By Lisa Hochgraf

Last week I mused about the value of the new-fangled ATMs that link the traditional ability to do withdrawal and deposit transactions with the new ability to have a video conference with a live person. (Read “No Kids at the Car Wash.”)

However, on my recent trip to see a friend in Chicago, she showed me an even better reason to go to an ATM: cupcakes!

By Samantha Paxson

If you ask a credit union employee or consultant where they think people should put their money – credit union or bank – the winner, of course, is credit union. But how exactly do you explain this to members and potential members?

By Lisa Hochgraf

My son and I have always liked to go to a particular car wash ... the only one in our area where you would pay a kid on entrance, ride the rails through the brushes and, at the end, have that same teenager use a towel to dry your car and earn his tip.

By Hendrix Niemann

Over the years, I’ve wondered why credit unions don’t make a big deal about their investment and insurance programs, since the benefits of doing so are obvious. Let me give you a few examples.

By Lisa Hochgraf

At the close of one day of CUES Advanced School of Risk Management in Boston, instructor John Bugalla told me about how he loves to shop outlet mall sales for Ralph Lauren Polo products. He loves to get the best deals--percentages off percentages off. And he loves to shop for himself and the grandbaby that's expected next month.

By David Reed

By Lisa Hochgraf

Logic has it that if you make a mess, you clean it up. Brett Christensen applies this logic in the first of several successful collections staffing strategies he recommended to attendees of CUES Advanced School of Consumer Lending in Boston.

By Ron Daly, DigitalMailer, Inc.

I have a garage attached to my house. There's a door that slips into the kitchen and a workbench, and just enough space for my two cars.

By John Pesh

By Lisa Hochgraf

My husband is a technologist. An electrical engineer and a professor at RIT, he lives and breathes trying out new hand-held devices, learning how to program the new 3-D printer in his campus department, and designing the new audio engineering lab on campus.