Mortgage Website Page Speed for SEO & Ranking: Understanding It’s Impact
The time it takes for a web page to load can make or break a user’s experience, influencing their decision to stay and explore or abandon the site altogether. As …
Don’t Miss Out on Savings: Upgrade to LHP 3.0 with No Migration Fee
We knew we had something compelling, innovative, and unlike anything else in the market when we launched our new LHP 3.0 website builder–but what we weren’t prepared for was the …
Loan Officer Business Listing Management –Made Easy!
The days of physical directory books left at your doorstep are long gone, but that doesn’t mean business listings are dead. In fact, a vast amount of consumers still research …
How to Audit Your Mortgage Website to Boost Visibility
Your mortgage website is your digital real estate (no pun intended). But while you have the freedom to design it any way you want and the obligation to deliver an …
4 Advanced Link-Building Tactics: Leverage AI To Boost Mortgage Marketing
Link building plays a vital role in SEO and is one of the factors Google considers when determining search rankings. While actions like improving page speed can provide an immediate …
How to be a Successful Loan Officer in a Challenging Market
If you’ve been a loan officer for any number of years, you’re familiar with the ebbs and flows of the mortgage market. When things are good, they are very good. …
Mapping Out a Successful Local SEO Strategy
Picture this: Your ideal customer, a perfect fit for your target market, eagerly searches for “loan officers near me.” As they hit that search button, a multitude of relevant results …
The Template for Loan Officer Marketing
A marketing plan helps you grow your mortgage business – this is true even for single MLO’s. But let’s face it, creating a plan can be overwhelming and confusing. We …
YouTube SEO: 10 Ideas for Getting Your Mortgage Videos to Rank Higher
You may have heard of search engine optimization for your website, but did you know that there is a set of SEO practices for YouTube, too? Just like search engines, …
Social Media Marketing for Loan Officers: Getting Started
A crucial component of marketing yourself as a loan officer is social media. Social media has made it easier than ever for businesses to reach their target audience, with both …
New Facebook Ad Policies: Is Facebook Marketing Dead for Lenders
Starting Oct 12, 2022, Facebook will discontinue its “Special Ad Audiences” feature for ad targeting. This major announcement poses a significant hurdle for all financial institutions –including brokers and loan …
How to Generate More Mortgage Leads with Client Reviews
Technology may change many aspects of the mortgage industry, but some things remain the same: reputation is everything. Whether you’re an independent LO or part of a mortgage team, your …
Is Your Website Enough to WIN in 2022?
Mortgage websites are unlike traditional business websites. As a highly regulated industry, lenders have a slew of compliance requirements in addition to state and federal regulations like the CCPA in …
Loan Officer’s Ultimate Guide To Increasing Digital Presence -Ebook
Digital presence is vital to your success. Consumers turn to the internet when they want to learn more about a loan officer or a particular loan product, making it crucial …
Leveraging The Whitespace Of Being Fun And Different
Stand out from the competition. Get noticed with disruption. If you want to reach a millennial borrower, you got to shake things up. When it comes to tactics for driving …
Why Mortgage Marketing Fails
You watched the tutorials, read the how-to’s, and boosted your top Facebook posts for several weeks now. Yet still, your mortgage marketing efforts have failed to produce results. Truth be …
Keeping Clients Engaged For Their Next Purchase or Refi
Retaining clients is essential for both maintaining and scaling a mortgage business. But it doesn’t happen magically. Similar to the work you put into nurturing the mortgage lead in the …
3 Keys To Blowing Up Your Realtor Referral Network
Referrals are the lifeblood of all successful originators, accounting for as much as 65% of new business. However, your past clients aren’t the only source of referral –you also have …
Understanding The Value Of Social Media For Mortgage Businesses
Some pretty fantastic promises have been made regarding what social media can do for a business. Post daily on Facebook and triple your revenue in 3 months. Be more active …
Want LOs to Increase Volume? Take Marketing Off Their List
Keeping that pipeline filled with new qualified leads is one of the biggest challenges that brokerages face daily, and marketing plays a critical role in making that happen. However, many …
