Mad Mortgage Machine - Dave Woodson

Give em something…

Written by dave on February 21, 2010 · 1 Comment

to Talk about…

to Learn…

to Think about…

to Want more…

to Want to use you…

Your blog in this day, where everyone is online, is an extension of you. It is your personal brand, whether it be Dave Woodson, Social Media Consultant or Dave Woodson, The Mad Mortgage Machine. It can be a blog about Diabetes, or a Pro-biotic, or even an affiliate site about Data Encryption. The information that you give reflects back on you. So, if you presenting yourself as the local expert, you darn well better know the area that you are talking about.

So, often I read blogs from around the country looking for a good idea, to learn more about real estate or mortgages, and I see how many are doing it wrong. You do little to make yourself the expert, or even less to drive traffic to your site or sites. I can only imagine that the old adage applies, “even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while”.

So, my challenge to you for the rest of 2010 and beyond in your career. Is when you write a blog or when you express yourself on any Socail Media platform…

Give them something to talk about…

Dave Woodson, Social Media Marketing Consultant

The Indiana FHA Expert

Twitter in Person, TweetUP, the Northwest Indiana Way

Written by Dave on July 27, 2009 · 6 Comments

TweetUp! The NWI TweetUp

As Social Media grows it also grows around Northwest Indiana and the the need to be…Well, social grows as well!

It is not merely enough to just sit in your office, your home or the bunker and expect business and new friends to just roll in. There are so many opportunities out there for networking with local chambers, BNI, other lead groups across Northwest Indiana, but the one that I am really enjoying that meets on a monthly basis is the local TweetUp. You can do a search for it #nwitweetup on Twitter. We meet the 4th Thursday of every month. And, they are popping up around the world with ones being held in Chicago, LA and even just 20 minutes down the road.

This month however, I decided to bring my camera and let everyone that wanted and make the ones that did not want to introduce themselves. I think next month, I will narrow it down and try another angle. Here are some of Northwest Indiana’s local Tweets.

#nwitweetup from Dave Woodson on Vimeo.

NWITweetup – Where the social part is for the Social Web

For more information on our local TweetUp just follow me on Twitter and I will make sure you that you all the information that you need. If you are a local business that would like to host a NWITweetUp, just let me know and we can help you set it up.

Dave Woodson

1 Up

Written by Dave on July 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

1 Up If you are sitting in a bar with a couple of buddies telling old college or “war” stories and each one keeps getting wilder and harrier than the next one then you are “1 upping” each other. Perhaps, that is the one place that is allowed and even forgivable. Not sitting in a [...] Read more »

A book by its cover

Written by Dave on June 12, 2009 · 1 Comment

I know we all have done it. I have done and the times that I have not done it have worked out great for me. When I first got out of collge (go boilers). I went to work for a 55 and over retirement community in Grayslake, IL. called Saddlebrook Farms. I loved it there [...] Read more »

Action precedes Motivation

Written by Dave on December 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I think I have let it be clear that I am Mortgage Broker in NW Indiana and a pretty damn good one at that. I specialize in Indiana FHA I am sure you all can read the news that being one is not all that easy today. Well, they are right and so wrong at [...] Read more »