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: