Vendor Surf Blog & Articles

Must See Home Equity Lending Vendor Solutions

January 12, 2023 — On the heels of the record breaking refi boom, mortgage lending volumes have plummeted for a variety of well-documented reasons. As such, home equity lending (HEL) has taken center stage...

Mortgage Vendors: 'Inflation Termination' Pricing (& Freebies)

November 29, 2022 — It is heartbreaking to see the daily deluge of bad news coming from lenders and vendors. Organizations across the mortgage industry are suffering, causing devastation to thousands of our...

Heard it in Nashville – Worry, Panic and Opportunity

November 8, 2022 — Our shortest blog post ever, breaking all the rules about minimum length. Then again... not a long history of following rules! Check out our most recent industry article (“Heard it in...

Mortgage Vendors & Lenders – It's Time for that IV Drip

November 1, 2022 — While many are slashing marketing budgets, a select few plan to TRIPLE theirs in these tough times. The belief is they will stand out more than ever, delivering much improved ROI. There is...

Lender Trends Among the Vendor Landscape

October 13, 2022 — Find anything intriguing below? We are talking about lender trends as they pursue vendor relationships. Let’s meet up in Nashville at the 2022 MBA Annual Convention and Expo to talk about...

The Post Refi Boom Shift to Digitization in Mortgage

August 25, 2022 — What is 'support automation?'  The answer is not so simple or evident – making it a great question.

More Vendors Joining the Premier Marketplace

July 19, 2022 — Celebrating three fantastic additions to Vendor Surf’s search engine, making it incredibly easy to filter on your unique needs to instantly identify great vendor partners… in real-time. With...

Blockchain, Artificial Intel & Machine Learning: Hype or Help?

June 22, 2022 — With the wide array of conditions causing the collapse of mortgage lending volumes, at least from historic levels recently enjoyed, executives everywhere are urgently seeking solutions. ...

New Technology for Enterprise and Loan Officer Pipeline Building

April 20, 2022 — With the feeding frenzy of the Refi Boom just ended, where even mediocre mortgage lenders had years of overflowing pipelines, the market has flipped.  The meal train has left the station,...

Stop Selling to Millennials — What They Really Seek

April 12, 2022 — You continue to attend mortgage conferences handing out business cards in hotel bars and after-parties, along with setting up CRM sequence emails – disappointed by all the ensuing silence....