Finance & accounting
How to find clients for card payments & merchant services
High-volume counters pay too much per transaction, and cash-only shops lose customers who do not carry cash.
For payment processors and merchant-services resellers. Six steps, from the first search to the last follow-up.
- 1
Search Google Maps for these businesses
Run each search in the city you sell to. These are the trades that buy this most.
RestaurantsBarsConvenience storesSalonsAuto repair shopsFood trucksGas stations - 2
Keep the ones that are ready to buy
- Highly Rated
- At least 4.7 stars from 25 or more Google reviews.
Leave out: Chain stores on a corporate processing contract.
- 3
Open on the right channel
Walk-in or a call works best; follow up by email with a statement comparison.
- 4
Lead with one thing you noticed
- Lower fees on every card payment.
- Accept tap, mobile wallets and pay-by-link.
- Next-day settlement into the business account.
- 5
Send an opener like this one
Opening messageHighlighted parts are filled in for each businessHi contact name, Most busy businesses in city are paying more per card payment than they need to. If you send me one recent statement, I'll show business name exactly what you'd save — no commitment. Worth a look? Best, sender name
- 6
Follow up twice, then stop
- Day 3: an example savings breakdown.
- Day 7: the terminals and settlement times on offer.
Run it in Leads Ranger
The whole playbook, done for you.
Raptor sweeps Google Maps for the searches above, city-wide, and reads each business's own website for its real email. Every lead lands tagged with the signs from step 2, and your AI agent writes the opener for each one.
Connect Claude or ChatGPT and your assistant reads this playbook as a Skill, so “find me clients” already knows who to look for.
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