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Before you hit the "unsubscribe" button on email marketing, let’s take a closer look at why this classic tool is still a powerhouse.
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With strategic planning season underway, here are 5 focus areas for your 2026 Marketing Plan.
In this quick and insightful video, Strum’s CXO and Principal Karen McGaughey and CUInsight’s President and CEO Greg Michleg discuss how credit unions can optimize their marketing budgets.
Onboarding emails are powerful relationship-building tools, proven to increase loyalty, and the most-read emails you'll ever send. Follow these 4 best practices to maximize yours.
These five mid-year shifts can fuel performance in 2025 without blowing up your budget or burning out your team.
Stories activate our motor cortex - the part of the brain responsible for planning, controlling, and voluntary movements. How can financial brands tap into this science?
When Security Plus Federal Credit Union refreshed their brand identity, their vision was to modernize their member experience, including how they welcome new members. The 90 day results are in for their onboarding program - check it out!
People see up to 10,000 pieces of data, advertising and information digitally each day. Make human connection part of your competitive distinction.
See you in Washington DC at America's Credit Union GAC Conference, March 2-7.
Come say hi to the Strum and Strum Platform team at booth #215 in the exhibit hall!
For credit unions and community banks to compete today, they must combine the digital personalization customers expect and the human touch they still value.
The competitive battle to win low-cost core deposits, stem the outflow of deposits, and attract new members has never been higher for credit unions. But there is an antidote.
In this 8-minute video, Ben Stangland and Robbie Young of CUInsight dive into how Strum Platform helps financial institutions improve member experiences and campaign ROI, and how the agency works hand-in-hand with Strum Platform to create comprehensive marketing strategies that drive growth.
The Embold brand empowers members to boldly pursue their goals. Using Strum Platform, they extended this philosophy to create multi-email campaigns catering to new members’ unique personal needs. The results were powerful.
The Sandwich Generation—the 80 million Americans caring for aging parents while raising children of their own—is getting squeezed more than ever, becoming the high pressure Panini Generation. Here’s how FIs can support them, and earn multigenerational relationships.
Gen Z is expected to comprise 40% of all consumers by 2030 and holds an annual spending power of over $450 billion in the U.S. alone. Engaging them is critical for the future success of credit unions.
Advice, perspective and knowledge on a wide range of issues reshaping banking today.
A successful deposit strategy requires an understanding of consumer behavior and macroeconomic trends. Here are 3 factors to consider and 3 steps to take.
Before you hit the "unsubscribe" button on email marketing, let’s take a closer look at why this classic tool is still a powerhouse.
Come say hi to your Strum and Strum Platform friends in Booth 13.
Watch this free webinar about leveraging data insights and audience segmentation into a Data-Driven Deposit Strategy and Personalized Journey program to boost growth.
Millennials are currently more likely than any other generation to open new financial products across the board. How can credit unions reach and attract more Millennials to grow membership and, in particular, to bring in new core deposits? Here are 6 steps.
"Inspiring Buy-In: Transforming Member Experience Through Data" is a webinar for organizations striving to marry tradition with innovation through actionable data insights.
Strum is thrilled to celebrate with all the 2024 Diamond Award winners, and especially our 8 clients who won a combined 12 awards - including Category Best! đź’Žđź’Žđź’Ž
We hope to see you March 17-20th at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for the America’s Credit Unions Marketing & Business Development Council’s Conference. Look for the bright Strum sign and come say hi to the Strum Agency and Strum Platform team!
As their 70th anniversary inched closer, Frontwave knew it required something bold, fun, and fresh to connect with new members and revitalize their brand.
Highlighting the best of themselves and embracing the gritty, blue-collar work ethic of their membership proved to be the right move. Download this free case study to see how they did it.
We hope to see you at America's Credit Union GAC Conference, March 3-7. The Strum Agency and Strum Platform teams will be posted up in booth #143 - come say hi to Mark, Bee, Randy, and Laurie!
The Embold brand empowers members to boldly pursue their goals. Using Strum Platform, they extended this philosophy to create multi-email campaigns catering to new members’ unique personal needs. The results were powerful.