Surefireside Chats: Wes Schueneman, SecurityNational Mortgage Company
Jan 25, 2021Hear from top mortgage marketing leader, Wes Schueneman of SecurityNational Mortgage Company.
Hear from top mortgage marketing leader, Wes Schueneman of SecurityNational Mortgage Company.
When promoting your mortgage company, it helps to understand your marketing wholesale lender options vs. retail lending operations options.
Grow your business and your career with Mortgage Marketing University, Top of Mind's free online training.
Not all loan officers are the same. Recognizing your skills and working with a lender that complements them is a path to greater success.
Becoming a licensed mortgage loan officer can be hard work, yet it also can be the start of a very good and prosperous career. Learn how to start here.
Memes are everywhere, and mortgage memes are among the funniest (at least to loan officers). Share wisely. What’s funny to you may put off a borrower.
Top of Mind reflects on a stellar 2020 and enthusiastically anticipates a promising 2021.
A Mortgage Product Pricing Engine is imperative if you want to succeed in today's extremely competitive and fast-paced lending world.
As the mortgage industry shifts back to a purchase market, loan officers can maximize their 2021 outreach with these five marketing steps to Realtors.
Centralize your marketing using Surefire CRM's admin-driven mortgage marketing model.
Integrating your POS, LOS, and PPE systems with your mortgage CRM is a crucial step in increasing your ROI.
For the first time ever, we have made educational content from our Surefire Summit available industry-wide, on-demand.
Our Client for Life Workflow has helped Buford Finance and Mortgage pull in nearly $43 million in additional volume from repeat business.
Maximize your ROI and build the marketing engine of your dreams using Surefire CRM's out-of-the-box modules purpose-built for every type of lender.
Hear from top mortgage marketing leader, Ian Klein of US Mortgage.
Integration of Surefire’s powerful marketing automation with intelligent alerts from Sales Boomerang enables a 30% lift in loan volume.
Finding mortgage leads that convert to borrowers isn't easy. Facebook ads help loan officers capture the leads they need efficiently and effectively.
Hear from top-producing lender Mark Milam of Highland Mortgage.
Sending postcards via the postal service may seem antiquated to many; however, that’s exactly why you should be sending them.
After almost 18 years of serving mortgage professionals, Surefire has gone where no other CRM has gone before.
Quality mortgage leads can be a hard thing to acquire. Rate shoppers are a dime a dozen and, they can be pretty fickle, even with the best of intentions.
We’ve got the numbers: 450 years of mortgage experience and tens of thousands of users. But, the real experience is in implementing proven best practices.
Building your social media brand may be easier than you expect when you use a purpose-built mortgage CRM like Surefire.
While all mortgage compliance is important, some rules command more attention at different times. Here are a few compliance leaders to watch in 2021.
Invest in a mortgage CRM that marries great technology and great content to see why experience matters.
Successful mortgage email campaigns in 2021 may look a lot like those in previous years, but you’ll want to remember these important lessons from 2020.
Highly successful loan officers often have different styles, yet one thing is typically common amongst them – they employ mortgage marketing automation.
Hear from the industry's top marketing leaders as they raise the bar one campaign at a time.
When we ask our mortgage lender customers why they continue to prefer Surefire CRM, here’s what they tell us.
Smartphones are virtually ubiquitous. Using SMS mortgage marketing to reach your prospects can position you to communicate readily via their oft preferred method.
The best mortgage closing gifts leave a long-lasting impression. These tips will help you choose memorable gifts that bring your borrowers back.
Surefire CRM and Floify work to deliver more loans that close with rule-based workflows and best-of-breed communications.
Lenders are feeling betrayed by full-service marketing platforms that show up totally empty.
Your borrowers will become clients for life with Surefire's creative marketing content.
Many loan officers use mortgage marketing videos to manage busy pipelines and secure future business. Here are 3 ideas to make your next video stand out.
Your partners, clients, leads, prospects, etc., are the life-blood of your business. It’s critical to your success to have their info at your fingertips.
Educate and delight consumers with Surefire's award-winning creative content library.
Hearing the same marketing ideas for loan officers and mortgage brokers over and over? Here are some new ideas and a fresh spin on the classics.
A CRM program is different and more versatile than loan origination software. Done right, one gets and keeps you positioned to take advantage of the other.
Get your loan applicants to the finish line with Surefire creative content.
As outbound phone calls re-emerge as a powerful marketing tool, fit more calls that are equally effective into an already jam-packed day.
Learn how Surefire's 'Client for Life' Workflow helped InterLinc achieve their client retention goals.
