Mortgage Marketing Radio

Welcome to the Mortgage Marketing Radio podcast episode #131. Listen in as Geoff and his guest Ryan Smith, a loan officer with Guild Mortgage, chat about pursuing agent teams, the power of video marketing, and why reviews are so important. Ryan attributes hitting his highest producing year to date to the ideas and processes he’s learned in the CORE coaching model. He and his team work to originate loans efficiently and show their current, future, and past clients how important they are to the Smith Mortgage team. Ryan shares just a few of the client appreciation events and processes he participates in to give back to his community and make his clients feel valued.  Learn why Ryan has sought to work with agent teams rather than individual agents and why building deep versus wide has worked for him. Are you scared to start marketing with video? Learn some of Ryan’s secrets to successful video marketing and the tools he and his team use to reach their customers with video. If you’ve been considering reaching out

Listen in as Geoff and his guest Jenn Herman chat in detail about how to use Instagram for your business. Learn why Instagram is an important platform to use no matter if you’re a loan officer or real estate agent, how to use it properly, and when to use it. Jenn starts off the conversation with amazing statistics on why Instagram is the perfect platform for your real estate business. Instagram is a highly engaged platform that is essentially the visual version of Twitter. By using photos and videos to educate your audience, you keep yourself top-of-mind for your following. Jenn digs deep on creating Instagram stories. First, she chats about how to create stories, then she shares the proper formatting, and why they are so important. She also shares her strategy for making sure that she always has content to post.  You may think Instagram is the wrong platform to engage your audience on, but Jenn will prove you wrong. If you’re comfortable with the platform and your audience is there, use it! You won’t regret

Welcome to the Mortgage Marketing Radio podcast episode #129. Listen in as Geoff and his guest Michael Hellickson discuss the market, how loan officers and real estate agents should partner up, and why their partnership is so important for the future of real estate! Zillow is not the death of real estate. Both Michael and Geoff agree that Zillow has instead brought more visibility to the market, so long as that market is ready to capture that visibility. Listen to learn how you can use Zillow to bolster your business rather than hinder it… and it doesn’t require buying leads. Geoff and Michael discuss a wide variety of topics on the future of real estate and how teaming up is the best tactic. Would you rather work with someone referred to you or a stranger? The referral right? In creating loan officer and real estate agent teams, you are building a referral network that will also build your business.  This episode is packed full of actionable advice you can use to build your real estate or loan business. List

Welcome to the Mortgage Marketing Radio podcast episode #128. This is another special edition episode for the month of July. We are talking about truth. This podcast is all about giving you the truth on how to properly build your mortgage company, and this episode is no different. People ask all the time, “What’s the best way to build my mortgage business?” The truth is there is no one way, but some are much better than others. Don’t get suckered into the “easy-button” of online ads, instead invest time and energy in building your referral network with real estate agents in your local market.  Does that statement make you cringe? Then listen in as we provide you with tips and tricks on how to best approach the real estate agents in your area to start building relationships! In This Episode: [00:28] Welcome back to the show! Geoff brings you another special edition episode! [03:24] If you like what you hear, come join us in the Facebook community. [04:39] There are lots of ways to build your mortgage business

Welcome to the Mortgage Marketing Radio podcast episode #127. This is our FIRST ever Pro Member spotlight episode and we’re excited to do more. Welcome to the show Chani Morris! Relatively new in the industry and killing it after signing up for our Pro Membership. Chani has taken her natural skills and combined them with the strategy that we teach in the Pro Membership to create mortgage gold. In the 90-days that she has been a member, she has written over $1m in loans. Learn how she has changed her business with our immediately implementable strategies!  Ready to do the same? Check out our Pro Membership today! In This Episode: [00:29] - Welcome back to this special episode of Mortgage Marketing Radio! [01:27] - This episode features one of our PRO members, Chani Morris, and her amazing success! [03:19] - Want to generate money quickly? Listen in to this tip from Geoff. [04:11] - Welcome our first member of the month to the show, Chani Morris! [05:04] - Chani has been a member since April and had her first

