Helpful mortgage business building strategy, tactics,
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What’s more important, the first impression you make or the last?Â
The answer is both.
As a loan professional, you certainly want to make a very good first impression, especially if you want an opportunity to work with a referral partner or a potential client. Unfortunately, many people don’t focus on the last impression. They unimpressively limp across the finish line, ruining all the...
In this episode, Tm Braheem sits down with long time mortgage leader Mike Stoddart, currently the President of Luminate Home Loans. Mike has been in the mortgage business for over thirty years and brings a wealth of wisdom and experience to this conversation for mortgage originators and business owners to learn from.
YOU WILL LEARN ABOUT:
1. How to use your ...
One of the reasons why people don't take the next step is due to the F word. That's right. Fear.
How often does fear control your decision-making process? How often does anxiety cause you to abort what was planned? What must you do to succeed in this precious time of growth and evolution as a loan professional? Time management is fear management as m...
It’s no secret that the mortgage business is a cyclical one. When you hit slow periods, it’s easy to get sidetracked. However, these times can also be an excellent opportunity to get inspired, innovate the process, and rekindle relationships with your past client database and friends in and out of the industry.Â
Interest rates were at nine and thre...
In this episode, Tim Braheem sits down with internationally recognized expert David Allen, author of "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Time Management." David shares the necessity of a system for managing time and tasks in one's personal and professional life, which leads to greater mental and emotional freedom, deeper relaxat...
Creativity and growth or constriction and fear. Laid out next to each other it’s not much of a decision of what to choose. But when that decision is left to our subconscious, our choice turns into more of a coin toss. The key to regaining control of that choice is to go back in time.
Think about a child for a minute. When most people were young their im...
In this episode, Tim Braheem sits down with Mega-Producer and Leader Kelly Marsh of Cornerstone Mortgage. Kelly candidly shares her struggles with a significant drop in volume for 2022, how it negatively affected her team, and impacted her mindset.
Determined to thrive in 2023, Kelly shares how she resolved those issues, re-engineered her...
Let's talk today about hiring processors, transaction coordinators and other support staff. That probably sounds strange because there’s a decent chance many of you have recently laid off some of your people. But something I know to be true in the mortgage industry is we are typically late to let go, as well as late to hire. Something else I know is that right now...
Tim sits down with long time friend, mortgage industry icon and entrepreneur Dave Savage. This conversation is a deep dive into marketing, mindset, the key technological mediums and tools that are essential to being successful in today's post COVID world.
Tim &Â Dave Discuss:
1. Why creativity is the essential power tool in today's mar...
Interest rates have been rising but you may be compounding the issue by taking a lackadaisical approach. Ask yourself if the following sounds familiar.
You start talking to a prospective buyer and for the sake of this scenario, we’ll say the rates are at five and a quarter and they don’t pull the trigger. Maybe they made...
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