5 Reasons To Learn About Board Portals At The Directors And CEOs Leadership Convention

This August, the Directors and CEOs Leadership Convention is celebrating its 40th year providing inspiration and guidance to the credit union movement. Board members and executives from credit unions across the country will be gathering in Las Vegas to hear from renowned leadership speakers like Tim Harrington and credit union experts like Andrew Downin and Lynn Heckler. This year, the convention will be tackling some of the biggest challenges facing credit unions today, including membership growth, marketing to Millennials, cybersecurity, FinTech, and the future of lending. There will also be plenty of exhibitors and vendors to learn from about new…

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Using Insulation to Keep your Heating Bills under Control

Many people struggle to pay their electric, gas and home heating oil bills. Every year, the cost of power goes up, and you can only save so much by swapping suppliers. Fortunately, there are plenty of other things you can do to keep your bills under control. Most of the steps we discuss below are easy and inexpensive to implement. Install more insulation Insulating your home is a good place to start. Insulation keeps the heat in the property so that it keeps circulating within your home. It is important to realise that some parts of the home are leakier…

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6 Ways To Make Your Business More Efficient

No enterprise is perfect. If your company is like most, it could probably operate in a more streamlined, efficient manner. Many leaders integrate the Japanese practice of kaizen, or continuous improvement, into their business operations, reasoning that practices and procedures can always improve. The question is: How does a business owner or executive translate the need for efficiency into action?   Much has been written about efficiency-enhancing management tactics. As a leader, it’s in your best interest—and your company’s—to craft a managerial style that consistently brings out the best in your teams and keeps big projects moving along on schedule.…

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5 Advantages of Hiring a Car for Your Business

If you’re starting a small business or looking to expand your current business to a larger one, you don’t necessary have to fork out lots of money to buy new assets outright. You can hire larger space or offices to work in, and you can hire cars if this is a necessity for your business. For example, if you’re running a taxi service, a delivery company or a mobile service which requires a vehicle to get you from one place to another, hiring a car comes with lots of advantages. You don’t have a large amount to pay at the…

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6 things you need to know about quality footwear

There are plenty of different shoes out there for you to choose from. So, how can you discern which of them are the best of the best? It’s not easy, but here are 6 things that you should check are present in a pair of shoes before you spend any money on them. Oh, and if any of these are absent in your current footwear, you’ve got even more reason to consider replacement shoes. Sufficient space for your toes When wearing shoes, your feet need a little bit of space in which to wriggle. Otherwise, those shoes could become uncomfortable…

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