Mortgage brokers and loan officers · Financial services
Stop living on two agents, and be ready the week rates drop.
Most loan officers live off two or three agents. That works beautifully until one retires, one changes brokerages, and the third starts sending deals to a relative. Volume halves inside a quarter and nobody saw it coming.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
In one paragraph
Marketing for a mortgage broker is mostly relationship work. It covers the agents, builders and past clients who send loans, and the database that says who is in the money the week rates move. Sales is what happens between a pre-approval and a signed contract. GullySales runs both inside your CRM and your compliance rules.
The other asset is the database nobody works. Thousands of past borrowers sit in the CRM, each with a rate and a balance you already know. When rates drop for eleven days, the brokers who called that list in the same week wrote the loans, and everyone else read about it afterwards.
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How buyers decide
How mortgage brokers and loan officers are chosen.
A borrower picks a person, not a company. They ask their agent who to call, and most take that name without looking for a second. If they do look, they search the loan officer's own name and read the Google and Zillow reviews attached to that individual. They also notice how long ago the last one was left. The brokerage website barely registers.
The agent is the real customer, and agents choose out of fear. They want to know you will answer at seven on a Sunday and that the pre-approval will hold when underwriting reads it. Above all they want a call the hour a problem appears. A referral is an agent putting their own commission in your hands. Co-marketing helps, but only where it is priced and documented properly, because RESPA turns a free flyer into an expensive mistake.
Builders and financial advisers decide on something else again. A builder's sales office wants a lender who understands construction draws and will not blow a closing date on a spec home. Rates set the timing for all of it. A refinance market appears for a few weeks at a stretch, and the brokers who win it had the list segmented and the letter approved before the news broke.
The problem
What usually goes wrong for mortgage brokers and loan officers.
What owners tell us on the first call, in their words.
“Two agents send us everything and one just retired”
Half the pipeline came out of one relationship, and there was never a second tier of agents standing behind it.
“Four thousand past clients and nobody has called them”
The CRM holds every borrower we ever closed, with their rate and their balance, and none of them have heard from us since the closing gift.
“Rates dropped for a week and we were not ready”
By the time the list was pulled and the letter approved, the window had shut and our borrowers had been called by someone else.
“Pre-approvals go out and we never hear back”
A borrower gets their letter, house hunts for five months, and closes with whoever their winning agent recommended.
“Compliance kills every marketing idea we have”
Somebody says RESPA, or points at an advertised rate, and the idea dies. So we post nothing and hope the agents keep calling.
“Every loan officer here markets themselves differently”
One is on TikTok, one prints flyers, one does nothing at all, and the company name means nothing to an agent outside their own circle.
What we do
What we do for mortgage brokers and loan officers.
Everything included for mortgage brokers and loan officers, and the result each part is there to produce.
An agent bench, ranked and actually worked
A list of the agents writing volume in your area, ordered by recent transactions, with an outreach routine and a record of who has sent what.
Result: A retirement or a brokerage move stops being a revenue event.
Co-marketing that survives an audit
Shared material with the cost split priced at fair market value and written down, put in front of your compliance officer or attorney before anything is printed.
Result: Your agents get useful material and nobody is holding a Section 8 problem.
Database monitoring for rate and equity triggers
Your past borrowers segmented by rate, balance and closing date, so the list of who is in the money exists before the market moves rather than after.
Result: The letter goes out on day one of the window, not day nine.
A pre-approval follow-up sequence
A scheduled set of calls and messages to every borrower holding a letter, aimed at the five silent months while they are house hunting.
Result: Borrowers who were pre-approved by you close with you.
The loan officer's own profile and reviews
Each originator's Google, Zillow and LinkedIn presence built out, with a review ask timed to the closing table while the relief is fresh.
Result: A borrower who searches the name finds a person with recent proof.
Advertising templates your compliance team already approved
Layouts carrying the NMLS ID, and a rule that any quoted rate brings its APR and terms with it, written to your compliance officer's wording.
Result: Marketing stops dying in review and starts going out.
A first-time buyer page and seminar kit
A plain explanation of down payment help, credit and closing costs, plus the slides and follow-up for an evening session run with an agent.
Result: You and the agent split the cost of reaching buyers neither of you knew.
Report against the baseline
Applications by source and agent, pre-approvals against contracts, and cost per funded loan, reported against the baseline recorded before work began.
Result: You can see which relationships are actually producing loans.
How the result is measured
- Applications by source, agent and builder
- Pre-approvals issued against contracts written
- Agents sending at least one loan per quarter
- Past clients contacted each month
- Time from a new lead to the first call
- Cost per funded loan by channel
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
Every service, written for mortgage brokers and loan officers
Each has its own page: what it involves for mortgage brokers and loan officers, what you get, and what it is measured on.
- SEOYour own name is the search that decides it, not mortgage broker.
- PPC adsDefend your own name before bidding against the lead sellers.
- Lead generationThe next loan arrives through an agent, not through a form.
- Digital marketingMake the database, the reviews and the agents into one programme.
- Reputation managementThe reviews sit on a person's name, and the last one is old.
- Local SEOAppear on the map in the towns your agents are listing houses.
- BrandingOne brokerage, six originators, six different looking lenders.
- Social media marketingPost for the agents, because the borrowers are not watching.
- Content marketingWrite the page a self-employed borrower has been hunting for.
- Email marketingThousands of past borrowers, and none of them hear from you.
- Buyer personasWrite down who sends you loans before you write another message.
- CRMYour database should know who is in the money before the market moves.
- Follow-up systemsLoans are lost in the silence after the pre-approval letter.
- WebsiteBuild a site that tells an agent you will answer, and a borrower where to begin.
