“Stop thinking like a poor person”, he yelled at me…

Don’t think like a poor person!

I’ll never forget the afternoon that a very wealthy friend of mine, Perry, squared me up one day.

“Stop thinking like a poor person!”, he very passionately said to me.

“Don’t ever live according to your means… ever. 
That’s “poor people thinking”.

Instead, reverse engineer what you want and how much it costs, then figure out what you need to do to make that money.”

That conversation changed my life in an instant.

Allow me to explain a bit further…

Let’s say you decided that a W-2 income of $500,000 for the next year would give you all those things you wanted.  You know, the house, car, tuition, savings, vacation, giving to others, an overall first-class experience in life for you and others.

That comes to $41,667 per month in income.

Now it may be that that’s not your “happy number”, or you are already making more than that. 
(I can relate, heck, my credit card bill that we pay off each month runs more than that)

If that’s the case, just follow this same math and do multiples of it.

So let’s assume you make $3,000 per closed loan.  You may make way more or somewhat less, but you get the idea.

Using that number, for every $500,000 you want to earn, you will need to close 14 loans per month.

So now we have to figure how many leads you need to close 14 loans.  For me, that number would be 56 referred leads per month.

About half of our referred leads are “pre-approvable”,  (the other half have a credit, income, or property issue) and we close about half of those that are pre-approvable (the other half decide not to buy or are tire kickers and shoppers).

So I need 4 referred leads to close 1 loan

That means you need about 2 referrals per day, to get 56 referrals for the month, to close 14 loans per month, for every $500,000 in W-2 income we want to make.

Suddenly living that dream life seems doable.

Want to make $1,000,000 in W-2 income, simply get 4 referred leads per day.  Very simple math here.

And let’s face it, we all know a loan officer that is closing 14 loans a month, and as a general rule, they aren’t superwoman or superman.  They are more like Clark Kent… just normal people…

But they DO have 1 thing that you may not have…

Imagine having a simple plan to get 2 referred leads per day, which turns into 14 closings per month, which gives you a $500,000 personal income.

See, that becomes your new question, HOW TO GET 2 REFERRED LEADS PER DAY.

I can tell you from my own personal experience over the years, it’s just not that hard.

I’ve done it myself, loan officers in my branch have been doing it for years, and now 100’s of loan officers are doing it across the nation.

By the way, the plan that seems to work best doesn’t include buying leads or wasting your hard earned money buying FB ads that target strangers and don’t actually produce closings.

It really doesn’t require actually buying anything at all. 

It’s just a 4-Step Simple Plan (4-SSP) that I’ll give you, no charge

It’s the exact same plan that thousands of top producing loan officers in our high-level Loan Officer Freedom Club have learned and are now using.

Free Demo of 4-Step Simple Process
See ya on the inside,

Carl White

Branch Manager Topics For Today

Today on Loan Officer Freedom, the #1 loan officer podcast nationwide, I’m joined by Kevin Gillespie discussing the timely topics for branch managers today.

Kevin leads our Branch Manager Academy, a place where like-minded people deal with similar situations in our Freedom Club.

Tune in to hear Kevin and I have a casual conversation about what the market is doing now and how branch managers are utilizing it for the better. 

To find out more on how to use this time to your advantage as a LO or Branch Manager, here’s your chance. I’m offering a free one-on-one call with one of our team members to let you in on the secrets. Click here to schedule.

Get rid of the salt…

There’s an old saying where I come from…

“Just get rid of the salt”.

For instance, let’s say you like cake, but the cake being served is loaded with salt, like it’s been soaking in the ocean.

If you just get rid of the salt, then the cake (or salad) would be awesome.

So in the loan officer / branch manager world, this is when you love what you are doing, but that 1 thing that you hate, you think comes with it.  How can you get rid of that part?

See, I’m convinced that is what holds 97% of the loan officers from achieving “greatness”, the greatness that they deserve and are worthy of.

They think that there’s part of being a top producer that is totally uncool that comes with the package, so they settle in mediocracy, robbing themselves and their family of what would otherwise be totally doable.  

For me it was working more than a 32 hour work week, and working evenings and weekends.

For others it would be investing in large sums of money that they currently don’t have or perhaps working on worthless internet “leads” or other “high work and low productivity” activities.

I was talking to somebody the other day that had been falsely lead to believe that she had to provide Realtors leads before she could ever talk to them (not a scalable way to build a mortgage business) and in reality fed to her by somebody trying to make a buck – but had never actually closed a loan… (weird, I know).

Whatever the thing it is that may be holding you back, because you think “Well, that has to be a part of epic or even modest growth”, just know that there is no one thing that has to be done, or at least not done by “YOU”.
One of my favorite questions is, “How can you close more loans without <insert anything that’s “uncool” for you>?”

I’m here to tell you that after decades of helping loan officers in all 50 states, as well as currently having one of the most successful mortgage branches in the nation, I have never been stumped on that question.

Two things: 

1. There’s always a solution, and it’s almost always way easier than you may think.

2. The answer usually comes from asking somebody that’s already getting the results that you want (deserve) without doing that thing you also don’t want to do.

Both of which results from just asking the right question to the right people.

See there, there’s the easy solution right there (which follows “thing 1” mentioned above).

So that’s your homework for now:
“How can you <thing that you want>, without <thing that you don’t want>?”

When you are ready for help with that, let me know and I’ll totally hook you up right here… <no charge>.

… unless you like salty cake…

Your homie,

Carl White

Loan Officer Freedom