Trends in Credit Card Acquisition
Behind the credit card growth are strategies ranging from the tried and true to emerging trends in successfully acquiring cardholders and attracting new audiences.
How do you get cardholders to change the way they use their cards? As more and more issuers roll out contactless cards, Visa not only wanted to encourage cardholders to adopt a new payment behavior, but ensure the transition would be as seamless as possible.
To help create a cohesive message across all fronts, Media Logic helped develop go-to-market toolkits for both issuers and merchants. These interactive toolkits not only offered instruction on how to educate cardholders, but also gave issuers and merchants access to customized, market-ready materials that could be used to motivate cardholders to “tap to pay” for card purchases.
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Behind the credit card growth are strategies ranging from the tried and true to emerging trends in successfully acquiring cardholders and attracting new audiences.
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