Mortgage Think Tank

This is stupid. There is no excuse. What is the point of a blog if its going to be inundated with comment spam.

Terrific. Its now update. I will have to update all the rest of my wordpress blogs- none of which I will mention, lest that spam engine finds its way there.

Beware the Click Monster.

That’s it. Its absurd.

I’m going to have to upgrade this blog to WordPress 2.2 and see if that helps. I hate to have to upgrade- if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it- but clearly, its time!

Or perhaps upgrade to a new version of wordpress. Its absurd the amount of comment spam that comes in. I just deleted 430 or so comments that were caught in the last 15 days! And right after I hit delete all, the refreshed page had one more that had just come in. That is absurd.

I’m not sure, but this might be coming in from a link on Activerain- so all that traffic I thought was legit might have been spambots!

Great article about marketers sending out email to clients/prospects, and how quickly recipients become fed up.

http://www.dmnews.com/cms/dm-news/e-mail-marketing/40335.html 

Microsoft Office 2007 has gotten a lot of attention for ribbons. I thought I wouldn’t like them, and I’m liking them more than I thought I would.

However, email marketers, wake up because Microsoft has effectively dumbed down the email client rendering engine, switching from IE to Word’s HTML rendering.

So what, what does that mean?

It means that your beautiful Animated Gif will no longer animate. It will be stuck, I suppose on Frame 1.

Might as well just use a JPEG.

For a great article on this topic, click here.

Publishers will need to adjust and actually think through their email design. It will make sense to adopt an approach that prism/penton has, where their email ads incorporate a text placement and image placement.

I’m not sure design and marketers ever thought this, but the first frame of your gif might be your LAST!

I’ve noticed that some people that I have emailed have evidently gone and visited this site, undoubted wondering who is Keith Gregory, and who or what is he affiliated with.

I spent six years growing the online media business of National Mortgage News, turning a small website with $200k in advertising revenue into a robust property generating $1.4mm. In February of 2006, SourceMedia eliminated my position. I spent a short, but highly enjoyable time, working on the whole loan desk of ICAP spring and summer of 2006, furthering many contacts I had already made, making new contacts and broadening my knowledge of the mortgage industry.

Then, in July of 2006, I took a position with a b2b publisher, back in online ad sales, but not in the mortgage market.

However, I maintain an active set of contacts with past customers and contacts, and have a number of projects brewing to develop relevant information products for mortgage professionals.

If you are interested in learning more, feel free to contact me.

This site started as a kind of test for WordPress and whether it could be the tool I needed to create and manage content. Mortgage Think Tank as a URL was something that could become something, if given time and thought.

At the present moment, I am not sure Mortgage Think Tank, the URL will evolve into anything.

I have another URL that will form the basis for my web publishing effort.

The 1and1 server report has been overwealmed of late by the tremendous number of visits by different robots and such that I have had to add an additional layer of anylytics to get an accurate picture of site traffic.

This is simply huge.

Here is why I love the mortgage industry- its that so many of the players in the space have loyalty to their staff. They care about them and want them to have jobs. When senior people look to move or sell their operations- they care about what happens with that new operation, and whether it will be good for their employees.

I don’t know that other vertical markets have that same level of concern.