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a la mode news & marketing tips — December 15, 2005

Meet the new XSites My Office area

When you logged into your XSite last week, you probably noticed a new look to your My Office area.  That's our gift to you for the holidays an entirely redesigned My Office admin area that will make running your business easier than ever.  All of the features you've been using are still there (along with a few new ones); we've simply moved a few of them around so all the tools and features you use the most on your XSite are in one central place.

The first thing you'll see when you log in is the new "Notifications" section, which keeps you informed of anything happening with your XSite.  Here, you can check your task reminders; daily, weekly or monthly schedule; view and send e-mail, and access your XSite's user management, vendor list and intranet.  Plus, you'll get daily marketing tips to help you reach more prospects and turn them into clients.

Need a contact's address? Need to know if you're free next Friday?  The "Search My Office" feature allows quick access to your contacts and calendar.  And the "Mortgage Community" section is where you'll go to access the XSites Network to find a real estate professional in your area.  You can also check out the current marketing tips newsletter and read the latest real estate news from the Inman news feed.

Anything you want to add, change or fix on your XSite can now be done by clicking on the "XSite" icon in the My Office area. This is where we've housed your XSite's Wizard, lead capture and search engine tools and XSite user statistics.  In your XSite's stats area, you can see exactly which pages are getting the most traffic, how visitors are finding your site, which pages they land on first and the search phrases that people type into search engines that bring them to your site.

"In addition to improving workflow, we redesigned the My Office area so you can better see how your XSite is working for you every day," says Brad Eaton, our VP of Mortgage Products.

We hope you enjoy using your XSite's My Office area. If you have any questions, feel free to call us on the tech lines at
1-800-211-4514, any time, day or night.

XSellerate 2.0 makes marketing to past clients as easy as 1,2,3

If you're like most mortgage brokers, much of your marketing time and money is spent on generating new prospects and, save the occasional holiday card or e-mail, little effort is spent on past clients even though they're the best source of repeat and referral business.  We recently re-engineered XSellerate to make it easy for you to keep up your relationships with those precious past clients in three easy steps, allowing you to maintain a healthy flow of business in the New Year!

The new XSellerate 2.0 greets you with a newly designed interface that's much more intuitive and easier to use.  All of your current and future scheduled campaign information is displayed prominently, so you always know the status of all of your marketing efforts. 

With XSellerate 2.0, you can now build an entire campaign in three steps.  Simply select your recipients, select an ad from the library of pre-built, professionally written marketing ads, and send!  The beefed up ad library also includes ready-made core relationship campaigns designed to keep you in front of past clients for weeks, months, even years with minimal effort on your part.

XSellerate 2.0 integrates with your XSite to allow you to better market to prospects as well.  XSellerate collects data from lead capture forms and automatically schedules targeted marketing campaigns based on the visitor's information.  That is, pre-loan applicants get pre-app campaigns, home owners get owner campaigns, etc.

If you're a current XSellerate owner, you get XSellerate 2.0 as a free upgrade. Need to buy it? Click here to buy XSellerate 2.0 today!

Briefly Speaking


XSites' new CBC credit integration
Need to know if that next deal has legs? Our new CBC Credit Integration makes it  easy for your to order a credit report before you export the application to your LOS.

To order a credit report from your XSite, simply go to the "Vendors" tab for a selected loan and click "New Order CBC Companies."

Five unique gift ideas
Trying to think of something unique to give your office staff, colleagues even your family? Here are five gift ideas you may not have thought of yet:

●  Make a donation to your favorite charity in their name.

  Give them a share of stock. At OneShare.com you can give one share of stock in a number of American companies.

●  Give them a gourmet meal. Websites like OmahaSteaks.com or ImpromptuGourmet.com will deliver fresh meals or meats right to their door.

●  Free movies delivered to their home. NetFlix DVD rental service offers gift subscriptions from one month to a year.

●  Give them a clean house with a gift certificate for cleaning service such as Merry Maids.

Newsletter Archives


December 1, 2005
Season's Greetings: Getting prospects to read your e-mails. Plus: Holiday guerrilla marketing tactics

November 21, 2005
Avoid common marketing mistakes. Plus: How to write effective web content

Full archives

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