Some of them would do door knocking but those no solicitor signs tend to work well. Gas, time and shoe leather are expensive too, so that tends to slow down that sales technique for prospecting. If you legitimately want to work with local businesses, look at your local Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Business Networking International, and local trade organizations.

I had them try and reach out to me hundreds of times for domains that are literally a landing page for my web hosting company as they were bought for speculative reasons or reputation management. I really don’t need mycompanynamesucks(.)com to have SEO.

I am sure that eliminates 99.5% of the people as they are overseas. A few might be in the same country but still too far away, and then there will be a few that are actually local or local enough to reply back with possible dates.

I love how they think they know where my business is, but they clearly haven’t done any research as it is just a lawyer’s office and not my actual place of business.

I know a lot of small businesses that already have too many customers and don’t need more. They make enough money already, they lack the capital to expand, they lack the staff, or they don’t have the space the expand. If they did expand, it might be a million dollars, and the return on investment is too low so it would take a decade to just break even. They are actively raising prices to push some customers away permanently or temporarily already. I know it seems crazy to not want to make more money, but it takes more money to make more money. They no longer do promotions or discounts as it isn’t necessary anymore.

The aggressive sales techniques are just horrible. They might work in their native country, but not where the buyer lives. I can only imagine them trying to sell this to US auto dealers, for the last few years they are busier than ever. Sales and service is always busy, and even independent repair shops have a 3-4 day waiting period before they even look at the car.