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Michael Miget
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Now at ne w I , $1.5 mil 2007 it a $1.5 represents almost ich wh g . makin year. in revenue per year a t s in ju The Phenomenon Interview An In-Depth Interview with Michael Miget About Your Opportunities In The Mortgage Industry We interviewed Michel Miget, the man who has led thousands in the mortgage industry to achieve amazing marketing results with his done-for-you marketing systems and coaching programs. Michael first experienced The Phenomenon in a record breaking 8 months and continues to recreate Phenomenon type achievements in his businesses time after time, but this was not by accident. Let’s see just how he did it and what mortgage professionals can learn from him and his amazing story… Q1: Let’s start with a brief description of the opportunities you introduce people to and the education and support you provide.... Miget: I have a marketing system that I license, area by area, to mortgage brokers. Wrapped into this is on-going support/coaching and a mastermind component where members get my help and the help and support of other members in the program. They get weekly faxes, monthly group mastermind calls and 3 mastermind meetings per year. Basically, I teach mortgage brokers how to use “debt-elimination” to market for mortgages. They get my knowledge of “who” and “how” to target the right prospects, which list to use, what types of marketing to use (such as direct mail, display advertising, etc.), what to present, how to present AND ultimately, I provide mortgage brokers with an opportunity to have an additional stream of revenue, separate from the mortgages they are doing, for their business. Often, this additional revenue will offset their marketing costs, making their “cost of acquisition” for the mortgages they are doing, virtually free. Q2: What is it like for a person getting started in the mortgage industry? How difficult? How costly? And, in the spirit of The Phenomenon, how quickly can they experience success? What can happen in just 12 months? “…you still have to create a memorable dining experience with your restaurant and your food, but in the end, it’s the best marketer who wins.” Miget: It is relatively easy to get started in the mortgage field, but difficult to be successful, especially on their own. It is also relatively inexpensive to get started. Because of this, and how lucrative this field has been in the past, it is cluttered with lots and lots of loan officers and mortgage brokers. This is part of what makes it difficult to be successful. The other reason it is difficult, is the market is unfavorable right now in my field. Companies are going out of business left and right, because they don’t know how to market, get leads and close loans. The truth is there are lots of good loan officers out there, but almost none who know how to properly market themselves. And, this marketing thing is more complicated than having a magic website, a magic mail piece, a magic loan program, a secret phone script, etc. It’s a combination of these things and then some. Once these things are corrected for the loan officer, they can achieve success very quickly. See, usually it’s just lead flow holding them back. I can get this corrected quickly for them, and create the lead flow they need to be successful. Two of my oldest members (meaning length of time in the program, 1 yr), one is 2x’ing his already significant bottom line profits and another is 3x’ing his already significant bottom line. Both are near 7-figure net incomes per year. And, this is just in the first 12 months. Q3: Let’s go back to how you got started..... Miget: We’d have to go all the way back to 1992. This is when I graduated from college and got my first “real” job. I have my degree from the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri—St. Louis, in accounting. So, I’m an accountant by degree. Graduated at the top of my class (I was also my high school’s valedictorian). I got my first job at one of the “big 6” accounting firms (back when there were 6) in St. Louis and worked in the personal financial services division, basically doing the personal tax returns for the richest/wealthiest executives in St. Louis. As much as I liked accounting, though, I just didn’t “fit in” with the environment there. I have an entrepreneurial drive in me and I just couldn’t be happy in the little box they had me in. So, I resigned. I had no job and no job prospects. I had just spent the last 4 years of my life (which is a lot of time at age 21) preparing for what I thought was going to be my career, and poof, gone 5 months later. I ended up in the mortgage business of all places. It was a complete accident. A friend of mine had a mortgage company where I would hang out from time to time. As I learned more about the industry I really started to take to it. I started with what everyone else did at that time—refinances. It was the middle of 1992 and a refi boom was just starting. Plenty of high rate mortgages to refinance. I followed the crowd and by the middle of 1993, I had changed companies, working for a larger, more established company— remember, that is what you are supposed to do, right? Out of 40 loan officers at this company, I was the number 2 guy. Not bad for someone in the business a couple years. I was making more money than I had ever imagined I would, and sometimes, probably more than I should have been making. It seemed too easy. And that’s when it all hit. February 1994, my first crash. Rates shot up seemingly over night. Left the office on a Friday, came back on Monday. Refi boom over. Officially declared on the front page of the USA Today. Once the media declares it over, in the minds of the public, it’s over! Well, I really didn’t know what I was going to do. But I knew it wasn’t going to be just refinancing 10% mortgages down to 7% anymore. There had to be a better way. A couple years passed, I became “fed up” with this company so I cooked up this crazy idea that I was going to quit my cush, high paying job to open my own company and do things “the right way”. So, I walked into my boss’s office, closed the door, told him I was quitting, and I wanted him to quit too and come with me and open a new company. He agreed! Good lesson for you here…think about the mindset and positioning …takes balls, big ones to do something like that. So, we opened our own company, and still never