Latest / Mortgage Marketing Radio / Ep #94: Making the Shift...How a $3 Billion Dollar Originator Goes from Old School to Modern Marketer
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- 1:17Hey listeners, Jeff Zimfer, welcome to yet another episode of mortgage marketing radio.
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- 2:50So okay, this week we are talking about how a $3 billion originator makes the switch,
- 2:59the switch from old school, the modern marketer.
- 3:03That's right.
- 3:04Many of you listening to this might consider yourself old school.
- 3:08The average age of an originator is what, about 52 years old.
- 3:12So for some of us, myself included, we've got to learn some new things, some new ways to
- 3:17communicate, to engage and reach out and market and build our brand.
- 3:23And my special guest today fits that bill perfectly because not only is he's just one heck
- 3:29of an individual, a great all-around human being, but also he's a phenomenal producer and
- 3:35achiever, 28 years of industry experience, over 3 billion enclosed loans, consistently
- 3:42ranked in the top 100 originators in the country for the last 19 years out of 300,000.
- 3:48That is consistent performance.
- 3:50Who am I speaking of?
- 3:51I'm speaking of none other than David Jaffee out of West Lake Village in Oxnard, California.
- 3:58And we are going to dive into really the fundamental, the basics, the foundational activity
- 4:05of these disciplines that David has put into place for, as we said, over 28 years, but
- 4:12he's also found himself recently needing to pivot and shift because let's face it, people
- 4:17aren't necessarily buying as many houses as they once were.
- 4:21You know, 65% of his business last year was database, but you'll hear David talk about
- 4:27how that source, while it's still very profitable and should be pursued and optimized, he's
- 4:35finding that he needs to diversify a bit.
- 4:37So, we're going to talk about how he does past client reviews and any reviews and things
- 4:42like that and kind of what his daily method of operation is, you know, the daily structurally
- 4:46has to his activities in terms of calls and meetings and so forth, dealing with rate
- 4:51shoppers, we're going to discuss going consumer direct, we're going to talk about how he's
- 4:56using video in an incredible way, getting video testimonials from his clients and teaming
- 5:01up with referral partners and just really the whole conversation around pivoting, how he's
- 5:05using video and his marketing to differentiate himself.
- 5:08And of course, what you'll hear from David is his discipline and focus that he's got as
- 5:13David likes to say, keep doing things right and business comes in the door and doing the
- 5:18right thing is always the right thing.
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- 6:08info there.
- 6:09And with that said, let's get into this week's show with my special guest, David Jaffe.
- 6:15Hey David, welcome to the show.
- 6:17Well, thanks for having me, Jaffe, I appreciate it.
- 6:21It is an honor, my friend, sir, I dare say, sir, I feel like I'm addressing you as
- 6:26like some kind of royalty in the mortgage space.
- 6:29Well, I'm going to train you properly, Jaffe.
- 6:33So I'm not, you know, blowing smoke just because you're a guest, it's because, man, I
- 6:38just remember back when I started as an originator back in 2003, you know, we all look for role
- 6:43models out there, right?
- 6:44Well, look for, hey, who's doing some, man, you used to come on my radar all the time
- 6:48of like, you know, David Jaffe up in LA, he's doing some amazing things.
- 6:53I mean, 25 years, over 3 billion in residential mortgages, so you've done a loan or two,
- 6:58huh?
- 6:59Yeah, I've done a couple, we try to do as many as we can.
- 7:03That is awesome.
- 7:04So I usually, let's open it up with this, people heard the kind of the formal introduction,
- 7:09but let me ask it this way, you've been in the business now 25 plus years, 28, is that
- 7:14right?
- 7:15Correct.
- 7:1628 years.
- 7:18Why?
- 7:19And what keeps you going today?
- 7:23This is really a great business because you have the ability to be the master of your
- 7:30world in a 100% commission world.
- 7:34There's no excuses.
- 7:35You either deliver or you don't deliver.
- 7:38You can be your own boss, but obviously in the mortgage business, mostly working under
- 7:42someone's umbrella, especially in the last 10 years, but you run your own business.
- 7:46And I've always wanted to be in charge of my own world.
- 7:51And this business has really enabled me to do that.
- 7:55Hmm.
- 7:56So I appreciate you sharing that, by the way.
- 7:58What about, then you're a unique individual, I can see, you know, you're into physical
- 8:03challenges and stuff.
- 8:04You just check something off your bucket list, you hiked Mount Whitney, correct?
- 8:09Correct.
- 8:10Yep.
- 8:11What's the elevation on that?
- 8:1214,500 feet.
- 8:14Was it taking you like two hours to get that done?
- 8:16I wish.
- 8:17I wish.
- 8:1812 hours run trip.
- 8:1912 hours run trip.
- 8:20And it was a lot of fun and something I had to cross off the bucket list before I get
- 8:23too old.
- 8:24Well, it seems like, you know, so to connect this together, straight commission, it takes
- 8:28it to me.
- 8:29You know, it takes a certain DNA, would you agree for somebody to be in a straight commission
- 8:35position?
- 8:36Without a doubt, and it's interesting, I look back and so many people I know, in fact,
- 8:41you know, the majority of America, they're working on, you know, a salary basis or an
- 8:46hourly basis, and they're working, you know, for a company.
- 8:50And when I first started commission only 20 years ago, I was kind of freaking out, but
- 8:55it was definitely easier for me because I was living in home with my parents.
- 8:58So I had a much better safety net than the majority of people that start in this business.
- 9:05But I remember thinking about 15 or 20 years ago, I would actually feel uncomfortable
- 9:10working for a company with a salary and more comfortable on commission only because I
- 9:15feel like I can control more of my destiny that way.
- 9:20So are you a control freak?
- 9:22Yeah, I may have been accused of that a couple of times.
- 9:25Spending an hour in my office, you make it some verification of that.
- 9:28Well, I'm sure that that served you, I guess it's a double-edged sword, but to one side
- 9:34of the sword, it served you in building, I mean, 28 years, clearly you've done something
- 9:40right.
- 9:41Yeah, it definitely is a catch 22 on one and it makes you drive to succeed and do good
- 9:50and makes sure you have total control.
