subject: How do you meet new consulting clients? [print this page] This is not a complete listThis is not a complete list. Neither is it rocket science. However, sometimes with all the pressures of the job you can forget these simple ideas. Our main advice is to have smart ideas which challenge traditional thinking. This will get you attention and the opportunity to defend your ideas. To defend your ideas you need to have a conversation and that is the start of landing a new client.