Our opinion of Lead Generation charlatans is very clear: it’s a business debilitating exercise. It is truly staggering that brokers will pay a premium to be represented by illegal advertising when they can take control of, and have complete ownership of, their own amazing experience. Our disdain for ‘Mortgage Magnet’ isn’t because they stole the name and logo of our
Delivery of Chubb safe for Commercial Banking Co., Sydney, c 1922. Fitted with the ‘Circular Strongroom Door’.
Commbank, Hobart, 1914. Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Cook’s Buildings, General Banking Department, 13th May 1914.
Shad of the Day, 30th January 2023. The scale and scope of Compare-1’s illegal practices’ is staggering. Because of the multiple breaches, we’ve selected just a few. Violations should be obvious. Almost without excepting, you cannot purport to provide a financial service as a leadgen company. Despite claims that this mob is “regulated by the ASIC”, they are operating illegally.
Shad of the Day, 29th January 2023. Our efforts to name and shame are usually directed at leadgen companies, and we generally don’t like calling out individual brokers. We understand that it’s bad representation introducing compliance issues into your business. In this case, however, it presents an opportunity to make a few points. Not unlike Joust’s blatantly illegal use of
We’ve just pushed the ‘BM YouTube’ Elementor Block into the Yabber plugin. The block makes adding single videos, YouTube playlists (including all uploads), custom playlists, and Yabber playlists, a point-and-click experience. The ‘Yabber Playlists’ are those lists created for the accordion-style ‘Related Videos’, meaning you can define custom playlists in Yabber. The system populates all video, playlists, channels, and other
Shad of the Day, 28th January 2023. We expect more from Joust. As a company that sponsors traditional media for airtime, and thus attracting attention, one would think they would invest more effort into satisfying their most basic compliance obligations. When you create an advert with rates, you’re compelled to provide qualification and disclaimers as part of the advert. Accessing
Note to clients. We’ve created a new drag-and-drop Elementor YouTube widget. It’ll be made available tomorrow. Unlike similar tools, the widget is conditional, meaning that you’re only ever shown applicable fields, and because your website is linked to Yabber, you’ll select videos, playlists, custom playlists, and other data directly, without ever entering a URL or ID. It’s very cool. All
Open AI’s ChatGPT caved quickly. I was hoping it’d recognise the context.
Note to clients. We’ve updated the ‘LoanCalc’ Elementor widget. Primary changes include conditional fields (meaning that Elementor fields show based on graph selection), and we’ve changed various text fields to a ‘number format’. Loancalc returns basic mortgage graphs in a basic image format (supplementing our suite of JavaScript graphs) – perfect for inclusion in website articles, documents, and reports. We
Another Shad of the Day, 27th January 2023. We couldn’t wait until tomorrow to share this abomination. Minimum $4000 cashback on a loan size of minimum 250k. I’d encourage all brokers to submit their details (for a callback) so they’re aware of the nonsense taking place. Disclaimer: This ad is brought to you by unicorns and leprechauns.
Shad of the Day, 27th January 2023. Mortgage House is a great company, and any infraction we see is generally an oversight. In this case, we suspect a marketing intern let one slip. It’s expected that brokers know their legislation, but for those looking for a cheat sheet, ASIC’s Regulatory Guide 234 gives your reason to know the law… and
