While you may be trying to be helpful with your list, the title of your article entry is a bit misleading. For example, I was a lead consultant for a real estate marketing firm, and I saw their business dwindle over the course of a year when the real estate marketing began to decline several years ago.

I understand you are trying to help and have good intentions, so keep up the good work!

@ comments on targeting real estate: I haven’t approached real estate in the past couple months, but as some people have pointed out in these comments, the larger firms that are facing serious losses or closure have to give a last ditch effort and have been looking to copywriters, social media promotion, etc. to bank on all the news around their industry. Also, don’t just go after traditional agents. Go after the people who are popular right now - mortgage lending, foreclosures, etc.

@ The Nadir: I’m not saying you have to choose these industries. I personally refuse to work with pharma companies. I prefer natural medicine and nutrition. But the title of this article was not “inspiring industries to work for,” it was “profitable industries.” Whether you choose to work with them is up to you and outside the scope of this article.

@ Nigel Hall: interesting mention about VCs. I will say you may be right about that. I haven’t approached VCs cold, but networked into them through colleagues. Thank you for pointing that out.

@ Dean: this is an article, not an ebook or a complete process. I can’t give you the industries, how to approach them, what to say, etc. all in two pages. If you look at the other articles I’ve written here so far, they give many of those other pieces you’re asking for.

As far as my having failed at a business, I’d like you to find a millionaire who hasn’t failed at a business venture at some point. There are a couple out there, but three years ago when they surveyed millionaires, the average statistic was that it took them SEVEN FAILED BUSINESSES before they succeeded.

I also personally believe and have found that our greatest successes come from our greatest failures. One of my favorite quotes is, “Success is simply getting up one more time than we fall down.” Show me someone who has succeeded without having ever failed and I’ll show you someone who is kidding themselves.

@ Liam: I say the same - this is an article. I can’t cover EVERYTHING. Check out my other articles on this site. To answer your questions, read the one about landing clients nearly 100% of the time. I’ve found it to work even in extreme cases. I haven’t yet used it to close a company with funding whom I didn’t have a referral into, however I will test that out now and report back.

@ everyone else: thank you so much for all the great feedback. It’s much appreciated.

All my best,
Jaime

What the article is missing is the HOW.
1. HOW you close a deal with a company struggling for cash?
2. HOW do you get in front of the decision maker in a company that has just gotten $9m in funding? Because EVERYONE is hounding them now that news of the funding is public knowledge, and they are SICK of strangers soliciting to relieve them of it.

Give us the hard stuff. Not the easy stuff.

And the bio is terrible. Why would I take business advice from someone whose attempts to set up a business made her homeless and broke?

I hate to be so negative and cynical but really, this is terrible.