Posts Tagged ‘websites’
How to keep your credit union’s website clean and member-focused
Congrats! You’ve launched a spiffy new website or redesign for your credit union. It’s simplified, optimized, and all around a sleek, lightning-fast, results-oriented, member experience powerhouse, with tightly focused navigation, and a mobile-first interface based on the latest and greatest principles of behavioral analytics. And then the requests start trickling in. “Hey, can we add…
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Credit union website analytics: mysteries we can’t explain
We’ve been building and managing credit union websites for a long time. Over the years we’ve pondered a lot of Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and Microsoft Clarity data, and used that information to guide website strategies, optimize search results, and power continuous improvements. And yet… there are still some mysteries lurking in those numbers,…
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Five shocking things you didn’t know about credit union websites
We’ve built and managed a lot of credit union websites over the years, and we’ve found that there are a quite a few things that make credit union websites very different – sometimes in unexpected ways. 1) People are Googling your credit union, not your products. The Google Search Console stats are very clear and…
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OMG: The Overwhelmed Marketer’s Guide to Multilingual Members
As of the last census, about one in five people in the US spoke a language other than English at home. Of course, many of those folks are perfectly comfortable doing business in English. However, pretty much everyone feels more welcome and comfortable when they’re greeted and served (if possible), in their first language. Even…
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What you can do right now for your CU website
It’s simple: tinker, tweak, and try. Maybe even twiddle. Experiment. Make some small changes and see what happens. Poke around for things you can fix or improve. A credit union website is sort of a living thing. It’s never static, and it evolves. That’s why websites require daily care to stay healthy and prevent link…
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Announcing Monster Express Websites!
Need a new website faster and at a lower cost? After nearly 20 years of building and managing fully custom credit union websites, we’ve taken everything we’ve learned and put together an option for those credit unions in a hurry. Introducing our Monster Express website option! How Do We Do It? Streamlined Process We leveraged decades…
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Do PDFs belong in your credit union’s website?
The average credit union website has a couple dozen PDFs lying around (and some far more). Sometimes, they’re necessary for things like printable forms. But much of the time, it would be better for your members to put this information into a web page. Here’s how to decide what place PDFs have in your credit…
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Five Credit Union Website Trends for 2025
We build a lot of credit union websites, and we’ve been doing it for many years. This specialization gives us an unique perspective, and so we’re seeing some really interesting trends start to pop up. Here are the top five as we head into 2025. 1) Fewer pages Our last several sites have launched with…
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OMG! The Overwhelmed Marketers Guide to Year-End
We’re only a few weeks from the end of the year, and the start of another. Here are five fast ways to make the most of the rest of this year and come out swinging in the new year! Make a list, check it twice This one’s pretty general, but overall review your list of…
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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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