http://blog.bankswitcher.com Identify banks that want to please customers Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:30:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're in Newsweek's April 28, 2008 "Tip Sheet" Section (page 60). We were also featured on this morning's 5am Channel 9 News in the Washington DC area in a daily segment called "Links you can't live without." This is all great. Here's why it's worth it (a comment posted on MakeUseOf.com ... http://blog.bankswitcher.com/2008/04/findabetterbank-is-covered-in-newsweek/ Peter and I think the coolest feature of FindABetterBank is the Fee Estimator because it can really help you save money by identifying banks that don't penalize you for banking your way (or force you to adjust). For example, I hate paying a fee from MY bank because I used ... http://blog.bankswitcher.com/2008/04/findabetterbank-is-featured-on-makeuseofcom/ Feed Growth -- an idea blog for marketers -- wrote about BankSwitcher in their April 2 article "Enough With The Fighting." Here's an excerpt: You can run all of the ads that you want and you may not get your target to do what you want. Depending on the category of ... http://blog.bankswitcher.com/2008/04/feed-growth-wrote-about-bankswitcher/ It's been a really exciting time for us. Yesterday afternoon, KillerStartups.com reviewed BankSwitcher -- which has brought us another wave of new users (and resumes to my email box!). Here's an excerpt (you can follow the link above to read the whole piece): BankSwitcher will certainly take part of the pain ... http://blog.bankswitcher.com/2008/04/bankswitcher-was-reviewed-at-killerstartupscom/ I love when another audience gets introduced to one of our tools (FindABetterBank and BankSwitcher). This morning, WorldStart covered FindABetterBank in their "Computer Tips" newsletter and already (about 5 hours) over 1,000 of their subscribers came to the site. Thank you Amanda for the great write-up (pasted below). Are you interested ... http://blog.bankswitcher.com/2008/03/findabetterbank-was-featured-in-todays-worldstart-newsletter/ BankSwitcher was covered in LifeHacker today. Here's the write-up: Fed up with your bank's hidden fees and customer service? Before you make the often time-consuming switch to another institution, consider checking out BankSwitcher. The web app (in beta, of course) asks you to grab the financial data from your old bank ... http://blog.bankswitcher.com/2008/03/bankswitcher-is-covered-today-in-lifehacker/ A cool site for the banking industry called Banktastic has selected FindABetterBank as their Website of the Week. Brad Garland does a neat weekly video "Burst" in which he talks about FindABetterBank. (Perhaps Brad can be to the banking industry what Gary Vaynerchuk (www.winelibrary.com) is to the wine industry?) Click here ... http://blog.bankswitcher.com/2008/03/findabetterbank-is-banktastics-website-of-the-week/ We're continuing to add banks to FindABetterBank. Here's a list of banks added this week: EverBank (Internet / branchless bank) Guaranty Bank (TX) Northwest Savings Bank (PA) International Bank of Commerce (TX) Provident Bank (NY) Fremont Bank (CA) CLICK HERE to check it out. http://blog.bankswitcher.com/2008/02/six-more-banks-added-this-week/ FindABetterBank has been live for 3 weeks. Already, a few blogs have noticed: iwillteachyoutoberich wesabe's blog marketingROI shankrila.com myopenwallet.net Banktastic Feedback from consumers is rolling in as well. Getting a broader mix of users and placing the link to the survey in 2 places has helped increase the response rate and provide a more balanced snapshot ... http://blog.bankswitcher.com/2008/02/findabetterbank-finds-fans/ FindABetterBank has been live for 10 days and the overall traffic and feedback have exceeded our expectations. Based on the average time people spend (3:59) and the number of pages viewed (7.6), it’s clear that people are finding the content useful (or at least interesting). Thank you to Mark Hurst ... http://blog.bankswitcher.com/2008/02/initial-feedback-about-findabetterbank/