Credit Union Marketing
Chinese Food for Thought
I just finished lunch. I found a new Chinese food place that it a 15 minute drive from our office, but it is the closest, good Chinese food place around here. For those who don’t know, our offices are next to the local airport. Cool if you like planes (I do) bad if you [...]
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Embrace the poop!
I haven’t been sleeping much lately. My whole family has a cold, my daughter has a fever and my new son is having a hard time breathing from the congestion. So my daughter wakes up every hour, the boy wakes up every half hour and I never wake up because I never fall asleep. So, [...]
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12 hours to go.
So this is a post that has nothing to do with credit unions or marketing or general trends. This one is just about me and my family.
In 12 hours my wife will be going into give birth to my son.
It’s funny. When my daughter Delaney was born, I was all shades of crazy. You should [...]
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Friday Fun - Finally! A Cream that makes it bigger!
So this has been an ongoing joke/complaint/whatever in the design and marketing industry since the beginning of time. The brilliant folks at AgencyFusion has put together this very funny but oh so revealing infomercial for those who need to have it bigger.
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I would love to take credit for [...]
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Payday Loans and Check Cashing = Black Market Banking?
First, let me get this off my chest - I HATE payday advance and check cashing services. I think they are black holes of the financial world that suck in the lowest earners and financially ignorant people of our society. Nothing against the people who use them. I have used them in my youth.
I have [...]
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Friday Fun - FreeCreditReport.com Makes Me Laugh
For those of you who don’t know, FreeCreditReport.com has launched some new commercials on TV and the radio. These are soooooo much better that the doofus sitting on the stool talking about his 720 credit score. Every times these come on I find myself singing along. I thought I was just a dork, but [...]
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Take my checks and shove em!
Thats how I felt this morning. I have to say that I am still irritated. Probably overly so without real reason. What happened?
The bank that handles two of my personal accounts went with envelope less deposits through the ATM. See, I have heard of these but none of my banks or credit unions have yet [...]
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It’s Official, blogs are like asses. Everyone has one.
According to Technorati, 70,000 new blogs are launched every day (I wonder how many of those are Facebook, MySpace and random social networking sites). But, according to the same survey, only 5% of corporations have dipped into the blogging pool.
Now, Dave Sifry, the CEO of Technorati, seems to think that this is because corporations are [...]
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Owner vs. Member vs. Customer. What do your members want?
I was over at CUSkeptic’s site. He picked up the mantle of how you address the people who give you money and what they would choose to be called if THEY had the choice.
Here is my opinion.
Being a member makes me feel like something is required of me. I need to attend meetings or donate money. It requires [...]
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Pink is the new bank! Branding with color.
I was reading Tim McAlpine’s blog (Currency Marketing) where he talks about his 22 immutable laws of branding. I responded to his post suggesting that I would like to see a credit union “Go Pink”.
I know what you are thinking. “Have you lost your mind?” - Gimme a second to explain.
Think what IBM did back [...]
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