Welcome to the Mortgage Marketing Radio podcast episode #126. Today’s guests are Caroline Pinal and Jessica Northrup. Caroline is one of the founders of Give Back Homes and Jessica is killing the mortgage space in Colorado. We discuss cause marketing and why it is good for your business. Jessica and Caroline team up to reveal how working in and with Give Back Homes has shaped their careers. Caroline is a co-founder of the foundation and has helped build hundreds of homes across the globe. Jessica is a real estate agent in Colorado who has worked to build the foundation’s presence in her area. Giving back is not only good for the soul, it’s also good for marketing. Millennials specifically are more highly in tune with companies that have a mission-based mindset and who are giving back. Tap into this growing market by showing that the bottom line is not your only concern. Tune in today to learn how cause marketing should be used to boost your authority and brand. Jessica and Caroline provide wonderful insight i

Welcome to the Mortgage Marketing Radio podcast episode #125. Today’s guest is Akshay (AK) Patel, a brand new mortgage lender who has built his business to over $40 million in loans in just two years. He talks about the methods, tips, and tricks he has used to move his business forward rapidly. AK and I met at the Mastermind Summit 2019 and got to spend an hour or so talking about his fast rise in the industry. He credits events like the Mastermind Summit for propelling his business forward. Networking and not being afraid to make the ask have been his strongest methods of generating leads and writing loans. Cross-selling, creating his own mastermind, and not being afraid to dig in and do the leg work are the methods AK has used to grow his influence and his credibility in the market. As many have said before him, the worst someone can do is tell you know. Don’t be afraid to make the ask and get your name out there. This episode is full of great nuggets. AK has truly rocketed to the top of the San Diego mortg

Welcome to the Mortgage Marketing Radio podcast episode #124. Today’s guest is Trevor Hammond an elite mortgage professional who has created a dialogue driven relationship business with his clients and referral partners that allows him the ability to work when and how he wants while still serving his customer. He loves getting one on one with clients and teaching them about money management and how their finances affect their home buying ability. Maintaining relationships with your closed clients is the most effective way to build long-term growth in your loan business. When you treat your closed clients as if they are a book of business, worthy of ongoing nurture and attention, they are more likely to continue working with you and refer business to you. Trevor shares his process for creating and maintaining long-term customers from the very first discovery call conversation. He sets the expectations for his clients that his services are available over the course of their lives. He starts the conversation ear

Welcome to the Mortgage Marketing Radio podcast episode #123. Today’s guest is Grant Wise a Facebook ads thought leader and expert. Grant is a serial entrepreneur and Founder of Real Estate Marketing University. He started in entrepreneurship at the tender age of 19 and has experienced all of the ups and downs of entrepreneurs twice his age. He left his construction businesses and made the move into real estate around the age of 21, and worked to bring digital marketing advantages to the agents his company worked with. He now trains and mentors real estate agents in all things digital marketing with a focus on Facebook ads.   The key things you need to understand about running Facebook Ads. There’s no question that the landscape of Facebook ads has changed from what it looked like 5 years ago. Used to be, you could put up a Facebook ad with no other strategy and generate plenty of leads and clients because no one else was doing it. Now more people are using Facebook ads but only a handful are utilizing all of

Real-Estate  Home-Loan  Agents  Mortgage  Marketing  Coaching  Customer  Engagement This week on Mortgage Marketing Radio, Geoff talks about habits. And the power of taking a tactical approach to your habitual behavior. You will hear a little bit about Geoff’s upcoming book, and an awesome success story from a Mortgage Marketing PRO member. Atomic Habits and Your Identity The exploration of habits in this episode revolves around the ideas in James Clear’s book ‘Atomic Habits – Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results’. Geoff discusses some of the ideas that involve habit tracking. The main point is that small steps can be taken towards achieving larger goals and is often the only way to achieve meaningful results. We also look at how your identity and habits are closely connected and impact what you do or not.  What you will learn in this episode:   How to make real, positive changes to your habits Why your habits affect your self-image The Monthly Agent Masterminds The Mortgage Marketing PRO Membership A bit about

