Tag Archives: Real estate

Free Marketing for Mortgage Technology and Service Providers

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I am always looking for opportunities to offer as much value as possible to this great community.
Speaking of which, did anyone notice the NAMB discussion got 100+ comments? Wow! Talk about amplifying your mortgage industry influence and voices with the power of an online/real-time community.
Back on point. I know [...]

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Should I Have a Mortgage Website, Blog, or Facebook Page?

I am not going to editorialize much on this point because I think this picture is worth a 1000 words…
If you need help getting started leave a comment below. You will have plenty of Web savvy loan officers and mortgage marketing experts willing to help your success.
Hat Tip: The Real Estate Bloggers

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HVCC is Up and Running. How's it Going?

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Well, the Home Valuation Code of Conduct (HVCC)–the brain-child of New York Attorny General Andrew Cuomo–is fully underway in the mortgage and real estate market.
I thought this would be a great time to survey (Google-style) loan officers and real estate brokers.
Here are a few of the most interesting:

Brian Brady’s first [...]

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Mortgage News You Should Read – 2009-05-01

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Update on H.R. 1728: Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act
H.R. 1728 has left the House Financial Services Community and is headed to the floor of the House of Representatives, next week. Several in the mortgage industry are cautioning the impacts it will have on the mortgage lending:
In testimony Thursday before [...]

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Trulia v. Zillow SEO battle. Local Real Estate SERPs, Do You Care?

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An interesting battle royale whipped up on Twitter over the last week or so–the “SEO merits of Trulia versus Zillow.” Maybe the better question is why does it matter? Or, what is SEO and this SERPs character they keep talking about?
My guess is 95% of real estate and mortgage brokers make [...]

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Do You Have an Online Mortgage Sales Toolkit?

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Ever notice you are answering the same questions, explaining the same mortgage or real estate concepts, overcoming the same objections on every sales call? Meanwhile, the market is not doing you any favors by adding very unique and confusing complexity.
For some folks this may be frustrating. It certainly slows down [...]

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Good Morning Lenderama! Good News Ahead…

Good Morning Lenderama! Sorry it has been a bit quite here, but both Todd and I have been traveling around in the *real* world, meeting with *real* people. It is one of the important things we forget in the blogging, twittering, facebooking world. At any rate, we are moving around the last few pieces on [...]

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