I haven’t even mentioned many other start-up companies that are worth billions and tens of billions like Square, Pinterest, Twitter, Linked-In, Go-Pro, etc.

These events provide an opportunity to connect with other real estate investors and industry professionals, exchange ideas, and network in a virtual setting.Social Media: Utilize social media platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to connect with others in the real estate investment community.

Three sectors — retail, business services and government — are hurting overall job growth.Businesses are spending more on equipment (automation), and that was one of his highlights of yesterday’s third-quarter GDP revisions up to 3.3 percent growth.Regardless of politics and feelings about tone and Twitter storms from President Donald Trump, the U.S. economy is performing well – at least for investors, businesses and the wealthy.Trump’s rhetoric on trade — including China and the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada — hasn’t resulted in all-out trade wars.Geopolitical turmoil, including North Korea’s missile tests, could be the biggest threat to a continuation of the current positive economic climate.

I had to cancel my existing AMEX yesterday and get a new card because someone got the number and charged $200 to "Twitter advertising services".

I appreciate all the comments.We still have a bunch of free PRO trial accounts to give away . . . jump on this thread, the blog post above, Twitter, Facebook, or any other social site and promote the blog post, and you'll have your very own.

So I advise you to become colleagues with them, and follow all of their posts here, as well as to follow them on FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter, Activerain, Trulia, and all of the other Real Estate-related sites where you will find their articles.

Reference ands share your articles in facebook, Twitter, Plurk, and other social sites, plus learn about using pictures and videos with long tail keyword phrases in the inscription and title.

For those of you on Twitter... if you follow @GSElevator you'll get some insight as to the types of folks Smith worked with.Personally it is all about the bottom line, but within reason.

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