[Im_a_throw_away]

Thanks for the great advice!

> If you are only talking to 10 people a month, and you close a deal with 10% of them, that's 1 new client a month.

If I follow the plan described in my post, I will be talking to ~30 people a months. But they are just developers spending time in meetups, not people actively looking for freelancers. So I won't get 10% of them as clients, maybe 1% or less...

[chatmasta]

Sounds like a solvable problem, but the solution depends on your location / interests / social life. If you want to use meetups for prospecting, then you just need to find the right meetups. This is why it's important to specialize. By specializing, you can focus on one target market of clients. In your case, your target market might be "founders of small SaaS shops with profitable product but poorly optimized conversion funnels." So you'll need to go to as many meetups as possible until you find which meetups have the most potential clients for you. Once you know the "right" meetups, you just need to focus on attending them consistently, giving presentations when you can, and always selling yourself.