With dynamic changes and events occurring in the financial services industry from security breaches, to increased transparency, to digital payments, to computer-based advice, it’s more important than ever that financial organizations communicate effectively, connect with, and engage with consumers.  How good are financial services brands at engaging the public?

EngagementIQ ™ is a contemporary measure of brand and reputation effectiveness

To understand how financial organizations engage the public, and to provide tools to communicators to improve engagement, we created the Logica Research EngagementIQ ™. The Logica Research EngagementIQ ™ measures how people engage with companies both emotionally and behaviorally in a modern, forward-thinking way that goes beyond traditional brand tracking or reputational measurement.  The EngagementIQ ™ is made up of four key metrics: likeability, postability, lunchability, and readability.

Payment companies have higher engagement than brokerage firms and banks

In our tracking of the EngagementIQ ™ for major financial firms we have found that there’s plenty of room for more engagement.  Payment companies perform highest on EngagementIQ ™, compared to brokerage firms and banks. EngagementIQ ™ corresponds to other important business metrics, such as consideration (likelihood to open an account) and net promoter score (NPS).  Those consumers who give high EngagementIQ ™ scores can be up to 10 times more likely to be brand promoters and 10 times more likely to say they would consider opening an account. We also have found our EngagementIQ ™ to be a sensitive measure.  EngagementIQ ™ falls with reputation damaging events, and it’s high for highly engaging brands—Google shown here as a benchmark for high engagement.

 

Millennials are engaged, though industry is mixed with Gen X and Boomers

In our latest release of The Logica Research EngagementIQ ™ we found that Millennials are the most engaged generation when it comes to financial firms.  When we break it down further we see that Milllennials have the highest engagement with banks and payment companies but Gen X leads for engagement with brokerage firms.  We also find that Millennials are generally more behaviorially engaged — more likely to post or have lunch with the CEO, while Gen X and Boomers are more emotionally engaged.  Gen X always a little between Millennials and Boomers is often more engaged via reading articles or lunching with CEOs.

Want a prescription for improving engagement?  For communicators interested in diagnosing their communication effectiveness and developing a path forward, we look at the impact of core messages on engagement and provide a message optimization tool.  Ask us how.

Want to know how you can communicate to build engagement?
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