This week’s guest is Blake Bianchi, up and coming Loan Consultant and an innovative young industry catalyst. Growing up, he was surrounded by family in the mortgage industry and was very familiar with the business. His father, John Bianchi, was one of the top producing loan originators in the country, and his father was one of Geoff’s early bosses during his time at Countrywide. At Blake’s first position in the industry as a Production Partner for one of the highest producing lenders in the company, he learned a lot and learned quickly. Through the knowledge Blake gained as a Production Partner he went on to become Loan Consultant at Caliber Home Loans, and currently works as an area manager for Loan Factory, Inc. Agent Referrals  Buying Leads  Brokers  Co-Marketing  Real Estate  Loans  Tracking Don’t know what platforms for lead purchasing are right for you? Or how to utilize them efficiently? Geoff plies Blake for information on his methodology on buying leads so you can make sense of it. The guys also dig

This week’s guest is Mark W. Schaefer. Mark is a globally recognized educator, business consultant, and author. Now Executive Director of U.S.-based Schaefer Marketing Solutions, Mark has worked in global sales, public relations, and marketing for nearly thirty years. His latest book ‘Marketing Rebellion – why the most human company will win’ provides an achievable and realistic framework to help you stay ahead of the curve by reimagining marketing. Why should businesses be built on human impressions instead of advertising impressions, what is driving this change? Mark and Geoff discuss how marketers should adjust to the changing tides as well as overall consumer perceptions and what it means to surrender control to the customer. It can be difficult to refrain from turning every piece of content your business creates into a branded overt marketing opportunity. However, the key to succeeding amidst this upheaval is creating an emotional connection with consumers, and that often means leaving the traditional sa

This week on the show, we interview Jeff Onofrio and Scott Nicholson. Two experienced mortgage professionals who have expertise in the renovation sector. Jeff is a seasoned and licensed mortgage professional who has been in the business since 1998. He has been running a team of successful loan officers since 2007. Scott is a mortgage professional located in Yorba Linda, California who specializes in renovation loan programs and jumbo financing options. Geoff and our guests start the interview by going over why renovation is a great area to specialize in and Jeff talks briefly about how the renovation sector is affected less by rate fluctuations and market forces than other areas. Scott discusses why people often place too much importance on the condition of a house when considering renovation. The guys then talk about why renovation is such a great tool for first time home buyers, with some examples from Jeff and Scott that demonstrate the opportunities that renovation can afford you. Setting the table for th

This week on Mortgage Marketing Radio is special guest Alex McFadyen, "The Mortgage Pug". Alex’s story is a compelling one, he started his Mortgage Brokering business from scratch in Canada in 2015 and has grown to the point where throughout 2018, he helped over two hundred families buy a home for a total of 85 million dollars. Alex achieved this by creating a successful brand, a brand centred around his Pug and effective social marketing. The ins and outs of which, he explains in this interview. Amongst the insights contained in this episode are some gems from Alex about his methodology. He talks about why you should focus on what your team and you are doing, not the outcome of said actions, as the two may not correlate, often for years after the inception of your business. Controlling the outcome of your actions takes time, and Alex has only just started a more precision audit of his results. But with another year of doubled growth in the books, the writing might already be on the wall for the success of Al

When REALTOR® Karin Carr relocated to the Savannah, Georgia, area, she was faced with the hard reality of having to build up her client base from scratch. But instead of letting it get her down or scrambling to pay for leads, Karin rolled up her sleeves, picked up her smartphone, and started making videos for a YouTube channel. A lot of videos. And wow, has this superstar produced some impressive results. A mere one and a half years later, her YouTube channel produces an eyebrow-raising five leads a week. A stunning 70% of her closed transactions come from YouTube. And you know how much it costs her? Nada. Zero. Zilch. Karin believes firmly in the importance of organic leads, and she generates hers by focusing all her efforts on building a library of valuable real estate content on her YouTube channel. By using carefully selected keywords and focusing her videos on topics that are of interest to her targeted audience of local buyers and sellers, Karin is able to connect with clients who are already interested

