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Understanding The TRID Deadline Delay
I resisted discussing the delay in the TRID deadline from August 1st to October 1st to get some industry input first. Various trade groups like ABA and NAMB were quick to support the delayed deadline....
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Become A Powerhouse
We’ve all heard the adage that content is King. But, as someone marketing a business, creating content that drives ROI can feel elusive. In fact, it can feel downright impossible. Whether you’re...
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Oh, Those Naughty Cyber Attackers!
You may not realize this, but I am so sexy that lascivious beauties from across the Internet go out of their way to make my acquaintance. Or at least people are trying to get me to believe that...
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Is Your Service Provider A Partner Or A Vendor?
Over the past decade, I have been directly or indirectly involved in thousands of software implementations and IT projects. Most succeed; some fail. While any number of circumstances can lead to an...
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Assessing Content
You’ve created the content. Now, you need to measure its effectiveness to know whether your content is hitting its mark. The following infographic by Curata offers 29 content marketing metrics, such...
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Change Is Always Messy
At the recent MBA Technology Conference a number of sessions were devoted specifically to TILA/RESPA and the looming deadline of August 1st. Rumors were rampant that the deadline would be extended,...
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The Cost Of Quality
How much should we pay for quality? Is focusing on quality the right choice when the cost exceeds the return? These questions are being asked a lot these days but very few if any answers are...
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Process Compression For TRID
While just about everyone in the mortgage industry can agree on the hottest topic of 2015 (TRID), there is still widespread disagreement as to the depth of its impact, and the degree of difficulty in...
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The Profitability Crisis
There’s been much researched and reported about why businesses don’t turn a profit—some chronically operating “in the red” month after month until failure finally ensues. In fact, reports reveal that...
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Where Do We Go From Here?
STRATMOR Group, a consulting firm that helps mortgage banks build profitable mortgage lending operations, announced that the results of a recent PeerViews Survey on the industry’s readiness to comply...
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Avoiding Death By 1,000 Paper Cuts
For years the mortgage industry has been inundated with paper processes and the shuffling or paper files back and forth to complete a loan file. This has definitely been the case with disclosures...
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Talking True Innovation
Over 100 mortgage executives came together to attend PROGRESS in Lending Association’s Fifth Annual Innovations Awards Event. We named the top innovations of the past twelve months. After that event,...
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