I am a web developer from APAC region and have worked for clients in LATAM/US regions in past.
But I want to scale it now and have at least 3-4 clients on $3k/month retainer where I and some people I hire from my local community would work on building their MVPs, maintaining their codebase and scaling their product.
I would oversee the quality of work and work alongside the people I hire so that I can provide the best possible quality work to my clients.
The only struggle I have right now is to find those clients and close deals with them.
Not many people trust developers from 3rd tier countries, but fortunately I have past experience and portfolio of work to show them so that might help.
But where should I be looking for these potential clients and what should be the optimal way to approach them?
The only struggle to making your money is… making people give you money.
Your problem is that you’re looking at it like “if I only get a few customers this will work”, but you’re trying to enter a market that’s been cold emailed/spammed to absolute death for more than a decade.
No serious, and competent, buyer of your type of services will consider you without anything beyond your email/DM wanting them to pay for your services.
You’re facing a type of sale where the recipients have already seen every version of first sentence/subject line you could ever think of, and they now recognize it as something to delete unseen (if it even gets passed the spam filters).
It’s either a very high volume game (that could get you reported as spam often enough to burn your domain), or you need something more. You need something like personal introductions and recommendations. Or perhaps get yourself a collaboration with an angel investor using your services to quickly make all their projects look more professional.
To scale you ideally want those new projects without the very costly/time consuming process of randomly trying to reach random people that are completely unrelated to any other client or your business/network.