As a new reseller whats the best way to find clients?

Forums, SEO, Blogs. Anywhere that you can promote will help you find clients. Promote Promote Promote. That's the key.

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Commenting blogs haha

Greetings,
If you are just starting out I would recommend starting off locally and establish your brand there which would be easier to accomplish than online.
Antony

Commenting blogs? Can u give me an example of type of blog and what I would say?

Google AdSense, Advertisement on websites.
SEO(Search Engine Optimization)
Just advertise all you can that your budget will allow.

Networking is a very necessary ingredient to jumpstart and sustain your business.
I recently attended a conference sponsored by Yellow Tie where the guest speaker (Bob Burg) mingled with the attendees minutes prior, then started by asking everyone he had talked to, to stand up - we're talking twenty to thirty people he had never seen or met previously. He then proceeded to ask them to sit down if he remembered their name and association - and one-by-one he called out all but two. How many times do you meet a prospect, exchange cards, chat briefly, then five minutes later cannot remember their name? Networking is a learned skill perfected via practice.
Team up a web designer, or two or ten. Possibly a business consultant? I personally recall a sales rep that networked with an IT consulting firm that directed thousands of dollars her direction when their existing clienteles's ISP went under. Lay the groundwork for your success by maximizing your connections in the industry.

Commenting blogs? Can u give me an example of type of blog and what I would say?
Create a blog and update it often. No other content is necessary.
Join a website like despair.nu, which is a blog commenting network. On your blog, obviously advertise your web hosting company. And when commenting peoples blogs, don't shamelessly plug your company haha.

A great source is your city hall - get the public newspaper of daily new registered businesses in your area and approach them.

I posted here and other forums to find all of my clients

I agree with SteveBloemer's idea about teamign up with Web designers. Designers like me will be loyal to a host that offers great service, support and capabilties that can be relied upon.

Hi Everyone,
I am new here. I just started an online marketing consultancy but I have been doing online marketing for several web hosting companies for a few years already.
It's quite hard to use plain SEO/google ppc/site improvements (metatags)/interlinks as a marketing strategy for web hosting companies.
This is a very very competitive business and if you are a new reseller, you'd be competing with a lot of bigger companies who have a lot more marketing $$. They have been on the net for a longer time too and have developed all sorts of blogs etc.
This is why I agree with Steve. I think networking is one of the best ways to start.
But I suggest that you focus on specific areas... say focus on your community first and encourage small business owners in your community to develop a website that you can host. What's better is if you can provide web devt services for them as well. So you have to be able to offer complementary products. Then grow slowly through word of mouth. Reinforce your marketing through a blog but remember to always involve a specifically targeted community. Then once your services are known and widely used in the community you chose, you can expand to target another community.
However, if you have a LOT of marketing $$ to spend, then by all means, you can target interstate locations in USA or in other countries too if you can offer a rate as competitive as the big players.
Hope this helps.
Leah

Yeah I found about half of my clients here on Web Hosting Talk, the rest are local people in my area... My goal for the next month is to double my clients well see if I do it! :)

Word of mouth is good i believe, forum posting and seo your website.

We started off by doing bits for local companies & small businesses. Over the years this has steadily grown though word of mouth & advertising on forums etc.

Basically searching for their posts on forums , blogs

Basically searching for their posts on forums
Which of course is against the rules here at WebHostingTalk. ;)
:D Bailey

Newspaper, Web Hosting Talk, Forums, Bulletin Boards, Direct Mail Advertising, Door to Door.
Perhaps giving out free services to people, good way to get your word out. Free people with limited benefits might want to try your business with full benefits!

Which of course is against the rules here at WebHostingTalk. ;)
:D Bailey
Not necessarily, if someone is asking to find a host and you PM them a list with yours on top that's completely fine. :P

I would think that would be fine as long as someone is looking for a host and they have stated that on WHT.

To advertise my new business I have got 500 business cards which I'm going to post at colleges and uni's through my friends so thats likely to generate some income. Also drop a few in at local computer stores and so on. Then finally I posted alot of posts on forums and so on. Any forums I use I have my website's link in the sig and also in all personal emails I have a link to my website. Using social networks I also put links on every so often for my website's.
This generates alot of trafic and a few sales. Anyone know of any better ways to advertise and gain clients.
I'm also thinking of registering with Companys House in the UK as a business and advertising in local news papers.
Ben.

... you PM them a list with yours on top that's completely fine. :POr not ... If you SPAM our members in any manner, your account will be disabled. Do not contact anyone to suggest your product or service who is not explicitly expecting you to contact them from an advertising forum post. If you glean information from anywhere other than the advertising forums and use that information to contact someone and present an offer, it's SPAM and it will affect your WHT account standing.

Or not ...
Your telling me if someone is asking for some good hosts and you PM them a list as they asked you'd receive a infraction?
That's a bit pushing the limits, is it not? I mean this is a forum for social fun and getting help :P

Your telling me if someone is asking for some good hosts and you PM them a list as they asked you'd receive a infraction?
That's a bit pushing the limits, is it not? I mean this is a forum for social fun and getting help :PI don't want to detract from this thread and get into a debate over the semantics of the rules here. But, yes. If someone asks in a thread to list some hosts in a thread and you PM them a list with your name on it, that's SPAM. Plain and simple SPAM. And nothing you say is going to have us look at it any differently than SPAM.
There's plenty of ways here to gain customers. SPAMMING for them won't be one of them.
If you want to discuss this more, please open a help desk ticket or a feedback thread.

Advertising on local market is a good strategy for new clients

Try to affiliate with some web designers! People often need somewhere to host the web site when its finished and have decided to get the site designed first.
You could offer web designers a special deal such as their own coupon code that offers some sort of discount so the designer can mark up the price and resell the account to their client.
Make sure the designer already has web hosting so they don't ask you for a free account to host their web site.

advertising in communties where the incoming potential might be, get customers localy by making deals with firms, put up posters etc.

Assigning a signature to your post forums is the best way of advertising your business.Maintaining good relations with the people and maintaining good communication and reputation in the market is great aspect to promote your business.

Yes I Think A Good Way Of Advertising Would Be To Add It To Your Forum Signature And Then Post A Lot Maybe Become Well Known In The Community And People Will Start To Trust You.

I think pretty much all the main methods of finding clients have already been listed. You should find customers in every way possible.
If you live in a metro or city area, I'd highly recommend focusing on providing web hosting services to local customers. You're able to charge a higher premium on your services.
It's really just trial and error, testing many different marketing campaigns. Developing a name for yourself and providing a quality service so your customers can carry your company name for you. Once your up there, word of mouth is your best friend.