Archive for June, 2007

Credit Union Web Design - What are your options?

For those who don’t know, I have been in web development for about 12 year or so. I still make websites almost daily. In fact, I just set a blog up for a very good friend of mine who will be graduating this year with a degree in Photojournalism. She is now working for a […]

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Looking at the Finger - Youth Marketing for Credit Unions

There is a chinese proverb:
“When the finger points at the moon, the idiot looks at the finger.”
How many times today have you looked at the finger? We all do it from time to time.
I keep reverting to youth marketing - today will be no exception. We, in the credit union marketing field, are always looking […]

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Pulling Back a Stump - The dangers of reaching outside the box.

I love the time in which we live. I am currently writing this on my phone/PDA while waiting for a client to meet me at Chili’s for a casual lunch. I am 20 minutes early and have time to kill. So I will enjoy my iced tea and share some musings with you, my friends.
I […]

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Protecting your credit union’s reputation - A User’s Guide

So, after my ever-so-embarrassing foray into breaking up with a blog feed - I decided to figure out how a credit union could take measures to protect itself.
#1 Google Alerts- See I use Google as my source of all things Internet. My homepage is a 5 tabbed page of probably over 150 feeds from everything […]

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“You have been Blogjacked” - “No Thank You” part 2

So, I just got off the phone with a very pleasant, yet confused gentleman. Our phone call began “Hi Tony, I need to talk to you about your CUHype.com blog. I am Mark from “The Credit Union”. My blood ran cold.
Had Mark called to unleash a torrent of verbal lashings? I flinched a bit and […]

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600 Ways to say “No Thanks”.

I have eliminate the first blog from my subscription feed. We need to go our separate ways. It just wasn’t working out. I am sorry, but you talk too much.
I was conflicted as to if I should tell my friends about you because it looks like your issue is a glitch in your software. But […]

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CU Blogging 2 - Rules for the road

I was reading Church of the Customer Blog, I hope they dont mind. They have a post that seemed seemed to support what we were saying here. Here is a reprint with some edits to make it more credit union related.
Blogs may provide credit union some benefits because they easily bridge the feedback loop between […]

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Credit Union Podcasting - The Great Site Hype

I am going to get into so much trouble for this post. It flies in the face of so many “experts”. Here is my story…
We went to MAC this year. It was a lot of fun and we got to see all of our clients again, which is always the highlight of our time at […]

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Credit Union Blogging - You Know What I’m Sayin’?

I didnt realize I had so much to say. This is our second blog entry and I have dozens of things that I want to talk about. I hope can keep this thing up to date and interesting.
So, what is blogging? You are looking at it. It is a regular Joe or Jane who happens […]

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