Consider that:

• A one-minute video conveys up to 1.8 million words of information.
• People linger on a web page 40% to 80% longer if it has a video.
• The average website has just 8 seconds to engage a visitor.

It's worth marinating on the significance of these stats for a moment — because many of your competitors already have.

Building a client mortgage portal has traditionally required a lot of time-consuming and expensive coding. Not anymore. Tools like Scarlett 3.0, a client portal builder for mortgage brokers, have made the process far simpler, faster and less expensive.

Scarlett 3.0 debuted last month for Scarlett Mortgage (POS) users. Here's a quick rundown of eight useful new features that can either make/save brokers more money or keep their customers happier:

Canada and Mexico have dodged additional reciprocal tariffs—for now.

Unfortunately, Trump's existing ransom demands remain in full force:

TD's rate quoting system wasn't working well—for anyone, including brokers, customers and the bank itself. So, management radically changed to a new model called "Real Time Pricing (RTP)." It kicked off today, April 1, following TD's trial run with a few mortgage industry heavyweights.

If you're a TD broker, you've probably heard much about it already, so we'll skip all the fluff. Here’s the part that actually matters if you’ve got deals to close and clients who view interest rates as a zero-sum game.