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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
How to Close More Loans in 2020
No matter where you’re business was at the end of 2019, we bet closing more loans is part of your plan for growth for this new decade. But if plans …
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 …
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 …
Freddie Mac Gets “Intelligent” with New Mortgage Insights App For Lenders
Welcome to 2019, Freddie Mac! Just yesterday, Freddie Mac unveiled its new tech tool that aims to help originators gain valuable and advanced insight to optimize their mortgage lending strategies. …
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 …
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 …
Recent Survey Reveals Millennial Homeownership Obstacles
Millennials have lower rates of homeownership than previous generations –but why? And more importantly, what can your lending business do to increase those numbers! Made possible with a grant from …
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 Next BIG Ideas in Digital Mortgage
The lending industry changes. The market inflates and deflates. Regulations expand, and so do the opportunities for your borrowers. But there something unique and exciting about the most recent changes. …
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 …
Users Can Mute “Remarketing” Google Ads –What This Means For You
Users now have more control over the Google-served ads they see. These changes affect lending business running “remarketing” ad campaigns. Remarketing: An online advertising tactic that shows targeted ads to …
Facebook Algorithm Update Shakes Up Mortgage Marketing
In a recent post, we predicted that social media influencers will be playing a bigger roll in social media marketing. Facebook recently implemented an update that is making this prediction a …
2018 Web Trends All Mortgage Professionals Must Know About (Free Guide!)
Last year, we wrote an end-of-the-year digital mortgage predictions post that was spot on. But to be fair, it wasn’t so much a prediction as it was a well researched …
The BIG 3 Tips to “Get More Mortgage Leads” Via Mobile
What was once a luxury, is now a necessity. Not even a generation has passed since the mobile phone evolved from a brick attached to a briefcase to a palm-sized …
Mortgage Branding 101 (Part 1): What it is and Why it Matters for Conversion
You may not know who Carolyn Davidson is, but no doubt you know her work. In 1971, Ms. Davidson was paid $35 to create a logo. The result? The Nike …
Elements of an “Awesome Mortgage Landing Page” that Converts
Mortgage landing pages are highly-focused conversion tools for generating leads. They’re constructed to reach a particular prospect looking for a specific loan product or mortgage solution. Since they are so …
7 Best Practices for Increasing Your Site Conversions
One of the most valuable metrics to measure — sometimes even more important than web traffic — is conversion rate. Conversion rate is the measure of on-site visitors that turn …
Beginner’s Guide To Generating Mortgage Leads Online
Getting the attention of a prospect when you’re competing with online giants like Lending Tree may seem impossible, but really it just requires a little know-how. The online marketing methods …