- 9:53But on the flip side, it also holds you back being a control freak.
- 9:57I hired coaching about 16 or 17 years ago, which really enabled me to step away from the
- 10:05control freak part and really work on the delegation, and that's where my business really
- 10:11exploded.
- 10:12And then after the business exploded, it then enabled me to be able to work less but
- 10:19still maintain a good volume level.
- 10:23What were some of the things you initially delegated?
- 10:27You know, one of the greatest things I learned at some conference was, I was told to put
- 10:33a list on my desk and every time I did something, I would write down on a piece of paper, everything
- 10:38I did.
- 10:39And I did that for three days and I had a long list and then I went back to that list
- 10:43and I said, what are the things that I don't need to do and everything I didn't need to
- 10:48do.
- 10:49I moved to the right side of the column and that was my first assistant.
- 10:53So that was things like getting my postcards together for mailing, calling for conditions,
- 11:00just all the minutia that we do in the lending world.
- 11:05So that first assistant was not so much a LOA, you know, doing paperwork process related
- 11:12things but more so like marketing and those types of like non-high pay off at tasks.
- 11:18Correct.
- 11:19It was mostly clerical marketing, there was no selling part of it at all.
- 11:24It was simply just doing the clerical stuff to take those things off my desk and I probably
- 11:31had that person in that role.
- 11:35I think I probably got my first assistant maybe three or four years in and I probably
- 11:42didn't bring on someone super skilled until I was in the business for a good 14, 15
- 11:49years.
- 11:50Wow.
- 11:51How many, when you brought on that marketing assistant, the clerical stuff, how many units
- 11:54roughly were you doing then?
- 11:57Let's see, I was doing 30 million and my average loan was 160.
- 12:02So what was that, probably about 100, maybe close to 200 units.
- 12:08Wow.
- 12:09So I asked, yeah, I was definitely understaffed, that's for sure, for a long time.
- 12:13Were you working mega hours managing that?
- 12:15I was working a lot of hours, I was single, living alone and all I did was work and go
- 12:23at my friends.
- 12:24It was one of those two things, there was nothing else.
- 12:26Yeah, it's interesting to unpack that a little bit because there's two stories there.
- 12:32And the one story is, it's, I guess I'm partly curious why you didn't ask for help sooner
- 12:37or get help sooner.
- 12:39I didn't understand that I needed help and I also think a part of it was thinking, this
- 12:46can't continue.
- 12:48What if my business drops and now I've got an employee that I've got to support?
- 12:53And I think I see that with a lot of people on the mortgage side as well as realtors,
- 12:58they don't want a higher person because they don't know if they're always going to need
- 13:02them.
- 13:03But what I found is when I did hire somebody, I was almost always able to keep the volume
- 13:10up, to keep them and keep them employed.
- 13:14And to go to the next level, you really do need to take things off your plate so that
- 13:20you can do things in your gifted zone.
- 13:24Do things what in your gifted zone?
- 13:26In your gifted zone, correct.
- 13:29What would you say your gifted zone is?
- 13:32My gifted zone has definitely changed probably in the last 10 years.
- 13:37But my gifted zone, when I was doing the biggest growth of my business, probably the first
- 13:4115 to 18 years, was just going out and knocking on doors.
- 13:47I was incredibly consistent.
- 13:49I was persistently consistent and consistently persistent.
- 13:54I never, I never missed a marketing of the task that I had on my business plan.
- 14:02If I had phone calls to make to call realtors, I would never miss those phone calls.
- 14:07I would go to open houses every Sunday.
- 14:11It would be such a bummer having to leave, you know, this is my single days.
- 14:14My friends would rent a beach house and I'd be able to go for a couple of hours and that
- 14:17I'd have to go leave and go to work on Sundays.
- 14:20But I was incredibly disciplined and focused and that was my gifted zone for sure.
- 14:26Wow.
- 14:27That's man.
- 14:28There's so much right here just to talk about, um, disciplined and focused.
- 14:33I see this nice, you know, I get a broad section of exposure to loan officers at various
- 14:37levels of experience, you know, there's someone like you, right, long term veteran, um,
- 14:43understands kind of the, if you will, the fundamental blocking and tackling it takes to succeed
- 14:48with real, then there's the newbies who come in, if you will, you know, last three, five
- 14:52years, whatever.
- 14:53And it, I don't know, and forgive me for anybody listening and there's nothing personal
- 14:56here.
- 14:57But sometimes I'm seeing a lack of the work ethic on that discipline, like you said,
- 15:04right?
- 15:05I mean, who's got that level of commitment to break away from the beach house on Sunday?
- 15:10Yeah, you know, a lot of people, they want to do the get rich quick scheme.
- 15:14And I've always said in this business, it's the get rich slowly way of doing it and even
- 15:20to this day, 28 years in, you know, our business ebbs and flows and we go through slow times
- 15:25and even after all these years, I find it incredibly frustrating to be slow.
- 15:30But I keep telling myself, keep doing things right and the business will come in the door
- 15:34as it always has.
- 15:36And so by getting rich slowly, it was putting a plan in place and being sure that you
- 15:41fall about plan and never, never not do what you're supposed to do.
- 15:47And I agree.
- 15:48Look, there's all kinds of coaching saying, you know, you want to have a balanced life,
- 15:51you don't want to take phone calls on evenings and weekends, you don't want to work more
- 15:54than 40 hours a week.
- 15:55Well, you know, it took me probably, I don't know, 20 years to get there.
- 16:00But I would say the first 20 years, I took calls in the evenings and the weekends and I
- 16:04was working six hours a week, sometimes 70 hours a week.
- 16:08Because all I cared about, all I would, I would just eat, breathe, sleep, growing my
- 16:15business that's all I ever thought about.
- 16:18What about you?
- 16:19What in your, your history, your background upbringing, whatever has, has played a role
- 16:24in making you so driven?
- 16:27That's a really good question.
- 16:29Now, are you going to start charging me an hourly fee for my psychologist?
- 16:32Yes.
- 16:33Are you on the couch?
- 16:38I don't know.
