To get customers, you need to go seek them out. Do you really think if you create some sort of great product or service, customers will just flock to your door? Wish it did work that way, but it doesn’t.
You know who your target customer is right?
Go find them; don’t just sit there and wait for business to come to you. You need to find where those customers hang out, both virtually and physically.
Most customers need what you are offering; you just need to let them know you have it ready for them.
How do you do that? Here are 27 ways to get started finding those customers.
- Get on Twitter
- Check out your local chamber of commerce
- Get on Twellow
- Join Facebook groups
- Join Yahoo groups
- Look into Google groups
- Checkout Ning
- Search and interact on forums.
- Check out a conference.
- Have some business cards ready. Leave them at local restaurants and businesses.
- Search Backtype
- Search Whostalkin
- Read the blogs of those in your niche and see whom they link to.
- Comment on other blogs.
- Give great service to current customers – they will let others know about you.
- Check out job sites like Freelancewritinggigs.
- Cold call local prospects.
- Cold email local and long distance prospects. Do they need a web site? Let them know.
- Search Twitter
- Check the newspaper.
- Check the phone book.
- Ask those in your nice – you never know until you try.
- Check out non-profits.
- Take a drive and look – you never know what you will find.
- Partner with someone outside of your niche.
- Update your own blog or web site regularly – you will be checked out.
How do you search for your customers?
What do you have to add to the conversation?
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