Archive for July, 2007
Living the Brand
I was catching up on some blogs and I came across one at ownyourbrand.com
Mike talks about being in an airport eatery and overhearing a conversation between two emloyees:
Employee 1: “We get paid the same if we take our half hour break or not.”
Employee 2: “Wrong! Take a half hour break and you get less. I […]
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Why Direct Mail Still Wins
I found this on a site that I enjoy reading from time to time.
A recent study by International Communications Research, commissioned by Pitney Bowes, found that consumers still prefer receiving promotional information and private communications the traditional way: delivered by the mailman.
When surveyed, 45.3 percent of study respondents viewed delivered mail as less intrusive than […]
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Friday Fun - The Immutable Laws of Graphic Design
Oldies, but still true!
The less time you have the more useless your computer will become
If you have two versions of a photo, the wrong one will make its way to the printer.
If the text consists of two words, one will be misspelled.
Speed, Quality and Affordability. Pick two.
If the run is wrong, it’s never the press […]
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5 Things Paris Hilton Taught Me About Credit Union Marketing
This last weekend I was flipping channels and I came across the E! channel. Once again I was assaulted with coverage of the latests happenings of Paris Hilton. How does this vapid and untalented girl keep getting positive press? Even when it seems her world is falling to pieces, she seems to come out on […]
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Friday Fun - The Branding Expert
Have a great weekend!
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5 Things You Should Know Before Setting Up Your Credit Union Podcast
The word on the street is….
Podcasting.
Thats the stuff man, thats the dope, thats the new wave - maybe…
Look, I am not all that convinced yet. Podcasting has it’s place. I am just not sure that the place is a credit union website. The idea behind podcasting, for those who don’t know, is an audio file […]
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Why? Why? Why? Another Credit Union in the News.
Right in my back yard. A teller was secretly duplicating member debit cards an running up purchases totaling $11,000.
My heart and thoughts go out to the credit union and its staff that now has to undo the damage that this individual caused the credit union.
We know that internal theft is a serious issue and it […]
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Credit Union ATM Use Is Up!
I just came across a little good news from MAPacific.com
Credit union ATM machines are out-performing ATMs at banks. ATM & Debit News reported that credit unions with $500 million or more in assets averaged 5,601 transactions per month per machine. In contrast, banks with $10 billion or more in assets averaged 4,500 […]
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Standing out in a crowd of Wangs
Current Chinese law states that children are only allowed take the surname from either their mother or father, but the lack of variety (100 surnames in the whole country) means there are now 93 million people in China with the family name Wang.
93 Million Wangs! Can you imagine?
The story made me think about my own […]
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