As you get ready to turn over the calendar and look ahead to 2020, curious what resources you lean on most for professional networking within the commercial real estate industry. Many seem to be present on LinkedIn, but I find it too broad and noisy to be useful within CRE. Most of the offline networks (e.g., NAIOP, ICSC, REBNY, etc.) are only updated a few times per year and are tedious to index/sort/search. Forums like WSO and reddit have industry focus but are mostly anonymous.
I built something to help with this. To use it, you specify what market(s) you focus on and what deals you've done in those markets (across jobs). You can then find and connect with other industry contacts who have overlapping interests and/or who you've worked with on deals. Things it can help with:
- Digitizing your network with minimal manual effort (vs a traditional contact database)
- Summarizing your track record and experience
- Finding people based on specific criteria
- Eventually, showing who has momentum and expertise in certain slices of the market
Please give it a look and also suggest other resources that come to mind. Thanks and Happy New Year!
