The $303 million, Alpena, Mich.-based Alpena Alcona Area CreditUnion announced it closed $2 million in loans using Yak! Tracker, asocial media lead generation application from the Oshkosh,Wis.-based CUSO Chatter Yak!

AAACU adopted Yak! Tracker, which allows credit unions to usesocial media to generate leads and revenue, in March 2015. As aresult, the credit union recently generated nearly 200 new loanleads and, in 2015, closed $2.2 million in loans from Yak! Trackergenerated leads.

AAACU said its initial reasoning for choosing Chatter Yak! wasto simply to grow its fan base, however.

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Roy Urrico

Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).