strategy selection and implementation

6.6 Summary and conclusions


7 Understanding the financial services consumer

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Consumer choice and financial service

7.3 Consumer buying behaviour in financial services

7.4 Industry responses

7.5 Summary and conclusions


8 Segmentation targeting and positioning

8.1 Introduction

8.2 The benefits of segmentation

8.3 Successful segmentation

8.4 Approaches to segmenting consumer markets

8.5 Approaches to segmenting business-to-business markets

8.6 Targeting strategies

8.7 Positioning products and companies

8.8 Repositioning

8.9 Summary and conclusions


PART II: Customer acquisition


9 Customer acquisition strategies and the marketing mix

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Short-term marketing planning

9.3 The role of the financial services marketing mix

9.4 The financial services marketing mix: key issues

9.5 Customer acquisition and the financial services marketing mix

9.6 Summary and conclusions


10 Product-service design and delivery

10.1 Introduction

10.2 The concept of the service product

10.3 Islamic financial instruments

10.4 Influences on product management

10.5 Managing existing product lines

10.6 New product development

10.7 Summary and conclusions


11 Communication and promotion

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Principles of communication

11.3 Planning a promotional campaign

11.4 Forms of promotion

11.5 Summary and conclusions


12 Pricing and value management

12.1 Introduction

12.2 The role and characteristics of price

12.3 Value and the challenges of pricing financial services

12.4 Methods for determining price

12.5 Price differentiation and discrimination

12.6 Price determination

12.7 Pricing strategy and promotional pricing

12.8 Summary and conclusions


13 Distribution channels: routes-to-market

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Distribution: distinguishing features

13.3 Distribution methods and models

13.4 Distribution channels

13.5 Summary and conclusions


PART III: Customer development


14 Customer relationship management strategies

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Drivers of Change

14.3 Customer persistency – acquire the right customers

14.4 Retaining the right customers

14.5 Customer retention strategies

14.6 The customer relationship chain

14.7 Lifetime customer value

14.8 Relationship marketing in specific contexts

14.9 Customer data management

14.10 Summary and conclusions


15 Service delivery and service quality

15.1 Introduction

15.2 The service profit-chain

15.3 Defining service quality

15.4 Models of service quality

15.5 The gap model of service delivery

15.6 The outcomes of service quality

15.7 Service failure and recovery

15.8 Summary and conclusions


16 Customer satisfaction, customer value and treating customers fairly

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Understanding customer satisfaction

16.3 Customer value

16.4 Defining customer satisfaction

16.5 Methodologies for obtaining satisfaction data

16.6 Making appropriate using of satisfaction information

16.7 Treating customers fairly

16.8 The satisfaction-advocacy relationship


17 Putting customer development into practice

17.1 Introduction

17.2 People and culture

17.3 Product considerations

17.4 Pricing and value

17.5 Advertising and promotion

17.6 Distribution and access

17.7 Processes

17.8 Evaluating marketing performance

17.9 Corporate social responsibility

17.10 Towards a sustainable future

17.11 Summary and conclusions

Bibliography

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 13, 2006
  • Language: English

About the authors

CE

Christine Ennew

Affiliations and expertise
Dean, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, and Professor of Marketing, Nottingham University Business School

NW

Nigel Waite

Affiliations and expertise
Director of Financial Services Research Forum, Nottingham University Business School, where he is also Special Professor of Marketing.

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