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Clarity Selected for Common Sales Methods

May 4, 2019 A 100-branch regional bank has selected Clarity to provide and assist the bank to implement new “shared” sales methods that both commercial bankers and branch managers will use with their business clients. Read more »

Clarity to Sponsor and Speak at Bank Trainers Conference.

April 1, 2019 Clarity is proud to support the 2019 Bank Trainers Conference, May 6 – 9 in Atlanta. Clarity President, Nick Miller, and Senior Consultant, Barbara Moore, will lead a one-hour session entitled, “Seriously: Training Is The Last Thing You Should Do” on Wednesday morning. May 8. Session Description: SERIOUSLY: TRAINING IS THE LAST … Read more »

Nick Miller to Present Strategies for Attracting Deposits at New York Bankers Small Business Conference

March 14, 2019. Nick Miller will lead a concurrent session at the April New York Bankers Small Business and Retail Conference in Albany, New York. This session will focus on street-level strategy – which businesses to target and lines of conversation that increase the odds that we can give our current clients good reasons to … Read more »

Figures in Speech (Issue 886)

In which we are reminded to speak … simply and slower… when we’re speaking with our clients. Read more »

Nick Miller to Speak at Sageworks September 2018 Lending and Risk Summit

July 28, 2018   Sageworks has selected Clarity President, Nick Miller, to speak at the company’s annual user conference.  Miller’s topic will be: Lenders in the 2020s – Product Specialist or Business Advisor? – “Lenders” today are primarily “senior bank debt product specialists” — risk-assessing cash dispensers who view deposits, treasury management and other services as … Read more »

Clarity Assists Super-Regional Bank to Increase Deposit and TM Sales Opportunities

April 15, 2018   Clarity has been engaged by a super-regional bank’s business banking team to assist in broadening the bankers’ approaches from loans, in which they generate top-of-the-industry performance, to include deposits and cash management services. The objective is to continue the team’s loan generation momentum while increasing the number and quality of deposit and … Read more »

Clarity President Nick Miller to Speak at February Deluxe Exchange

January 15, 2018  Nick Miller, Clarity’s founder and president, will speak twice at the Deluxe Exchange conference in Boca Raton, Florida, on February 6 and 7.  Miller’s presentation is entitled “Can the Leopards Change Their Spots?  Boosting Sales Focus on Cash Management and Deposit Services.” While most conversations about commercial banking emphasize lending and many … Read more »

Five Pints (Issue 831)

In which we consider whether blindly increasing sales team account loads (to make a business model work) is the best plan. Read more »

Figure It Out Before You’re Forced Out (Issue 829)

In which we are urged to look ahead four years at our sales roles and prepare for what’s (very likely) coming. Read more »

Lousy Sales Leads (Issue 815)

In which we are reminded… no lead list is perfect. Just get on with things. Read more »

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