How We Help Mortgage Brokers Run Their Business Their Way

To help our members deliver the needs of each and every client they advise, we provide the commercial, technological, and business support needed to run a mortgage and protection advice firm.

To ensure that we are consistently delivering tangible value to our network, we operate in a fully transparent, open way, and today, we want to explore precisely what this means.

Leading Commercial Proposition

The Stonebridge mortgage broker network has a leading proposition designed to help mortgage and protection brokers build sustainable, successful businesses. Let’s explore some of the specific ways our commercial proposition has been designed with your business growth in mind.

1. Enjoy Zero Monthly Fees
With no FCA, FSCS, adviser or PI insurance fees to pay, you can rest assured that you aren’t paying over the odds for the support and technology you are receiving.

2. Benefit From Our Pay As You Earn Model
While other mortgage networks will charge a flat monthly fee for their services regardless of your business activities during that month, we do things differently at Stonebridge. Our pay as you earn model allows you to better manage your cash flow regardless of activity levels.

3. Access Competitive Lender Fees
As one of the largest independent mortgage broker networks operating in the UK, we are in an ideal position to negotiate preferential terms and lender fees for our members.

4. We Pay Procuration Fees on Exchange
Many other broker networks will only pay procuration fees when the purchase or remortgage of a property has been completed, which can cause unnecessary delays and a range of financial planning challenges for firms. To ensure that our members receive procuration fees in a timely manner, we pay on exchange.
So, not only can we help you to access some of the most competitive procuration fees around, but you won’t need to wait longer than necessary to receive the rewards for your hard work.

Dedicated Business Support Services

As well as our leading proposition, we also provide brokers in our network with a series of business support services shaped to drive consistent growth and future success. Let’s explore some of these specific services in more depth.

1. A Dedicated Business Development Team
A dedicated field-based Business Development Manager (BDM) and office based Business Development Consultant forms your dedicated Business Development team, who are on hand to support your everyday operations and advance your business.

You can schedule in-person meetings with your BDM, affording you the time and space to explore a number of different strategies and tactics to help you achieve your business goals over the long term. Additionally, your BDM team can also provide training with regard to sales process best practices, which are designed to maximise the opportunities available to you.

2. Annual Business Planning Support
Our network members consistently identify our business planning support services as one of the elements that set Stonebridge apart from other networks. Importantly, we ensure that our support services are tailored to helping you reach your individual goals and aspirations.

Additionally, unlike other networks, we don’t set unhelpful targets so that you are free to explore new ideas and strategies that can help take your business to the next level.

3. Dedicated Sales Support
From optimising your lead conversion rates to maximising your case size, accessing our dedicated sales support services can help you expand your skill set, secure more leads from client referrals, and identify your core business priorities and objectives. We’ll also support you in streamlining the management of your client bank and help you to identify new processes that will optimise the work you’re able to do for each client.

Importantly, our extensive range of expertise will continue to meet both your immediate business needs and help you to achieve your unique aspirations and goals.

4. Expanding your Network
Our substantial network also enables us to provide our members with introductions to other firms with different specialities that they themselves don’t advise on, such as wills and trusts, wealth management, equity release, and commercial business.

Forming connections can be an invaluable way to increase the visibility of your mortgage services, thereby expanding your client base and boosting the financial health of your business.

Leading Technological Solutions

Our technology is another aspect that sets our mortgage broker network apart from the rest. Here are a few reasons why Revolution, our all-encompassing mortgage software and business solution, can help you achieve your business goals over the coming weeks, months and even years.

1. Our Revolution Platform is Wholly Owned By Us
Not only is Revolution an industry-leading business solution for mortgage and protection advice firms, it is also entirely owned by us. This enables us to focus on providing our network members with easy access to the tools they need, including product sourcing and integrations for elements such as protection and general insurance.

2. Streamline your Services with our Revolution Single Platform Solution
As Revolution is a single-platform solution, you won’t need to continually log in and out of different systems to access the data and information you need to support your clients. We’ve designed our single platform solution specifically to help you save time that will be better invested into nurturing leads and engaging directly with clients.

3. Revolution is Integrated for protection and GI too
Revolution is completely integrated with Solution Builder from iPipeline. Solution Builder is a smart protection quote tool, which enables our members to efficiently compare protection products and accurately identify the best solution for each client.

Revolution is also fully integrated with LV=’s GI SmartQuote technology, allowing you to source the most appropriate home insurance products for your clients within minutes.

Grow Your Mortgage Broker Business with Stonebridge

To find out more about how Stonebridge can support your firm, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our friendly team. Simply fill in the contact form on our website, or contact us directly by calling 0345 646 5505 or emailing join@stonebridgegroup.co.uk.