A tried-and-true tactic for acquiring new customers is business networking. Kansas City has all sorts of great networking opportunities, from the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, to the Central Exchange, to Principal Connections (sponsored by PerAspera Consulting, LLC.)
These events can help you build your email marketing list, just as well as they can help you add one new client at a time.
Referrals are one of the best ways to grow your business--and your marketing list. While it would be an overstatement to say that everyone in Kansas City knows everyone else, there are very few "degrees of separation" between any two business-people in our town--and all (or almost all) of those business-people have computers. If you aren't sending them email marketing messages, someone else is...
Consider turning to people who already know, like and trust you for leads on new local prospects who might value your communications.

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