- 16:39I think that just from being younger, maybe, you know, junior high, whatever, I never
- 16:46feel like I had succeeded in a lot.
- 16:47It wasn't until I started playing sports at high school that I really felt that feeling
- 16:53of success.
- 16:55And man, I'd love that feeling.
- 16:58What was your score?
- 16:59That was awesome.
- 17:00I played water polo.
- 17:01Oh, well, that enough said, that explains it.
- 17:04You're all crazy.
- 17:05And let's be clear, I wasn't good, but my team was good and successful.
- 17:08Had it not been for them?
- 17:09Well, I would have been the same boat.
- 17:11So, but I love that feeling of succeeding, and I got to tell you, my call drew me just
- 17:16to always make fun of me because I would sit there and go, I'm going to be number one
- 17:19one there.
- 17:20I'm going to be number one.
- 17:21And, and then, you know, 20 years later, they're like, oh gosh, Jeffy, we didn't believe
- 17:26you.
- 17:27So I just, I've always had that drive.
- 17:28I don't know why.
- 17:30Well, actually, there's a lesson in there as well.
- 17:32It's like, you know, it's all about, you've heard the old saying, we become the average
- 17:35of the five people we spend the most time around.
- 17:38Yep.
- 17:39So that's true today in terms of team and, you know, getting around environments for
- 17:42coaching and what's your office culture like and things like that.
- 17:45So that team seems like, even though you weren't necessarily the highest skilled athlete,
- 17:51you were, the team was kind of pulling you up, you know what I'm saying?
- 17:56Oh, without a doubt.
- 17:57Without a doubt.
- 17:58I mean, well, you know, last place would have probably been where we were.
- 18:01Yeah.
- 18:02But listen, I mean, water polo man and that culture is crazy.
- 18:05You guys, the stuff that goes on, like underneath the wall, it's like football and water, you
- 18:09know, each other up, punching people, it's crazy.
- 18:16Maybe that's why my career ended after my freshman year in college.
- 18:19Oh, that's funny.
- 18:20That's funny.
- 18:21All right.
- 18:22Interesting.
- 18:23Okay.
- 18:24I want to go back to the, what you talked about with the high volume, you were doing high
- 18:28volume.
- 18:29Let's just call it 10 units a month for quite a while.
- 18:33How are we able to manage that?
- 18:36And I say that in the context of this and I don't know if you're, you get exposed to this.
- 18:40You know, I get, I get a lot of L.O.'s who are like, you know, man, I met four units
- 18:43a month.
- 18:44I mean, an assistant.
- 18:47How are you able to manage all that volume units?
- 18:50You know what?
- 18:51It's funny.
- 18:52You just do it.
- 18:53I mean, I'm doing much less units, you know, this year that I've had in some of my top
- 18:57years.
- 18:58And, and it's funny, I am definitely working less, but maybe not that much less.
- 19:04It's funny.
- 19:05You just find a way to do it.
- 19:08But without a doubt, discipline and time focus.
- 19:11So probably, I don't know, 20 years ago, I started getting up at five in the morning and
- 19:17I would be at my desk at six.
- 19:19So from six to eight thirty and that two and a half hours, you can do an eight hour work
- 19:24day in two and a half hours when there's no phone, no email, no text.
- 19:30Another way to do it, I always, to this day still, I plan my day every night before the
- 19:37next day.
- 19:38I look and see what's on my calendar.
- 19:39I see what's important.
- 19:41And then I rank those most important things that I have to do first.
- 19:45Time blocking.
- 19:47Time blocking.
- 19:48Yep.
- 19:49And it's hard, especially now with texting an email, man, it's, I have to actually shut
- 19:55my email off because my ADD just goes out of control.
- 19:59What about, there's the constant debate that goes on, you know, with time blocking.
- 20:04And when do you break that time block you have with yourself?
- 20:08A lot of people are like, well, if I get a call from an agent, I have to take it.
- 20:12I don't know, that's maybe a personal philosophy.
- 20:14What's yours around that?
- 20:16Well, I never do more than a 60 minute time block, no one, if it's super urgent,
- 20:21never has to be more than an hour.
- 20:24And sometimes I'll only do 30 minute time blocks because I've done all these studies.
- 20:28And everybody says there's great multitaskers, but there's not a single study out there
- 20:31that says multitasking works.
- 20:33Brain doesn't work that way.
- 20:34So every time you stop doing something, you know, you can lose, you know, 10 minutes
- 20:39trying to get that to where you were.
- 20:40Sure. And I still struggle with time blocking this day.
- 20:43It's hard. And that's why to me, the early morning is just, it's crucial.
- 20:47I mean, I'll do all my loan setups, all my marketing, anything I have to write.
- 20:51I'll do before eight, three in the morning, because once the phone rings, I'm done.
- 20:56Yeah, it's just chaos then at that point.
- 20:58Yeah, I'm interesting, interesting.
- 21:01Okay, good.
- 21:01Nice lessons in there for time blocking.
- 21:04And I agree with you, those studies for, you know, people who think they can multitask.
- 21:08You just can't just time block 30 minutes, get that task done.
- 21:11And then take a break, take a breather, take a walk and then get back on that
- 21:14next time block.
- 21:15But I, and also it just while we're on the topic, because I'm sure you've read like
- 21:19the one thing and did some studying on that, um, is to, you've got to also
- 21:24fill your, you allow time in your calendar for chaos and for randomness, which
- 21:30goes, which speaks to your point about get the, get the heavy lifting done early
- 21:33in the day, early in the morning, you got that time.
- 21:36And then if you're going to make calls, get that done before noon, too.
- 21:40Yeah, that's the only way to do it.
- 21:42Yeah, it just won't happen if you don't do it that way.
- 21:44All right, let's talk about your business, man.
- 21:48Got some notes here from our last chat.
- 21:5065% of your business last year was passed out of base clients, correct?
- 21:55Correct.
- 21:56And that's actually be consistent for nearly my whole career.
- 21:59Right.
- 22:00Okay.
- 22:01So, and this is often as, you don't have to have spoken about often a,
- 22:06it's one of those things.
- 22:06It's like people are stepping over dollars, you know, it still happens today.
