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Seven musts for the smart credit union exec in 2008
Spend more time improving your website than preparing your newsletter. Stop charging fees for coin counters in your branches. Send an important team member to a BarCampBank. Sign up for a Wesabe account and see the future of personal finance management. Get a Zopa CD and see the future of banking. Buy an iPhone. Contribute…
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Get Rich Slowly makes Advantis get rich quickly
J.D. asked “Is a 6.25% Checking Account Too Good to be True?” Advantis Credit Union might not yet realize this, but this single post made yesterday may well prove the most effective marketing tool for the CU in the new year. Why? Less than 24 hours after being posted, a Google search for “Portland checking”…
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Recapture
I star and share items in Google Reader. I save links to del.icio.us. I systematically capture but then I fail to remember. Today, I’m rediscovering ideas buried in my brain. Laughing at the worst ones. Wishing I would’ve acted on the best. One by one, I’m going through the links, “squeezing the orange” and crafting…
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Bank is a verb, not a place.
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…
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Breaking up is hard to do.
I’m leaving Trabian in less than a week, and I’m overwhelmed cleaning out my digital desk. I won’t bore you with the intricacies of switching from a Mac to a PC… or the differences between Windows Vista Home Basic and any of the 34 other versions I wish I had about right now. Tougher than…