If I was starting out with no clients in digital marketing & business [#63]

Posted by Adam Franklin

[Go Between Bridge, West End, Queensland, Australia]

A question I’m asked in “what would you do if you were just starting out in business with no clients?”

Here’s my answer:

VIDEO – Starting out with no clients

TRANSCRIPT:  What I did when I had no clients

Hello. It’s Adam Franklin. The question today is “what would you be doing if you were starting out and you were looking to build your client base?”

If I was starting out in business, doesn’t really matter what business, I would be looking up the people that I would want to work with. I would actually be creating a dream 100 list of clients, I’d be looking them up online, through Google, through LinkedIn, through Facebook, and actually identifying the companies I want to work with, and then the people within those companies.

Dream 100 clients

There might be four or five different contacts at a company. There may just be one.

I would be creating a list of all of those people, at all the different companies, and having a systematic approach to reach out to them, form a relationship. And that can be done tactically by subscribing to their newsletter, to commenting on some of the posts they might be sharing on LinkedIn, or Facebook, or on a news website, and showing up on these peoples’ radar in a meaningful and constructive way, so that they know who you are.

If you do that across a hundred different companies, maybe a couple of contacts at each company… It’s not automated, it’s totally manual, but it’s important.

That’s the way that you’re going to get on the radar of these people, they’re going to know who you are, so that you’re actually earning the opportunity to have a, potentially, coffee with them, a conversation with them, or an email exchange with them.

Do it consistently

If you do that consistently over time with the companies that you’ve identified that you would like to work with, that’s the approach that I, personally, would take, and that I do take with my list of dream clients to work with. Some people, I’ve been nurturing or chipping away at for years.

Emails here and there, asking the question, “Are you ready to explore doing X, Y, and Z together?”

That’s what I would do. That’s what I do, do. Hope that helps. I love this time of year in Brisbane. Last day of autumn. See you later.

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