I was commissioned to make timandjulieharris.com look like tendayteam.com.

So far, so good.

Tim and Julie Harris are friggin cool people.

First the X broker has a post about how to run a mortgage company, then I see a Blown Mortgage post about how mortgage shoppers lie.

I’ll say this: those people that say ethics and integrity don’t enhance your business are wrong.

Those people that say they are at a competitive disadvantage when facing down [...]

We have another telemarketing victim!

Here’s today’s appropriate response to our autodialer (it rolls to voice mail when all lines are full).

Here’s the original:

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Our company’s marketing campaign isn’t mine–you just get the benefits.

Regularly now, Realtors are discounting all of the accurate (and bad) news about the market. Regularly now, good agents are treating the national news with contempt, and pointing to areas like Salt Lake City, and Portland as areas to buy.

I can’t think of anything more unethical. Realtors that I know have generally had [...]

Working on doing my morning pages has revealed something to me.  I don’t have to be a mortgage guy–or a real estate guy–to be perfectly happy with my life.  I love some aspects of the job, and I’m going to continue to develop my idea as far as it will go.  But I want something [...]

Our Company had a telemarketing campaign. A lot of people with resetting ARMs were called to tout the new FHA rates (New Rates = 6.0% on a 30 year fixed and below). This was reaching out to rural areas. The calls were set up by some 3rd party service, and [...]

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There are many arguments about what the “best ever” website is. I wanted to render a service to the internet and settle all debate, once and for all. These are the highest and best ever rock songs, and you can let me think, so you don’t have to.

10.) U2: Desire: The most [...]

This Week’s Great Lessons

Each week on GenuineChris.Com I will put down some of the lessons that I’ve learned; these are things I’m leaning towards thinking.

You can improve skills more rapidly than you think if you’re willing to overcome a steep learning curve.  This probably applies to more than you think.  I’m not a PHP coder–but [...]

Multi-tasking is dead. It never worked and it never will. Intelligent people love to sing its praises because it gives them permission to avoid the much more challenging alternative: focusing on one thing. -Tim Ferris

This week was big for me. A major blog– blownmortgage.com, an Inman news top 25 most influential Eeal Estate [...]

Since last week, I’ve accepted a lot of relatively challenging demands on my time.    I’ve joined toastmasters.org   I’ve been invited to become a regular contributor to Blown Mortgage.  I’ve committed to a posting schedule here that is gonna be challenging, and I’m committed to getting really serious about tracking my performance next week (weight, money, [...]