Comments on: Bank is a verb, not a place.

By: Brad Garland

Brad Garland — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:55:17 +0000

Fight for change, credit unioning is where its at!

By: Peg

Peg — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:20:43 +0000

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: Roger Conant

Roger Conant — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:14:16 +0000

Are you settled yet? Roger

By: Bruce Geiger

Bruce Geiger — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:04:58 +0000

Re: RSS – never mind – just figured out what I had done wrong.

By: Bruce Geiger

Bruce Geiger — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:03:02 +0000

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: Denise Wymore

Denise Wymore — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:59:51 +0000

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.