*One (1) Prize Winner will be selected on or about December 6, 2010 by a random drawing from all qualified entries received by a participating credit union between Oct. 1, 2010 and Nov. 30, 2010. You may incur a monthly service fee for EasyPay. See your credit union for complete details. Void where prohibited by law.

<a title="Enroll in EasyPay! Today For a Chance to Win a Sony Bravia 32" LCD HDTV!" href="https://obc.itsme247.com/2010-easypay/?cuid={CUID}"><img class="alignright" src="http://marketing.cuanswers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/easypay_contest_badge_2010-9.jpg" alt="Enroll in EasyPay! Today For A Chance to Win a Sony Bravia 32" LCD HDTV" width="125" height="125" /></a> Enroll in EasyPay! Electronic Bill Pay for a CHANCE TO WIN a Sony Bravia 32" LCD HDTV! Log on to It’s Me 247 online banking and click on “Pay My Bills” to enroll! EasyPay!! is a safe and easy way to receive, pay, and organize your bills online!
<p class="fineprint"><small>*One (1) Prize Winner will be selected on or about December 6, 2010 by a random drawing from all qualified entries received by a participating credit union between Oct. 1, 2010 and Nov. 30, 2010. You may incur a monthly service fee for EasyPay. See your credit union for complete details. Void where prohibited by law.</small></p>

Remember to change your CUID.

Update:  Some marketing collaterals have been published.

Please feel free to contact us with any further questions.

Mike Escudero, a Filene 30 Under 30 member, makes an interesting observation about Credit Union web site design:

We only design our sites for existing members. Not a bad idea, as our number one mission is to serve members, but here’s the thing. We started tracking Web traffic at my credit union recently and found that people were really only visiting our site to log into Online Banking to check account balances, pay bills and move money around. Virtually no one was visiting our site to learn about accounts.

His point is, your existing members are already being served. Why not use your website to capture new members. Why is it so hard to sign up on our sites?

Currently, if you have it enabled in CU*BASE, there is an “Apply Online to Become a Member” button on both the It’s Me 247 Login Pages and the Online Banking Community Pages, but what about our websites? So I went and checked our Membership Application Snippet.

Yikes, that’s 2 years old, and its just a link. What can we do to make a badge, or graphic for your website to encourage new membership? (I am not asking for ideas about the application itself, that is beyond my control — Use an Idea Form.) Mike likes the ING approach.

What can we do to make it obvious on your website how to sign up a new member? Post in the comments.

If you want to include the “Owners are Coming” video on your website, there are instructions at YouTube. See the embed section on the right hand side, and notice you can customize it.

It’ll look something like this:

<object width="425" height="349"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/87uMlPdXkxo&hl=en&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/87uMlPdXkxo&hl=en&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="349"></embed></object>

Cats Who Code give 6 HTML and Javascript snippets that crash Internet Explorer 6. The shortest one is an 11 symbol character string.

Are you still using IE6? Mozilla’s Firefox 3 was also released this week (more on that later.)

Adding the Online Banking Login to your webpage is easy and we’ve made this simple tool to make it even easier.

This is the new URL and all sites need to make this change on 9/16/2008.

SiteControl sites should use the SmartTag Snippet for Online Banking.

1. You’ll have to have javascript enabled in your web browser. If you don’t know, you probably do.
2. Enter your ARU/Online Banking ID in the box below.
3. Pick the button colour and style you want.
4. And voila! The source code for your website is automatically generated at the bottom.

Just copy the source code and paste it in your web site.

It’s that easy. If you have questions or problems, feel free to contact us.

Note: you can also link directly to the Online Banking Community using this snippet.

IMPORTANT: Remember that when it asks for your ARU/Online Banking ID this is NOT the same as your CUID for CU*BASE.  This refers to the ID that members use to get into audio response (unless you have a custom, direct 800 number), or if they go directly to online banking without going to your website, it’s the CUID they have to enter in order to log in.  Contact a Client Service Representative if you do not know what this ID is.

ARU/Online Banking ID

Your code to copy and paste will appear below