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Hi Trendier, the best way is to make friends and network
with the people around you. Go to networking events and
seminars and talk to people.

Setup your sales funnel and be your own frontend by talking
to your clients and helping them.

Did i answer your question correctly?

Yeah but once you were done with the seminar that was intended to get you new clients you would have to sit and talk to people that were trying to sell you... What a waste of time that would be! ha ha

Sure if you want to foot the bill and spend a ton of time on everything that goes into doing your own seminars. Don't get me wrong - you can crush it with hosting your own seminars, I've done it & when done right, it can be a huge payday for your business. But it's a lot easier to just show up and network. To this day, I still have clients that networked with at seminars.

One trick is to find out ahead of time & contact the person who's in charge and see if you can become a sponsor, so you can get added to their printed materials.

Makes a big difference when you're getting the recommendation of the person who's putting on the seminar.

carlo,

It appears your advice was expanded. I love this forum, so many people willing to help.

Have you ever considered sponsoring the event? I.e., ask the event organizer to let you pay some of the costs in exchange for them introducing you a few times to the audience and giving you the right to set up a boot? Cheaper than hosting an event all by yourself with the same (though less acute) benefits.

There's a 'go-to' guy for everything in every arena. Yet you market in those arena. Because you don't know who the go-to guy is?

If you make friends with them, earn their trust, some of them will leave the 'goto' guy when the 'goto' guy makes one mistake too many. Or when they find out the 'goto' guy can't do or doesn't want to do something you can and are willing to do.

Banks and insurance agents are greatly affected by online marketing.

If you're a small insurance agency, the kind that gets 20-22 new people buying from you a month, being #1 on Google for a bunch of keywords can easily get you 5-15 new clients a month. That's being affected.

Hell, even if you make it only to #3 for keywords like:
Chicago home insurance,
Park Ridge home insurance,
Skokie insurance

you can pick 2-4 new clients a month, like clockwork (assuming your website does it's job, your Google + page does it job, i.e., you have a good offer and good copy and you Google + page is properly done.

And, I've been to lots of different chambers of commerce. A lot of attendants are insurance agents and bankers. A lot of them are car repair people, office supplies people, dentists, attorneys, promotional product sellers, marketers, videographers, photographers, nail salon owners, men's suit store owners. You have to network, though, to find them, be introduced to them.

Look at a chamber of commerce's directory to find out who can be at an event.

Look at it, pick the ones that sound interesting, see if they were signed up to attend the last event you attended (often, on the site, before and after events, Chambers have lists of who's going to attend/attended) send them an email about the last event you attended:

Hi,

I didn't get a chance to meet you at X event. The nature of this kind of events, you just don't get to meet all the people. But I wanted to introduce myself and see if there's anything I can do to help you.

If they didn't attend:

Hi,

I noticed you're a member of X Chamber but did not attend the event. I don't know whether you'd have found it useful or not. But I met/talked to a number of awesome people. I might be able to connect you with them.

How about we meet so we can figure out if we can be useful to one another.

xxx

I've picked up clients at Chambers of Commerce. But it's networking, not selling. Bob Burg's book, Endless Referrals is an awesome book to learn how to fine tune your networking.