What potential clients to target?

[AndyB]

I'm a freelance designer, and as happens every so often, I'm a little short on clients at the moment. Usually, I'd email around PR firms, as I find they're usually a very good source of work, but I'm a little sick of the white wine and sharp suit brigade now. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for an alternative type of businesses to target?

ta

 

[bigdave]

create 3 lists:
a: What are your strongest disciplines/what do you like doing.
b: Sectors or types of business do you'd like to work with.
c: The kind of budget you can work with

Now, look for businesses that fall into list b which is lacking something from list a and probably have a budget from list c. After that it's all about getting to talk to the right people and helping them realise the need.

Good luck

 

[Edge]

I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for an alternative type of businesses to target?

ta

You can actually credit check your prospects and get a picture of well they are doing financially so I would include that as part of my targeting process.