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  1. Enzo.Deniau

    Is my prospecting method good?

    IDEA 
    Hello everyone, I create websites in France, nothing too fascinating. I'm just trying to make my first source of income online, but I'm having trouble finding clients and prospects. Someone advised me to offer my services for free for a limited time. The first person who called me kindly...
  2. cikatomo

    10,000 comfortably NOs cold call challenge

    EXECUTION 
    Why?: I wanted to start my own drywall company, but realized I need to learn how to sell. Knowing almost nothing I have googled "how to sell" which led me here and somebody posted Benjamin Dennehy video: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8yFUyD_JXU I loved it, it made sense to me and now...
  3. Andy Black

    An example of emails I send to referrals

    MARKETING 
    A web developer introduced one of his clients to me. Below is my second email to the prospective client. In the first email I promised to do a quick bit of research and send it to him this morning. I kept that promise and sent the email below at 11:30am. (It's important to state when you're...
  4. Andy Black

    Don't Ask, Give

    NOTABLE! HOT! MINDSET 
    Too many folks just ASK... How do I find a client? How do I find a mentor? How do I find a business idea? Or they want to give, but ASK how... Can I help you? What can I help you with? Do you need help with XYZ? Don't ask, give. Don't even ask what you can give, or ask for permission...
  5. perchboy

    Canada's Home Services Empire

    NOTABLE! HOT! EXECUTION 
    I decided to go with a home service business because the competition here is a bunch of old chinese men who don't know what PPC stands for. I have a HUGE advantage in this niche because I am of the 1% of home service businesses that knows how to put themselves online. I can totally see myself...
  6. Paul David

    Roast my Email (or SMS/cold call script etc)

    MARKETING 
    I thought it might be useful for those of us who do cold outreach to have a roast my outreach content thread. We could post our content here and get some feedback from the business owners in the group on whether they liked it, hated it or offer advice on what they'd change. I'll start. Here's...
  7. S

    Any suggestions on how to find clients for SEO?

    MARKETING 
    Currently partnered with a friend who does SEO amazingly but I'm not sure where to look to find clients. Any advice? I currently do web design but my clients are too small for our services. So yeah, other people who do SEO here, what would you suggest? I'm pretty confident in ranking them quite...
  8. Paul David

    What's the best cold email or DM you've ever received?

    MARKETING 
    Been doing a lot of research into cold outreach. Done correctly it can work really well. What worked in 2015 however may not work as they do now. What's the best cold email you've ever received? Would you be more inclined to respond if somebody asked for advice rather than pitched their...
  9. F

    Where can I find clients for our E-Commerce Agency?

    Hello guys my name is Fiete and i live in Germany, in the near of Berlin. I am currently running an e-commerce agency with my business partner. We get a lot of recommendations and have a good customer network. But we don't just want to rely on our regular customers, now we want to invest more...
  10. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Hey all! This is it! My first progress thread! I'm a FWS student, having joined back in may, and I'm on the cusp of going from portfolio work to full-time client work this month. It's sort of been hell, I was struggling with overtime at my dayjob, so I started waking up at 4:30am everyday to...
  11. Siddhartha

    27 minutes or less: How to cold call prospects while dealing with a dayjob?

    SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Howdy all, Lately I've been re-engineering myself to create value, and right now in my journey, I have an interesting problem in uncharted waters. I'm working to develop a real web-design business from the ground up. To do this, I'm working on filling my pipeline via prospecting and winning...
  12. Lex Love

    Use Variety in Your B2B Inside Sales (Videos, Hand-Written Letters, etc.)

    MARKETING 
    B2B selling is becoming more and more complicated and customers are doing more of the sales process on their own than ever before. These folks are becoming increasing resistant to giving their time to yet another pitch, and catching attention early and powerfully is critical to earning an...
  13. Crazy GG

    90 Day Cold Calling Challenge

    EXECUTION 
    Hello everyone! I will be making a 90 Day Cold Calling challenge where I will call local businesses for 3 months straight on working days. With this, I hope to change my life so stakes are high... I will be posting updates at the end of each day. P.S.This is inspired by @Vilox legendary post...
  14. Jonny Blaze

    Sales Prospecting Question

    Hello all, So I have posted to this forum before about my personal clothing brand, so far I'm very pleased with the support and interaction I have been getting with social media and in-person events. So I decided to try and get a job at a local print shop so I could work on my screen printing...
  15. EdwardSavage

    Can I use someone else's site as an example?

    Hello, As I am starting in web design, I do not have a consolidated portfolio that I can use as an example for prospects. Would it be okay if I linked potential clients to a website not created by myself, if I know I can make something similar?
  16. J

    To write a letter, or to hire a writer....

    MARKETING 
    Ok, here's the situation. I'm working a sales job. I took the job to get better at selling. This is an "earn while you learn" experience. I see an angle. I see an opportunity to (maybe) apply leverage by prospecting an area my new colleagues may have overlooked. My idea is to test my theory...

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