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  1. Share Your Secrets, Win an iPad

    When we built the Debt in Focus Network site, our vision was to establish a center for cooperation among the program’s users. We established a base of marketing materials, video tutorials, and implementation guide, logos, and a questions/answers section. This was only supposed to be the start of it. Our hope was that members of the site would share their own marketing materials on the site, use the site to ask fellow marketing professionals how they have implemented Debt in Focus, and as a community find as many powerful ways to leverage Debt in Focus as possible.

    We haven’t given up.

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  2. Economic Rationalist

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    Filene recently visited with several guests from an Australian credit union who were on a study tour through the United States. This particular credit union has a unique strategy, which tightly links environmental sustainability to their image. When asked how this successful (and peculiar) strategy came to be, our Australian guest stated that it was implemented because it comported with their CEO’s economic rationalist view of the world.

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  3. Feeling the Burn

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    You feel the burn. So do we.

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