Joint advertising programs are nothing new to credit unions. With varying degrees of success (or failure), credit union ad dollars have been raised and spent on local, state, regional, and national paid space advertising campaigns for many years. These cooperative efforts have involved utilizing special newspaper supplements (a favorite) like...

Credit union marketing and public relations staffers are forever asking why some credit unions seem to get more ink in Credit Union Times than theirs. For starters, some credit unions simply do more newsworthy things and are eager and willing to get well-written releases to our editorial staff in a...

To no one's surprise, the world is not a perfect place. Mistakes have a way of creeping in where you least expect them. Even credit unions and the groups that serve them stumble occasionally. Credit union organizations strive to have 100% affiliation of all eligible members. Those not in the...

When you have been reading and writing about credit unions for as long as I have, even every day news events reported each week in Credit Union Times can take on a different perspective. In the state of Utah, undeniably the current hot bed of anti-credit union initiatives, a Financial...

To better serve their members and give expanding staffs room to work, more and more credit unions are finding the need to build completely new headquarters buildings, new branches, and new administrative centers. Or, to remodel and enlarge existing facilities. The usual starting point before undertaking such extensive and costly...

Listen to this latest barrage of anti-credit union rhetoric: "The credit union industry is controlled by well paid insiders of a few trade groups which themselves are controlled by a relatively small minority of very large dues paying credit unions. It is the smaller credit unions that tend to stick...

For years one of the biggest frustrations for CUNA CEO Dan Mica was that CUNA's annual conference never really reached the level of success and acceptance he thought it should; especially since so many other CUNA offerings, such as its multi-faceted advocacy program, had long ago been recognized as superior....

Recently a banking industry trade group dangled prizes in front of bank employees who would take the time to pen an anti-credit union letter. Last month Credit Union Times learned that officials of a billion dollar credit union in Michigan want so badly to become a bank that they are...