I have my own web dev business in the UK and have struggled getting new clients recently.
The word of mouth + referral bonuses dried up completely, which was a shame as client aquisition is always pretty hard, so if people do it for you, winner winner chicken dinner!
Anyway, i watched one of those videos on looking at google maps listings to find businesses listed without a website or just a socialmedia account link. And thought why not make my own lead source using Google places API to pull in whatever i wanted and get calling the ones that don't have a site etc. Surprisingly this has gone better than expected, 2 conversions from roughly 50 contact details pulled, i was in shock. Yes its cold calling but ive gotten a real thrill out of it. So basically i decided to push it live to world and see if others would even want this service, its been live with everything linked up for roughly one week and a resounding 0 sales thus far. Ill keep it going as my little side project, but for now it landed 2 clients that i would have spent a while finding through maps otherwise.
have a good day everyone!
If it works, it works, and you could be directly helping thousands of other small businesses that will never compete with you.
That’s awesome.
Thank you friend, we shall see if anything comes from it in the future.