Mortgage loan officers know social media marketing is important for growing your business. But, sometimes, you just need a good idea for something to post.
Surefire's Power Messaging takes VIP Mortgage's marketing from zero to hero.
Creating mortgage marketing newsletters that are effective in achieving intended goals can be part art and part science. What’s the proper recipe to get it right?
Surefire by Top of Mind earned a second runner up spot at the 2020 Digital Mortgage Conference.
Learn how VIP Mortgage turned their marketing department around using SurefireCRM.
The key to cultivating lifelong clients is keeping in touch. As straightforward as that sounds, there are lots of factors involved.
Top of Mind Networks has been named a finalist in the Content Marketing Institute’s (CMI) 2020 Content Marketing Awards.
The FHFA has announced it will delay the “adverse market conditions” fee on refinance transactions until December 1st.
CardTapp, your always-on digital assistant, today announced an integration with Surefire by Top of Mind Networks.
For Top of Mind, keeping clients for life means keeping in touch. It sounds simple, but it isn’t easy.
The key to cultivating lifelong clients is keeping in touch. As straightforward as that sounds, there are lots of factors involved.
Join and learn how Surefire's set and forget technology can be your secret weapon to maximize repeat and referral business.
Independent research explains why direct mail deserves a place in your marketing mix.
With historically low interest rates and millions of refis pouring in, lenders need a little nudge in to keep investing in their future success.
Having a mortgage marketing plan is critical, but it shouldn’t be deployed occasionally. It should be an ongoing part of your everyday business.
Learn how Presidential Bank Mortgage supercharged 30 years of customer contacts with Surefire.
The right industry-specific CRM platform will make compliance in mortgage marketing easy. Here are 7 features compliance officers need in a mortgage CRM.
Top of Mind Networks (Top of Mind), a leader in customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation software for the mortgage lending industry, has been named a 2020 Product of the Year by the Business Intelligence Group (BIG)
Dealing with a sprawling tech stack is hard work and headaches for IT, tough to learn for already busy loan officers, and it can quickly drive up costs for a lender.
With record-low interest rates, our customers continue to report that sales pipelines are filling faster than they can be emptied.
Happy National Intern Day! Check out our Q&A to spotlight the future of the working world we proudly have here at Top of Mind Networks.
Create effective mortgage marketing campaigns by tailoring messages for your target audience and processes. Get started with 9 mortgage marketing ideas.
Mortgage bankers and brokers that use mortgage marketing automation tools can manage and grow their business exponentially.
Smart salespeople will always find a way to be where their consumers are. Today that means being able to communicate by text message.
Today’s mortgage pipeline software is far more advanced than ever and easily trumps even tried and true manual systems of years gone by.
There are far better ways to effectively and efficiently manage your business using mortgage pipeline management software.
Experience game-changing real estate market intelligence, collaboration and analytics tools from MobilityRE to SurefireCRM.
Digital mortgage software linked with powerful mortgage content from an industry leading provider helps loan originators work smarter and faster.
Busy mortgage bankers and brokers can benefit from social media marketing, but to do it best, a mortgage CRM system is essential.
SurefireCRM has added two-way data sync to its integration with digital mortgage app SimpleNexus.
Much has changed in the world of mortgage marketing tools. Digital mortgage software and mortgage CRM systems make marketing more efficient than ever before.
The majority of open house attendees are in the earliest stages of their home purchase journey — they want to find a home to fall in love with.
Designing the perfect mortgage marketing postcard can be challenging. In order to make sure your campaign is successful, make sure you have these 7 elements.
Mortgage email marketing goes well beyond typical concerns about improving open rates. Mortgage marketers must think about compliance, the mortgage process, cobranding and more.
Look beyond click through rates to measure the effectiveness of your mortgage email marketing. Here are 3 ways top mortgage CRMs can help you dig deeper to identify your most effective messages.
As mortgage companies grow, their marketing teams increasingly rely on automation tools to centralize the management of marketing efforts and ensure brand consistency.
You don’t have to solve the “do more with less” equation on your own. We want to delight every Top of Mind customer with inarguable success.
As mortgage lenders field the tsunami of refi volume that has accompanied record-low interest rates, loan originators are struggling to manage the basic borrower communication that keeps loan pipelines flowing and customers happy. To manage unexpected spikes in volume and maximize the workforce efficiency, loan originators need tools that allow
ATLANTA, Ga., June 17, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Top of Mind Networks (Top of Mind), a leader in customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation software for the mortgage lending industry, took home four trophies in this year’s 41st Annual Telly Awards.
