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Hastings City Bank: Community Banking Month Award Recipient

Posted by Megan Plis on 4/13/16 10:30 AM

We are pleased to announce Hastings City Bank - Hastings, MI as our second Community Banking Month winner!

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1st Community Bank: Community Banking Month Award Recipient

Posted by Megan Plis on 4/6/16 9:30 AM

We are pleased to announce 1st Community Bank as our first Community Banking Month winner!

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5 Things Your Community Bank's Website Needs

Posted by Megan Plis on 3/3/16 9:00 AM

Your community bank has a website. You hired a FinTech professional to make it look great. Chances are you're ready to take the Internet banking world by storm. But just to make sure, check that you've got these five things employed (and visible!) on your site. You'd be surprised how many seemingly perfect websites are missing out on these vital opportunities!

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CEOs: 3 Important Thoughts on FinTech and Community Banking for 2016

Posted by Tom Parsons on 1/19/16 12:30 PM

As a CEO or CFO of a community bank, you are well aware that mega banking institutions are investing heavily in innovative technologies designed to take customers away from you. Having serviced the industry for over 25 years, I've seen many changes, but none as profound as outlined in two recent articles highlighting the impact of FinTech.

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Community Bank & Credit Union Forum: Compass Roundtable 2015

Posted by Jennifer Mello on 1/7/16 2:00 PM

A Note to Attendees

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Get Your Community Bank Started with Social Media Marketing

Posted by Tom Parsons on 12/15/15 3:00 PM

For #CommunityBankers who are curious

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Twitter for Community Banks: Now I'm A Believer

Posted by Danielle Slowey on 11/5/15 3:00 PM

I’ll be honest, I was never a Twitter fan. I always thought, “I don’t have the time to sit on Twitter all day and read every single thing someone has to say in under 140 characters.”But then…I became a believer.

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Social Media 101: How to Get Your Community Bank Started

Posted by Danielle Slowey on 2/17/15 4:30 PM

Although social media has been around for a while now, business profiles are still relatively new. Many financial institutions are still finding their way to the social media arena. As social media keeps growing in popularity, it is important that financial institutions climb on the bandwagon as well.

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The Benefits of Using Social Media for Community Banks

Posted by Danielle Slowey on 2/2/15 1:00 PM

Social media is booming. Period.

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Community Bankers, Aloha and Mahalo!

Posted by Brett Hendricks on 4/14/14 11:00 AM
Wow - what a fantastic trip to the 2014 ICBA in Honolulu this past March. It was a long way to travel but given this year’s weather, a little time in the sun mixed with one of my favorite conventions could not have come at a better time.

I would like to extend a sincere thank you to all of our clients and prospective clients that stopped by the Plansmith booth and took a few minutes to talk with me and my colleague, Ron Trice. In an era of endless emails, conference calls and web presentations it is always nice to put a face to a name and shake hands with all of you. If you didn’t come by the booth but happened to see the two tall guys in the loudest most obnoxious Hawaiian shirts ever - yes, that was us.

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