Senior Construction Project Manager @ VareCo

My company is Investor Acquisitions. 

In short, I help real estate executives attract LP investors. 

What I've found is the best operators in real estate often neglect marketing. 

Marketing is important enough to wish you were better but not important enough to take it on on your own. 

Put another way: If operations fall apart? 
You don't have a business to market. 
If marketing falls apart? 
You've survived this long without it. 

However, there's a catch 22 to this approach to marketing. 

The modern real estate sponsor, broker & lender needs marketing. 

They need to be known. 

Social media expedites 2 key aspects of deal making: 
1. Building awareness of you. 
2. Building trust in you. 

My business is taking the hard work of figuring social media out off your hands, & replacing it with all the benefits. 
1. Being trusted and known at scale. 
2. Generating quality leads. 
3. Raising capital/closing deals. 

The fun stuff that comes from being known. 

Whether you're the CEO, an executive team, or a broker, our team at Investor Acquisitions can level up your brand & content on LinkedIn. 

Our business is telling your story.

If this resonates with you, DM "Intro" to schedule an introduction call.

Cole Baker

Warren Buffett bought 49% of Berkshire Hathaway for approximately $8.3 million. 

60 years later…

The company is worth $998 Billion. 

Warren Buffett credits most of his early success to a mentor. 

Benjamin Graham. 

Buffett summed up Graham’s influence in 3 ways: 

1. Graham taught Buffett compassion for shareholders.
2. Graham taught Buffett the importance of generosity.
3. Graham taught Buffett the intricacies of investing.

Buffett credits Graham having been his greatest teacher. 

The greatest investor of our generation credits a mentor as the greatest influence for his success. 

Don’t overthink it. 

Find a mentor.

P.S. Tag your mentor in the comments below! Show 'em some love!

I help real estate executives attract investors & build their brands | Trusted by 50 Firms | DM “Intro” to schedule a meeting with Investor Acquisitions

It took 1 year posting on LinkedIn to raise my first $1. 
It took 9 years before I started a profitable business. 
It took 24 years to find the woman I'd marry. 

All the good things we want take time & patience. 

Give yourself the grace to take that time.

$400,000,000 in transaction volume as a broker. 
30,000+ followers on LinkedIn. 
0 leads. 

A (now) client approached me with a question: 
• "Can you improve my LinkedIn results?"
• "I get 15K impressions each week."
• "I post content every single day."
• "I already have a following."
• "But I don't get leads." 
• "What do I do?"

In the last few weeks alone, this same client set 35 meetings from 100K+ impressions. 

Only 12 weeks into working together. 

Even cooler? 

As a broker, he has 10,000's of people seeing the deals he's selling each week. 

(Talk about a competitive advantage for his clients selling a deal)

Here's the exact post schedule we use for his content: 

M: Deal Breakdown Post
T : Asset-Type Education Post
W: Promotional Post for an Active Deal
T : Famous Person Post
F : Personal Post/Deal Breakdown
S: Weekly Update Post
S: Personal Post. 

P.S. Was this helpful? Comment below with what was most helpful.

Commercial Managing Director at Phyllis Browning Company | National CRE Educator | Army Veteran & Advocate | Property Operations Whisper | Maximizing Returns for Investors through Operations | Love to help New Agents

Commercial real estate isn’t rocket science. It’s harder.

At least that’s what it feels like when people are throwing around acronyms like IRR, NNN, and CAM as if they’re common sense. They’re not. That’s where I come in.

I help investors stop buying bad deals, business owners stop picking locations based on gut feelings, and new agents stop drowning in spreadsheets they don’t understand. My background? Army leadership + a few billion dollars in commercial transactions + a borderline unhealthy love for operations.

I teach, consult, troubleshoot, and occasionally nerd out about parking ratios. If you want to learn CRE without the ego or the fluff — I’m your guy. Reach out and let’s fix the thing that’s costing you money.

Oh and if you blind pitch me or “pitch slap” me, I am going to give you a hard time.  Try building rapport with me first.  

My 2026 Goals
Personal
1.	Take a Vacation
2.	Do one full day hike
3.	Make it to all my daughter’s school events.
4.	Have a great trip with just my wife. 
5.	Promote to Sr. Instructors with CCIM
6.	Certify to teach the Asset Management Track for IREM
7.	Write a Self-Paced Version to my New to CRE Training
8.	3 Outside Speaking opportunities
9.	Earn FRICS

Crossed Sabers Commercial Advisory Group
1.	Hire 2 new Jr. Associates
2.	All existing Team Members Make a CREI List
3.	Streamline Back Office process
4.	12 Podcast Guesting Spots

Crossed Sabers Asset Management  
1.	12 New Property Management Assignments
2.	Build Research Arm and publish twice.  
3.	12 Podcast Guesting Spots

Vets in Real Estate
1.	 Write “Vets in Real Estate Transition Stories” Book
a.	Get this book into Transition Centers and to Service Members for Free
2.	Double responses for Social Media Influencers Awards
3.	Set Up Sponsorship for Podcast/Community
4.	Grow Engagement
a.	Follower/Subscriber Account to 1,000 on all accounts
b.	Build Value in Facebook Group
5.	Set Up 4 Mastermind/Round Table Calls
6.	12 Podcast Guesting Spots

taplio

The Battle

Cole Baker

‏‏‎ ‎Will Curtis, CCIM, CPM

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance ScoreCole Baker's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

taplio

The Battle

Cole Baker

‏‏‎ ‎Will Curtis, CCIM, CPM

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance Score.css-goub6s{font-size:var(--chakra-fontSizes-md);font-weight:500;color:var(--chakra-colors-gray-600);display:block;margin-top:var(--chakra-space-1);}Cole Baker's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

Performance ScoreCole Baker's LinkedIn Performance