Just over four years ago I turned lenderama into a blog to help me keep in tough with about fifty loan originating clients. I hoped 25 of them would read it. That was really the extent of my vision for this blog. It sort of exceeded my expectations. This blog has been read by hundreds [...]
On January 28, 2005 I turned lenderama into a blog. To my knowledge it was the first B2B blog in the mortgage, or even the real estate industry. My original goal was to talk to the 54 mortgage broker clients that I had cultivated over my years as a wholesale account executive. What actually happened [...]
Social Media Training Camp launches this morning. We’ll be in New York at RE BarCamp and Inman Connect to launch it. I’ve teemed up with Mariana Wagner, Kelley Koehler, and Ginger Wilcox to put together a training bootcamp for sales and marketing professionals who want to adopt this medium. More details are coming, but for [...]
Post Christmas is always a great time to do some personal clothes shopping. I took advantages of the sales this weekend to bolster my wardrobe in preparation for my trip to New York City next week.
I have a huge smile on my face tonight. The picture below is the reason why.
Wednesday was a twenty three hour day for me. I took the first flight out of Denver to Chicago and the last one of the day back home. It was all part of a effort to speak at the inaugural SPARKt conference, a real estate and social media workshop put on by Kit Mueller in [...]
I’m joining two of my favorite mortgage bloggers, Dan Green and John Yedinak, along with a host of real estate 2.0 professionals at SPARKt on December 10th in Chicago. From the site.
“The inaugural SPARKt Technology Conference features notable national experts and change-agents leading an afternoon of short-form talks (18 minutes each) that challenge each of [...]
Anyone who knows me, knows that I don’t really mean that. Not because I’m any sort of Obama supporter, I’m not. But because I don’t believe that presidents really matter that much in our day to day lives. At least, not if you want to be successful in life.
Born in 1971, the first president I [...]
If you’re still in business as a loan officer, and want to stay that way. Hmmm, wouldn’t be a pretty good idea to talk to real estate agents? What if you could use social networks to meet real estate agents? I do, and it works.
Despite being an early bull on the idea of marketing through [...]
There seems to be no shortage of criticism for the National Association of REALTORS amongst the ranks of RE.net. But from the perspective of a mortgage guy, one could only wish MBA or NAMB had half of NAR’s SM savvy. Here’s my continued thoughts on what if NAR gets it right?
First, a few notes. This post has nothing to do with the mortgage industry. I don’t want to waste your time if that’s why you’re here.
Second, I talked with Hilary Marsh for a few minutes about this position. I think she knows what’s best for NAR and will probably choose a candidate based on their [...]
Morning Mortgage Notes from Bill Rice has just been added to my RSS reader. Bill’s been a long time trusted voice in my eyes. Great to see he’s established this new blog.
I’m not sure if Tony created these videos, or just found them on YouTube, but they’re pretty good either way.
Understanding Mortgage Backed Securites (MBS)
A shameless plug for a long time supporter of lenderama. I received this note in my inbox today from Avi Fischer, Marketing Manager for Leads360
Todd,
I wanted to drop you a line to let you know that our ultra-affordable (1 user free/5 users for $35) lead management solution has moved out of beta and is now [...]
One of the biggest reasons for changing the format/theme on lenderama this summer was to provide a more effective way to serve up advertising without filling the blog with a tower of banner ads. I’ve been using this space to advertise REBlogWorld, but with a year to go before the next event, I’m officially opening [...]
Dan Gilbert, Chaiman of Quicken Loans, the nation’s largest online loan originator, spoke out today on his opinions reguarding the financial bailout. I’m still of the mind to let it burn, but Dan’s ideas make more sense that what our government has come up with.
I’m slowly getting back into the groove of writing on Lucid Ninja (my old blog fiesta site). This post is a call out to any blogger I have yet to interview. If you’re interested, let’s talk.
… and everything to do with accepting that there are more important issues in the world than bailing out some bank.
A few minutes ago, a twitter post came across my radar from my friend Jeff Turner. Jeff is an advocate for ending child slavery and read a passage today from A Crime So Monstrous. Jeff [...]
You have to love The House of Representatives. Each member up for election every two years. Each with a finate and focused constituency. When a bill stinks, it’s the House that sniffs it out. Today’s victory (or failure depending on your onion), was a bipartisan action. The news is leading with the notion that the [...]
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