A top-50 retail mortgage lender with 800-plus employees, SecurityNational Mortgage Company (SecurityNational) has served communities coast-to-coast since 1993. SecurityNational pins its success on delivering top-notch service and expert-level guidance to pair borrowers with the best-fit mortgage for their financial situation.
With more than 10 years in the industry, Maggie Mae is a respected leader known by insiders as the “mad scientist” of mortgage marketing. She began her career as a junior loan officer in 2008, during a time of changes and challenges. Despite joining the industry at the same time
CRMs with built-in compliance controls provide a happy medium to lenders stuck between a rock and a hard place.
SurefireCRM helps TexasLending.com build relationships with thousands of Lone Star Residents.
When mortgage rates fall, they’re bound to hit a floor. Explain to your contacts why mortgage rates aren’t zero, even if Fed rates are.
Content that lacks emotional connection is at risk of gathering dust. First impressions are formed in a matter of seconds, or sometimes in less than one second, according to researchers from Princeton University. In such a short time span, borrowers cannot meaningfully differentiate between your rate sheet and that of
ATLANTA, Ga., May 12, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Top of Mind Networks (Top of Mind), a leader in customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation software for the mortgage lending industry, was recognized with four platinum and four gold awards for outstanding corporate marketing in the 2020 Hermes Creative Awards.
Surefire's Client for Life workflow is a five-year, 'set it and forget it' workflow that now includes exclusive Power Calls and Power Messaging features.
ATLANTA, Ga., (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Top of Mind Networks (Top of Mind), a leader in customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation software for the mortgage lending industry, today announced the release of Power Messaging, a feature that enables SurefireCRM users to deliver high-touch text communication to consumers at scale.
ATLANTA, Ga., (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Top of Mind Networks (Top of Mind), a leader in customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation software for the mortgage lending industry, took home four platinum and four gold awards in the 2020 AVA Digital Awards competition.
AVENTURA, Fla., (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lenders One Cooperative, a national alliance of independent mortgage bankers, today kicks off its annual March Summit in Aventura, FL. The cooperative celebrates its continued growth and will feature keynotes from boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard and industry standout Barry Habib, member-only networking sessions and
ATLANTA, Ga., (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Top of Mind Networks (Top of Mind), a leader in customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation software for the mortgage lending industry, today released data revealing that loan officers (LOs) who utilize automated lead, prospect and nurture campaigns on average see double the number
Effective January 1, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) secures new rights for California consumers. If your organization does any meaningful business in California, you're probably on the hook regardless of where you're headquartered.
ATLANTA, Ga.(SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — CardTapp, your always-on digital assistant, today announced an integration with Surefire by Top of Mind Networks (Top of Mind), a leader in customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation software for the mortgage lending industry. The integration brings together Surefire’s new Power Calls capability with CardTapp’s
ATLANTA, Ga. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Top of Mind Networks, a leader in customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation software for the mortgage lending industry, today announced that its Surefire CRM is ready to help mortgage lenders meet their obligations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
ATLANTA— (BUSINESS WIRE)— Surefire by Top of Mind Networks, a leader in customer relationship management and market automation software for the mortgage lender and real estate industries, has once again been ranked as the number one most used customer relationship management (CRM) system for mortgage origination in STRATMOR Group’s Technology
ATLANTA— (BUSINESS WIRE)—Top of Mind Networks, a leader in customer relationship management and marketing automation software for the mortgage lender and real estate industries, is pleased to announce that it has integrated with BombBomb, a personalized video tool.
ATLANTA— (BUSINESS WIRE)—Top of Mind Networks, a leader in customer relationship management and market automation software for the mortgage lender and real estate industries, is pleased to announce the opening of its new office in Cleveland, Ohio. This new Technology Center represents the continued growth of Top of Mind Networks
ATLANTA— (BUSINESS WIRE)— Surefire by Top of Mind Networks, a leader in customer relationship management and market automation software for the mortgage lender and real estate industries, has been ranked the number one most used mortgage customer relationship management (CRM) system for mortgage origination in STRATMOR Group’s 2018 Technology Insight
ATLANTA— (BUSINESS WIRE)—Top of Mind Networks, a leader in customer relationship management and market automation software for the mortgage lender and real estate industries, announced the appointment of three new executives: Nicolas Alberga, Chief Financial Officer; Erik Enright, Chief Technology Officer; and Amy Leiter, Chief Success Officer.