- 22:11I don't, I've been banging this drum for a long time.
- 22:13I made the mistake as well, though early on, you know, just because I was all
- 22:17about the hunt and let's just go get deals and move on and whatever.
- 22:21You learned early on that the importance of database marketing.
- 22:24Why is there some wise Yoda coach you had or something?
- 22:29Yeah, when I was brand new in the business, I was probably in it for maybe 90
- 22:34days and I went to the old Pratt Duncan seminar.
- 22:37Now it's just Todd Duncan and he talked about having a database,
- 22:42staying in contact with clients and, you know, creating a constant soon referrals.
- 22:48Now, my dad was in the retail business for 35 years.
- 22:51So, my dad was a great mentor and that he always taught me, you know, the client
- 22:55is always right.
- 22:56I remember that as a kid and his business was built on repeat customers.
- 23:00And so I had that going in and then I went to this seminar and
- 23:03they talked about the database and well, I'll tell you, fortunately, I ran with
- 23:07that from my first 90 days in the business.
- 23:10I had a database of all my clients and I wasn't looking just to close alone
- 23:15and never see those people again.
- 23:17I just wanted to build that database and even to this day, I'll have this
- 23:20conversation sometimes with clients and I'm trying to reel in alone.
- 23:24And I say, look, if I just do one loan for you and I never see again,
- 23:27I feel like I'm wasting my time.
- 23:29I'm here to do this loan and every loan you ever need again in the future,
- 23:33as well as anybody else you know.
- 23:35And that's my philosophy for 28 years now.
- 23:39And so there's a specific structure for how you stay in touch with,
- 23:42stay top of mind with your past database.
- 23:45You're talking about that briefly.
- 23:48So we used to, in the beginning, we were only doing poorly newsletters.
- 23:54And then I went to another conference about a year later and there's a big
- 23:56producer back in those days and he was touching his database 15 times a
- 24:02year. So I went, wow, so I went back to my office and I instituted 15 touches a
- 24:07year. And the next year, my database for furlbus is doubled by going from
- 24:14four to 15 contacts because people just do forget you.
- 24:18There's too much going on in life.
- 24:19But right now, we're actually doing, believe it or 25 contacts a year with our
- 24:24database. We just, we just need to buy brain cells constantly.
- 24:31And the big difference today versus 20 years ago is social media and
- 24:37Facebook and internet.
- 24:39You can't log on to the internet without getting some banner ad for, you know,
- 24:43lower your rate, you know, to 2% for a 15 year fix.
- 24:47I mean, you just can't go online or anywhere without a mortgage
- 24:50advertisement. So we have to be even better at buying our clients brain cells.
- 24:55So Jeff, do you want me to talk about how we do that?
- 24:58Yeah, absolutely. I'm back up.
- 25:00Okay. So we do 12 snail males a year and everybody's going, why you use the
- 25:06post office email? Yep, we do.
- 25:08The reason why is each family has a different decision maker.
- 25:11So in my house, I basically do the bills and I get the mail.
- 25:15But what if my wife was a decision maker on mortgage?
- 25:18She would never see that mail.
- 25:20So we have to make sure that we're hitting the family a couple of different
- 25:23ways. So the 12 snowmails is made up of four newsletters.
- 25:28So once a quarter, yep, and then eight postcards on the eight postcards,
- 25:34we call our my who I helped postcards.
- 25:36And what I do is I lay out a scenario of what we, a real life solution that
- 25:42we've done for clients.
- 25:43So the postcard says, who I helped this week, and then I lay out the scenario,
- 25:49then I lay out the solution.
- 25:51So they're seeing real real things that we do.
- 25:55Yeah, I want to unpack that a little bit.
- 25:57What does that look like visually?
- 25:59Yep.
- 25:59So we use a two sided oversight postcard, which is half of an eight and half by
- 26:0411 and the reason I'm using a postcard is because frankly,
- 26:07maybe 10% of people, if I'm lucky, read it.
- 26:10So I don't really care if they read it.
- 26:11I just want them to see my name and my face, even if they look at it for an
- 26:15instant, they throw it in the trash.
- 26:17At least they've seen my name, my face, and I could be toppled mind if
- 26:20something comes up.
- 26:21So one side is just myself and my business partner.
- 26:25And then the other side is the story.
- 26:27Okay.
- 26:28So this is a story of somebody you've, you've helped.
- 26:30Correct.
- 26:31Yep.
- 26:33And obviously you've got enough of those because, you know, the volume
- 26:36to do it every month, you're going to have lots of stories, right?
- 26:38Yep.
- 26:38And there's always stories, you know, we live those stories.
- 26:42And that's then on the flip side of that, that's just basically text story.
- 26:45There's no picture of the people or anything.
- 26:47Correct.
- 26:48And I don't mention names or anything.
- 26:50I see.
- 26:50Okay.
- 26:51All right.
- 26:51Good.
- 26:51So.
- 26:51And the newsletter works the same because when they get
- 26:54the newsletter, it's a, it's folded in half.
- 26:57And then one side obviously has my name and my, my picture or my phone number.
- 27:00Again, if they don't read the newsletter, that's fine.
- 27:02It's written the trash, but at least they see it.
- 27:04And that's outsourced.
- 27:04All I do is I just send an Excel spreadsheet of the database I wanted to go to.
- 27:09They take my credit card done.
- 27:10It's five minutes.
- 27:11I don't have to do anything except write a blurb on the back, which by the way,
- 27:15let's talk about that.
- 27:17So I got this idea from Timber Heam probably about 15 years ago.
- 27:22And on, on the newsletter, there's a section which is on the outside.
- 27:25They see, and it says on the home front.
- 27:28And I always do a couple paragraphs about what's going on with me personally.
- 27:32My life and there's always pictures of my family or things we've done.
- 27:35Things that have changed.
- 27:36And it's amazing.
- 27:37I'll often people call you up.
- 27:38It's been two or three years since you talked to them or did a loan for them.
- 27:42And they'll say things like, Oh, you went and did this or, or I saw your daughter
- 27:45with the college.
