For context I started a digital solutions company roughly 4 months ago. I've pretty much spent as much time as I've been allotted on developing this business. Business plan, logo, multiple websites, social media, systems, software setups, R&D, etc. From what I can tell I've pretty much gone through all the relevant startup steps and all that's left is getting clients. That's where the issue is. I cannot seem to secure a client to save my life. I have no money to spend on a cold email campaign software, lead acquisition, ads, etc. So I'm kind of stuck right now. I'm fairly confident that once I get that first check and I'm actually able to invest in some marketing and such that I'll be good. But as of right now the only free options available to me seem wildly inefficient, time consuming, repetitive, and draining. Manually researching and writing out cold emails everyday for example. Cold outreach especially from a virtually unknown new business has remarkably low conversion rates which means my best bet is high volume. But that means trying to do a bare minimum of around 100 emails a day and I'll have to also manually collect data on the leads to send these emails as well as try and keep track of them in my inbox. Not mention replies and follow-ups and such. That's hours of repetitive and rather tedious work every single day on one task alone. I like to think I enjoy working and that I'm a pretty hard worker but this just seems like a lot of very very boring work. Is there a better way to go about this or is that just the hard reality of it?