What If You Had ZERO Marketing Budget
By Bo McDonald Imagine that you were told that as of January 1st 2013 you would have a ZERO marketing budget. What would your response be? Break out in a cold sweat and panic? Would [...]
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2013 – The Year That Mobile Devices Took Over the World
Smartphones and tablets aren't the future any longer -- they're the present. These powerful mobile devices connected to high-speed networks are now an everyday reality. According to Gartner, there were nearly 120 million tablets sold [...]
Of Course Americans Still Hate Banks
BY AMY HE But you can’t blame them, right? Earlier this week, MarketWatch listed the ten most-hated companies in America, and to my big surprise, a financial institution made the list. And by surprise, [...]
Creating a Conscious Corporate Culture
By Matt Monge The past several months have been really cool from both an individual and organizational perspective. I’ve been challenged to think differently in a variety of ways, and one of those is [...]
Secrets of the Online Retailers, and What It Means for Credit Unions
By David Frankil, NAFCU Services Three simple questions: Do you want your website to actively drive revenue growth, or to simply be an easy place for Members to read about your solutions, check balances, pay [...]
The Future of Online Banking: A Culture of Change
In episode four of this multi-part series on the future on online banking, author Tim Bunch shows retail financial institutions the right — and wrong — ways to manage the never-ending cycle of change required in this [...]
Credit Unions: What to Expect from Congress in 2013
By Hon. Daniel A. Mica, The DMA Group All eyes are on Washington and anxiety is rising as we approach the debt ceiling deadline in March. The decisions that are about to be made will [...]
New Rules, Fewer Runarounds For Mortgage Borrowers
BY DAVID SILBERMAN When you take out a mortgage loan to buy a home, you trust the mortgage servicing industry to work. Mortgage servicers are responsible for sending you bills, processing your payments, answering your [...]
Getting Serious About Security
by George Pasley, iMazuma Over the last couple of years we've seen two high profile data breaches. In September of 2011, a hacker was able to gain access to Experian credit report users by infiltrating [...]
Can Lessons From Lance Pump Up Your Finances?
By Adam Levin Now that the interview has aired and Lance Armstrong is the poster boy for the dangers of running (or bicycling) from the truth, you knew it was only a matter of time [...]
Looks Matter
By Shari Storm Whenever I travel with my three daughters, I always insist they dress a certain way—matching and cute. And when I say cute, I mean Gymboree cute, not Justice cute. My oldest, [...]
Native Advertising and Your Financial Institution
By Mark Arnold Remember the good old days of the internet, in the mid-to-late 1990s? The “Wild West” days when the internet was a vast frontier, ripe for exploring, colonizing and settling? All nostalgia aside, [...]
Key Tactics For Spreading the Word: Promote offerings in old and new ways
by Tom Kazar, Transamerica Many of today’s financial institutions have products that didn’t exist as recently as a decade ago. If your credit union has developed progressive services and value-added products such as [...]
Be Gluttonously Authentic. A Lesson from Burgers, Fries and Milkshakes
By Lisa Moore, gira{ph} Located on Fremont Street in Las Vegas, NV is the Heart Attack Grill. (You read that right – Heart Attack Grill) It is decorated in red and white with an ambulance [...]
Saved By the “Fiscal Cliff” Bell
By Dennis Zuehlke, Ascensus As most Americans were ringing in the New Year, the Senate was holding an early morning roll call vote on a bill to avoid hurtling off the “fiscal cliff” that would [...]