BrokerScience Joins the LeadPress Mortgage Network

The first addition is that BrokerScience is the first blog to join the LeadPress Mortgage Network! What does that mean besides a new grey toolbar at the top of the page? It means that BrokerScience is now tied in with the LeadPress Campus. This means that BrokerScience activity streams show up on the LeadPress Campus and registration for BrokerScience is now handled via the LeadPress Campus. Registering for a LeadPress account means you get a neato profile page and the chance to meet others, learn and network.

New Faces in Mortgage Blogging

We’re also really excited to be adding some talented folks to the roster as well. We think the mortgage blogosphere could use quite a bit of work and we’re hoping that BrokerScience can be a new and exciting channel for mortgage and real estate peeps alike. In fact, if you know someone that you think might be a good addition to the team, ping us at trace at leadpress dot com.

New Author Pages and Sidebar Highlights

Another cool addition we’ve added is the ability to highlight our contributors. All contributors will have their own author page, author box (at  bottom of posts) and sidebar highlight (look to the right). The sidebar highlight is kind of nifty too because the newest contributors to post are automatically pushed to the top where they will likely get more eyeballs. These author boxes have a brief author bio and also point to the author’s website, BrokerScience posts, email and LeadPress profile. If you comment on BrokerScience, LeadPress Campus visitors can see your comments and may even join in the discussion. If you haven’t checked out the LeadPress Campus or the LeadPress Forums, now might be a good time! Things are a bit slow, but will be picking up as we add new features and build traffic.

Author Page Highlight Box

Sidebar Contributor Highlight

Have Feedback? What Would You Like to See That’s Different?

Have some ideas on a new feature or topic you would like to see? Let us know in the comments or contact us at the contact page above and you can always ping me at trace at leadpress with any feedback or questions!

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Where does one go from such a melodic sequence of events that is music to the ears of anyone that has ever had the unfortunate experience of crossing paths with Ben Behrouzi? The truth is that there is nowhere to go. A little unknown blog with little to no traffic like BrokerScience can never accomplish what TechCrunch accomplished yesterday. More importantly, we’ve done more than our fair share of the heavy lifting in exposing Ben Behrouzi, ePerks, Leapfish and DotNextInc’s business practices. This means we are no longer going to be writing about Ben Behrouzi or any of his “companies”.

There is one main factor driving this decision: time. There are not enough hours in the day to work on my own projects and there are enough hours in the day to cover the Ben Behrouzi and his exploits. We simply have to pick and choose where our energy is going. You may have noticed we weren’t blogging much anyways over the past months except for Benham Behrouzi news when it occurred and that was again, due to time constraints. That is also the reason that there has been a disproportionate amount of Behrouzi coverage.

It pains us to make this decision because we have an extremely in depth analysis of LeapFish almost completed and we were approached by a legal team that has volunteered to do a case analysis of Brabus Ventures vs Vlad Zablotzkyy, but we’re done. Additionally, there are many more stories that could be written even though we have printed virtually none of the first hand accounts and experiences of current and former employees, customers and acquaintances that have crossed paths with Ben that come in the form of voicemails, emails, and first hand experiences.

There are some great takeaways and lessons to be had in reference to the brand destruction (personal and otherwise) that Ben has achieved through his legal tactics and business practices. I believe that ePerks vs Zablotzkyy and any future litigation that Ben may engage in have great potential to become case studies for collegiate level courses or otherwise teaching online reputation management and brand management. There is a lot to be learned from his mistakes, actions and business practices.

While we will no longer be writing about Ben or his companies, we will certainly defend ourselves if attacked online or elsewhere. It also goes without saying that if Ben were to bring ANY legal action whatsoever, we will make publicizing, writing about and exposing the case and renewing our exposure of Ben and his companys’ business practices our number one priority. This will entail creation of a defense website and media campaign in addition to publishing the first hand employee and customer accounts we have refused to publish up to this point. The truth though is that we were prepared to do this six months ago.

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Other BrokerScience Coverage of Ben Behrouzi / ePerks / LeapFish / DotNext:

Ben Behrouzi Caught on Tape: Threatens to Blackball Employee on Voicemail

Vlad Zablotzkyy Defeats LeapFish / ePerks / DotNext CEO Ben Behrouzi

Ben Behrouzi, LeapFish CEO Caught Spamming TechCrunch

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