Why Most Loan Officers Quit Content at Ninety Days

Most loan officers who start posting stop within about three months. Not because it did not work. Because ninety days is roughly how long it takes before the evidence stops looking like failure, and almost nobody is told that in advance.

The views are low. Nobody comments. A competitor with worse advice has more followers. Every honest signal available at day sixty says stop, and the people who quit are reading those signals correctly. They are just reading them too early.

This is the single most expensive misunderstanding in our business, and it has almost nothing to do with talent.

What actually filters people out?

Arjun Dhingra has been making content for eight years. When he talks about who makes it and who does not, he does not talk about skill.

His argument is that the filter is your tolerance for putting out something you find embarrassing.

Your first videos will be bad. Not modestly bad. Bad enough that you will consider deleting them, and a year from now you still will not be able to watch them. That is not a sign you chose wrong. It is the entry cost, and everyone who is good at this now paid it in public where people could see.

What makes this worth understanding is the second half. Talented people quit this constantly. The filter is discomfort, not ability — and almost everyone who fails the discomfort filter believes they failed the talent one. They conclude they are not a natural, when what actually happened is that they found being bad in public unbearable for eleven weeks.

That distinction matters because discomfort tolerance is trainable and talent largely is not. If the thing stopping you is the cringe, that is a much more encouraging diagnosis than the one you gave yourself.

How often should a loan officer post?

Pick a number you can hit in your worst week, not your best one.

For most advisors that is three times a week. Not a target. A floor — the number you hit in closing weeks, in slow weeks, and in the weeks you do not feel like it.

Three a week for six months is about seventy-eight pieces. That is a body of work, and more importantly it is a large enough sample to see which two or three things actually landed. You cannot learn that from six posts. Most people quit while their sample size is still too small to tell them anything.

The compounding here is not in any individual post. It is in accumulated evidence that you are still there — a signal nobody can fake and everybody can read.

What if the posting is not the problem?

Plenty of advisors are consistent for months and still see nothing. Usually they are posting into their own feed and walking away.

Arjun’s fix is twenty real comments a day on other people’s posts. Written comments, in sentences, that say something. Not a heart, not a fire emoji, not “great post.”

Think about how a networking event actually works. People arrive, dress well, stand near the wall holding a drink, leave after an hour, and decide the event was a waste of time.

They attended. Nobody would say they showed up.

“The event didn’t suck,” Arjun says. “You sucked.”

Posting and leaving is standing near the wall. Twenty comments a day buys twenty chances to be found. One post buys one.

Do you need better equipment?

No, and the belief that you do is usually the excuse rather than the reason.

Use the phone you already own. Buy a lapel microphone for around a hundred dollars. Stand facing a window so the light falls on your face instead of behind you.

That reads on camera as substantially more expensive than it is, because viewers do not consciously evaluate production quality — they abandon bad audio within seconds and they cannot watch a face that is backlit. Sound and light are the variables. The camera is not.

What ninety days actually buys you

Not results. A sample.

At the end of it you will have roughly forty pieces of work, a rough idea of which topics people responded to, and something more useful than either: proof to yourself that you can do an uncomfortable thing on a schedule.

That last one is the asset. Everything else in this business that compounds runs on the same capacity.

If you are at day fifty and it looks like nothing is happening, that is what day fifty looks like. It is not information yet.

Where to go next

Consistency is one part of a larger idea. Arjun’s full framework is that opportunity is visibility multiplied by value — multiplied, not added, so a zero on either side zeroes the whole thing. Most advisors are working hard on the side that is already strong.

The complete system, all eight plays, is in the free playbook, Best Known Beats Best (Vol. 010).

If the visibility half is your weak number, Known Before Needed covers why the relationship has to exist before the transaction does.

And The Social Media Mayor covers becoming the name your local market defaults to.

Listen to the full conversation with Arjun Dhingra:

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By Dino Katsiametis, Founder & CEO, Ethos Lending · Host, The Way Podcast

Based on a conversation with Arjun Dhingra, Founder, LFG Society, on The Way with Dino Katsiametis.

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