really questioned the way the business was done. See, all I knew about lead generation was outbound telemarketing. Truth be told, at that time, that was all you really needed. It was the cheapest, easiest, and quickest way to generate good leads and get loans closed fast. And that’s what we did and grew like gang busters. At one time, we had as many as 50 employees in less than 2 years. We had a bunch of loan officers, a big telemarketing room, and no real control over any of it. The inmates were running the asylum. In spite of all this, we were successful. So successful, in fact, that the inmates decided to “steal” the company. The top producers all got together, decide they are doing all the work, decide they should steal all the leads and the lead generators (aka telemarketers) and go be successful on their own. This has happened to me 3 times! Ok, so I’m a slow learner! See, you have to do more than just provide a broker license, office space, phones, lender relationships, and some leads. What I learned was that in order to have security and staying power in this business, you had to control something. There had to be a compelling reason for someone to want to stick with you. You have to bring something to the table that they can’t easily get anywhere else. I decided that was marketing. I had to control and “own” the lead. I had to “create it myself” so it was mine. The telemarketing room didn’t accomplish that. See, when they created a lead, they believed it was theirs. It was their effort that did it. So, really, I didn’t own it or control it, they did. Also, it’s easy to hire telemarketers, go buy a list, tell them to read a script into the phone and when someone doesn’t hang up on you, ask them these questions, etc. Doesn’t take a brain trust to figure that out. These realizations came a little too late. After the third mass exodus, my partner had about had it. To make matters worse, this was the beginning of 2000, and we were coming into the next refi boom crash (since 1994). Rates shot up and the business dried up. So, I bought out my partner so he could leave, and now I had the company—bleeding at the rate of $30,000 loss per month (at that time). At that rate, I only had a few months before I ran out of money and would be bankrupt. Times like this call for massive action. I went on a quest to find anything and everything I could that would move me closer to my goal. Up to this point, I had been the behind the scenes guy, mostly working in the administrative and financial end of the business. I had to learn real sales and marketing, and I had to learn it quick. That’s when I found Dan Kennedy. I was introduced to him through a seminar. He talked about things like marketing incest, the Nightingale principle, and the idea of going outside the box to get new strategies. So I took massive action, and learned everything I could about marketing, especially direct response marketing. It’s the only kind of marketing that made any sense to me. I used to think that marketing was voodoo, luck if you will. I prefer things that are predictable and consistent and marketing just wasn’t that for me. Until emotional direct response marketing, that is. All of this is a direct result of marketing and the things I learned when I took massive action. Since 2000, I’ve used it to generate over $10,000,000.00 in revenues. And I’ve done it my way: 1. No purchase money loans, no realtors. 2. No referrals from realtors, CPA’s, attorneys, financial planners, etc. 3. No rate/term refinances, no rate or market driven deals. No “no fee/low fee” type of deals. 4. No competition of other mortgage companies because no one else does what I do, the way I do it. 5. No cold calling, no bought leads, no internet leads, no rate auctions (like Lending Tree), no “what’s your rate/what’s your points” type of questions. We pretty much make the maximum we can on every deal. Why would you do any less. You’d just be cheating yourself. And if you aren’t doing for your clients what I do for mine, then you are cheating your clients too. Can you say this about your business? In 2006, I started another business to leverage what I had learned and developed for my mortgage business. I had no desire to return to the large company I had once before. So instead, I decided to license my system to other mortgage brokers in places where I had no desire to use it. This has enabled me to add another $1.5M a year to my income. Q4: Fast forward and describe your business and your life as it is today... Miget: I have 2 businesses, a residential mortgage brokerage and a coaching/consulting business catering to mortgage brokers. These businesses are run “side-byside” as separate entities. I develop marketing strategies, marketing campaigns, and marketing pieces for my mortgage brokerage—test and implement them there—then, roll them out to my client members in the coaching/consulting business. Both companies are systematized. These systems are designed to leverage myself and the other resources in both businesses. So, for example, in the mortgage brokerage, most of what I do is the marketing. This is systematized so the ads are placed, direct mail sent out, responses come in, followup marketing materials sent out and clients developed without me having to touch anything. There are systems for all these things to happen without me having to be directly involved. The same is true of the coaching/ consulting business. I still work full-time, but running 2 companies, so each company is essentially part-time. This isn’t possible without leverage. Also, I don’t do anything I don’t want to do or arguably shouldn’t be doing. I hire consultants and others to work with me on stuff I hate or stuff I’m not good at. Q5: What are the five or six most significant turning points, discoveries or breakthroughs that occurred for you along the way? Miget: 1. Your business can be whatever you want it to be. This is one of the most profound ideas I’ve come across yet. I first heard this from Dan Kennedy. You can engineer your business to suit you instead of the other way around. You just have to decide what you want it to be, and then set things up to produce that result. Closely related to this idea is another idea that what happens by accident can be made to happen on purpose. I first heard this from Dan Kennedy as well. When you are searching for what you want your business to be, there are probably parts of it right now that suit you. For example, when I was doing this with my own company, I decided that I only wanted to do debt consolidation loans. That was the part of the business that I liked and made the most sense to me, from an overall business perspective. I was doing those types of loans in my business at the time, but I was also doing other types of loans that were less predictable, profitable and enjoyable to me. Most mortgage brokerages believe that “this is just the way it is in their business” and you have to take the good with the bad. But, the good news is, it doesn’t have to be that way. You just have to look at what’s producing the desirable things in your business and do more of that, and identify what’s producing the undesirable parts and do less of that. 2. Take what you “do” and find the real business hidden inside of it. Most people want to think of what they do by the product they sell. This is rarely the right way to go about it. You’ve got to figure out what it really is that you are selling, what the real business is. You redefine what you do, in terms of that business. Also, by doing this, it makes your business unique, since no one does this. You redefine so you are #1, the only one. So, for example, in my mortgage brokerage business, the business really isn’t a mortgage business. The business isn’t mortgages, it’s something else. Now, if you go survey 100 mortgage brokers and ask them what business they are in or what they do for a living, 99 of them will somehow describe it in terms of a mortgage. But when they do this, they’re lumping themselves along with the other hundreds of thousands of people who are mortgage brokers. It’s a commodity business. In order to be wildly successful AND do it on my own terms, I HAD to find a way to re-define the business. Most of the revenue still comes from brokering loans, so it’s not necessarily a core business process re-engineering, but everything wrapped around that inner core must change. for free. People are so ingrained with “work for money” and “hard work for hard earned money”. So, they’ll see the labor involved with completing the tax return, but it’s hard to see, thus value, the knowledge component and what that’s really worth. 3. Use of consultants to do what you can’t or should be doing. I learned this early on at the accounting firm, since this is essentially what I was to the clients I worked on. For some reason, many people are averse to paying for knowledge and information that they don’t have. To me, this doesn’t make sense. They seem to be okay with paying for services or having a job performed for them, but put less value on information. For example, people will pay to have their tax return done for them, and value this service, but when it comes to tax advice, they think that ought to be included Now, back to consultants. If you can’t figure all this out for your business on your own, hire someone to figure it out for you. The true cost is NOT the fee the consultant charges, it’s the money you lose because you weren’t doing things right. It’s like a “hidden cost” inside the business, and it exists in all business, to some extent. Your goal is to minimize it and you do it with help. The good news is, that this turns out to be a good thing. Since people don’t intuitively tune into that, it gives us marketers (and “business engineers”) something to talk about. Take the tax example and extend it to mortgages. People view mortgages as a commodity. They think they know what a mortgage should cost, which is very little (if not free) essentially only willing to pay for the service. So while other brokers are slashing prices and engaging in price wars (and spending marketing dollars to talk about it), I can take another approach and talk about the “value” of what I’m doing for a client. It’s the “results” that count, not the product. So, that’s what you really end up selling. 4. Systems. I’m a big fan of systems. This is really a 2-pronged subject. The first aspect is the planning aspect. It’s extremely valuable to have a “game plan” that’s proven, so in any given situation, you know how to handle it. And, if you already know what you are going to do in a situation, it helps keep activity going, since there is no down-time in deciding what to do. Money isn’t made when you’re idle. Money favors activity. The next aspect is multiplying yourself. When you are able to multiply yourself (leverage), you can do more activity with less effort. So, you can get more done and faster OR get things done in the same amount of time with less effort. I recommend a combination of the two. Most business owners try to do everything themselves, I suppose it’s natural. They want to be in control and that’s how they feel like they are in control and accomplishing things. But again, it’s the misguided idea of what is really important, and it’s not the manual labor “work” portion of it. We’ve all heard the saying, “work smart, not hard”, but most people don’t do it. They end up doing the opposite and costing themselves 5. Leverage. I’ve talked a lot about this so far, but it’s an important topic and one of my significant turning points. Most people understand the idea of hiring employees to do work for them, effectively increasing the amount of business they can do as compared to being on their own. Well, this is essentially leverage. It may be a low-level form of leverage, but it’s the same idea. Problem is, most business owners stop there. They never think to find additional ways to leverage themselves, and it never occurs to them to find ways to help leverage their employees. Employees can be the most expensive form of leverage and it can be the single greatest expense in many businesses, especially mortgage brokerages. It is in mine. I try to find every way I can to be able to do more, with less. Using direct marketing to multiply my salesforce, generating qualified leads and making prospects “self-select” BEFORE my salespeople spend any time with them, using sales letters, CD’s, multiple mailing step campaigns, mult-media campaigns to help make sales presentations and speed up the sales cycle for my salespeople—all of these are ways of leverage. Q6: Is it reasonable to say that it is easier for someone beginning in the mortgage industry today to achieve significant success than it was for you, when you started out? I’m going to assume you’ll say ‘yes’, so - why? Miget: The answer is yes, but most mortgage brokers would disagree with me. They believe it’s a tougher market that is