6 Keys for Creating Posts that Drive Engagement
Content that engages your audience isn’t about winning a popularity contest. It’s about enticing or activating motivation, making it more likely that the reader will convert into a borrower. Engaging …
How to Leverage Your Personal Brand to Support Your Mortgage Business
The definition of a brand can be boiled down to how the public perceives you, so a personal brand isn’t necessarily built around a business or even with the goal …
What Is A Personal Brand
As a loan officer, know that there’s real value in creating a personal brand. Consider this: if you decide to change to another brokerage or financial institution (or go out …
7 Essentials For Strong Company Branding
Mortgage company branding is more than a logo. It’s part of the entire consumer experience, how your customer perceives you and is an indispensable factor in your ROI. Everything from …
How To Create Buyer Personas For Your Mortgage Business
Want to make your marketing more powerful and targeted to your ideal borrower? The key lies in creating buyer personas. A mortgage buyer persona is a semi-fictional representation of your …
6 Tricks To Optimizing Google My Business For Your Mortgage Business
It’s shocking to see how many mortgage businesses ignore the value of Google My Business (GMB). It’s akin to leaving money on the table, and that is no exaggeration. Google …
What Consumers Want to See on a Mortgage Website
Mortgage websites are unlike traditional business websites. As a highly regulated industry, lenders have a slew of compliance requirements in addition to state and federal regulations like the CCPA in …
How To Use Social Proof To Influence Mortgage Prospects
Social proof is a concept in which consumers will modify their behavior based on what they believe others are doing. It’s a powerful psychological influence that essentially means that if …
How To Use Touchpoints to Drive Mortgage Lead Generation
Just five years ago, the conversation about mortgage lead generation centered around conversion rates, particularly about making ads and calls-to-action more “baited” and clickable. Echoing last week’s post, we know …
6 Easy Ways To Boost Mortgage Business Google Ranking
Whether you’re a broker targeting a single county or a multi-branch lender that serves several states, Google My Business is an indispensable part of bringing local visibility to your mortgage …
The Mortgage Sale: 7 Non-Pushy Ways to Follow-Up On a Lead
Most mortgage prospects won’t commit to filling out the full application the first time around. While we wish every prospective borrower would apply immediately, it simply does not happen this way …
7 Proven Sales Techniques Loan Originators Should Steal
Your role as a mortgage professional isn’t confined only to the activities specific to loan processing. You’re also responsible for selling the loan service. Steal these top sales techniques to …
How to Generate More Mortgage Leads with Reviews
Technology may be changing many aspects of the mortgage industry, but here’s something that remains the same: reputation is everything. Whether you’re an independent LO or part of a mortgage …
Facebook Retargeting Ads During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Continuing with our series of COVID-19 business articles for mortgage pros, this week, we’re zeroing on one of the most profitable boss-moves you can right now. We’re talking about mortgage …
Mortgage Marketing Through the Coronavirus Crisis (and On a Budget)
These past weeks have demanded incredible changes to your life and business, and we can see these shifts reflected in messages on ads and social media every day. However, despite …
Mortgage News: Are You Ready For The Refi Boom?
In an odd but anticipated turn of events, news of a Coronavirus outbreak has forced the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. This was done in an attempt to boost …
The Art of Consultative Selling to Increase Your Loan Volume
Consultative selling may not sound as flashy or exciting as “sales machine” or the “art of the sale” but it’s certainly in the same category. Consultative selling in the mortgage …
Where to Find High Quality Mortgage Leads Online
The road to mortgage success isn’t exactly straight forward. In fact, when you first signed up to be a mortgage professional, you probably thought that you’d spend most of your …
The Ultimate Call-To-Action Guide For Mortgage Pros
A call to action, or CTA, encourages your reader to take a particular action on your website, landing page, or blog post. No doubt, you encounter several CTAs on the …
Rocket Mortgage on Super Sunday – How Do You Beat that?
