What is the best way to build a customer base for an dynamic web design company?

I have vested intrest in a year old web design company. My problem is this, whats the most effective way to get the word out about this company with out resorting to sale reps. and cold calling? No freelance websites, a client gets what they pay for with those sites. Any suggestion would help, I'm open to any suggestion!

What is the best way to build a customer base for an dynamic web design company?
This seems more a question for a possible marketing section (I don't know if such a thing exists though), but I think an option you should try would be to set up a few small versatile websites, and try to sell those. Now this may be an impossible task, since I don't exactly know what dynamic entails. Do you mean sites where people interact with the site, using more then basic HTML, or a site where databases and such are used, much like this one? However, if you can do it, and do, I hope it works out for the best.
Reply:Get listed on the directory sites like www.freelancedesigners.com www.marketingtool.com www.designfirms.org - just google web design directory and you will find more - getting found in search results is the primary way we get business.





also you can get new clients fast from sites like http://www.designquote.net/ which dont work like those freelance sites - it ues all closed bidding with limited amounts of bids so your not just trying to outbid the next guy





google, yahoo and msn all offer pay-per-click which can be very effective but also very expensive depending on the competition in your market -





I would invest in SEO for your site
Reply:Ok, I would get the site out on some search engines ( it might take some dough $$),





Then script a cool little pay button on the site, for each template.





Then I would have it that when they pay it brings them to the download side of the site, and it (auto-opens) a window that triggers a download window of the .zip folder with all the template stuff.