Having put in 17 years as a real estate agent in the Silicon Valley (one of the fastest markets in the world), Alex Wang has been around the block a time or two when it comes to understanding the world of real estate — and his experience shows in his numbers. In 2018 alone, Alex made 56 transactions for a whopping $80 million in sales, a jaw-dropping half of which was generated online. Wow. Just wow. As the Real Estate Evangelist, Alex has a deep passion for the real estate profession, and he’s a firm believer in the value of being “The Digital Mayor.” Alex works towards this goal in his Palo Alto market by producing authentic content that he uses across a variety of online platforms, going so far as to hire a videographer to follow him for a year to chronicle the daily life of a real estate agent. Emphasizing the need to be real and individualize yourself online, Alex believes that a well-developed personal brand and regular community interaction on social media will go far in helping you stay top-of-mind wi

This week, Mortgage Marketing Radio features an interview with Judi Fox. Judi has, over the course of 2018, amassed over 3 million views on LinkedIn and is one of the pioneering video content strategists that specializes on the platform. Judi has twenty years’ experience working with fortune 500 companies, runs her own podcast and is also a coach and a speaker. The explosion in popularity that LinkedIn has seen over the last couple of years is thanks to a few main factors. Judi and Geoff discuss some of these recent changes, such as being bought by Microsoft and adding native video functionality. Judi also shares her thoughts on the importance of likes versus comments across different platforms and why you should always spend time in the comments sections of yours and other people’s content. Geoff and Judi reiterate several times in this episode that volume is less important than creating meaningful connections. Geoff and Judi cover a wide variety of topics related to LinkedIn and marketing yourself digitally

Anthony Casa is a mover and a shaker. He’s gone to bat against the big boys and won. He’s received lawsuit threats from the largest banks in the country and refused to back down, even though he was only 32 years old at the time, had four children at home, and had everything to lose. Anthony got into the mortgage business at the tender age of 18 and founded Garden State Home Loans less than a decade later. He has since become a champion of the independent broker and loan originator and is paving the way for brokers to be prepared for the disruptions that will inevitably come to the industry. He believes in embracing change to stay ahead of the curve and recognizes that to stay relevant and competitive, independent brokers need social support, tools to increase efficiency, and methods for retaining customer. Anthony has given a blueprint for all these in the form of BRAWL, AIME, and ARIVE.   [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/mortgagemarketingradio/Episode_113_Audio.mp3" social_gplus="false" soc

A few years ago, Rob was bored with his job and new something and to change. He set aside some distractions, joined Guaranteed Rates, and determined to get himself out of his comfort zone every day. That’s when things started to change. Rob’s business doubled the first year. By employing time-saving systems and getting out of the office to build relationships with REALTORS®, he built up a network of agents, and referrals now comprise nearly 100% of his business. He doesn’t take these business relationships lightly. In fact, he refers to his core, loyal relators as partners and friends.   These reliable relationships are helping him sleep easy at night. With the threat of a future Zillow mortgage company looming large, Rob recognizes that the real estate and lending market is still largely local and is far from being automated. Having a local presence and having real friends in the REALTOR® space can make all the difference. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: About Rob’s lending history Why Rob makes a priority of

With 18 years of experience, Nicole Rueth isn’t new to the mortgage lending field, but it wasn’t until recently that she kicked her game up a notch. And kick it up she did -- in rock star fashion. In less than five years, this self-described data geek catapulted her business from $24 million to over $100 million (say what?), and her numbers keep rising each year. You go, girl. Nicole swears by the importance of choosing your lane or passion. This wholehearted commitment allows her to focus completely on her goal of helping clients build wealth through real estate. Just as important, education and classes play a key role in enabling Nicole to serve as an indispensable guide for clients seeking to navigate their real estate journey. In today’s episode, Nicole shares how she chose her lane and how mentors have played -- and continue to play -- a key role in helping her go “all in.” We also see how being authentic and producing relevant content helps her stay top-of-mind with the real estate agents she works with