When it comes to advertising, the top of the food chain of ad placement is, well — the Big Game! And this year, Quicken Loans is making headlines even before …
How to Setup and Optimize Your GMB Mortgage Listing
Listing your mortgage business on Google My Business (GMB) is part of your SEO strategy. Or at least it should be. More than 50% of search inquiries happen via mobile …
How Brokers Win Big With Email and Content Marketing
You need a mortgage blog. You need an email marketing campaign. If you’ve been following our blog for some time, these words probably sound familiar. No doubt, content marketing and …
Ask Us Anything: Answers About Organic Mortgage Lead Generation
Is paying for mortgage leads the only real way to generate online mortgage leads? While paying for leads is a vital part of keeping that pipeline filled, gaining mortgage leads …
The Genesis of The Perfect Mortgage Ad
250 billion dollars. That’s how much US businesses are dedicating to their media budget in 2020. This is the first time in our history that companies will spend such an …
Mortgage Consumer Retention vs Acquisition For Mortgage Leads
A large portion of our time and budget is dedicated to mortgage lead acquisition. But here’s something often overlooked: It’s actually less expensive to nurture a mortgage lead into a …
Mortgage Lead Generation: What No One Is Talking About
Fresh, qualified leads are the lifeline to your lending business and marketing is how you keep that pipeline filled. That’s why you’ll find thousands of online articles dedicated to mortgage …
6 Fresh Ideas For Revamping Your Mortgage Marketing
Is your digital marketing stagnant? Maybe you’ve been shooting aimlessly, hoping that something will stick. If you’re a loan officer and either one of these sounds like you, then this …
Mortgage Brokers: Does You Consumer Engagement Pass The Test?
The mortgage industry is one of the most competitive industries in the US and, without a doubt, technology is adding to the intensity. With digital marketing, mobile convenience, and Fintech …
Mortgage News: Facebook Investigated for Discriminating Housing Ads -AGAIN!
Media giant Facebook had already been in hot water with the Department of Housing and Urban Development for failing to flag discriminating real estate ads. Advertisers were allowed to target …
Secrets of the Profitable Mortgage Broker in a Sluggish Market
Brokers –worried that a sluggish market might affect your pipeline? Or maybe things are going well, but you’d like to plan for “just in case.” Whatever your reasons are, use …
Video Marketing For Mortgage Brokers
When planning your next marketing strategy, don’t forget about a mortgage video marketing strategy, too. Today’s consumers want content delivered in a variety of ways, and video content is quickly …
Digital Marketing Tips For Loan Officers
Ever feel like most of the digital mortgage marketing tips are written for professional marketers rather than loan officers? While some mortgage professionals want a detailed step-by-step guide for marketing …
How To Put Social Media Leads into Action
Are you active on social media yet see very few of your followers turn into mortgage leads? The problem may not be in how often you’re posting. The reason why …
The Power of Influencer Marketing for Mortgage Lead Generation
One way to ensure your mortgage leads pipeline never goes dry is to have multiple sources feeding into it. Pay-per-click ads, retargeting ads, paid mortgage leads, SEO content for organic …
Digital Mortgage 101: Frequently Asked Questions
Is an “e-mortgage” and “digital mortgage” the same thing? While sometimes used interchangeably (even among mortgage professionals), e-mortgage and digital mortgage are not the same. A digital mortgage refers to …
Top Digital Marketing Tips for Mortgage Brokers
As a mortgage broker, you’re always feeling the urgency to find mortgage leads. But now with digital mortgage, the pressure multiplies. And rightfully so! If you’re not doing any digital …
4 Stunning New Website Templates – Ready for use
Come and see our great new website templates with a fresh new design to create a great user experience for your clientele. We have two new “company templates” and 2 …
Mortgage Brokers Step-By-Step Guide To FaceBook Retargeting Ads
Many make the mistake thinking that if they want more online mortgage leads, they need to increase traffic to their mortgage website. But did you know that most visitors will …
Social Media Marketing that Engages and Converts: Loan Officer Edition
You already know that social media is critical to your online presence but do you know how to get the most out of it? Would you like to learn how …
Google Adwords vs Facebook Ads for Mortgage Leads
A marketing question that comes up a lot from both large banks as well as single LO’s alike is, “Should I be advertising on Google or Facebook for mortgage leads?” …
How to Nurture Your Online Lead Into a Mortgage
We’ve talked a lot about how to generate mortgage leads online in our past blog posts. We’ve coached you through writing SEO content to attract organic traffic to your website. …
How to Tell if Your Mortgage Marketing is Working –And How to Fix It!
