Be the expert. Call your local chambers and biz groups and offer a free seminar on logo planning and styling or the best way to do whatever you do best. Find n

Be the expert. Call your local chambers and biz groups and offer a free seminar on logo planning and styling or the best way to do whatever you do best. Find non-profit groups and do the sane thing. When you are in front of a group, you become the expert. Give everyone that attends something free to download from your site and let them optin to your email. Make it so when their friends say they need someone, you come to mind. Give away ALL your knowledge. Do it yourselfers will remember and refer and those that need help will ask. Hold/sponsor a local best business idea contest and give away a logo or biz card design. Get the local press to publicize and write about it before and after. Team up with the people that are helping you to help them publicize themselves and give away an hour of their services. Have local powerful people that are highly networked and recognized as judges so they remember and talk about you. Always be willing to advise and help to the extent it doesn't kill productivity. Volunteer at local events doing what you do and get your web address on their promo materials. Blog, blog, blog about what you do, local community, new businesses, etc. make sure to include your community name. Take successful business people to lunch and ask them for advise and offer to help them in any way you can. They'll remember you when someone needs a referral. Create a network of local creative businesses both competitive and not. Hold a monthly luncheon to discuss your business and help each other grow. Find the ones you like best and refer business to them that you can't or don't want to do. Write a press release for every new client signing. Send to local paper and blogs. Post on your site. Make it all about promoting them with mentions of you. Talk up and refer every local business you know or meet. Always be about helping them to connect and grow. The good actions will come back to you. Constantly be a connector.