overcrowded. They’ll hear stories of days gone past where there might be only a couple pages of mortgage brokers in the Yellow Pages (instead of 10 or more), and how borrowers were easier to deal with before the internet educated them all. Well, it’s all a bunch of crap. In my business, we’re doing more business for higher fees than we ever did in the past. Running on a lower overhead, doing more business equals proportionately more profits. My observation is that it is easier than ever. But, I have to qualify that statement: “It’s easier IF you know what you are doing!” If you go about it the right way, it’s easier to prosper than ever. If you don’t, you’ll sink faster than ever. Back when I first got started in the business, 1992, there wasn’t the wealth of information available to help you “know what you are doing”. When I was new, I had the others around me in the office and that was about it. That’s all I had to learn from. And they had no vested interest in helping me, so I had to pick out of them what I wanted to know. This makes the process slow and painful, and this is even assuming that the others around you know what they are doing. I was fortunate to be exposed to co-workers who really knew how to “sell”. They weren’t selling rates or fees. No fee cutting. You had to find a benefit and that’s what you sold. Nowadays, someone new can come into the business, and there is a wealth of information and resources at their disposal. They can take a course and learn the technical aspects of doing loans, get a system for running and maintaining a mortgage business and even get on-going support and training. There are mastermind groups dedicated to groups of brokers helping other brokers succeed. This is an important component of my coaching/ consulting business for mortgage brokers. Also, I’m currently developing a complete system, from A-Z, for professionals who aren’t in the mortgage business, but want to add a mortgage profit center to their existing business. This is ideal for insurance agents, financial planners, accountants/ CPAs, tax professionals, etc. It’s an easy way to extract more customer value from an existing customer base, on something they are going to do anyway. I wish there had been these types of resources back when I first got in the business. It would have saved me several years of trial and error, and stress of not knowing how things were going to turn out. Q7: What are the biggest benefits of doing business “your way” in the mortgage industry? Miget: Well, I’ve always thought that what I do is the “greatest business on earth” for a handful of reasons. First and foremost, you can make an obscene amount of money. And, you can make this obscene amount of money with a very low barrier to entry into the business. A mid six-figure income is very attainable WITHOUT any special set of skills or talents. You don’t need a PhD or an MBA. In fact, you don’t even need a college degree. Any specialized knowledge you need can quickly be learned. With the advent of “net-branching”, very little to no start-up capital is necessary. You can start part-time OR you can go full-time and attain a great income quickly. You can start off small, from your home and still make that mid 6-figure dollar amount OR you can grow a larger company with a full staff and get into the million dollar revenue range. It’s up to you. The best thing is when you do the business the way I teach, it has a VERY high net profit margin, which allows you to do big numbers from a relatively small volume on a small budget. Also, you can generate leads/revenue virtually at will—you don’t have to wait for someone to decide they need your services. You can market to them and instill the idea of doing business. Lastly, it’s one of the best, “selling money at a discount” sales I’ve ever seen, which is responsible for the high net profit margin. Q8: How much money are people making with your strategies? Miget: People are making dump truck loads full of money doing what I do where they live. Some are even making more than I do, I have to say. I don’t know if I should name names, but I’ve got a fellow in Chicago who immediately doubled his fees on his existing pipeline after attending just one mastermind meeting. It was 1 simple mindset shift which unlocked hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of business a year. After his first full year with me and being part of the mastermind group, he nearly doubled his average fee per loan, while decreased the number of loans he was doing by 20%. He still increased his income almost 50% and we are talking about these percentages in relation to big numbers. He is a one-man show with very little overhead, so most of these benefits went straight to his bottom line, moving him well into the upper 6-figure income range. He’s happy with me. I’ve got another guy who actually does more business than I do. He too is a small company, with just a handful of people working with him. Within a few months of working with me, he tripled his average fee per loan, while doing the same number of loans as he was before. He often closes $10k, $15k, even $20k deals regularly and his clients thank him profusely. I’ve got another guy who just started with me. At first, the other brokers in his office were skeptical and thought he was stupid for joining my program. He just sent me an email the other day with a copy of an email where his boss used him as an example for others to follow. He is employee of the month. It’s pretty exciting for someone to move from the bottom in production, all the way to the top in just a couple months. He did $30k in fees and was able to negotiate a raise from his boss because of it. He’s a young kid and going to make more this year than he ever has before. And, I expect him to continue to improve. He’s a winner, experiencing his own Phenomenon. I have several others, who come to mind, that are closing deals in the $20k+ range on a regular basis. This is pretty unheard of in the residential mortgage business. Some would even say it’s unethical to charge that much, but that’s because they are thinking in terms of the traditional business and the traditional role of the loan officer. What I teach takes you so far beyond that, it’s difficult to comprehend at first. It’s total paradigm shift. And the ability to consistently charge high fees to credit worthy borrowers comes from the fact that we deliver a value far in excess of what we actually charge. We are showing