service providers
How to find and choose Telegram groups with client requests
· Pingfinch
Work comes from groups where business owners you can serve keep asking for your kind of work and the rules let you reply. The number of members matters much less.
Which groups bring requests?
“Our shop’s site takes ages to load on phones, who can look at it?” The owners write themselves, and you can see the business behind the request.
People who have just moved or opened a company don’t know anyone local yet, so they ask who to turn to, from an accountant to a web designer.
“Front-end developer, full-time, European time zone.” The company wants an employee.
Dozens of colleagues post “Websites from 5 days, DM me”, and clients rarely write there.
Groups of fellow designers and developers can be useful too: agencies pass on subcontracted work there when their own team is busy.
Where do you find them?
- Telegram search: a city or country plus “business”, “founders”, “expats” or “coworking”; in a country with another language, search in that language too
- A search engine: site:t.me plus a city and a topic
- Group catalogues: many candidates at once, but you’ll have to check which ones are alive
- Past clients: ask whether their coworking or business club has an open group
You need groups: in a channel only admins post. Add the public groups from your list to the Pingfinch bot, and it will read them for you.
What should you check before joining?
You can open a public Telegram group and scroll through it without joining. Five minutes per group is enough:
- The latest messages are from today or yesterday
- The history has at least a couple of requests for your kind of work
- The rules let providers reply to requests
- Different people write, and the feed isn’t the same three or four accounts
Member count tells you little. A city expat group of fifteen thousand can spend weeks on visas and flat hunting, while a founders’ group of three hundred asks for a developer twice a week.
How do you tell that a group works?
After a week, open the statistics: the bot shows how many matching requests came from each group. Replace the groups that brought none. If requests arrive but you keep turning them down for the same reason, such as a time zone you can’t cover, look for groups closer to home.
What should you avoid?
How many groups do you need?
Start with the groups that passed the check, even if there are only three to five. Add new ones one at a time, and a week later check the statistics to see whether they bring requests. The bot sends you requests that match your description, with a short reason and a link to the message, and you reply to the client yourself. You can start free in the bot; the terms are on the Pricing page.
FAQ
Ads are banned in the group. Can I reply to a request?
Often the ban covers announcements, and a short reply to a direct request in the group is allowed. Message the author privately only if they ask for it. If the rules say to go through an admin, write to the admin.
Will a private coworking group work?
Not with Pingfinch: it reads only public groups and doesn’t accept private invite links.
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Try it on one group
Add a public group or channel by @username and describe the requests you want.
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