Seeking advice from CRE insiders. Where is the low hanging fruit?
I’m 29 and have a background in marketing and graphic design. Straight out of college I’ve been employed and I worked for corporations large and small. Recently I had a sickness in the family and had to take on new responsibility in caretaking and so try to figure out a way to make things work by working from home. So I decided to pursue freelance graphic design with CRE as my niche. I do offering memorandums (OM), executive summaries, site plans, stacking plans, flyers, brochures and things of that sort for the CRE industry. Taking on new clients has been rather slow. I’m doing my bit of sending out emails etc., but was wondering if any of you may have some insight into opportunities that I can target, Can you help me identify the “low hanging fruit”? Right now my strategy is to find CRE brokerages who put out documents/pdfs where it's obvious they don’t have an in house art department, and reach out to them. My solution is to work with them to develop/design an initial OM template, and then adapt each new property to said template. The rates for this are in very high contrast to agencies doing the sort of work, and some find that having an on-point graphics specialist like me doing work per-diem is more favorable and manageable than having an in-house one.

[Here is my portfolio.](http://behance.net/kayetan)

Thank you in advance, any insights would be greatly appreciated!
[{"id": "ctpyav6", "text": "[low hanging fruit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRZpligDOs)  \n\nYou should hit up non-national brokerages. Start with your local market and branch out. GL. ", "replies": [{"id": "ctpzop3", "text": "Haha, oh yeah thats some good fruit, and thank you!", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ctq52b4", "text": " As you probably know, the large companies (CBRE, JLL, Colliers) have their own marketing staff. I bet if you target small shops like \"Jack Smith Realty Advisors LLC\", you might have some success. I think a way to get their attention would be to make a one-page snapshot of market conditions (vacancies, new developments, etc.), and send that to all the firms in that market as a 'free sample'. \n\n", "replies": [{"id": "ctq82gb", "text": "Thats a very good idea, I've seen a ton of quarterly and yearly market snapshot documents from various CRE firms, but never made one myself, I'm going to try something like that, Thanks!", "replies": [{"id": "ctqbjpt", "text": "taking a step further, slap their logo and color scheme on it, personalize it.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ctvpppr", "text": "Along the lines of free samples, I would consider going to listing websites that have all of the brokers' listing info and contact info, and make them sample works. Check out CommercialSearch.com, a free, national public marketing website of commercial properties.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ctwxghj", "text": "Look at this:\n\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/77202768", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]