them how to get out of debt in a third of the time they would if they kept going the way they are going now. For most, that’s a huge sum of money, and they’re guaranteed to spend it, whether they like it or not. It’s contractually obligated to their creditors. I can go in, reengineer their finances, so using the same amount of money they are using to pay their bills now, I can accelerate the payoff of the debts and create the savings. This can all be automated for the borrower so they don’t have to do anything—its all turnkey. It’s a huge value to the client. When they are going to save in excess of $100k, $200k, or more in interest payments, what’s that worth? If you know anything about the time value of money, that savings properly invested will yield a million dollar plus nest egg, so they can retire someday. It’s really life-changing when they open their eyes and their mind and listen to what we have to say. And my mortgage broker clients love the positioning it puts them in, taking them out of being just another loan jockey, competing with a hundred other loan jockeys, playing “whoever tells the biggest lie wins the loan” game. They become insulated from this competition and also insulated from market conditions. Right now, rates have risen over the past couple years, drying up the easy refi market. My system works just as well now as it did before rates went up. (Results not typical, you could earn more or less, and take responsibility of such) Q9: We both know - people are skeptical. They’re going to doubt that the real picture is as rosy as you make it out to be. They’re going to suspect there’s a part of the 10 story you’re not telling. Or they’re going to accept your accomplishments as fact, but still doubt that they can experience the same kind of success. What do you have to say to people with these kinds of doubts? Miget: Here’s what I’d say. Go to my website at www. MortgageMarketingMaverick.com/ phenomenon and see the proof I have of my accomplishments and the business I do. Then, go to my testimonial page where the proof is in the results of my clients. Then, pick a couple of them and email or call them. Now, please don’t bug the living crap out of them. If they have time, they’ll get back with you. But, they are NOT at your beck and call. They are busy, just like me, doing what we do. But, they will tell you in their own words, what I and my program have meant for them. “Doubt is a disease of the mind. In my experience, people doubt things when they don’t want them to be true.” I always say, if I hadn’t made the changes I made 8 years ago, meaning I hadn’t discovered emotional direct response marketing and Dan Kennedy, I wouldn’t be in the business today. It’s what has enabled me to stick around and prosper beyond my wildest dreams, but as equally important, it has kept me interested in this business. Things can get monotonous after a while and dealing with the general public (especially about their finances) can make you a nervous wreck. I wouldn’t call it a fun job. But, doing it my way has changed all of that. I’m in my 16th year in the business and I plan for many more. I want to say one more thing about doubters. Doubt is a disease of the mind. In my experience, people doubt things when they don’t want them to be true. Yep, it would be easier to just dismiss me as a charlatan and snake oil salesman because then you wouldn’t have to listen to what I have to say. You could go back to your mundane existence and forget about me thinking you haven’t missed anything. This is the natural tendency. You think this is easier, but it isn’t. By investing just a little time to hear me out, you can gain a wealth of insight and knowledge that will stimulate your thoughts and move you in the direction of your goals. The only way you are going to move forward and achieve whatever goals you have is to cast doubt aside. Anything you doubt will happen, will not happen. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don’t remember who said it but there’s a saying, “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right!” Nobody ever accomplished anything with a mind soaked in doubt. Q10: All right, let’s get into some detail. Let’s go through the nittygritty of exactly how a person makes money with your marketing strategies and methods. Let’s start with Step One... Miget: Ok, I’m just going to lay it all out for you, roughly in the order in which it happens, some of it is mind/thinking kind of stuff, the rest is actual doing/implementation stuff. solve, with a mortgage. The first thing you have to do is really take a hard look at what you do. Essentially, what business are you really in? In my case, it’s NOT the mortgage business. The mortgage business is a product business, a commodity business and that’s not what you want. Instead, define or think of what business you are in by what you do for people. What solution do you provide? What problem do you solve? I call this the paradigm shift. Sixth, create a multi-media marketing funnel to systematically, automatically and continually “drip” on your leads. This is what converts the leads into appointments/applications. Next, based on what you’ve discovered, create what Dan Kennedy calls your “unique selling proposition”. That becomes the stated business you are in; how you say it to other people when asked, “what do you do for a living?” This is the reinvention and redefining of your business. Third, pick a niche which is of a manageable size for you to market to. Homeowners aren’t a niche and neither is purchase money. Too broad. Unless you are Countrywide or Ditech, you can’t (and don’t want to) go broad. Instead, choose a niche in which you can create expert positioning, “celebrity status” and become a specialist. Fourth, you may want to go back and look at your USP again and modify based on the niche you decided on and everything associated with step 3 above. Fifth, it’s time to market to the niche to generate leads, using the USP. I prefer to focus on prospects that have a problem which I can take a next step and learn more about everything you offer to help those wanting to break into the mortgage industry or to teach those struggling to make the kind of money we are talking about here. Miget: The best thing to do is visit my website at www. Seventh, you will deliver a sales MortgageMarketingMaverick. presentation to the converts from com/phenomenon, there is a page the marketing funnel. My favorite there to register (free) and enter is a problem-agitate-solution formula. Now, here’s an important your contact information prior to going into the site. Please do point: the sales presentation is this, as this is how I communicate only delivered to the leads, not upcoming events and items of the market as a whole. The most common mistake I see people make interest to my people. Once you is trying to sell “too big”—meaning get on my list I will begin to show you more ways that I can help you they are trying to sell to everyone achieve the Phenomenon and keep and wasting a lot of effort and you informed about the latest and money in the process. greatest in the Mortgage Industry. Eighth, once leads convert from the Q12: Okay, let’s talk about The sales presentation, close the deal. Phenomenon. Give us some insight into your understanding Now, I know this sounds like a of it and how you’ve applied it in lot to do, like it’s a long arduous your life. process. At first glance, maybe it is. That’s why I’ve created a Miget: My understanding of it turnkey, niche system with all is that in whatever you are doing this work already done, tested in life or trying to accomplish in and proven to work. Also, astute people will recognize and embrace life, whether it’s playing a sport, learning a particular subject or that the appearance of complexity running/building a business, is good. If something is simple, forward progress isn’t made in lots of competition will show up nice, straight, pretty lines. You quick. With no barrier to entry, you can’t enjoy a “near monopoly” have periods of time where no for any length of time. But because progress in made, some times where you went backwards, and there are more than a few steps in times where you made forward the process, it creates a perceived progress. In addition to this, barrier of entry to people who there is a very special time where aren’t reading this. things seem to just “line-up” and everything goes right and huge, Q11: Next, I want to talk about tremendous gains are made in a The Phenomenon, and your very short period of time. Some experiences with it - but first, people would attribute this to let’s tell people how they can 11 accident or luck, but actually Dan has named it, The Phenomenon. The trick is identifying it when it happens to you and more importantly identify what behavior or conditions triggered it to happen, so you can make it happen at will. Believe me, I’ve had rough times in business and I’ve had okay times in business. I’ve had a few really good times in business, but for the most part, it has been pretty consistent. Only recently have I experienced this phenomenon and been smart enough to identify it and study it. For me, action and implementation is the key. My whole life, I’ve been a procrastinator. Never do today what can be put off until tomorrow. This is not a behavior conducive to being successful in business. I’ve learned and identified the things I’m not any good at and don’t like to do and devised ways to still get them done, thus keeping projects moving forward instead of getting stuck. We’ve talked about this earlier, but another key is leverage. Learning to leverage myself and my resources to get more done faster also helps. Like I said before, getting things accomplished fast is key to staying focused, head in the game, and ahead of the competition. Q14: The theme of The Phenomenon film that you were a part of 12 is – in the next 12 months...getting more accomplished in the next 12 months than in the previous 12 years. You have lived it, and seen it, but for many people, this is going to be a difficult concept, possibility and goal to wrap their heads around. Using your strategies, capitalizing on the opportunities we’ve been talking about here, what could a person do in just the next 12 months? Miget: The short answer is, “whatever they set their mind to!” I built a million dollar business in less than 12 months. I’ve had members double and triple their businesses over the course of a year. Someone could become a certified debt-elimination expert using my program in their area, gain the expert positioning that comes along with that, ability to add an additional stream of revenue to their business, increase fees on the loans they are doing now, mine the hidden fees that are currently sitting idle in their past client list, and using my strategies, be able to close deals that wouldn’t be closed otherwise. There are so many ways to capitalize on what I teach and so many places more money comes from, it’s difficult for someone to wrap their mind around it. But, it’s happening everyday for me and my members. If someone was averaging $10k a deal doing things my way, and I show them how to get as many of those deals as they want, how many would they do/could they do? It’s up to them. Nobody ever acknowledges the fact that how much money someone makes is more contingent on internal programming (what they believe) than it is contingent on their environment. Q15: I’m sure you have some final ‘words of wisdom’..... Miget: I believe I’ve said it all, but I would like to go back and reinforce what I’ve found to be the most important thing, and that’s taking action. Even if you aren’t sure of what to do, or if you aren’t sure what you are going to do is correct, do it anyway. Can’t steer a parked car. It’s much easier to correct a course that is wrong than it is when you aren’t moving in a direction. In fact, you can’t. Get some activity going, create some momentum, and then search out others who can help you achieve your goals. This is what I do for my members. They get what they need to get going, then we steer them down the correct path. The key is to do something, do anything. 