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We don’t need to tell you that 2020 is presenting new challenges, but some of them can be opportunities. If you are lucky enough to have outdoor space consider making an outdoor room!
An outdoor room is a great way to enjoy the summer weather, get fresh air and Vitamin D from the sun (it helps strengthen the immune system 💪).
Creating an outdoor room you’ll want to consider what its primarily going to be used for: relaxing, dining or maybe working.
First, you’ll want to make sure it has a ceiling! Ok maybe not an actual ceiling if you have a tree for cover that’s great! If you’re super ambitious a pergola is awesome but you can always get an umbrella or a trellis and cover that.
Next you’ll want to get furniture! You can furnish similar to the indoors. If you’re going to be relaxing maybe low chairs and don’t forget side tables. If you want to be fashion-forward get throw pillows too 🙂 And of course make sure they are outdoor fabrics that are built to be weather resistant.
Also consider making a floor for your outdoor room – you can everything from an outdoor carpet to wood flooring to crushed shells under your dining area to adding some stepping stones!
Finally don’t forget the lights! You can hang some fun outdoor string lights that will make everyone jealous when you post pics of your new room 🙂

The housing marketing is showing signs of rebounding with pent-up demand from the lockdown and tight supplies.
Applications for new home loans reached an 11-1/2 year high last week! And there was a 14.4% increase in applications for new home construction in May.
Along with historically low interest rates we are seeing signs of the housing market helping to lead the economy back 📈

Happy Friday 🥳
Enjoy the weekend 😎
If you’re crazy like us and working maybe its a good time to try a free trial of our best in class digital platform
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We’ve got you covered! We offer branch listings with branch location urls, branding and staff listings!
Give us a call at 310-466-0246 for more info or a free trial!

Do you need to customize the list of documents needed for your borrowers secure uploads?
Don’t worry! We offer an easily customizable checklist ✔ (of course we have your standard purchase and refinance checklists prebuilt and ready to go from day one!).
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Want to brand your company’s apply link?
No problem we have branded secure apply links where you can use your company name in the URL!
Oh and your loan officers can get branded links too! 🙋‍♀️
How much extra? Same price 🙂

We recently rolled out a revamped start page for you borrowers to quickly and easily access your loan POS portal.
Each LO has their own start link option fully branded to them with photo and contact info. It looks so good you might think we are charging extra for it…. but we aren’t 🥳

In case you aren’t a Gen Zer or don’t associate with any, you might not know that half of the time Gen Z people are staring at the screen in their hand, the screen is showing the latest trend in Social – TikTok.
What is TikTok? its basically short videos usually with music.
The question for you is should I be marketing on TikTok?
Short answer: its probably not necessary (yet). However if you market to young people then you may want to consider it. As its a new platform it is also presents itself as an untapped market with potential. But if you aren’t looking to be a social star and have a mostly over 25 year old client base you can probably skip it.
But marketing on more traditional social channels, like FB, Instagram and LinkedIn are definitely something to consider. Please reach out to us if you’d like help starting a new campaign or taking your current one to the next level! 🚀

If you’re looking for something to do this weekend and not quite ready to hit the beach, why not upgrade (or create) your digital presence?
We have fully pre-built award wining sites, that are ready to go with all the content, click-funnels calculators, security, ADA compliance. Just upload your logo and photo (optional!) and you’re ready to go! Of course you can easily customize the content too – add your own images, youtubes, bios etc, but it won’t take long. So actually you can go to the beach too 😎
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Is your site ADA ready – we provide ADA ready sites out of the box. What is ADA compliance? Well its a lot of things – some of the more important aspects are contrast ratio – text and background colors can’t be too similar making it hard to read. If you want to nerd out 🤓you can read this article for more detail but don’t worry we’ve got you covered 👍
https://webaim.org/articles/contrast/