Web design and local SEO agencies
Find agency clients without waiting for referrals
Build a list of local businesses that fit your agency, and write to each one about something on its own website.
What you want
A steady flow of new clients, so your pipeline doesn't depend on who refers you this month.
What gets in the way
- Referrals come and go, so work arrives in waves.
- Prospecting gets dropped as soon as client work gets busy.
- Generic pitches look like every other agency email.
How this helps
- Pick a niche and a city, and build a list when you need one.
- Start each email from something on that business's own website.
- Review every email, so it still sounds like your agency.
Who you could find
Examples. AI suggests the types that fit your own website.
Dental practices
They often list individual treatments, each one a service to be found for.
Physical therapy clinics
Local patients search by condition and by area.
Law firms
Practice areas give you a clear topic to write about.
Remodeling contractors
Project types and service areas are usually on the site.
What a lead looks like
Example only. The business, address, website text and sender below are fictional.
- Business
- Harlowbeck Home Remodeling
- Category
- Remodeling contractor
- Location
- Denver, USA
- Website
- harlowbeckremodeling.com
- [email protected]
- Email status
- Confirmed
- Website fact
- The services page lists kitchen renovations and bathroom remodels.
- Source
- harlowbeckremodeling.com/services
- Reason to write
- A named service could be relevant to an agency that builds local service pages.
The email
Subject: Your kitchen renovations page
Hi, I'm Sam from Corvane Web. We build local service pages for remodeling contractors in Denver. Your services page lists kitchen renovations and bathroom remodels. A page for each service could be a useful thing to look at. Are you the right person to ask about your website? Thanks, Sam Corvane Web
Emails include your company name and an unsubscribe link, plus a postal address if you add one to your sender profile.
Some addresses can't be fully confirmed because the mail server accepts everything. They're labeled, may bounce, and you can leave them out.
Other things you could write about
- On their website
- A clinic's website names the towns it serves.
- How you could use it
- Suggest local pages for those towns.
- On their website
- A law firm's website lists its practice areas.
- How you could use it
- Offer ideas for promoting one practice area.
A good first list
An example setup, not a forecast of how many leads you'll get.
- Business type
- One niche you already know, such as remodeling contractors, if the analysis suggests it.
- City
- One city where your case studies or local knowledge will count.
- Radius
- Start with the default 15 km, then widen it if the list ends short.
- Target
- 10 ready leads
- Filters
- Leave rating and review minimums off at first. Turn on Skip chains if you sell to independent businesses.
A narrow niche gives you better reasons to write and makes your offer easier to compare.
What this test costs
- A target of 10 reserves 10 credits. Each ready lead uses 1 credit, and the rest go back to your balance when the list ends.
- Businesses without a usable email or a specific reason are left out at no cost. A ready lead stays charged if you skip it.
- Your free account includes 20 credits, enough for this test twice.
- After that, credit packs start at $29 for 100 credits. Starter is $49 a month and Growth is $149 a month.
What changes
You still decide whether a business fits, and whether your offer is right for it.
Doing it yourself
With CornerLead
Wait for referrals and scramble when they slow down
Build a list for one niche and city whenever you need one
Prospect in the gaps between client work
Get checked emails and website facts without the manual research
Send a pitch that could be about any business
Start each email from a fact on that business's website
Questions before you start
Will it find sites that are slow or rank badly?
No. We don't audit websites or search rankings, so emails won't say a site is slow or ranks badly. You can add your own findings when you edit an email.
Will I reach the owner?
Not always. Many small businesses publish one general address, so ask who handles the website.
Can I use this for my clients' campaigns?
You can paste a client's website to analyze it, as long as you may send on their behalf. Each sender profile should show who is really sending.
I don't like cold outreach. Will this feel like spam?
That depends on how you use it. Write to businesses you could really help, about something relevant to them. You review every email, each one has an unsubscribe link, and a mailbox sends at most 50 a day, a few minutes apart.
What happens after I send?
Replies go to your own inbox, and we don't read it. For emails sent from the app, mark replies and bounces on each lead. Bounced and not interested addresses are blocked from future lists. Follow-up emails aren't automated.
What should I check before sending?
Check that your details, claims and offer are accurate, and follow the email rules where you and the recipient are based. A public address doesn't by itself give you permission to contact it.
See who you could sell to
Paste your website to get a free analysis, then try a small list with 20 free credits.
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