I started my own business today. Got a few questions that you GLP entrepreneurs might be able to answer.

Having been in sales most my life, I had to learn to think outside-the-box in finding leads. I'd usually work boiler room type jobs where management would hand us big huge stacks of yellow page listings and tell us to go nuts and 'always be closing'. But when I'd call, half the numbers are outdated and then the people I do talk to are so annoyed and fed up with every sales person in a tri state area calling them it'd be a miracle just to get someone willing to even hear you out.

So long story short I developed a tried and true technique of generating listings every week (sometimes daily) of brand new businesses that are just barely opening up, all around the dallas fort worth metroplex. Some of these people haven't even opened their doors yet. But I get these listings complete with owner contact info, street address, etc for just about every city in the metroplex and all together it adds up to roughly 150-200 new 'leads' every week that are guaranteed new businesses.

I've toyed with the idea of selling these leads for a long time but just never got off my ass to give it a real honest effort until I finally just made a website, created a presentation, compiled a finalized database of every listing from the past week ready to pitch to sales reps and contractors, including a mini report of 15 leads that I ask them to try out so they can see these are, in fact, new businesses and not regurgitated phone book listings or something.

I dont want to oversaturate the market with them either so I've mapped out different sectors of industry (security, janitorial, office supplies/furniture, P.O.S. systems, etc etc) where I will find a sales rep or contractor to represent each sector and offer them the exclusivity as well so they know that they are the only..say..commercial window washer that I'm selling these leads to and actually stick to that promise!

Do any of you have any pointers?

I guess what I'd like to know would be WHO, in your expertise and opinion, would be most interested in new business leads?