[CaptainCrunch]

Hello all, I thought I'd throw this thread out there, and see if anything came back.

As a few of you know, I'm the manager of business development for a IT services and procurement company here in Calgary. Now I've gone through the standard concepts of business development (ie cold calls, door to door drop offs of marketing materials, networking groups), and I'm not really getting the traction that I would like to see.

I don't really want to advertise because I've found that what we do dosen't garner great results from advertising, and its an expensive proposition for a relatively new company.

I'm looking for ways to get a larger exposure for what we do, and what services we can provide for the medium sized enterprise companies out there. I've also seen that Calgary just dosen't seem to have a lot in the way of trade shows that would work for us.

If anyone has some success stories or ideas that they would like to pass along, I would appreciate it.