Getting the fence sitters to pull the trigger

There’s a picture circulating around the web that has been very helpful in getting prospects to pull the trigger on buying a home.  I think it’s pretty much self-explanatory. 

This would be a great thing to put on your social media or next email that you send out to help get those fence sitters to take action because this makes it easy to see that is most likely the best thing for them.

May be an image of text that says 'Pros & Con Of Buying a home in the current market Pros Cons Higher Rates Seller Paid Closing Costs Seller Paid Rate Buy Down Seller Paid 2/1 Rate Buy Down Seller Paid Repairs Seller Paid Improvements Price Negotiation Pay Less Than Asking Price No Need to Waive Inspection Inspection Negotiation Time to Think Contingency Contracts Longer Contract to Close'

Click Here To Get A Bigger Version it will take you to a page that will give you a bigger version of it that will be perfect to “copy and paste” and use to help get more conversions.

I would love to give credit to who shared this with me on social media, but I couldn’t figure that out.  I hang out with so many “givers” in this mortgage community, that the source is sometimes hard to keep track of.

Go ahead and snag and share now.  

Take action to make things happen… …that’s how all this works.

My team would love to discuss how this can work for you in your mortgage business, click here to set up your one on one strategy call!

That’s it for this week.  Talk soon.

What To Cut Loose

In this episode of Loan Officer Freedom, the #1 podcast for loan officers in the world, your host Carl White, talks about what to cut loose to free you up and how to focus on those things that you are best at.

We’re all looking for freedom of some sort in our lives, whether it’s financial freedom, relationship freedom, business freedom, and so on…

Asking yourself the question of “what do I need to cut loose” could start a whole new journey of freedom for you. In this podcast, Carl drops a great quote for all of us to think about … “We may think when we cut these things out, we’ll have less – but actually we will have so, so much more”

Listen in to hear the action items he gives to you and how you can start your road to freedom today. 

If finding freedom is a goal of yours, we’d love to help you get started. Schedule a free coaching call here.

“Who turned off the “more loans” switch?”

Another branch manager that I hadn’t seen or spoke to in a few years called me up the other day.

“Carl, who turned off the “more loans” switch?” he asked me in a panic.

First of all, we have to have clarity of the current situation.  Here’s the truth:

2022 is expected to be the best year ever for purchase mortgage business.

Yepper, you heard that right… 2022 the purchase business is expected to be $1.739 TRILLION.  Just for comparison, 2021 was $1.646 Trillion in purchase mortgage business (2nd only to this year’s projections).

So what in the heck is everybody worried about?  This is going to be the best year EVER for purchase mortgage business (just in case you forgot I said that just 1 minute ago).

Ahhhhhhh, oh, I see, some LOs haven’t been doing our referral partner marketing as part of their weekly routine.

Ok, here’s the thing, It’s not your fault, I see this kind of thing all the time.  Many of our mentors just shared what worked for them way back, and it did work for them way back.

No big deal, it’s going to be ok, we just need to map out how to get agents to refer to us, and it’s not buying Zillow or online leads and dumping those things that will never close on their desk like a pile of rotting fish.

The reason I focus on referral partner marketing is the CLV (client lifetime value) is soooo much higher with them.  You see, with each dollar invested and with each hour invested, the return on investment is so much higher with referral partners than consumer direct.

Focusing on “consumer direct” is like trying to fill an empty lake by buying buckets of water.  It would cost a fortune and likely evaporate faster than you could fill it that way.

If we want to fill a lake, we need to dig a well, and then run a hose from that well to the lake.  In short order, we will be ready to enjoy the fruits of our smart (and wayyyy easier) activity.

While I do some consumer direct, for market research purposes for ongoing loan officer training that I offer and for research for my own mortgage branch, I can tell you that the referral partner marketing is what has made my branch one of the most successful in the entire United States industry… and without overly exerting myself.

So that’s where you and I together want to spend the majority of our time.  When we do, all the stress of “what am I going to do” all goes away. ☺

As the famous hockey player said, “Go to where the hockey puck is going, not where it’s currently at..”

It’s a purchase game, and the next two years are slated to be the best purchase market ever, let’s just go there together. ☺

Focus on referral partner marketing and the good news is, we just have to put into place a simple, easy to implement, predictable process to make that happen.

Talk soon.

Carl White