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Financial Services
How Westfield Bank Aligns Sales and Marketing with Salesforce
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Westfield Bank provides relationship-based banking services for businesses and individuals across northeast Ohio and to independent insurance agencies across the country. Customers look to Westfield Bank for personal service, local decision-making, and the convenience of online banking anytime and anywhere. Since 2009, BauerFinancial has awarded Westfield Bank its 5-Star (Superior) rating, designating it as one...
Financial Services
The Top 5 Banking Skills of the Future
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Much has already been written on the ability of technology to transform the customer experience, introducing consumer lending portals and other tools for communication with lenders. But the truth is, consumer expectations are at an all-time high. You need to build a better lending experience or risk losing business. I’ve seen so many clients turn...
Financial Services
How 4 Banking and Lending Companies Use nCino with Salesforce Financial Services Cloud
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Banking and lending is a complicated business. Teams have to juggle multiple systems to manage customer service, loan origination, email marketing, and more. nCino brings all of your legacy processes and procedures together and makes internal processes simpler, faster, and more transparent, while also providing associates with the tools necessary to do their job. This...
Financial Services
Why Digital Marketing Can Be a Powerful Tool for Investment Banks
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Many of the firms we work with saw 2020 as a year of reckoning for their marketing strategies. Disruption from COVID forced M&A and corporate access professionals to rethink their approach. What are the risks, and where are the major opportunities to holding events online and launching digital marketing strategies? Can information be securely shared...
Financial Services
5 Trends Shaping the Future of Investment Banking Today
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What made the difference between success and failure in the last year? 2020 changed everything. Finance was no different. Dealmaking in 2020 split into two parts: the first half cratered at $971bn, with a 6.6% year-on-year decline by value while deal count was down 15.5%. Contrast that with the second half of the year, with...
Financial Services
Transforming the Lending Experience with Salesforce
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Historically, loan origination workflow was paper focused and labor intensive. Measuring the efficiency and quality of work was difficult to achieve. The height of piles or folders on desks helped you know whether or not your employees were overwhelmed or had capacity. It was seemingly impossible to understand where bottlenecks existed in the system and...
Healthcare
Salesforce and HIPAA Compliance: What Providers Need to Know
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The 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protects patients and patient data in the United States, which includes all electronic data managed by healthcare providers. Managing this data isn’t a nice-to-have, but a requirement — one many providers are very familiar with. How does that translate to new tools, especially CRM, which counts...
Financial Services
Sales Cloud vs. Financial Services Cloud: What You Need to Know
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Salesforce has been the leading CRM solution for more than a decade. Your financial services firm might already be using Salesforce. And while Sales Cloud does have plenty of benefits for any organization, specific industry features of Financial Services Cloud make it a great choice for many firms. I hear from existing Salesforce Sales Cloud...
Salesforce Platform
7 Steps to Prep: Project Kickoff for Salesforce Implementation
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As an Account Executive at Silverline, one of the most common questions I receive from project sponsors at my clients is: “What can our team do before kick off to get a head start on our project?” Where to start before you start After the selection process for Salesforce and an implementation partner is complete,...
Healthcare
3 Effective Payer Strategies for Health Insurance Companies
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When it comes to building a proper strategy for Payers in the healthcare world, there’s a lot to consider. For every segment within the Payer ecosystem or within a particular organization, there are different elements to take into account. At Silverline, we like to start big and work our way down the funnel into the...