Founder, elevate29. Helping startups who have technical founders formalize how they go to market and grow revenue with predictability - usually after they exhaust friends and family. Love to use digital marketing to see David thump Goliath. www.johnjstein.com
Stop trying to "convince" people.
You know, there is power in the testimony. A lot of startup companies use friends and family to test out the product and service and to help spread the word.
If there is any way to offer a trial of your service, you might give that a go as well.
Work to build several testimonies of folks who have worked with you and encourage them to tell others about what you are doing.
Do you have a website? Do you use facebook?
Those two areas would be good starters. A site would allow people to get better educated on what you offer, and facebook, in something like this, would be a good tool for word to travel around, especially, if people could put a video or two about their trip.
John