Credit Unions Show Off Your Deleted Scenes
by: Andy Janning, President, NO NET Solutions If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Runyard Kipling I've loved movies since seeing my first one 35 years ago. [...]
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Is Compliance Killing Small Credit Unions?
by: Henry Meier, Associate General Counsel, Credit Union Association of New York CU insight touched off a debate within the credit union movement a few weeks ago when it published a blog in which a [...]
Credit Unions Should Not be “Bowling Alone”
by: Nate Muniz, Public Relations Manager, PSECU In 2000, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University Robert D. Putnam published a landmark book of research called Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. [...]
Lawyers, Guns and Money… and the Credit Union Movement
Driving to the office today, I never thought a Warren Zevon song would inspire me to write a post for CUinsight. “Lawyers, Guns and Money” is not my favorite Zevon tune, and frankly few other [...]
The View From the Smaller Sized CU – What We Can Learn from Chumbawamba
by: Gregg Stockdale, President/CEO, 1st Valley Credit Union I do like the line from their song –“I get knocked down, but I get up again” and it’s very appropriate for what the smaller [...]
“Silent Movie” Marketing for Credit Unions
by: Jay Kassing, President, MARQUIS A few months back “The Artist,” a silent movie, was selected as Best Picture at the 2012 Academy Awards. Here we are, 80 years since the advent of the talkies [...]
Dr. Seuss for Credit Unions 3: Stubborn Egos Make Credit Unions Stand Still
by: Bo McDonald, President, Your Marketing Co A lesser known work from the great Dr. Seuss, The Zax seems like it was written just for credit unions. It features a North-Going Zax and a South-Going [...]
Don’t Forget About Gen X Credit Union Community!
by: Sean McDonald, President, Your Full Potential, LLC A lot of credit unions are doing some great things to help attract younger members. And even more credit unions are taking the necessary steps to do [...]
Serving the Next Generation of Members
by: Kristen Christian, Founder, Bank Transfer Day Like any civic generation, Millennials value community, prosperity and technology. Through the people helping people mission, credit unions offer communities an opportunity for prosperity. The final key to [...]
If You Could Deliver a Single Message to the Credit Union Executives Reading this Story, What Would it Be?
by: Randy Schultz, VP Marketing, Weber Marketing Group Yes…I’m asking you…the marketer reading this article. How about this? Just to be careful and think through the importance of keeping the credit unions [...]
3 Ways to Be a Credit Union Champion
by: Fred R. Becker, Jr., President and CEO, NAFCU Let’s say you could have the undivided attention of a congressman of your choosing – what would you talk about? You could talk about how the [...]
Doing Well by Doing Good: Growth and Low Income Credit Unions
by: Pablo DeFilippi, Membership Director, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (the Federation) just concluded its 38th Annual Conference in Serving the Underserved and a clear [...]
Credit Union IT Shops Need a Virtualization Strategy
by: Sanjay Castelino, VP and Market Leader, SolarWinds Credit Unions tend to operate their IT environments with an eye toward efficiency and cost effectiveness. While there has been huge growth in credit unions financially, they [...]
The ‘Business’ of Government Affairs
by: Dr. Anthony L. Emerson, DBA, CCUE, C.P.M., President/CEO, The Credit Union League of Connecticut All credit unions are not-for-profit, member-owned financial institutions, but what credit unions look like individually and how [...]
Credit Unions: Mint Gum is Mint Gum
Last month I was flying back from speaking at a Pennsylvania credit union conference. Beside me on the plane was a girl in her late twenties. She reached into her purse, grabbed a green tube [...]