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Best place for new SEO clients?

Dear community,

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I have been doing SEO for over a decade and am in the process of starting my own agency.

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While I am lucky that I am already working with a handful of clients I obviously would like to rake in a good amount of solvent clients. In the past year I have had tremendous success in finding new clients over channels on Telegram. These were blockchain startups that posted job offers in those channels that were also cross-posted on the few crypto job-recruiting sites out there. Sadly, these channels are hardly ever updated anymore.

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My personal theory for raking in new clients consists of two possible go-to options:

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(1) Cold acquisition.

Meaning cold eamiling or cold calling prospective clients and seeing if they bite.
I have taken over a small number of clients from exisiting agencies who, if I remember correctly, had gained these clients by cold calling. So one way must obviously be cold calling them, even though I assume it to be a weak method.

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(2) There is a go-to online market place I don't know of.

It is rather impossible to find solvent clients here on reddit, that much I know. The same goes for the sweatshops such as upwork & Co. I sent out a dozen of applications over Indeed.com, too, which all led nowhere.

Is there any forum out there where companies are looking to retain professionals? I hear there is a market place where freelancers present themselves - are there reasonable hourly rates involved in this or is some 20$/hour job fair?

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I'd be interested in any recommendation by those that have successfully started their own agency. I am not yet looking to recruit other SEOs as for that I would need to create a stable client base first.

Thanks for any advice.

P.S. I shall cross-post this inquiry with other applicable subreddits.

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