Kurt Hansen

  • CU*SOUTH Launches CUSO Media Services to Provide Affordable Marketing to Reach Gen-Y Members

    CU*SOUTH announced the creation of CUSO Media Services, a video and graphic media production service focused exclusively on credit unions. CUSO Media Services helps credit unions reach a younger member demographic with the mission “Change the way they CU!” “More credit unions are recognizing the importance of video in their member communication strategy,” said CUSO…

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  • CU*Answers Holds March Tricks of the Trade Webinar

    Cooperative CUSO and core data processor, CU*Answers, recently held its March Tricks of the Trade webinar on March 17. This month’s webinar focused on member facing features that can be used within the CU*Answers online banking product It’s Me 247. The features highlighted included communications with members, online ballots, strategies for securing and controlling member…

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  • CU*Answers Announces Email Collection Contest Winner

    CU*Answers, the credit-union owned cooperative, recently announced the winner of its 2015 Email Collection contest. As part of CU*Overdrive, the CUSO’s low maintenance marketing package for credit unions, contests are run quarterly for two consecutive months as a way of gathering member email addresses or increasing enrollment in credit union services such as e-statements, bill…

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  • CU*Answers Builds a Healthy Workforce One Step at a Time

    CU*Answers, a West Michigan credit union service organization, recently announced their Healthy Workforce initiative, a voluntary program that encourages employees to engage in healthy behaviors by balancing nutrition, physical activity, and emotional well-being. CU*Answers hosted a Healthy Workforce kick-off earlier this year attended by over 50 employees. In addition, around 60 employees are actively participating…

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  • CU*Answers Unveils “Building the Factory” Series

    CU*Answers, data processor to nearly 200 credit unions nationwide, recently unveiled its Building the Factory series of how-to manuals designed to help its clients take advantage of revenue-generating and expense-mitigating opportunities within CU*BASE®, the data processor’s core processing software. The series of 30 instructional guides show clients how to use CU*BASE to complete marketing and…

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  • CU*Answers Encourages Credit Unions to Ask Members “Would You Like a Debit Card with That?”

    GRAND RAPIDS, MI – January 13, 2015 CU*Answers, data processor to nearly 200 credit unions nationwide, recently announced its theme for 2015 with the announcement of its 8th annual video contest. “Would You Like Fries with That?” emphasizes the importance of anticipating the next sales opportunity during member interactions. The goal of the video contest…

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  • Harris County FCU Chooses Site-Four for Collocation

    Yankton, SD – January 13, 2015 Site-Four, a venture of the cuasterisk.com CUSO network, is happy to announce that Harris County Federal Credit Union has chosen Site-Four’s facility for their disaster recovery solution. Site-Four’s state of the art facility offers the redundant capabilities for cooling, power, and communication sought after by Harris County FCU to…

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  • CU*Answers Announces Free Marketing Kits

    CU*Answers, the 100% credit union-owned cooperative CUSO, recently announced their second financial quarter “Grand Opening Kits” for their credit union clients. The Grand Opening Kit (GOK) program is a complete marketing-in-a-box campaign that offers low-cost, easy way to market a product or service to members, both in the credit union lobby and online through the…

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  • CU*Answers Announces 8th Annual Video Contest

    CU*Answers, the credit-union owned cooperative, recently announced their 8th Annual Video Contest to clients of the cuasterisk.com network. Each year CU*Answers offers cash awards and the chance for entries to be professionally produced into a video that can be used by any credit union for advertising. The theme for this year is “Would You Like…

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