- 27:46And I, I didn't understand how important that connection was because,
- 27:50I was a single guy and it didn't have the family stuff going on.
- 27:54But, but now it really is a great connection with the clients because they always call them on it.
- 28:00Well, I think the takeaway from that is, is the personal aspect of it.
- 28:04It's the personal connection, like speaking of Timber Heam, right?
- 28:07One of his catchphrases is connection versus conversion.
- 28:10And that's what, that's what's going to, like you said,
- 28:12buy brain cells and get people to remember you.
- 28:14They're going to be like, Oh, look at Dave, right?
- 28:16He's hiking Mount Whitney or whatever.
- 28:17That's cool.
- 28:18And the idea with your consistency, I think of your, your marketing efforts there to the past
- 28:24databases when the time comes, right?
- 28:26If they're thinking, Hey, you know, we got a job change.
- 28:28We might need to X or, you know, Judy's going to college might need to tap that
- 28:33HELOC.
- 28:34Yeah, we want to be in the stream of their, of their, their life, right?
- 28:39Yeah, without a doubt.
- 28:41And, you know, what's really difficult at our business is the competition is crazy.
- 28:47We're just going online or opening up a mobile app while the advertisements and then
- 28:53you've got the major advertisers like quick and out there and all the other ones.
- 28:58And think about the services, right?
- 29:00That by our loans, the servicers are our number one competition because they just
- 29:05have call centers and they're just constantly calling the database of people that we
- 29:09generate it.
- 29:11And, and I think that in the industry, we've probably done a better job than the vast
- 29:15majority of loan officers of staying in contact with our clients.
- 29:21I mean, you know, 25 contacts a year or touches a year.
- 29:24And through that whole refinance boom, still 30% of our clients refinance somewhere
- 29:31else, 30% that we lost.
- 29:34And I'm really good at saying in contact.
- 29:36So think about the average loan officer, they probably lost 70 or 80% of their business.
- 29:41And so, you know, it's, it's two steps forward, three steps backwards.
- 29:46You can't grow your business and keep losing people out of the back end.
- 29:49We never want to lose anybody.
- 29:51That's a great point.
- 29:52And I think you mentioned this at the start, which is it's only going to get
- 29:55tougher as these companies get more aggressive and get more embedded into our lives.
- 30:00And who knows what Amazon, whatever, you know, I mean, it's just a lot more noise.
- 30:06These companies are getting better and better and better.
- 30:10Which means we need to get better.
- 30:12And and here's, and to your point, by the way, about the personal thing on the back of the newsletter,
- 30:18that's what's going to help us win.
- 30:22Increase our batting average is that personal connection because there is no personal connection to quick him.
- 30:28Correct.
- 30:29All right.
- 30:30So 12 snail males, which is a combination of four newsletters and then eight postcards.
- 30:35Correct.
- 30:37And then we do 12 emails.
- 30:40And so now they're getting two contacts a month.
- 30:42So every two weeks they get something.
- 30:44So snail mail email, snail mail email, snail mail email.
- 30:48Don't tell me about the email.
- 30:49Is that automated?
- 30:50What's in it?
- 30:52Um, the email will just sort of sometimes be market conditions.
- 30:56Sometimes it'll be, you know, a new program came out.
- 30:59I had an email.
- 31:00I think the subject line said got kids and then it was talking about, you know,
- 31:05low down payment first time buyer programs, help your kids get out of the house, things like that.
- 31:10Who's, who's writing the email?
- 31:11Is that done for you?
- 31:13Uh, I was doing most of the writing until about a year ago.
- 31:17And then my business partner now is she's doing most of the writing.
- 31:21Well, key point there is it's not some templated, useless, corporate stuff that's spit out.
- 31:27That's completely void of any human element.
- 31:31Right.
- 31:31Well, it's funny.
- 31:32You bring that up because we get all these advertisements from, you know, wholesalers and other companies.
- 31:38And it's the, you know, the embedded HTML and I don't, I just delete, delete, delete, delete.
- 31:43So me personally, I like the plain text email because I'm hoping they're going to open it.
- 31:48I think when we send out the flyer, they get embedded.
- 31:52It's going to be deleted.
- 31:52But then again, I don't do a lot on my mobile phone.
- 31:55So we've had this argument in my office about the best way to do it.
- 31:59Well, let's think about that.
- 32:01You know, once I heard, it's interesting because I stand out of newsletter, obviously for a lot of you listeners, you're getting my, my emails.
- 32:07Um, actually, I don't, it's not actually a newsletter.
- 32:09It's just an email.
- 32:10Um, but once I heard somebody say, you know, about from marketing and what's the best type of marketing, like email at the send.
- 32:17And you think about this is if you were going to send your friend an email, would it be all fancy and glossy and all that kind of stuff?
- 32:23No, right.
- 32:25That's a really good point.
- 32:27Yeah.
- 32:28And so that's why I'm glad I heard what I heard was you people are actually writing the email.
- 32:31Everybody listening knows you sit on your mobile phone, you get those templated corporate thing.
- 32:37I mean, even, you know, um, the companies that I work with, they send those out because they feel like they have to.
- 32:41And I guarantee you that the most low open, low engagement rates people have, what gets noticed, um, is when it's real and raw and you.
- 32:51That's it.
- 32:53Yep, which is that now that made me remember what I was thinking.
- 32:56This came from Ryan Grant.
- 32:57Uh, he calls it meaningful engagement.
- 32:59It's not just touching base with your clients, but actually having that meaningful engagement with them.
- 33:04So then it's more personal.
- 33:06Exactly.
- 33:07And how do you have meaningful engagement?
- 33:08You stop trying to outsource relationships.
- 33:12Yeah.
- 33:13Get real.
- 33:14Let tell people about what's going on.
- 33:16That's why you know, it's funny.
- 33:17I mean, you see those kind of people call it cheesy whenever those, those career font type written newsletters that are black and white and ugly.
- 33:26But that's why that stands out because of the media.
- 33:29That's like, well, crap.
- 33:30This isn't the usual, you know, corporate BS.
- 33:33It looks like David actually wrote this himself.
- 33:36Yep.
- 33:37And that's the idea and that's where trying to come across.
