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Juicing up Your Local Online Presence

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by David Bayer on October 04 2009, 2:38 PM

Local is one of the top three areas of online marketing that my clients ask me about, along with search engine optimization and social media marketing. The interesting thing about local is that it is the yin to the global yang that we thought the Internet...
How I Got to #1 on Google for ‘Mortgage Brokers'

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by David Bayer on October 09 2009, 7:13 PM

As you can imagine – a lot of people ask me how I got my site to #1 on Google for a term like ‘mortgage brokers’ not to mention thousands of other high volume keyword phrases. It’s a process that anyone can achieve, but......
Enhancing Your Social Media Presence With Email

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by David Orsini on September 10 2009, 8:34 AM

One simple step everyone can take to make their email efforts more compatible with their social media efforts is to link all of your emails to your social networking profiles or blogs....
MBA Proposal Makes No Progress

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by Jeff Wirsing on September 07 2009, 4:19 PM

Free markets function fine...when all parties understand their risks. Changes need to be made to the GSE's but not in a way that contracts, rather than expands, homeownership. Of the eleven Principles offered by the MBA only four focus on how the...
Housing Professionals Reluctantly Joining Labor Organizations

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by Moshe Cohen PhD on September 14 2009, 10:26 AM

Most appraisers have an independent spirit and the idea of an appraiser union is not very appealing to them. I suppose that the same applies to Mortgage Brokers. It certainly feels like both groups have been under attack recently and at least some appraisers...
Making Obama's Foreclosure Plan Work

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by Steven Gillan on September 09 2009, 2:45 PM

The question is one of trust. For nine months our trade group has been lobbying Congress and the GSE's to use such a work force but the question is always asked; how can we trust you guys, the mortgage industry that sold all these bad mortgage products...
Is the FTHB Tax Credit Stealing From Future Demand?

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by Winston Smith on August 28 2009, 1:49 PM

Instead of asking if we are stealing from future demand, maybe the better question is will there be any future demand? If you agree with ex-FHFA regulator James Lockhart's outlook..will that demand even be able qualify for a mortgage? There are bigger...
Real Estate Agents: Still A Valuable Source Of New Business

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by Brian Brady on August 25 2009, 1:00 AM

Solid real estate agent relationships are the cornerstone of any professional loan originator's business plan. While the mortgage industry has done an excellent job at consumer direct marketing, home buyers still consider the real estate agent the...
The Way of the Guerrilla Mortgage Warrior

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by Brian Brady on August 07 2009, 3:12 PM

I use transparency as a weapon against the banks. I walk into a bank branch and snap a picture of their mortgage rates, on the lobby sign. I e-mail that picture with a copy of the wholesale rate sheets (from the same bank), and SHOW THE CUSTOMER HOW MUCH...
Discussing Calls for Leadership in the Mortgage Industry

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by Bill Berliner on July 31 2009, 6:36 PM

A combination of better and simpler disclosures from lenders, combined with the assurance of complete and accurate information from borrowers, would go a long way toward repairing the damage to the lending industry inflicted by the mortgage crisis. That...
Proposing Real Change in the Mortgage Industry

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by Jeff Wirsing on July 30 2009, 2:49 PM

In the past year most of us have listened to, or expressed our views, on the need for the mortgage industry to make changes. Why has so much collective interest in making something happen failed to produce any meaningful results?...
Rebuttal: Mortgage Industry in Search of Leadership

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by Brian Brady on July 29 2009, 12:14 PM

I posed Jeff's question to the National Association of Mortgage Brokers and they responded with an invitation to the national membership committee. One of the key points I make is that NAMB should stop preaching that they are "saving our jobs"...
Mortgage Industry In Search of Leadership

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by Jeff Wirsing on July 24 2009, 11:52 AM

Despite being several months into what equates to the de-construction and re-building of the mortgage industry...there seems to be a distinct lack of leadership. The "subprime meltdown" brought the US economy to the brink of all out Armageddon...
Mortgage Marketing with Twitter

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by David Orsini on July 09 2009, 12:23 PM

How powerful would it be if, as a mortgage professional, you could tell when someone looking to refinance their home was unsatisfied with their current mortgage broker? Or if another person is questioning something about the rate they got from the broker...
Mortgage Meltdown, More Pain To Come

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by Mike "Mish" Shedlock on June 29 2009, 4:12 PM

T2 Partners has a phenomenal series of charts on the housing crisis stating Why There Is More Pain To Come . The report is 69 pages almost all of them loaded with charts. I took a liberal selection below, adding plenty of comments, but please take a look...

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