Young & Green or Smart & Daring?

Here are some cartoons that I chose for a postcard series I designed some months back. These ones were for our presentation services- sent to professional referral sources. I ran them past a second opinion and was strongly urged to change the cartoon.
So heres the debate: Is it the young and very green 22-yr-old that likes the [...]

Nostalgia

I remember when I first learned about the note industry. I learned (what I thought) enough information to start a business and headed out- sort of like Elmer Fudd looking for Bugs or Daffy and mistakenly walking right off a cliff.
Nope. My first note business venture did not work out. Not that it couldn’t, but [...]

The truth about note brokering

A recent recommendation to Cascade Funding’s broker page might have some of you scared. Cascade Funding spells out plainly that they do not work with brokers who are graduates of seminars. They have a long list of reasons why that comes out to about 12 pages if you were to print it.
Its a reality check [...]

How to be a better note broker

What’s the advantage small business has over their larger counterparts? Better service. I’m sure there is a little out-of-the-way store you frequent because the person behind the counter is friendlier or the food tastes better- why wouldn’t this apply to a note business?
The answer is it does. So much so that people have written articles [...]

Surprise, Surprise.

Although this article in Forbes magazine is placing their case for seller financing in a second-lien position (not favorable amongst investors and brokers alike) they do provide some useful information about taking necessary precaution in creating a note.
Amongst their tips: verify income, ask for personal financial information, credit check, verify taxes and insurance on property.
Not [...]

How to write a marketing plan for a note business

The following plan is consolidated steps from ehow.com to fit a note business. Please reference the original steps if you need further information.
Step 1: Marketable product, Unique, Fill a need?
Note brokering is an extremely marketable product for consumers who know of no other alternative for solving their seller-finance needs. The customers are the note holders themselves, [...]

Love=Strategy

The Lord, milk, and Oreo are the only things keeping me awake these past few days. That and anything caffeinated. Why am I so tired? Well besides babysitting my 1 mo. old niece M-F, I have been burning the midnight oil incorporating new plans and strategies.
I love my business. Anyone who doesn’t probably should rethink [...]

Seth Godin and the Note Industry

For those of you who don’t yet know, Seth Godin is one of my favorite marketers. Period. He probably has no clue what a note is nor that this industry even exists, but I find his advice all the more relevant.
In a nutshell, Seth advises companies to be remarkable; meaning worth talking about. That is [...]