- 33:39Yeah.
- 33:40You also do birthday texts.
- 33:42Yep.
- 33:43We do a text for the birthday.
- 33:44So now, you know, let's think about it.
- 33:46Before we had email, we just had phone calls.
- 33:48New email.
- 33:49Now, email is pretty much history because everybody, you know, deletes our emails.
- 33:53So now we're on the text, right?
- 33:55Now, eventually, text is going to disappear because it's going to be like email where people don't want to get that many texts.
- 34:00But so far, we're doing that as well.
- 34:03And then, um, so that's actually, now we're at 25 touches.
- 34:07Actually, so we have 26 touches a year because the other thing is we do an annual client review.
- 34:14Now, um, we set that up at the beginning when we originated alone.
- 34:18We explained to them that once we close your loan, you're not done with us.
- 34:23From this point forward, our job is to proactively manage a large investment you've taken on in your life.
- 34:30So we talk about how we're going to manage the mortgage, like a financial planner manage assets.
- 34:35I mean, we gave them the debt so we should help them manage that debt like a financial advisor is going to help them manage their assets.
- 34:41Right.
- 34:42So we talk about our rate watch program where we're looking at interest rates for them.
- 34:46And then we also tell them we're going to call you on an annual basis, um, to review your mortgage rather than interest rate market mandates that are not.
- 34:54So in a perfect world, these people should be getting a phone call every 12 months from us.
- 34:59I will tell you, we've been incredibly lame about that.
- 35:03It's so, so busy from 2010 through 2016 that we fell off mostly on that.
- 35:13And I've actually seen my database dropping like I see people that have bought something else or refinanced.
- 35:22And I will blame some of that on that.
- 35:25But I have to take the majority of blame because we didn't do our job.
- 35:28And so just literally in the last 90 days, I've gotten fully focused on doing the end reviews and actually lost a long term person that was on my team.
- 35:37So I've been doing it myself.
- 35:39And it's been, uh, it's been really eye opening.
- 35:42And I really think that that is going to be a huge thing for our business.
- 35:47Eye opening in what regard?
- 35:50How little meaningful engagement we've had with our clients just because we send them a postcard and a newsletter and a birthday text.
- 35:59Doesn't make us any different than anybody else, especially if it was a really easy loan and we have very little interaction with them.
- 36:06They're just thinking of us just as the mortgage person.
- 36:09So by calling them, we are telling them what what we're going to do and then we're doing what we say we're going to do.
- 36:16And I think it's different.
- 36:19I don't think that we're going to see the benefit of this for a year or two because it takes time.
- 36:25Not everybody you call is going to have a need, but at least they're hearing from you.
- 36:30And eight out of ten people go, it goes right to voicemail.
- 36:33It's amazing how people don't pick up the phone probably because they see it's me on caller ID.
- 36:36I don't know.
- 36:37But the people that have picked up, they've not been bugged or offended that I'm bothering them on their cell phone even all the day.
- 36:45Well, yeah, because you're planning the seed in the beginning in the first place.
- 36:51And you may reference that in your script, I don't know.
- 36:54Okay, that's awesome.
- 36:55And that clearly for anybody listening, right?
- 36:57That'd be a great model for you to follow.
- 36:58Now what I'm curious about is how you've pivoted then to integrate some of the more modern touch points if you have, right?
- 37:07Such as fending people on social media.
- 37:10And that's obviously one way to stay connected and stay visible.
- 37:13Anything you're doing in that regard.
- 37:16If I was going to rank myself on a scale of one to ten for social media on a good day, I'd be about four.
- 37:23Okay.
- 37:24That is something that we that we need to work on.
- 37:28I'm looking at your Facebook page and I know you do some other things which I'm going to talk about.
- 37:34And by the way, okay.
- 37:35So if you're new on Facebook, you're already doing a good job.
- 37:37For instance, you are what I can see.
- 37:39They're posting success stories.
- 37:41You've got a picture of this family who just looks like they just bought a home and you're already socializing that.
- 37:48So a lot of people aren't doing that.
- 37:50And let's transition just I guess for a second time.
- 37:52Let's get into what I also jumped out about me about you last time we talked was video testimonials.
- 37:59Okay.
- 38:00That's that's a modern thing.
- 38:01Man, that's cool.
- 38:02You're socializing those.
- 38:03Those are on your web page.
- 38:04And I remember I asked you, how are you getting those?
- 38:09Because when I talk about video with video testimonials, most of the pushback is another hard to get.
- 38:13People don't want to do it.
- 38:14But I want you to share for the listeners, how are you able to get video testimonials?
- 38:20Yeah.
- 38:21I tell you, I really put it off for a long time.
- 38:24And finally, I just had to bear down and do it.
- 38:27So I just went through, we rank in our database or clients and they get marked as either normal rating fan or VIP.
- 38:38So I pulled a list of all my rating fan and VIPs and I went to the list and I looked at all the ones that were local to my office.
- 38:47And I called them up and I said, would you be willing to do this?
- 38:52And just about everybody said, yep, I'll do it.
- 38:55We hired a videographer for a full eight hour day.
- 38:58And we set the videographer and we set up appointments with people to come in and they came and did it.
- 39:04And they got a $10 Starbucks gift certificate for all their time.
- 39:09And you shot those all in one day?
- 39:11All one day.
- 39:12Correct.
- 39:13And I wanted to bust it out.
- 39:14And okay, I tell people what your investment in that was for the videographer.
- 39:18It was really, really expensive.
- 39:20It was about $450.
- 39:22So it was cheap.
- 39:24I mean, the videographer all day now, the editing would be more.
- 39:27We did that in-house through our company marketing department, which cost more.
- 39:31But I would be shocked if it cost any more than $1,000 to do all that.
- 39:36Right.
- 39:37I'd be shocked.
- 39:38And I'm just taking a quick glance at your website and we'll put a link in the show notes.
- 39:41But I'm counting just off a quick glance.
- 39:44One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, I don't know, six or eight testimonials.
- 39:49I think we had about six video ones.
- 39:52Correct.
- 39:53Yeah.
- 39:54Yeah.
