Getting started · Episode 16 of 17
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Finding new clients is the job that never gets done. Describe your best client in plain words, and Murage researches real local businesses that fit, opens each website to check it is real, and saves them in a sheet with why each one fits. Then ask for a short first note to each, drafts only, every one waiting on your yes.
Your next clients are out there right now. The hard part is finding the time to go looking. Ten real local businesses that fit her bookkeeping practice, found and put in a sheet. And a first note to each, drafted and waiting on her yes. Need more clients, but never find the time to go looking? Today, Murage finds real local businesses that fit what you do, puts them in a sheet, and drafts a short first note to each one. You check the list yourself, and every note waits on your yes. Let's find some. Step one: give the search a home. A new project: New bookkeeping clients in Bristol. Ember's on it. Create project. Now give it a folder. Details, Folder, Choose a folder. The New clients folder. Her notes on her practice are already in it. Set. Everything for this search lives here. Step two: say who's a good fit, in plain words. What she offers is in her notes. A small, owner-run Bristol business that probably still does its own books. Search the web for ten real ones, and open each website to check. Put them in a sheet: the business, why it fits, and a contact page. And don't contact anyone. Step three: watch it work. It searches the web on its own. Then, before it opens each website, Ember asks. Allow once. Site after site, it checks each one is real. Allow once, every time. Last, it asks to save the sheet. Allow once. Done. Ten local businesses, each with why it fits. Cafes, salons, a wellness studio, a plumber. All saved to a sheet in her folder. Step four: open the sheet. It's right there in her folder. One business on each row: its name, why it fits, and a link to its contact page. Step five: don't take its word for it. Pick one lead, and open its contact page. Bloggs Salon. Gloucester Road, just as the sheet says. Not every link will be perfect, so check a lead before you reach out. Step six: a first note for each business. Drafts only. Mention one real thing from their website, say how she can help, and keep it under eighty words. Address each one to a placeholder, and don't send anything. Before it changes the sheet, Ember asks. Allow once. Here are the first three. Each mentions something real about the business, and how she can help. All ten drafts are in the file. Nothing sent. And in the sheet, every business now has its own draft note, waiting on her yes. Step seven: keep the list topped up. A new routine: New clients, weekly top-up. It repeats each week. Ember gets the job. Its instructions: five more real businesses each time, skipping any already in the sheet. Drafts only. Save. Open it, and the instructions are all there. Contact no one, send nothing. She checks every note first. And you can pause it any time. Now try it for your own business. Put a short note about what you do in one folder. Describe your best client in plain words, and ask for ten real ones. Check one yourself. Then ask for a first note to each, drafts only. So that's how to find new clients. One folder, a plain description of who fits, and Allow once at every step. Check one lead yourself. Then let it draft a first note to each, with every note waiting on your yes. Your next clients are out there. Go and find them. Whatever you do, a studio, a salon or a practice, you get a list of real businesses that fit, and a first note to each, waiting on your yes. Real work, finished. By an AI team you never had to hire. Let Murage handle it. Get started at murage.ai.