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I fear you underestimate my geekiness sir.

I had a great phone conversation with Teresa Boardman last week. She wanted to know if I was going to Inman Bloggers Connect this January. My answer was no. As a mortgage guy, the entirety of the Connect conference really doesn’t suite me. This summer, I went to just the bloggers pre-conference, and it was [...]

I hate commercials. I love commercials.

A great quote from Ardell DellaLoggia…
“Blogging is the show. Not the commercial. If you make it into a commercial, then your readers will go get a sandwich, like they do when a commercial comes on TV”
I love the premise. People visit blogs for information, not a sales pitch. I totally agree. But at some point, [...]

I don’t want to be a zombie so stop throwing sheep at me

In one of Facebook’s endlessly useless widgets, Jonathan Washburn said I have a better sense of humor than one of his other “friends” (sorry, I don’t remember which one). I’ll take it as a compliment. I’d like to think I’m among the more light hearted among us. Who else would establish a mortgage industry blog [...]

Key word SEO is at best, a hedged bet.

“It’s all about the meta tags”. That was a favorite saying of one of the salesmen I sat next to, selling websites for Myers Internet. Keep in mind that this was eight years ago. Yahoo was the king search engine, and only nerds like me used Google. This catch phrase was part of his sales [...]

My blogging seminar audio on Brainious

I’ve been making slow but steady progress at getting Brainious up and running. I just posted the audio from a blogging seminar I did for the Colorado Association of Mortgage Brokers. More to come.

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