While I wait for the start of the SEC Championship, my wife forces a trade: future sportszombie time for current husbandnerdout time. At her request, I’m watching the Travel Channel (or is it HGTV?).
A new BofA commercial comes on (no, we don’t have TiVo yet. I know, I know…). Voiceover talks about mobile banking meaning you can bank from anywhere. Then they point out online banking = you never have to go to the bank. I seem to remember other recent spots of theirs boasting a massive ATM network.
Bank is a verb, not a place.
By the way, how smart of a media buy is that: buying a spot on the Travel Channel about banking anywhere. Smart thinkin’, says me.
Trey,
Buy a TiVo.
You never have to go to the bank. You know why I love that phrase? Banking is an errand. BofA gets it.
You don’t GET to go to the bank, you have to.
Or, as you put it – you have to “bank” (verb).
Good stuff….I’m so glad you’re still out there.
In more ways than one.
By: Denise Wymore on December 3, 2007
at 11:59 pm
Trey,
I’ve been evangelizing about the infinitive “to bank” for the longest time. In my view, it’s always been something people do, not so much where – or how – they do it. When we operationalize the word that way, we in CU land get to avoid linguistic sinkholes like “online branching.” Yikes!
On another front, I tried to add an RSS feed for your blog, and it doesn’t work – what am I missing?
By: Bruce Geiger on December 4, 2007
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Re: RSS – never mind – just figured out what I had done wrong.
By: Bruce Geiger on December 4, 2007
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Are you settled yet? Roger
By: Roger Conant on December 17, 2007
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Trey – Tony Ward-Smith captured this back in 1993 in a CUES manual… I bought into it then and haven’t let go.
Banking is a verb.
Credit Unions use it to refer not to what we ARE, but rather, to what people DO. Ask our members – they get it.
By: Peg on December 26, 2007
at 10:20 pm
Fight for change, credit unioning is where its at!
By: Brad Garland on January 2, 2008
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