Worth a page and a campaign of their own
Purchase pre-approvals · First-time buyer programmes · Refinance windows when rates move · Cash-out refinance and home equity lines · DSCR and investor property loans · Construction to permanent loans · VA and FHA loans · Jumbo and self-employed borrowers · Renovation loans · Reverse mortgages
Priority campaigns
Campaigns for what mortgage brokers and loan officers most want to sell.
Each one planned around when your buyers decide, and measured against the baseline.
Agent recruitment campaign
A programme for meeting the agents who write volume but have never met you, built around office meetings, a useful piece of material and a follow-up rhythm.
Result: The referral base widens before the current one thins.
Rate-drop readiness campaign
The segmented list, the approved message and the call plan all prepared in advance, waiting for the week the market gives you a window.
Result: You are calling borrowers on day one instead of building a list.
Anniversary and equity check campaign
A yearly contact with every past borrower covering what their home is likely worth now and what their balance has done, with no product pitch attached.
Result: Past clients hear from you before a competitor mails them.
First-time buyer seminar with an agent
An evening session at a local venue or online, run jointly with a partner agent, with the costs split properly and the follow-up sequence written in advance.
Result: Buyers who were not ready yet come back to you when they are.
Builder preferred lender campaign
Outreach to builders and their on-site sales offices about draw schedules, appraisal timing and holding a closing date, which is what they actually worry about.
Result: A builder's sales office starts putting your name in front of every buyer.
Pre-approval revival campaign
A campaign to everyone issued a letter in the last year who never closed, checking whether they bought, gave up, or are still looking.
Result: Borrowers you already qualified come back into the pipeline.
Beyond search
Where we reach buyers of mortgage brokers and loan officers, beyond Google.
Search matters, but it is rarely the only way this industry's buyers find a supplier.
Real estate agents and office meetings
The weekly sales meeting is still where agents decide who to trust, and we prepare something worth ten minutes of it.
Builders and their on-site sales offices
Builder relationships live with the sales agent in the trailer, and they need a lender contact who answers before the buyer cools off.
Financial planners, CPAs and divorce attorneys
These advisers see a client's need for a loan long before an agent does, and almost nobody in your market has asked them for the introduction.
Title and escrow officers
They watch every deal in town and know which lenders close cleanly, which makes their recommendation worth more than an advertisement.
Employers and relocation coordinators
A company moving staff into your area needs a lender who will handle unfamiliar buyers, and HR is rarely approached about it.
Down payment assistance and credit counselling programmes
Buyers working through these programmes are future borrowers, and the counsellors want a lender who will take the call early.
Who it is for
This is written for these mortgage brokers and loan officers.
- Independent mortgage brokers
- Loan officers inside a bank or independent mortgage bank
- Branch managers building a team of originators
- Purchase-focused originators working with agents
- Refinance-heavy shops
- Non-QM, bank statement and self-employed borrower specialists
- DSCR and investor property lenders
- Construction to permanent lenders working with builders
- Reverse mortgage specialists
- New originators building a first referral base
Not for
It is not the right fit if.
- You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
- You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
- You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.
How it works
From your first message to the first report.
No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.
First
Your brief
You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.
After the brief
A conversation and a written scope
We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.
Before work starts
Baseline recorded
The numbers this work is meant to move, such as enquiries, quotations, orders, visits or renewals, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.
After the baseline
The first fix goes live
The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is a reply, a follow-up, a page, a listing or the handover between marketing and sales.
As agreed
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.
At renewal
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.
How the work runs for mortgage brokers and loan officers
- 1
Assess
Once we have read your brief and spoken to you, we trace last year's funded loans back to the agent, builder or campaign that produced them, and look at how many pre-approvals never became contracts.
- 2
Fix the follow-up
A sequence for every issued pre-approval, a rule for how a new lead is called, and a record of each touch in your CRM rather than in somebody's head.
- 3
Build the agent bench
The ranked list, the outreach routine, and co-marketing priced and documented so it can be shown to anyone who asks.
- 4
Turn the database into a channel
Past borrowers segmented by rate, balance and closing date, scrubbed for consent and do-not-call, then contacted on a schedule.
- 5
Be ready for the window
The refinance message and the call plan approved in advance, so a short rate move is worked from day one instead of prepared for.
Why us
Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.
Marketing and sales, as one job
Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.
The person on the first call does the work
No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.
A baseline before anything starts
Your numbers are written down on day one, so every later report compares against something honest.
The fee in writing, split three ways
Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.
No guarantees we cannot keep
The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.
Hours that fit your day, agreed up front
Which hours we overlap with yours is settled before any work starts, so you know when a reply is coming and when it is not.
#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.
Engagement options
Ways to work with us.
Pick the size of commitment that fits. Every option starts with your brief and a conversation.
Option 1
The conversation on its own
A call after you send your brief. It says honestly whether you need outside help, and many fixes are ones your own team can make.
Option 2
One fix, scoped
Start with the fix that matters most, such as reply time or follow-up. The fee is in writing before anything starts.
Option 3
An ongoing programme
We run the work, report against the baseline, and you renew on the numbers. The term and the reporting are agreed in writing first.
Option 4
Guidance for your own team or agency
We plan, brief and check the work of your in-house team or current agency, instead of replacing them.
Your brief
Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.
Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.
FAQ
Questions mortgage brokers and loan officers ask before they call.
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Can you co-market with our agents without breaking RESPA?
Can we advertise a rate?
Can you call our past client list?
Do you talk to our borrowers about loans?
What about trigger leads calling our borrower after the credit pull?
Our agents will realise this is not our own staff.
What does this cost?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
Notes for owners
Read more about mortgage brokers and loan officers.
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Your next practical step
Tell us what you are trying to grow, and we will read it before we call.
Eight short steps, mostly taps. Skip anything you would rather answer on the call.