Credit Union Websites
Have you thanked your website lately?
Right around Thanksgiving there’s a lot of talk about what people are thankful for. The old standbys like Love, Family and Good Fortune are all well and good, but there’s something that a lot of credit union marketers might have forgotten to show their appreciation for. What I mean is, your website does a lot…
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OMG! Five Fast Fixes for Credit Union Homepages
No time for a complete, detailed, whole-site content review and SEO glow-up? Overwhelmed marketers can get a lot of bang in not very many minutes by paying close attention to just one page, your credit union website’s homepage. After all, it’s typical for the homepage on a credit union website to get 60-80% of the…
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OMG! Managing Your Google Business Profiles
Ever Google for driving directions, or a good burger joint on the way to Aunt Sally’s house? Of course you have. If there’s one thing that’s nearly universal in modern life, it’s the fact that no one has to ask for directions any more, and we pretty much know what to expect when we get…
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When it’s time to DIY and when it’s time to call a pro
Credit Union Website Best Practices #4 When we launch a new credit union website, we make sure our clients have the tools and training to handle pretty much everything themselves. Blogging, updating rates, adding and managing pages, updating promotions, managing navigation, and generally keeping their site looking good and the content up to date are…
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10 things that need to be on your website (but probably aren’t)
We’ve built websites for credit unions for a long time, so we have a lot to say about them. One of our most-used talking points is, “Credit union websites are weird.” (In our line of business being weird is a good thing, so don’t overthink it.) People that visit a credit union website don’t have…
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Credit Union Website Best Practices #2: Simplicity
Welcome to a new series from iDiz, Inc., “Credit Union Website Best Practices” where we’ll share up to the minute details of what we’ve learned and what we’re still learning about building credit union websites. Credit union websites are about utility, not entertainment – people visit your site to solve a problem, get information, or…
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Credit Union Website Best Practices #1: Internal Search
Welcome to the first in a new series from iDiz, Inc., “Credit Union Website Best Practices” where we’ll share up to the minute details of what we’ve learned about building credit union websites. Today, we’re discussing internal search, the search engine built into your site (not external search engines like Google or Bing). A search…
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Why you should offer “Furry Friend Savings” and “Vetmergency Loans”
We REALLY love our pets. Now I know that no one will be surprised by that statement. But I was a bit surprised to learn that there are over 65 million dogs and 46 million cats (not to mention 45M fish, birds, reptiles, horses and other small animals) currently adopted by humans. In fact, pets…
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Five fast free fabulous fixes for your credit union website – The Overwhelmed Marketer’s Guide (OMG!)
Spare time? What’s that? But even the busiest credit union marketer can (and should) make a little space to improve their credit union website’s usefulness and SEO, and head off future trouble. After all, your website leads the way for your brand – it’s your 24/7/365 shining outpost, and it’s well worth making sure it’s up…
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How do you get new members to Google you?
Note: this post isn’t going to be about the “secrets” of SEO (although that probably would make a good topic for another post.) We aren’t going to spend time talking about keywords, inside and outside links, etc. It also isn’t going to be a post about what might be wrong with your website. This post…
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