Posted by Bruce Johnson on 5/18/06 8:57pm
Msg #120890

Contacting Title companies

I am looking to build my business and am wanting to work with title companies. What is the best way to get a list of the local title companies? How far out should I try to work with? And what is the best way to contact them? In person, phone email, or web?

Thanks in advance!
Bruce

Reply by Missy_Lulu on 5/18/06 9:04pm
Msg #120892

You don't have to just focus on local title companies unless you just want to do work at their office.

Reply by Sherri_NWA on 5/18/06 9:16pm
Msg #120900

Bruce,

You have a lot of competition there in CA and if you are curious as to how much, just go to the "Find a Notary" tab and put in your zip code, leave it at 20 miles radious and hit search. Mind you, those are just the notaries that are signed up on this site! There are other sites and some of those will have other notaries that are not signed up here, mind you that is not to say those sites are better, it is that those other notaries have not found the error of their ways. :o) All kidding aside, if you really think you are going to get advice from your neighborhood competition, Good luck.

Send me an e-mail, I have some info for you.

Sherri in Arkansas

Reply by JanetK_CA on 5/19/06 2:52am
Msg #120956

How many signings have you done?

I may be addressing this to the wrong person, but I strongly recommend to people (especially in the saturated markets) that they consider work with ss as doing their apprenticeship and that they get a *very* significant amount of experience before trying to market to title companies. There's been a fair amount written about that before (I recommend searches on any related topic you can think of), so I won't go into too much detail, but if you don't want to get blown out of the water, reeeeeeeeaaaaalllllly know what you are doing before you go after that market! You never get a second chance to make a first impression, as the saying goes... and I'm not talking about having done 40 or 50, or even 100 signings. Maybe more than 500 (at least) might be a place to start thinking about it, although there is no hard and fast rule. Forgive me if this doesn't apply to you, but I suspect that if you had the kind of experience it really takes, you wouldn't be asking this question, or at least not the way you did. jmho

Reply by LkArrowhd/CA on 5/19/06 10:09am
Msg #121004

My hubby's name also-Bruce, where are you in CA?

Reply by Bruce Johnson on 5/19/06 12:02pm
Msg #121054

I am in the east Bay Area.