Re: Paying for work leads

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:13:56 -0500, William D. Green
<wgreen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>If the signing of the contract would put you under I would heavily
>suggest you not to try any of those services right now. I would
>suggest you spend the same or less amount of money or time beating the
>street in your area. Cold call everything in your area, and then do
>it again and again. When you make the second or third call on some of
>these people they will begin to think you are serious and you must be
>getting work and doing ok cause you are still around. You will get
>work in your area if you can sell yourself. That is the key.
>
>If you have problems with selling yourself and what you can do it will
>be tough on you and your biz.

IIRC The local chambers of commerce have a fair idea what
businesses in their area do .... some of which might involve
machined parts.
IIRC The US Department of Labor also breaks things down
by the SIC industry code which you can search by in various areas.
And the small business folks can probably help too and/or SCORE.

And you can ask your local librarian or reference librarian
for help too I expect (public library if the wingers have not
gotten them closed or stolen the book).

HTH
--
Cliff
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