You've already got your foot in the door of the industry.

Hi all,Quick intro - I am a CPA working for big accounting firm in downtown Chicago, spializing large RE clients, REITs, and financial industry clients.

My business was really prospering, just in time for the market to tank and for AMC's to begin their choke-hold on the industry.

I've been doing AdWords for 12 years... if you have an AdWords optimization process you can transform your account generating a $300 per lead into an account that generates $30 per lead or less... of course it's still subject to the competitors in your target location.most of the post here are old.. so I'll leave it at that if someone is interested in new info just ask and I'll try to answer.

If the wrong people are showing up you have some work to do on your system.A huge shift that transformed my bank account was learning these 3 marketing principles:1) Right Person2) Right Message3) Right TimeI am far from being a marketing expert, but I am learning quickly & constantly improving my skills.Once I became a serious student of marketing & discarded everything I thought I knew about real estate, things started to change for the better.

Government, an economic indicator that relates to labor, material and services.Marketing aspects of related industries, from timber to plastics.Insurance companies watch trends as it relates to new costs of construction and trickles through to premiums and losses.Hedge funds, the mortgage industry, securities, REITs are related to macro assessments.My point is that the closest aspect of macro numbers to your market is to motivation of buyers and sellers, temporary attitudes that may tell an owner "I should sell now" or "I need to hold off" but usually these temporary motivations or attitudes don't make it to the level of making a buy or sell decision, all such thoughts are simply indicators to form an opinion to lean toward further analysis of a personal situation.All real estate is local.

I owe another company in automotive industry, which is LLC and is classified as S-Corp.

And in my case, I have had the privilege of having some of the best mentors in my industry.

This title company is a reputable one, and they appear to be simply pushing the industry standard -- ie promoting fear -- when it comes to the Owner's Policy.

You stand out as the stop-dreaming-guy which is needed in this industry.