Archive for February, 2008
Friday Fun - Marketing in a foreign tongue
Cracking an international market or non-english speaking demographic is a goal of most growing corporations (and credit unions). It shouldn’t be that hard, yet even the big multi-nationals run into trouble because of language and cultural differences. For example…
The name Coca-Cola in China was first rendered as Ke-kou-ke-la. Unfortunately, the Coke company did not discover until after thousands of […]
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Another credit union blogjacking victim
At first I thought that Arizona Federal Credit Union had decided to “Go Blog” in the worst possible way. What the heck was I looking at? What credit union in their right mind would put google ads on their blog?
Ahhh, yeah. I looked at the URL.
While the blog was called the Arizona Federal Credit Union […]
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A credit union member who gives until it hurts.
You may have heard this story. But, in case you haven’t in Bremerton, Washington, a credit union member was making a deposit into her local ATM and gave until it hurt.
A female member “allegedly” dropped an envelope containing her deposit and a bag of meth at a Kitsap Credit Union. She was arrested and charged […]
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Articles
This happens from time to time and it drives me crazy.
I accidentally write a post and hit publish instead of save or something like that. Then my server sends out a notice to everyone with the web link to the new post. Well if I delete the post, all the feeds stop working for that […]
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