Lead Planet Announces New Free Mortgage Lead Campaign

The Lead Planet Company announced yesterday a new promotion offering free mortgage leads to loan companies looking to buy quality internet leads.  Find out why loan companies continue to come back to the Lead Planet year after year for internet mortgage leads. We are one of the most respected and experienced mortgage marketing companies online that offers real-time mortgage leads, live transfer leads, loan modification leads and debt leads for broker, lenders and mortgage bankers.  For the last decade, we have specialized in internet marketing for the mortgage and finance related industry. 

Take advantage of our summer lead promotion that includes 10 free mortgage leads with every order of 50 or more online mortgage leads. (The promo also includes loan mod and debt settlement leads)   

Jump-start your pipeline with quality loan leads generated exclusively by Lead Planet websites. Call 619-600-5720 or fill out the short form to the right of this article and you will get a free mortgage marketing consultation with no obligation.

Maximizing Mortgage Lead Opportunities Online

Every time the banks tighten loan guidelines, it makes buying qualified mortgage leads more critical.  Mortgage marketing continues to unravel for many top mortgage companies, because the cost of business is rising yet in most cases the revenues are decreasing. 

How does a mortgage company spend their marketing dollar more wisely with mortgage leads?  The first step is to align your company with a mortgage lead generation company that offers leads that are not sold too many times.  Another important step is to partner with a lead company that is generating mortgage leads from applicants who really want a loan.  Buying leads from consumers that want to win an iPad rather than lock an interest rate will not help your cost to funding ratio.  Consider buying real-time mortgage leads or live transfer mortgage leads.  Even though they tend to cost more, the contact rates will be much higher and usually your cost to funding ratio will be much lower. 

Another important step to maximizing your mortgage marketing dollars is lead management.  Make sure your loan officers are calling the leads in a timely manner and verify that they are handling the calls the way you would like them too.  In many cases a loan officer will get bogged down with a few loans in process and then they will pretend to call new leads.  It is not uncommon for loan officers to fake following up on new leads.  Mortgage lead buyers need to evaluate the time a loan officer received the lead and the time they actually called the lead.  How many times are your loan officers calling on the leads?  Are they also following up with these applicants by email?  Remember that with internet mortgage leads, quite often the applicants prefer to communicate by email, so if your loan officers are only calling on the leads, then they are not managing the leads right.  And then of course there are the loan officers that only email the loan applicants because they don’t want to pick up the phone.  You need loan professionals calling and emailing the mortgage lead prospects to maximize online mortgage marketing.

The Lead Planet will create a custom lead generation program for you and your loan company. Take advantage of search engine optimization and consider our mortgage websites to help bolster your image and presence online.  Call the Lead Planet at 619-600-5720 and ask about our Free Mortgage Lead Incentives for new accounts.

Mortgage Lead Buying Secrets

Believe it or not there is an art to buying internet mortgage leads.  Loan companies need to play the lead buying game some skill if they want to maximize their opportunities on the mortgage leads they invested in.  Sure it is important to hire a talented staff of loan officers with a competent sales manager that will make sure the leads get called in a timely manner.  Yes it is a good idea to integrate a lead management system like Leads 360 or Lead Mailbox.  But if you do all of that, are there any guarantees that you will get a good return on the home loan leads you bought with such good intentions.  Sadly no; in today’s mortgage market, loan originators have their hands full finding a borrower who qualifies because the lending guidelines have tightened to the point of being ridiculous. 

A recent Lead Planet survey found that less than 2 out of 10 loan applicants qualified for the home loan in which they applied for online.  A few years ago, a similar survey was taken and found that nearly 7 out of 10 applicants qualified.  Unfortunately the housing sector crashed, so millions of Americans lost their home equity and stated income loans were allowed and even encouraged. 

My advice for lead buyers is to find a lead company that doesn’t sell your leads too many times.  The Lead Planet sells their leads 1-3 times.  You want to find a mortgage lead source that has a contact rate.  With nearly a 90% companywide contact rate, the Lead Planet provides mortgage marketing that loan companies can work with.  Your loan team deserves to speak with loan applicants that eager to get a loan, rather than win a contest that offers them a free ipad.   Buying exclusive mortgage leads is nice, but can you afford not to buy non-exclusive leads that are half the price. 

Last week the Wall street Journal reported that refinance loan applications rose dramatically in April and this week Freddie Mac issued their report that home purchase loan applications had reached a 13-year low. Is this a true indication of the demand for home financing or the reality of the lending guidelines and underwriting for mortgage loans has tightened to the point that most borrowers already know they do not qualify. 

With interest rates at all-time lows and millions of borrowers needing to refinance out of their adjustable rate mortgage, you would think the lead volumes would be sky-rocketing.  The good news for loan companies out there that have not quit and can still afford to keep the lights on, is that the tide will turn.  Private money will come back into the market place and new loan programs will arise that create new opportunities for loan officers to close more loans.  Until then, get some good lending niches, FHA, VA, 203k, etc. Stay lean and mean and it wouldn’t hurt to find a lead company that you can trust. 

Our lead team can help with with lead generation, mortgage marketing and even search engine optimization. Call the Lead Planet at 619-600-5720 for a no cost lead buying consultation.

Lead Planet Reports Big Jump in Mortgage Refinance Lead Volumes

For most of 2010, thousands of loan officers have been scrounging for hot refinance leads. Amid the mortgage turmoil, many homeowners have been reluctant to re-apply for a refinance loan after being turned down by a bank or lender.  Finally, we got some good news related to the mortgage industry.  After 6 consecutive weeks of declining refinance application volumes, RTT reported a surge in home refinancing activity.  U.S mortgage demand increased again last week, led by a bounce-back in refinance applications and interest rates hitting their lowest levels since mid-March. 

According to Bryan Dornan, the Lead Planet founder, “Mortgage marketing has been difficult in 2010 for loan companies that focus solely on refinancing, because lending guidelines have tightened to a very uncomfortable level.”  Dornan continue, “Stated income loans are gone—- home equity programs have disappeared —–  and subprime loans are on trial waiting for the Obama administration to figure out how best to politicize the mortgage reform.”  Buying qualified mortgage leads can be challenging.  The reality is that not that many borrowers qualify to refinance their home under the tightened guidelines. 

Rumors of private money entering the mortgage market soon would be welcomed and could create additional opportunities for mortgage lenders, brokers and aspiring loan officers.  The Lead Planet reported that refinance lead volumes rose nearly 20% last week and their clients have been reaping the benefits with a flood of new loan submissions.  Purchase lead volumes increased 5.75% even though home buying applications have slowed significantly nationwide. 

The Mortgage Bankers Association reported Wednesday that its refinance index jumped 14.8% from the previous week, hitting its highest level in six weeks. The surge in home refinancing applications, however, was nullified by a decline in the MBA’s home purchase index, which dropped 9.5% on a seasonally adjusted basis. Unadjusted, the index decreased 8.9% from the previous week, and 0.6% from the same week last year.  The decline in home purchase applications was likely due to the expiration of the $8,000 home-buyer tax credit on April 30th.  

For custom mortgage lead generation programs and more information on buying mortgage leads, please call the sales department at the Lead Planet 619-600-5720.