Of your colleagues/competitors, how long has the oldest been in business?

Networking is key in this business, don’t look at your competitors as competition, look at them as strategic business partners and leverage that relationship to benefit both of you.

Be the best informed and prepared and you should outperform your competitors and investors will begin seeking you out.

What they do include is being the best PERCEIVED VALUE to the target market.I could always outperform the competitors because the properties were debt free.

., be sure to make a second call and check a competitor.

Worse, if you're talented, you'll end up a direct competitor.

Everytime RCN starts to jack our rates up my wife calls and tells them we are switching unless they match a competitors price (Comcast) of $99/ month guaranteed for two years of a bundle.

He went to one of my competitors who charged him an upfront 6,500 non-refundable fee. 

I also thought it might be a competitor and tried it again with an ad from postlets.

cbre, colliers, jones lang lasalle, cushman and wakefield huge companies core buisness is real estate , own and operate , lend lease , you name it they control a lot but the number 1 is cbre they control so much more than their nearest competitors