When it comes to how good these tactics are in my area, it's hit or miss.

Try to build a company around the people, not build the people around the company. 

Hard for people to find using just the lookup function.  

When I go to events like this, I do go to some of the sessions, but most of my time is just sitting in the lobby chatting with people. 

This appeared to be everything I was missing.

People who complain about the quality of leads typically fail to understand that it takes months and sometimes even years to nurture and convert a lead.

I live in a community where half the people never lock their doors.

There are over 300k people in the greater Amarillo area so a cool event space like this could be very successful.

I am interested in meeting people from whom I can learn more about real estate investing. 

I do not know how they are handling new customers verse the Midland existing customers.Regarding the customer service it seems the people I dealt with are still employed and only my "personal rep" as it were, was promoted and another took her place.