Archive for the ‘Member Service’ Category

Please don’t make your members do this

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Have you ever noticed how hard we make it to do business these days?  Sign this form, mail this in, come into the branch, blah, blah, blah.  If we really wanted their business, we'd make opening a new membership, certificate, or loan as easy as humanly possible.  We'd find ways ...

More great press for Vancity!

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

More people are taking notice of Vancity's Bike Share program.  Springwise has a great article about it here.  Great job William and Vancity!

Don’t print account numbers and SSN’s on envelopes

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Unfortunately for Priority One CU, they managed to print the account number and the social security number on the election ballot envelope of Steve Bass, a blogger for PC World, as well as the rest of their membership.  Here's Steve's article (on PC World). Priority One has an opportunity here.The phrase ...

What? Free WiFi?

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

You heard me. Free WiFi.But how?Whisher is how. Whisher is a software technology that people install at home that enables secure sharing of their WiFi. Anyone in the Whisher community can travel about, find other Whisher members and use their WiFi for free. The software does ...

What’s important to your members?

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

I recently attended a regional Raddon conference reviewing our CU's results. Paired with our recent member survey, some of the results were mind-blowing and very surprising. Part of Raddon's member survey is a "Zone of Performance" where the members rate how important a certain factor is in their financial ...

Club Med

Monday, November 27th, 2006

So my fiancee, I mean wife, and I went to Club Med for our honeymoon last week and was it amazing. Club Med has a very clear vision of what they want their customer experience to be. If you've been to any Club Med, one of the first things ...

GonzoBanker and the BAI conference

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Cruising through Terence Roche & Steve Williams article about the BAI conference this past week and came across this wonderful little nugget in their post:The most interesting thing to watch will be if banks (insert CU's here) can really let go. Are we really serious about letting the front line ...

my new mortgage

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

My fiancee and I just closed escrow on our first house together about 3 weeks ago. It appears that the mortgage company we used will be selling the loan to Wells. Not then end of the world as I've used them before.I went to their site tonight to ...