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Helpful content marketing techniques from SunTrust’s retirement section

Posted by on Wed, February 24, 2010

Suntrust retirement Helpful content marketing techniques from SunTrusts retirement sectionI was reminded of the LiveSolid.com website during a recent conversations with Jeff Pilcher of The Financial Brand. The site was built by SunTrust Bank in Atlanta, Georgia.  It’s a big blue site that unless you look carefully you’d never know it was created by SunTrust.  Why a bank wouldn’t want to make it clear that they were associated with such helpful content is beyond me.

But then I took a further look at their own website at www.suntrust.com.  As I dug into the retirement section I stumbled upon their retirement microsite.  This site is very well put together and is a great lesson in how to create compelling online content that pulls your audience in and eventually can lead them to wanting to meet with one of your professionals.

Lets take a look at what happens when we first enter the site.  At first we are met with four personas:

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