- 39:55Did you have anybody who said no?
- 39:57No one said no.
- 39:58The two people that couldn't do it as they just had scheduled conflicts.
- 40:02And in fact, the one person that said no, I had asked her if she was interested in a couple of months before I set up.
- 40:07She says, oh, I'm in business. I'm more than happy to help you out.
- 40:10And then of course you couldn't do it.
- 40:12But you know, that's okay.
- 40:13Did you have plans to do more?
- 40:15I don't have plans to do more.
- 40:17I probably should.
- 40:19But let me ask you.
- 40:21Think about it.
- 40:22I get butterflies in my stomach thinking about having to do it again.
- 40:24Really?
- 40:25Why?
- 40:26I just, man, you're really asking people to do a lot.
- 40:31I mean, for me, you know, maybe it only took an hour out of their day.
- 40:35They had to get in their car.
- 40:36They had to drive to my office.
- 40:38They had to get out.
- 40:39They had to do it.
- 40:40So maybe it was only an hour out of their life.
- 40:41But I noticed I could be busy.
- 40:42And I felt guilty taking an hour out of people's lives when they were doing nothing but helping me.
- 40:48But maybe that's why they're a raving fan of VIP because they want to help me.
- 40:51Well, there you go.
- 40:52You know, it's funny though.
- 40:53Let's see.
- 40:54That's interesting.
- 40:55There's a lot of us think that we're imposing.
- 40:56And I get that too.
- 40:57I mean, even like when I first started out on these podcasts, I was like, oh, I don't know.
- 41:00Are they going to want to be on?
- 41:01You know, now it's like, come on, man.
- 41:04Right.
- 41:05But I get it.
- 41:07But that just goes to show you that people are so willing to help.
- 41:12You know, especially when you do an amazing job for them, which I know you do, right?
- 41:16There's this thing called reciprocation.
- 41:18People want to help and they feel compelled to give back if you've created an amazing result for them.
- 41:24Yeah.
- 41:25And it's funny.
- 41:26We do a client event.
- 41:27We actually do three client events each year for our database.
- 41:30But what happens is we rent out a movie theater.
- 41:32And we just had it last weekend.
- 41:33And one of the guys that did my testimonial was there.
- 41:36Of course, I had to think of again for, you know, doing the testimonial.
- 41:40Of course, it came to my client event, which was great.
- 41:43I'm going to come back to that movie theater thing in a second.
- 41:46Just make a note here.
- 41:47But one other idea.
- 41:49And this is for really for the listeners as well as, you know, I love the fact you do.
- 41:53It's very polished and professional output of these video testimonials.
- 41:58And that's definitely one way to go.
- 42:00Of course, another way to go.
- 42:01And maybe we'll get to their David is if you're, you know, just pick a few closings to go to.
- 42:06If they're at your, your office or somewhere else.
- 42:08And just write.
- 42:09You can let people know in advance or whatever.
- 42:11Have a tripod.
- 42:12Have your iPhone.
- 42:13And boom.
- 42:14Hey, do you mind if we grab a quick like one minute, you know, tell us about your experience working with the Jaffy team record.
- 42:18It's June and Sam Smith.
- 42:20And we just want to say great.
- 42:21David was out.
- 42:22You know what I'm saying?
- 42:23It could be as simple as that.
- 42:24Well, actually, you know what?
- 42:25It's a great idea is a part of our business plan is when the loan documents are sent to escrow.
- 42:31We always contact escrow and say we prefer that the clients come to our office and sign the documents.
- 42:37Which is how I got the picture of those people.
- 42:39They find documents in my office and I took a picture of it and I posted on Facebook.
- 42:43But talking about a blinding flash, the obvious.
- 42:47Nobody there.
- 42:48Why wouldn't I just do a video?
- 42:49So thank you.
- 42:50Yeah, you bet.
- 42:51I mean, pictures cool too.
- 42:52That's easy.
- 42:53And I'm just, you know, I'm just on the video bandwagon because I just know the impact of video is going to have for people for this business for getting engagement on social media.
- 43:02The algorithms are favoring video.
- 43:03So.
- 43:04And I know we got to break out of our comfort zone on it.
- 43:07Trust me.
- 43:08We all have that comfort zone.
- 43:09But that's where the opportunity is.
- 43:11All right.
- 43:12Real quick.
- 43:13Real quick.
- 43:14Then.
- 43:15Movie theater rental.
- 43:16A couple other top producers have mentioned that as a strategy.
- 43:19And it's one I think it's been off people's radar for a long time.
- 43:22I don't know why.
- 43:24What was the movie you you you invited people to.
- 43:28I think the name was something about the clock in the walls.
- 43:31I can't remember exactly.
- 43:32Yeah, the Disney one.
- 43:33Yeah.
- 43:34Yeah.
- 43:35And by the way, that was.
- 43:36It was a bomber because that really wasn't a great movie.
- 43:39Yeah.
- 43:40To get people in.
- 43:41But it just so happened.
- 43:42We needed to get our movie event out.
- 43:43So.
- 43:44Have you better than before?
- 43:45Yeah.
- 43:46Yeah.
- 43:47This is the third world we've done.
- 43:48We did pirates of the Caribbean, which was a much better.
- 43:50Draw for people.
- 43:51Do you do it like once a year or what?
- 43:53Once a year.
- 43:54Yep.
- 43:55And you team up with a realtor is it just for you and your clients?
- 43:58Just me and my clients.
- 43:59So what we do is.
- 44:01We actually have the database segmented.
- 44:04So the first invitation goes out just to our rating fan and VIPs.
- 44:08And then if we don't get enough people, we'll then just open it up.
- 44:11To anybody we've closed the loan for in the last four years.
- 44:15And then we'll open up the whole database and then we'll open it up to referral partners.
- 44:19And is your goal to fill the theater?
- 44:22My goal is to always fill the theater.
- 44:24Yep.
- 44:25You bet.
- 44:26And were you successful on this last one?
- 44:29You know, I got to tell you I'm still a little up in the air.
- 44:31I think we'll continue to do it.
- 44:32We had about 53 people there.
- 44:35But that's families.
