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asheville: Interview with an Internet Marketing Expert in Asheville, NC Part 2 - 05/20/10 05:50 PM
This is a continuation of a conversation I had with Sarah Benoit, an internet and social marketing expert based in Asheville, NC. This set of questions is more advanced and complex.
We talked about the history of social media, how to make this type of marketing effective, and what to look for andhow best to prepare for working with a social media marketing consultant.
Sarah's web page is at www.creative-original.com. I've found her to be very responsive, accessible, and knowledgeable.
Q. How long has this social media marketing existed? What is its future, practically speaking?
A. Social media as it exists today … (2 comments)
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asheville: Interview with an Internet Marketing Expert in Asheville, NC - 04/12/10 10:17 AM
A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to interview Sarah Benoit, an Internet Marketing Specialist based in Asheville, North Carolina. We met for lunch at one of my hangouts in downtown Asheville.
Sarah's web page is at www.creative-original.com. Sitting down with her, one feels a level of energy and enthusiasm. She's spent a lot of time thinking about how best to use social media technology, and her commitment and breadth of knowledge are impressive.
Many of us have a presence on AR, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, but have not tied them together as well as we could. Others of … (1 comments)
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asheville: Make Upgrades Count: Ask Your Lender to Use A Local Appraiser - 02/27/10 04:58 PM
Tony has written a nice summary and provided useful links to appraisal requirements. Anyone interviewing potential lenders should ask the question "Who orders your appraisal and where do the appraisers come from?"
If the lender cannot guarantee experienced local appraisers who are familiar with the area, you should find a lender that does or risk a lot of unhappiness.
If the lender orders appraisals via a third party appraisal company who puts appraisals out to bid and takes the low bidder, you could get an appraiser who does not know the area, and now you have set the stage for a disappointing … (1 comments)
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asheville: How to Prevent or Mitigate HVCC and AMC appraisal issues - 01/06/10 11:53 AM
This blog entry is more for sellers and realtors, but the issues are important for everyone. Buyers, too, should seek to work with lending sources who use local, experienced appraisers.
Although on its face, having a low appraisal may seem to benefit buyers, this is a short term benefit. Someday, perhaps sooner than expected, buyers will become sellers, and then the appraisal issue suddenly affects them in the other direction. So it behooves buyers also to have accurate appraisals.
The key is to have an accurate appraisal done by someone who knows the locale and the market. An appraisal fundamentally is … (1 comments)
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asheville: Who's Ordering Your Appraisal? How HVCC Affects Your Next Mortgage. - 07/02/09 10:15 AM
Once upon a time, we lived in a perfect world where everyone knew everyone and things went smoothly with the appraisal process. Your loan officer (mortgage broker or mortgage banker) had a list of appraisers that she knew understood the market, and ordered appraisals directly. In a perfect world, loan officers and appraisers never argued about property values, and never collaborated to inflate values to commit loan fraud. Loan officers never put pressure on appraisers to increase values so they could fit a loan into the right ratios, and appraisers never deliberately ignored good comps that didn't support the property value. Since the borrower relied … (0 comments)
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asheville: Locking a loan in a time of extreme volatility (Asheville, NC) - 06/19/09 06:10 PM
In the last several weeks, loan rates have changed between .125 and .5% in a matter of hours. The mortgage bond market has never been so volatile before, and rarely has anyone been able to predict the moves with any certainty. Now, more than ever, I advise my clients to lock.
When advising a borrower about locking or not locking, I have stopped trying to time the market, because it ends up causing heartache nearly every time. Just ask the people who floated their loans on May 28 only to see rates skyrocket the very next day because the experts called … (0 comments)
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