Strategic Planning- Resistance is Futile!
When preparing for the future, credit union CEOs will encounter people who dig in their heels and resist change because they want to keep things exactly how they have been for years. Some of these people will be credit union board members, and some will be in the managerial ranks.The key for the CEO looking to make his or her credit union a stronger entity in drastically changing times is to work for a critical mass of buy in.The best approach, I call the "Compelling Argument" initiative, is a constant drip approach instead of a last minute tidal wave of information approach. Here is how it works. The greatest reason for change resistance is fear. The three basic fears everyone deals with (to different degrees of success) are the fear of failure, the fear of rejection and the fear of the unknown.When you have someone resist strategic changes they are expressing fear on a couple of levels. They fear the new direction will fail and they don't want to be on a board or management team that failed. Or they will no longer have the necessary skill set to implement a new strategy; therefore they will eventually be rejected off the board or out of the managerial team because they no longer fit. Or, this new idea is so different than what has been tried previously they are fearful of the unknown of how employees and member will react, accept, and respond to the ne

Your Blog is Boring, Where Is My Porn
This is Blogging Secret #31Is your blog boring enough to make your visitors start watching porn instead?You can spend a lot of time and effort building your traffic, readership and popularity of your blog, however if its not interesting enough, you have just wasted you time creating any kind of traffic.A blog is no longer about putting plain text and content up on your blog. With continues growth of Blogs where new software’s, plug-ins and tools available a blogger has no excuse to make his blog more interesting and fun.Here are some ways you can make you blog interesting.1. Adding graphics and photos to your post will increase readability of the post. It will spice up a plain old content and hypnotize the reader to read it.2. Blog Podcasting is a new medium you can try out. Bloggers with weekly, bi-monthly or monthly podcast will always get return visitors.3. Streaming videos is gaining popularity among bloggers. You can stream a serious video on your topic but the best videos are the funny kind. Having a laugh or two on your blog won’t hurt it. Relax and have fun. The funny videos is the best kind of content to post on Sundays or holidays.4. Syndicate your contents. Remember you must learn the art of crafting a good headline. While RSS syndication is not new but couple with extremely hypnotic headlines you

13 Tips - What You Can Do With Private Label Content
1. If you have a article site, you can create Articles For Your Web Site. Add your resource box/byline to the articles and publish them on your website. You could allow your visitors to republish the articles if they also publish your resource box. This way you spread your ad all over the Internet and enlarge your link popularity for free.2. Create articles for your ezine - Add your resource box/byline to the articles and publish them in your ezine. You could allow your subscribers to republish the articles if they also publish your resource box. This also will spread your ad all over the internet and enlarge your link popularity for free. This is also good for your PageRank.3. Create free bonuses for your products - They will increase the perceived value of your product and give them extra incentives to buy it. Examples are free ebooks, reports, ecourses, etc. They will enlarge the value of your product and give them extra incentives to buy it.4. Create free bonuses for your free ezine/opt-in list - It could be free ebooks, reports, ecourses, etc. They will give people extra incentives to subscribe to your free ezine or opt-in list.5. Create a free Viral eBook - You could allow other people to give away the ebook for free or as a bonus product. They will multiply your ad like a virus. You also could submit it to some

Making Money Online - An Overview of Why and How To Do It
There are many reasons why an increasing number of people are trying their hand at making money online. For some people it’s because they dream of becoming a dot com millionaire and leaving their job to make money at home. For a small minority this dream will become a reality. For other people though, it is the more achievable dream of supplementing their existing income that inspires them. Below are three of the most popular ways of making money on the internet and the pros and cons of each method.Affiliate ProgrammesAffiliate marketing is a well known and popular method for making money online. By becoming an affiliate for a company you will be financially rewarded for every customer you provide. Terms and conditions vary for each merchant. Some will simply reward you for every person who clicks through to their site. Others will pay for every new customer that signs up to a service or give you a commission for every purchase made. It is a fairly simple arrangement whereby your financial rewards are often directly proportional to the time and effort you spend in promoting your affiliate links.The downside is that not all affiliate programme merchants are particularly honest or legitimate. Before signing up to a programme, make sure you have researched it well and know that you are getting a good and fair deal. If possible, get recommendations fr

Reward Your MVP (Most Valuable Player)
No matter what the sport or business, we all have a Most Valuable Player. Surprisingly, most businesses either do not recognize the MVP, do not realize the importance of demonstrating appreciation, or fail to include the MVP in the most important business decisions or processes.The first step is to identify the MVP. The second step is to create a consistent method to reward and include the MVP.Step One: Identify Your MVPIf you were to stop reading right now and made a list of individual contributors, who would you name as your team MVP? In sports it may be the individual who scores the most points, provides the best defense to contain opposing points, or the person who changed the tide of momentum with complete selfless dedication and stamina. Is that how you would measure an MVP in your business team? Is it the person that earns the most revenue, controls the expense, improves the processes or inspires others with selfless dedication?If you made a complete list of individual contributors, positions and responsibilities, which one is indispensable? Yes, there is always one contributor and relationship that an organization must have to survive. Have you identified that responsibility, and are you investing time and effort to integrate this MVP?The first instinct for many organizations or groups is to believe that the manager is the MVP. In m

The 10 Biggest Mistakes People Make Managing Organisational Performance
mistake #1: rely just on financial statementsProfit and loss, revenue and expenses these are measures of important things to a business. But they are information that is too little and too late. Too little in the sense that other results matter too, such as customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, customer advocacy. Too late in the sense that by the time you see bad results, the damage is already done. Wouldn’t it be better to know that profit was likely to fall before it actually did fall, and in time to prevent it from falling?mistake #2: look only at this month, last month, year to dateMost financial performance reports summarise your financial results in four values: 1) actual this month; 2) actual last month; 3) % variance between them; and 4) year to date. Even if you are measuring and monitoring non-financial results, you may still be using this format. It encourages you to react to % variances (differences between this month and last month) which suggest performance has declined such as any % variation greater than 5 or 10 percent (usually arbitrarily set). Do you honestly expect the % variance to always show improvement? And if it doesn’t, does that really mean things have gotten bad and you have to fix them? What about the natural and unavoidable variation that affects everything, the fact that no two things are ever exactly alike? Relying on %