Getting Clients without Cold-Calling?

Find a sales person and pay them a cut of the biz. There are plenty of free lancers out there, look on CL. If you have a recurring revenue model that would be way more attractive to a sales person.

Josh, when I started my biz, I was phasing myself out of another and I got home at 4:00 pm every day and called until 6:00 pm.

Thank of businesses where the owner always has their cell phone on them. You will be surprised at how many of them put it on their websites. Think about handymans, limo drivers, and fishing charters. There a lot of businesses you can get a hold past 5:00 pm. Not sure what hours you are free, but there are ways man. Craigslist works as well.

Direct mail works wonders!!

Do a 3 step campaign to small businesses you see doing a lot of advertising. Maybe you want to send out some 3D self-mailers. Send something unique. Use large postcards... something to get noticed.

Direct the prospects to a website or video to catch their contact info.

Give them a reason to respond, now!

Josh, consider this:

Postcard mailings and similar things are not any different than cold callings. It's again a "cold call", just through a different media.

Let me explain why.

I have been in the websites business for more than a decade and I was once there, where you are now. I have been struggling to get customers. I have tried a lot of methods and most just didn't work.

Think a moment you would run a restaurant and offer chinese food. Now, would you reach out and try to get those in your restaurant, that want italian food, the ones that want indian food and so on? No, restaurants never do this.

There is a good reason for this. You have to seek out the people, that are already interested in what you have to offer!

So, before you even consider, which method you are going to use, stop there and think a moment, what are you going to offer. Think in that way, that you are going to offer a solution to those seeking to solve a specific problem. So, which problem is the one you are going to solve for them?

Once you point this clearly out for you, naturally you are going to be able to say, which customers would be really interested in your offer.

From there, it's a small step to find out, where those customers might be looking for these services. THAT's where you have to approach the customers you want and won't waste your some hours in the month you put aside for this job, only to chase customers in the end. This way, you are going directly to the ones, that are already looking for what you offer.

I hope this helps some.

Have you considered phone broadcasting? With a good recorded sizzle message interested prospects will record their name and number, requesting a call back from you.

Because they don't care to run a business; they don't want the responsibility or headaches; they prefer only doing sales; they don't want to work more; they're already busy enough and just need some way of making quick cash. Retired sales people looking for some extra income perhaps? Moms with kids in school free to make calls during the day? College kids with various schedules?

Sounds to me as if the solution could be helped if you had a strategy first regarding how you acquire new clients. Then the next step would be to carry out that strategy through the appropriate medium whether it's direct mail, telephone sales and craigslist. Figure out the business model first.