Bethany Wood

Bethany Wood
Bethany Wood is a Marketing Specialist at Teslar Software, a provider of lending process automation tools for community financial institutions. In this role, Bethany is responsible for designing, creating, implementing, and monitoring marketing programs and strategies across multiple platforms to help support company growth, market position, and brand awareness. Prior to joining the team, Bethany worked in church ministry serving as Communications Director as well as roles in leadership, administration, and media. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Arkansas. Outside of Teslar, Bethany enjoys movie night with her daughters, vintage finds, planning her next home renovation project, and reading.
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Teslar Software Partnership Success Stories
Banking, Teslar Platform

Pendleton Community Bank President & CEO Discusses His Favorite Aspects of Teslar

At Teslar Software, we are in the business of creating highly efficient banks. We build tools designed to improve productivity and increase data accuracy throughout your entire institution. We provide community financial institutions with automated workflow and portfolio management tools to streamline and improve processes with easy access to relevant information needed to operate. Our innovative software is built on four pillars that we believe are essential to any financial institution that is eager to increase efficiency: Integration, Empowering Bankers, Streamlining Processes, and Scalability.

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How much do Americans spend each year on Valentine's Day?
Community, Banking

Valentine’s Day Spending Trends

Consumer behavior is an important economic driving force. Although holidays are never about gift-giving or spending money, these cultural norms are still major factors for the economy. V Day is a staple day for retail industries like floral, candy, and jewelry. To get a deeper look at just how much we are spending, who is spending it, and what we are spending it on, we turned to NRF (National Retail Federation), who has surveyed consumers about Valentine’s Day plans annually for almost 20 years. 

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Entrepreneurship is on the rise
Community, Banking

Entrepreneurship Increasing During the Pandemic

While the economic effects of coronavirus have led to business closures, job losses, and a drop in GDP, some are taking this as an opportunity to pursue passions and take risks. That’s right, entrepreneurship is on the rise. Americans are starting businesses at the fastest rate in more than a decade. As of September 2020, applications for EIN numbers had surpassed 3.2 million for the year1, with over 500,000 of said applications occurring from mid-Mach to the end of May alone2. This number is, unironically, up 500,000 compared to the year prior1.

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Banking, Teslar Platform

A True Partner, Not Just a Vendor: Bank of Zachary President and CEO Discusses Partnership Success with Teslar Software

During the 2019 ICBA ThinkTECH accelerator, Mark Marionneaux, president and CEO of Zachary, La.-based Bank of Zachary, visited the Venture Center and spoke with several participants, one of whom was Joe Ehrhardt, CEO and founder of Teslar Software. Bank of Zachary has since partnered with Teslar Software for exceptions management and workflow tools to streamline manual processes.

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Banking, Teslar Platform

Improve Your Construction Management Process for a Better Customer Experience

The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 shook the American economy and uprooted day-to-day life for most Americans. We saw a lot of back and forth when it came to economic outlook and predictions. One factor that stayed strong was the housing market. In fact, demand increased and we saw record-breaking sales numbers in 2020. Despite increase in building materials in 2020, demand for new homes also stayed strong.

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Teslar Blog's Best of 2020
Teslar

Teslar Blog Best of 2020

This year brought about many firsts for the banking industry, our country, and the entire world. It has been a whirlwind year in which public health and safety, the fate of small businesses, the economy, Paycheck Protection Program, and pretty much anything else COVID-related remained top of mind.

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Coming Soon to Teslar Software: Teslar PPP Complete
Banking, Teslar Platform

Get a head start on the new round of PPP with Teslar

Community bankers and small business are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the next stimulus bill, which will more than likely include another round of funds for the Paycheck Protection Program. At this time, there is no official ruling, and all details are based on probability and speculation, but we learned last time that this program is fast-moving and ever-changing. By our commitment to helping make PPP an easier process for community bankers and their customers, we’re back with an all new module for this new round.

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Is there still marketplace demand for Christmas Club accounts?
Community, Banking

Is there still marketplace demand for Christmas Club accounts?

Christmas Club accounts (or Holiday Club accounts) are short-term savings accounts offered by financial institutions to help consumers set aside money for holiday expenditures. These accounts take a designated amount from each paycheck throughout the year and set it aside in the holiday account. This amount could be as small as 5 or 10 dollars per paycheck.

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Black Friday will still be the most popular shopping event this holiday season
Community

Black Friday 2020 Spending Trends

Thanksgiving and Black Friday are just around the corner! Traditional Black Friday proceedings will undoubtedly be different this year, however, research from Periscope by McKinsey reveals that Black Friday will still be the most popular shopping event this holiday season.

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Banking

TV Streaming Services Can Now Boost Your Credit Score

Have you heard the buzz about how your Netflix bill can help boost you credit score? Experian Boost is a free service that first launched in early 2019 and is helping those who are looking to increase their credit scores. Unlike Credit Management Services or other “quick” methods of credit building, Experian is a trusted and established company in the credit score world and this free service will boost FICO scores instantly.

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