There’s A Cost of Waiting to Purchase

On this episode of Loan Officer Freedom, the #1 podcast for loan officers across the country, Carl is joined by Carin Buchanan, who is letting us get a peek into her well presented class that she shares with Real Estate agents. 

There’s a cost of waiting to purchase – and she will run down the numbers to prove those points in this podcast. As a loan officer, sharing knowledge and value to your real estate partners provides a bridge for continuous referrals.

Listen in to hear Carin go over how to present this to your real estate agents so that they can relay the message to their clients that purchasing now will help build wealth down the road. 
Want access to more tips, ideas, and strategies? Schedule a 1-on-1 free coaching call today.

Here’s one of my “Lead Getting” tools…

This one simple little form has produced me and other LOs that I’ve shared it with, pages and pages of referred leads (you know the kind that actually close) all for free.

Just Go Here and you can have instant access to it, no charge, no opt-in and you have my full permission to swipe and deploy.  Just take my name and company off and put yours on.

It’s pretty self-explanatory.  If you have any questions, just reply to this email and let me know.

Just put your info in every place that has the yellow highlight thingy.
I’ve also used this simple little golden nugget to start getting referrals from agents that I previously didn’t know.

I think the reason it works so well is its simplicity and virtually zero effort for either you or the agent to make it work.

Simply tell the agent that they will drastically increase their buyers and listings that convert to clients when both them and you are calling their leads.

The best part is, the leads are actually expecting you to call.  So, when I first started in the mortgage business, this really helped me with the call reluctance thing (yep, I deal with that too), and connect up with referring agents that I didn’t know the week before.

When I first started doing this, around 20 years ago, I would also get the agent to put in their last 90 days of “dropped leads” (leads that they forgot to call or just hadn’t had a chance to get back with). 

That alone was HUGE for me getting my first “15 loans closed this month” somewhere around my 6th month in the business.  And it just went up higher from there going forward.

Get the lead getting tool here, and if you have any questions, just click here, and we’ll walk you through it, again, no charge or anything uncool like that – at all.

We’ve all got to work together during changing times.  I got your back ☺

Your homie

Carl White

Do I really need an assistant?

Welcome to Loan Officer Freedom, the #1 podcast for loan officers in the country. On this episode, you will hear a candid conversation between Carl White and loan officer Maria Wilder. 

Maria sent in some questions for Carl a couple weeks back and they went a little like this…

  1. If I can only make 1 hire at the present time, who should that person be?
  2. What does their pay structure look like?

They discuss what that 1st assistant does, how they help you close 5-7 more loans per month, what their pay structure looks like, and some huge landmines to avoid. 

Listen in as Maria shares some incredible growth in her business, having had her best month this past August closing a whopping 3.6M. Even in times like these, she stays the course by keeping the pipeline strong in ways that she reveals in this episode.  

One of the top questions you’ll be asking yourself after listening is “am I working with the right people?” Let us help map out what your course should be looking like to keep your pipeline strong. Schedule a complimentary call here.

How to close more of your “leads”

When people struggle with lead conversion, or “closing leads into loans”, it’s often because of one simple mistake…
The loan officer doesn’t actually have a “true” lead.
You see, there is a major difference between an internet “lead” and a true REFERRED lead… Huge difference.

See, 98% of the time (literally), an internet lead that the LO either buys for themselves, or worse, buys and gives to an agent thinking they are “bringing something of value”, they are actually making their life and their agent business worse… worse with useless clutter.

It’s totally not their fault, but…
…Beginning and low producing LOs fall into the trap thinking that in time they will actually convert the internet leads into closings…

But the reality is…
There’s practically nothing you can do to convince anybody of anything… unless they already want it, and 98% of the time, internet leads don’t “want it”.

You can’t wrestle your leads down until they give in, can you?
The only thing you CAN do is to find out who already wants what you have.
In other words…

You can’t turn someone into a 5-star prospect, but you can discover who already IS one.

And you can do this simply by using the following five-step criteria…

Number 1: They’re willing to engage in a dialogue…
Number 2: They’re friendly and cooperative when you talk with them…
Number 3: They know what they want…
Number 4: They know when they want it…
And number 5: They want YOU to help them.

Which is much much much more likely with referred leads than with internet leads.

But here’s the thing…
All five of these steps have to be true in order for you to be working with an ideal client.
You can’t skip ahead. And you can’t artificially speed the process up.
So instead of being focused on short-term results of trying to convert internet leads… 
Think of it as a long-term investment. Something you’re willing to spend your time on…

Which is getting REFERRED Leads

You patiently educate and motivate prospective referral partners… week after week…
Until they convince themselves that referring to you is the right thing to do.
And make no mistake. It’s always until THEY convince THEMSELVES.
Because you can’t wrestle anyone into using you as their lender.
So…

Step 1:  Focus on getting to know people who are already talking to your ideal client. 

Step 2:  Have conversations with those people and simply ask for referrals.

The end.

(Everything else is clutter and unnecessary work that is designed to keep you “busy” but not productive)

When you are ready to copy how we epically and successfully do Step 1 and Step 2…

Meet me here and I’ll give you the same exact demo that our top producers get in the Loan Officer Freedom Club.

Talk soon.

Carl White

Many thanks for my friend, Dean Jackson who taught me this simple message 15 years ago.  

Loan Officer Freedom