James Robert Lay

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Strategy

Banking on Digital Growth: A Strategic Marketing Manifesto for Banks and Credit Unions

In May 2019, when I started writing Banking on Digital Growth, my primary goal was to educate and...

Strategy

5-Step Post-COVID Digital Communication Strategy for Banks and Credit Unions

There are a lot of things about the future that are uncertain. 

The days of promoting and pushing...

Personas

Humanizing Digital Growth in the Financial Industry

What's your plan? 

Or better yet, do you have a plan?

What's your plan to move forward with courage...

Pathways

The Consumer Journey Must be at the Heart of Financial Brand’s Digital Growth Strategy

I want to unlock one of the biggest secrets I share in Banking on Digital Growth

Fair warning:...

Products

Transforming Financial Brand Communication Strategies in a Socially-Distant Age With Video

Communication, both internally and externally, is core to how your financial brand is perceived by...

Production

How Financial Brands Can Confidently Guide People Through Their Post COVID-19 Financial Struggles

Health crisis. Financial crisis. Societal crisis. Mental health crisis. 

The perfect storm of...

Production

How Can Banks and Credit Unions Reduce Financial Stress in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

Confused.

Stressed.

Overwhelmed.

How does money make you feel?

Research continues to find there is...

Production

Banks and Credit Unions Can Use Courage to Guide Consumers Through this Brave New World

The world that we knew no longer exists. The world that is coming, that we are living through right...

Strategy

Does the Financial Industry Really Need Another Book?

According to Google, the total number of books ever published is an impressive 130,000,000.   

That’s...

Strategy Performance

What Does Digital Growth Really Mean?

This is one of the most important, if not the most important question financial brands should be...

Pathways

The BANCER Strategy Circle for Financial Brands: Using the Consumer Journey to Optimize Sales

Eighty-four percent of financial brands have not mapped out digital consumer journeys, according to...