Founded in 1823, the Bank of Van Diemen’s Land was the first commercial financial institution in Van Diemen’s Land, later the Colony of Tasmania. Nicknamed the ‘Old Bank’ , the Bank of Van Diemen’s Land traded for 68 years before becoming the first major bank failure of what would eventuate into the Australian banking crisis of 1893. The featured photgraph
Today’s Shad is the day comes from leadgen charlatans. There’s a certain stupidity in buying (or selling) ‘500+’ leads. However, we’ll do one better: well send your 5000 leads a month or we’ll give your a million dollars (seriously). The point is this: generating leads is a piece of cake. Converting them is where the challenge lies. Would you rather
In our latest update, we’ve pushed a full suite of text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools. Integrated with Yabber, our VoIP systems, the SMS modules, and your website, it provides enterprise-level features as part of your access to Yabber. The website module includes top-of-page accessibility audio, shortcode options, and the only TTS Elementor block on the planet. The purpose of the tools
People actually pay for this BS. These ads literally came up within 30-seconds of each other (there’s probably a ton more). The ads are ‘probably’ a mix of leadgen and purchased products – at this point I’ve lost the motivation to check. They’re all trash. All pictired ads are identical. In each case, the ad and backend ‘features’ could be
Shad of the Day, 15th April 2023. Today’s Shit Ad comes to us from the leadgen crooks behind AussieCompares. Lies, deception, non-compliance, massive breaches of every piece of governing legislation (including Privacy Act 1988), illegal baiting, operating unlicensed, failure to disclose etc. The list must goes on and on. Stop buying leads. Treat your customer first and best interest obligations
Shad of the Day, 13th April 2022. More of the same illegal, misleading, non-compliant, and baiting advertising. A shameful thought to think there are brokers supporting this abhorrent practice. Forcing the irrelevant questions (associated with a completely unknown and unlicensed entity), delivering a ‘You Qualify’ message, and hiding fake results (on the back of the ‘promise’ of results) behind a
This is important. We conducted an early broker AI experiment with results that might represent industry norms sooner than later. We assigned mortgage broker tasks to an AI and had the system carry a loan (with supervision) from a website-based AI-enquiry through to ‘settlement’. The results give us a very clear indication of how the industry might evolve in the
Shad of the Day, 8th April 2023. More non-compliant leadgen nonsense. Consumers deserve better. This clown has followed our previous advice and adjusted his creative and messaging, but he’s still lying to consumers, and he’s still engaging in false advertising. Honest brokers should be disgusted these charlatans are allowed to continue selling their dodgy leads. To ask personal questions that
We’ve recently updated our Census API to better support the creation of graphs on your website. The API supports what is literally *millions* of graphs, and your website now supports a couple thousand of them. An Elementor plugin is forthcoming that’ll make the creation process easier. Having access to Census and general audience data is a marketing imperative – It’s
We’ve just updated our Screenshot API. The new API allows you to render website screenshots on your website (or in Yabber) in seconds. You can take a single screenshot and use it forever, or set it to update at certain times. Various Screenshot options apply, such as width, height, cropping, full page renderings, image format, quality, and more. When retrieved
Shad of the Day, 4th April 2023. There’s a word for those that hide results behind a paywall of any kind (including email) when the results of the fake ‘qualification’ clearly excludes me from any finance: Baiting. It’s illegal and has to stop. Despite the fact that ‘qualification’ objectively decreases the quality of mortgage candidate making contract with you, it’s
A look back at the first Commonwealth Bank website back in 1995. Just two years later in 1997, and riddled with serious security holes, NetBank launched, offering 24-hour internet transaction banking services ” a first among the majors in Australian banking.