There are a few misconceptions about what it takes to generate non-paid mortgage leads online. One of the most common mistakes is to think that leads will pour in soon …
17 Shocking Stats About Millennials and How They Mortgage
The average age of a first time homebuyer is about 32, making your first-time home loan prospect a millennial. Marketing mortgages to millennials are unlike other generations. Sure, they want …
5 Sure-Fire Direct Response Tricks For Getting More Mortgage Leads
Generating mortgage leads is the life-blood of your lending business, and that’s why it’s critical that you take advantage of EVERY opportunity. By every opportunity, we mean finding out where …
Mortgage POS. It All Starts With A Website.
LenderHomePage is uniquely positioned with Loanzify-POS to help our Mortgage Website clients improve efficiencies and borrower satisfaction. In 2003, a small group of progressive and talented software engineers began improving …
Mortgage POS. We’re Keeping The Human Touch!
Loanzify: Where “old-world” mortgage banking practices meet modern technology. We have developed a POS that celebrates the history of mortgage banking, trend setting 1003 and featuring a cutting edge borrower …
Mortgage POS. Are You Missing Out?
Point Of Sale is taking the mortgage industry by storm, and it’s time you get on board. A Mortgage Point of Sale, or POS, is the mortgage process under one …
How To Use Facebook Retargeting to Get More Mortgage Leads
Retargeting can be a little confusing. Have you ever been shopping online for something that you don’t really need? Maybe a pair of shoes? As you are picturing those magnificent …
The Quick-Start Guide to Creating Mortgage Ads on Facebook
Facebook has been headlining (more than usual) these past days. If you’re new to advertising on Facebook, you may be wondering if now is a good time to start. We …
Supercharge Your Mortgage Website With These 5 SEO Tactics
Don’t be misled: there’s more than one way to add SEO to your mortgage website. In previous posts, we showed you how to create SEO mortgage content, but there …
10 New Mortgage Templates – A Guide to the Latest Web Design Trends in 2018
Here at LenderHomePage, we work hard to provide lenders and brokers nationwide a one-stop-shop to run a successful mortgage business. Our development team has been putting their collective …
6 Mistakes That Kill Your Online Mortgage Lead Generation
“Soft opening, grand opening. When they opened The Flamingo, one day it was closed, the next day it was open. End of story.” Saul, Ocean’s 13 In this quip from …
3 Steps For Generating Mortgage Leads from ALL Social Media
Mortgage leads from social media. Maybe you’ve heard a colleague mention it. Or perhaps you follow other mortgage professionals and banks on social media to figure out their marketing tactic. …
Everything You Need to Know About Working with “Digital Influencers” for Mortgage Leads
On our last post, we talked about one aspect of content marketing. In this installment, we’re going to show you another content marketing strategy that you can use for getting …
6 Tips on How to Build a Successful Email Campaign
With so much talk about generating mortgage leads from organic traffic, paid traffic, and social media, you might overlook one digital marketing tactic that’s one of the most effective. Email …