10 Steps to Success for the “Phenomenal” Mortgage Broker by Michael Miget STEP 1: Figure out what business you’re really in, what business it really is. The business you think you are in is rarely the business you ought to be in. You’ve got to get out of the product business, which in our case is the mortgage business, and get into the solution & results delivery business. STEP 2: Decommoditize yourself by developing a really great “unique selling proposition”. The mortgage business is a commodity business. Prospects can’t tell the difference between mortgage brokers, thus tend to buy based on rates/fees. In reality, there is little difference between the products offered between you and your competition, so you’ll need to find something unique to offer or a unique way to describe what you deliver to clients. STEP 3: Re-invent and/or re-engineer your business to implement steps 1-2. To implement steps 1-2, it requires a re-engineering of your business. It’s a paradigm shift from what you are used to and opposite from what you are doing now. resources. I have a system for everything in my business. From running ads, to getting mail out the door, to handling incoming leads and the marketing that goes out to them, you need systems to ensure it gets done and gets done correctly/ timely. Preferably, this is automated so you don’t have to do it yourself. CRM is big in this respect, as are utilizing salesletters, emails, faxes, letters, etc. An outsourced assistant or part-time helpers can do this for you as well. STEP 7: Become the expert to achieve expert positioning and/or “celebrity status” within your niche. This is a natural by-product of doing emotional direct response marketing correctly. Using information in your marketing process creates a natural positioning for you with your clients. It also helps create differentiation and separation in the marketplace (decommoditize, see step 2) because almost no one does this. STEP 8: Deliver extreme value and take the premium position within your niche to achieve premium pricing. Most people never think about any and all the ways they can deliver extreme STEP 4: Find a manageable niche inside your new value to a client. They are too focused on doing business. You can’t service everyone and even if more business. Take the time to answer this you could, you don’t have the budget to adequately question for yourself and it will slide you into communicate to everyone. Find a manageably the premium position in your marketplace, thus sized niche to focus on, something you can build a enabling you to charge premium prices. USP around and deliver on. STEP 9: Hire a coach and/or consultant to fill in STEP 5: Use emotional direct response marketing any gaps you may have in accomplishing the to promote yourself and generate leads for your above and keep you accountable and on track. product or service. This is critical. Without The absolute biggest mistake I see people make leads, you have no business to close. Most brokers is not getting help when they need it. This either fail when it comes to marketing because they try kills the project they are working on or, at best, to “one-step” close leads on the phone. It’s all they get inferior results. To get the best results, or nothing with them, and if you operate your you need the best input, so on things you aren’t the marketing this way, it’s costing you untold sums expert at, find one and get the best. of cash—without you even knowing it! STEP 10: Take action and implement fast! ‘Nuff STEP 6: Use systems to leverage your available said. 13 Special Report How I Reinvented My Mortgage Business and Why You Should Too by Michael Miget In this article, I will share with you how I reinvented my mortgage business to maximize its profitability and made this business fun again. When I first got started in the mortgage business, back in 1992, I thought it was the greatest business in the world. It was a great way to make money, work a “regular” set of hours, and the job was pretty easy. Back then, there weren’t nearly as many mortgage brokers as there are today. Also, the borrower’s awareness of the process and their access to mortgage products was limited. Add all this up and you’ll see how it didn’t take much thought as to how you conducted your business to be very successful. That’s all changed now. Borrowers are in the driver’s seat when it comes to finding a mortgage. They know much more about the process and they have a tremendous amount of access to whatever mortgage they think will suit their needs. Said another way, they know how to shop for a mortgage. In recent years, the number of mortgage brokers has skyrocketed. Couple this increased competitive environment with the increased “savvy” of today’s borrower and you can see how and why there is much more pressure in being a mortgage broker today than ever before. This pressure plays itself out in the form of reduced pricing and fees for our services. This is what really started to turn me off about this business. Heck, I wanted to make more money, not less money. I wanted less competition, not more competition. I wanted to be in control and have my clients view me as a professional worthy of top-dollar fees, not just another mortgage jockey. This is when I decided the mortgage business was a crappy business. It has become a commodity business, especially when you define who you are and what you do by the product or service you sell. I 14 knew something had to change or I was going to have to get out. Not only did the money not seem to be there anymore, but it just wasn’t fun anymore. And if there is one thing I’ve learned over all these years, it’s no amount of money is worth it if you don’t enjoy what you are doing. Answer: Business Reinvention If you define what you do by the product you sell, you are in the product business. In this case, the mortgage is the product. Since we all have access to the same lenders (access to product), you really can’t differentiate yourself in this manner. And if you can’t differentiate yourself, you are just another mortgage jockey. In order to fix this, redefine what business you are in. Redefine what you do. Reinvent the business so it’s not a product business. Preferably, you’d redefine it so that you are essentially the only one doing what you do and describing it the way you describe it. Here’s a “quick and dirty” way to accomplish this. You aren’t in the “thing” business anymore, you are in the “what the thing does” business. If you’ve taken any sales courses before, you’ll know that one of the first things you learn is to sell benefits, not features. Well, benefits are essentially what the features do for people. Redefining your mortgage business should be no different. Figure out what it is you actually do for people and that becomes the business you are in. It becomes what you promote. What does your mortgage do for your clients? Well, that will vary based on the type of clients you work with, but for me and my members I coach and consult for, our mortgages help our clients get debt free. So I’m not in the “mortgage” business anymore, I’m in the “get out of debt business”. That’s how I market and promote myself and it’s also what I’m really selling. It takes me out of the