Social Media & Tech

to beat your competition

You ever think what it takes to beat your competition, it really may take more than you got.  I guess the real question is are you willing to do what you need to do to take the business.

Simply, doing something better is just not enough.  People will stick with the devil they know just so they don’t need to learn a new system or a new person.

So, stop and think, take some time over the next couple of weeks to decide what you need to do to be 3 to 10 times better than the next guy.
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Be that Guy

Be that guy or girl that everyone seeks out, and with the many tools that we have available it is easier than ever to do that.

Be the expert, the go to guy, build your brand that when people think Real Estate or Mortgage, MLM, construction or whatever you are into always be the one they think of first and second.

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Why the Yellow Pages are Yellow

They are yellow cause they are dying.

I love the calls that I still get every years from the couple different “yellow” page sales people in my area.  I tell them “no thank you, not interested” and they always seem to come back with some search engine attack that I already have them beat on.  Do the Yellow Pages still have a place a place in your home.  I doubt it, but if you have one comment below.

And, if you are using the Yellow Pages with out a blog that has at least some SEO, then you are dying too.

Twitter in Person, TweetUP, the Northwest Indiana Way

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

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 networking meeting such as a BNI or a Chamber event. I have noticed more over in those events that are open to those that open to more than one person in a profession. I tend to prefer those “open” networking groups as opposed to the closed of BNI. I like having a choice of who to use and I am so confident in my abilities that once you use me you will keep using me.

Well, I made a quick video to show you what I am talking about.

1 Up from Dave Woodson on Vimeo.

1 UP – Professionalism in Networking

Remember with Social Media and Web 2.0 you need to be social and you need to get out of the Bunker.

Dave Woodson
The Indiana FHA Expert

Hurry up and wait

I will admit that I am a chronic procrastinator, but I thrive under a deadline.  If I have weeks to do something.  I will wait to the last possible moment to get it done.  However, under a deadline.  I kill it.  I come in under most times or nail just as the clock strikes the deadline.

I am, also, a very impatient person.  I know exactly where I get that from, Mom and Dad.  I make the joke that my brother got the best of my parents and I got the worst.  What I hate with working with the public is that they are impatient and must have it now.  So, when I accommodate and hurry right over they are lounging back as if nothing is going on and nothing needs to be done.

This is the same guy who will call my office line at 930 in the evening.  I have learned to ignore my phone over the years and I can go to be not worrying about it.  Really, at 930 at night, there is not a lot that I can do about it anyway.  My wed guys are all doing something else, my underwriters are asleep and I know my processor will kill me if I call that late.

Learning to squelch the “hurry up and wait” monster is hard.  It is not an easy monster to defeat.  I battle it every day.  I learned to make a list, use my calender function on my blackberry and just have that “I don’t care” look on my face.  I know that last one really gets people, but it is fun to watch the look on their face when you roll up with a completed project done right and done way before time is up.

Making it all happen in the required time frame and then some

Dave Woodson

Action precedes Motivation

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 the same time.

Well, to be honest with you.  There are days that I do not want to get out of bed.  I am wiped out, tired, depressed and so on, but I have been trying to lose weight.  So, I will drag myself out of bed and get my daughter ready for school and then I hit the gym.  Wow, what a difference a couple of weeks make.  I have lost upwards to 14 pounds and kept them off.   I am no where near my goal weight, but I am inching my way there.  The tunnel rats in “The Great Escape”did not escape in one day.

At my absolute heaviest, I think I topped out @ 301 lbs.  I will dig up an old pic and post it on here before the day is over.  Today, I am @ 265 lbs and my goal is 225 lbs.   I am 5′11, I carry a pretty stocky frame and I think @ 225.  I will look pretty damn good.

Back to today,  tired, I want o nap.  I have worked out, I am dragging ass all day.  I got up, I worked on what, I cleaned the house.  I am now back here in the basement that is where is my home office is or as I call it the Mortgage Bunker.   banging out this blog while I wait for one of my clients to drop off a packet of information for me.

The lesson here is today.  Action, get up and start, the motivation will catch up to you.  If you don’t feel like working out go anyway and once you are there you will be glad you went.  Well, at least, when you are done you can sit in the hot tub or the steam room.

Burning the Boats,

Dave Woodson