For Sale By Owner (FSBO) seems like a very American thing to do. You have a home, you want to sell it, you do all the work, you manage the process and you get the reward without having to pay anyone. Sounds good on the surface, but the reality is a bit different. (As most […]
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Keep Your Eye on the Boomerang Buyers
For any one older than 7 years old, you probably will remember 2008. That was the year the American economy almost drove itself off a cliff. How anyone survived that crash is something historians will debate, and citizens will be paying for, for decades. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on your take, the credit market has […]
Build your Customer Persona
Your business success is tied to how well you market yourself. And in order to make your marketing efforts a success, you’ll need to understand your target audience. You’ll need to focus your efforts on what they do and who they are. The idea being that if you are marketing to people outside of your focus […]
Marketing to Millennials: Front and Center
Millennials are coming into their own, but who are they, and what are they thinking? Their reputation seems to precede them, if you believe what you hear: that they have an inability to make a commitment, a habit of jumping from job to job, a devil may care approach to credit scores and for the most part, an addiction to their […]
Celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
“The ultimate measure of people is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy.” Best wishes on this day, a day in honor of the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
A Google Reasons to Get Mobile Friendly
Mobile web marketing is set to take off in 2015 for a couple of reasons (read more here). The main reason, as it usually is, is because ad dollars are flocking to mobile. The global spend on mobile advertising rose from 31.45 billion dollars in 2014 to a projected 45.85 billion this year. With that […]
Richard Cordray and The CFPB Want You to Shop Better
Americans love to shop for the best deal. People will go 5 miles out of their way to save a dime on a dozen eggs (at least my mom will). So what is the big disconnect with the extraordinary effort to shop for savings on daily purchases like groceries, and the distinct lack of shopping […]
Mortgage, Disrupted
Where do you get your ice, and why is the answer an insight to the future of the mortgage industry? Your ice has a back story filled with lessons on the nature of disruptive technology, and it may be more similar to the mortgage industry than it appears on the surface. What Disruptive Technology is on the way? […]
Warm up to Cold Calling
It’s hard to stand out in the lending marketplace. If someone does a quick search online for mortgage brokers or loan officers, they’ll go dizzy from all the options they find. While you’re potentially one of the better options in town, it only matters if your prospective business partners connect with you — if and when they find you. We’ve […]
The CFPB wants to get rid of you in August
August 2015 is shaping up to be the month you’ll be out. And by out, I mean leaving the office. Yep, vacation, baby! Sun, sand, waves and more. This year, the CFPB is helping Loan Officers across the country to select the dates for their vacation. The CFPB is set to require lenders to use […]