product business, thus de-commoditizing me, and it differentiates me from other mortgage brokers. This same thing can be done in any part of the mortgage business, any niche, and any business for that matter. If you are still trying to sell mortgages, competing with every other broker or lender to get the business, and feel you aren’t able to charge what you want or what you are worth, do yourself a favor and spend some time redefining what business you are in. It’s what has kept me in the business for so long and also able to have fun doing it. Mike Miget has been in the mortgage business since 1992. He owns and operates a small mortgage brokerage and a coaching/consulting business for mortgage brokers. He specializes is debt consolidation and debt elimination in his business and teaches his clients to do the same. For more information, visit www.MaverickMortgageBroker.com. 15 Success Stories “6 times what I used to get on a loan!” “Before meeting you, I was working 60+ hours a week and making “peanuts” per deal! I was always working, and never home. I was afraid my wife and kids were going to forget who I was…But, since I found you, all that has changed. Since first attending your Mastermind, only a month and a half ago, I’ve already closed my first 2 loans. Last year, I averaged only $1900 in fees per loan. But as you can see, one is for $11,433.30 ($9,602.30 +$1,831) and the other is for $10,980.30! Even better than that, I’m working 1/3rd less than I was before, just 35 hours a week! Finally, I can see the light. I also get to see my wife and kids now! I’m leaving the office early today to enjoy the afternoon with my kids and tomorrow, I’m taking the afternoon off to go out on a date with Celeste! You’ve given my wife her husband back, You’ve given my kids their father back…You’ve given me my life back… Thanks for everything.” Riz Nicolas, Skokie, IL “$817,000 loan at more than 3 points for a fee of $24,977.28!” “After almost a year since implementing your system, my business has undergone a stunning transformation. And it’s all thanks to your Debt Elimination Mastermind System that I use to quickly and easily attract high quality, highly motivated, high fee clients like bees to honey!.... … the first thing I did was drop 22 of your “past client” letters to past prospects who I couldn’t close previously. I got 3 calls back, 1 was absolutely not help-able, 2 were absolutely hell bent on getting into an appointment with me. Of the 2, 1 needed some credit clean-up before I could do something for them, 16 but I closed the 3rd client right away for a fee of $5,400. I spent $8.58 to get the letters out. I think that’s like a 629 to 1 return on investment. Within a month of being in the DEMS Group I dropped my first direct mail campaign with nail biting anticipation. I got so many leads so fast and so quick I had no way to keep track of them all or contact them in a timely manner. It was absolutely insane. When the dust settled I had closed my first $20,000 fee deal from a couple who had 700 credit scores, plenty of equity, and were as docile as lambs when it came to my 3 point fee on a $680,000 loan size. I used some of the money I made to run another direct mail campaign and immediately signed up ANOTHER deal, $817,000 loan at more than 3 points for a fee of $24,977.28! So Mike, just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for rekindling my fire for the mortgage industry (because I’m not in it anymore!), thank you for giving me back my faith in myself and my business, and thank you for making me able to provide for my loved ones. I don’t think you’ll ever know how deeply you’ve affected my life, but just know that I am in your debt!” James Lee, Glendale, CA “A 300% INCREASE in average fees in just 89 days and a Ferrari to boot!” Just wanted to let you know how things are progressing since the Mastermind Summit in March. Of all the deals I did last year, I averaged $2,922 per deal, and the month of March was $46,000 in total fees. Not bad, I thought, but during our time together, you really got me thinking about that, so here’s what I’ve got to say in response to you: March was $46,000 in total fees. April was $81,000, an average of $3,400 per deal. May was $83,000, an average of $7,600 per deal. June was $130,000 with an average of $9,200 per deal. So, I’ve gone from an average of almost $3,000 to over $9,000, that’s a 300% increase and I’ve actually increased the number of deals I’m closing per month (as compared to last year)! At the start of July, I’ve already taken in $53,000 at $8,400 per deal, and there is another $186,000 worth of deals in the pipeline that will close! I remember sitting in your conference room and you were talking about regularly doing deals for $8,000$10,000 in fees and higher. I thought you were nuts! Well, I guess I was nuts for being skeptical at first, because so far, I have sold 19 of the deals with a minimum of $11,000 in fees, all the way up to $16,995—and many in between! And with your good target marketing, I know I can eventually get the right client that could go for $25,000 in total fees! With your autopilot marketing and way of doing business, I could actually sleep all damn day if I wanted to and still make a ton of dough, but I want to see how far I can take this. So for now, I’m still working… Oh, and one more thing, I guess I ought to learn how to use the darned computer. Here are pictures of a Ferrari I “accidentally” bought off eBay. I guess I now know what “reserve bid” means. Anyway, last year it would have been a problem, but I just decided to write a check for it, $30,000 total. No problem! Now, if I could just figure out how to work the darned stickshift… Scott Lundteigen, Calgary, Canada 17 Are You Ready To Learn The Marketing Secrets That Will Have Your Mortgage Business Making More In The Next 12 Months Than In The Last 12 Years? Let Me Put You on the Fast Track by Sending You Absolutely FREE of Charge a 73 Minute CD Entitled “How to Reinvent Your Mortgage Business for Increased Profits and Less Competition” BUT HURRY…I only have 125 of these FREE CD’s so ACT FAST! Allow me to help you get a step closer to the Phenomenon experience by sending you this CD for FREE, no s & h, no hidden anything! Just me discussing my process of business reinvention, identifying customer problems you can solve and some interesting marketing techniques to position yourself as a problem solver. 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