Spent $400 on a 'client finder' tool that just emailed people for me

I bought a tool called LeadBot six months ago because I was slow and thought it would fill my calendar. It cost $400 for a year. The idea was it would find people who might need my web design work and send them a nice email. Instead, it just scraped old lists and sent generic messages. I got zero replies, but I did get my email address flagged as spam by a few services. It took me a week to clean that up and warm my email back up. The worst part was the time I spent setting it up and hoping it would work. I should have just spent that time talking to past clients. Has anyone found a good way to find new work that doesn't feel like spam?

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johnson.jade6mo ago

My friend's agency only gets work from referrals now.

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willow_ellis6mo ago

Yeah, referrals only. A friend's firm had the same thing happen, johnson.jade, after their website went down for a week and no one even noticed.

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henry_palmer245mo ago

Ouch, that's brutal. Means their actual marketing is doing zero work. Paying for a website and ads that bring in nothing. At that point, just save the cash and take your referral friends out for a steak dinner instead. Probably cheaper and gets the same result.

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