- 44:36That really only was 18 different families.
- 44:39But that's still a meaningful engagement with 18 people.
- 44:42And most of those were raving fan VIPs.
- 44:44So it was just another way for me to put a face to a name.
- 44:48So I just think that I think it will pay off.
- 44:52It's relatively inexpensive.
- 44:53It comes out to about 20 bucks a person by Tommy by popcorn and ticket and all that.
- 44:59Yeah.
- 45:00So you're doing it like at a off time.
- 45:01Morning or mid something like that to get a discount, right?
- 45:04Yeah, sorry.
- 45:05Morning 11 am.
- 45:06It's not just kind of much.
- 45:07I got to tell you we're in the wrong business, Jeff.
- 45:10A lot of money to popcorn and soda, baby.
- 45:13That's right.
- 45:14They don't have margin compression.
- 45:16The popcorn business.
- 45:17No.
- 45:18Awesome.
- 45:19Awesome.
- 45:20Okay.
- 45:21Cool.
- 45:22All right.
- 45:23Well, in closing it out here, let's do this.
- 45:25I'd be curious to, and you and I touched on this last time.
- 45:28But I'd be curious to get the input from somebody from a $3 billion originator.
- 45:3328 years in the business.
- 45:35You know, you've seen a lot come and go.
- 45:39I know you're keeping your pulse on where the.
- 45:42Kind of what the direction with the future is.
- 45:44There's some unknowns.
- 45:45But what are you doing?
- 45:46Let's say you're hired me.
- 45:48Okay.
- 45:49I'm a loan officer.
- 45:50Maybe I was in a call center or something.
- 45:51But I come to you with maybe a couple of three years experience under my belt or something.
- 45:56What are you telling me to do or what are you telling yourself to do?
- 46:00To stay relevant in the coming years?
- 46:02I'm going to beat them up from day one about their database.
- 46:07I'm still shocked to this day.
- 46:09How few loan officers and realtors have a database of clothes loan customers.
- 46:15I just, I cannot fathom the fact that people are not doing a database.
- 46:20So I probably would not let them do anything until I saw that that database was set up.
- 46:25I have a lot of people in their database, but they've got five clothes loan that five people they need to stay in touch with.
- 46:31And I would probably recommend they do a quarterly review.
- 46:35Maybe not to review the mortgage every quarter, but to call them at least every quarter.
- 46:39And they would have to do a much better job on social media than I'm doing between Instagram and Twitter and all that other stuff.
- 46:50And then I would also have them try to go after realtors.
- 46:55When I started, realtors controlled about 65% of referrals.
- 46:59Now I think it's down to about 25%.
- 47:01So I wouldn't call that the be all end all, but I think that's a good way to at least get your foot in the door somewhere and try to get some quicker business.
- 47:09As I was just going to say, is that's because that's the now business, the short term.
- 47:15And just let's just reiterate this point for those listeners.
- 47:19You know this well is the path to close the path to success and trust when it's a referral is night and day compared to something you generated online.
- 47:31And so good point there is people say, I've got this great marketing program.
- 47:35I'm doing Facebook advertising.
- 47:37I've got all these great marketing.
- 47:39Our number one marketing program is our service level.
- 47:45I have great service.
- 47:46That's fine.
- 47:47We have great service.
- 47:48But we have a perfect loan process plan in place.
- 47:52And the idea is to allow the customer and the referral partners so much.
- 47:56With working with the Jaffee team throughout the process that it creates a constant string referrals.
- 48:01So you can't just get that deal in the door and you can't just close it on time because that's a given.
- 48:06You have to close it with excellence.
- 48:09You have to be unbelievable from the minute you talk to them through the pre-approved through the home search process from opening escrow all the way through the escrow period and closing.
- 48:20You have to be unbelievable.
- 48:22I agree.
- 48:23And I think a caveat to that, if that's an appropriate word to using what I'm trying to get across here is.
- 48:30But I think you're saying the same thing is, yes, you have to have that five star client experience, but you can't come out of the gates using that as a differentiator.
- 48:39Meaning like scripting to real well, why should I work with you because I have this awesome client experience.
- 48:44Well, until they've gone through that, it sounds like everybody else.
- 48:48Yep, I agree.
- 48:50Awesome.
- 48:52Cool, man. What are you doing to finish out the year strong?
- 48:57I'm reviewing my business plan again to make sure that we are doing everything that we're supposed to be doing on our business plan.
- 49:05I'm getting fully focused on ensuring that we stay on track with calling our database of clients into the annual review.
- 49:13That's something that we're being absolutely brutal about doing.
- 49:18Love it, love it, be brutal about past database.
- 49:23I love that you said it doesn't have to be annual either.
- 49:25Just be quarterly.
- 49:26Just be like, hey, I do a quarterly check up just to see because life changes.
- 49:29So I want to highlight that for people who think, well, I can't call for every 12 months.
- 49:34No, call, right?
- 49:35Just set that up.
- 49:36Set the expectations and advance.
- 49:37Awesome.
- 49:38Okay.
- 49:39I've got 2100 people we're actively doing.
- 49:41And if I'm doing it myself, someone who doesn't have 2100 active people in their database can easily do it by themselves.
- 49:48There you go, structure planning.
- 49:50Well, listen, for those who want to maybe connect with you, what's the best place for them to do that?
- 49:55Email is David at jaffyteam.com.
- 49:59That's David at J-A-F-F-E-Team.com.
- 50:04Awesome.
- 50:05Well, we appreciate you being here as always.
- 50:07Thank you.
- 50:08It was a crash course and lessons from a $3 billion originator.
- 50:13So thank you very much for that.
- 50:15Thanks for having me Jeff.
- 50:16I appreciate it.
- 50:17You bet.
- 50:18And listeners, as always, feel free to reach out to me anytime on Facebook and the group.
- 50:22Email me podcast at Mortgage Marketing Radio.
- 50:24But if you haven't yet left a review, do so, please.
- 50:28That's how we reach more known originators.
- 50:30I appreciate you being here.
- 50:31See you on the next one.
- 50:32Bye for now.
- 50:33Thanks for listening to Mortgage Marketing Radio.
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