Industries › Professional Services › Atlanta
Across 29 counties, the Atlanta metro counts 163,103 business locations employing 2,692,513 people. The 8,507 with 50–499 employees are the starting pool for a professional services campaign, and Sapper works them by phone first.
| Sector | Locations | Jobs | 50–499 employees | 500+ employees | Change since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care | 18,435 | 335,426 | 823 | 63 | +878 |
| Professional services | 25,159 | 255,343 | 707 | 52 | +654 |
| Manufacturing | 4,023 | 163,443 | 657 | 42 | −20 |
| Wholesale trade | 8,164 | 150,040 | 552 | 30 | −152 |
| Construction | 14,024 | 147,101 | 482 | 27 | +508 |
| Finance & insurance | 9,445 | 135,690 | 317 | 32 | −138 |
| Information | 3,549 | 112,089 | 307 | 46 | −53 |
Where to start: Health care and professional services hold the most mid-size locations, 1,530 between them. Health care added the most locations between 2022 and 2023 (+878).
| County | All locations | Finance | Health care | Prof. services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fulton, GA | 40,949 | 2,839 | 4,776 | 8,410 |
| Gwinnett, GA | 27,653 | 1,611 | 2,799 | 3,553 |
| Cobb, GA | 22,148 | 1,355 | 2,538 | 3,673 |
| DeKalb, GA | 18,258 | 877 | 2,378 | 3,178 |
| Forsyth, GA | 8,253 | 395 | 782 | 1,973 |
Where the market sits: Fulton County and Gwinnett County hold 42.1% of the metro’s business locations across 29 counties. Fulton County counts 8,410 professional services locations, against 3,553 in Gwinnett County.
The metro has 25,159 professional, scientific and technical services locations. That is a lot of outreach competing for the same attention, so the first message has to be specific.
What wins: a sector-specific opener. A health care buyer should hear a problem from their own work in the first sentence.
1. We agree on the accounts firstYou approve the target list. It is exclusive to you.
2. We introduce you, then keep goingPhone first, backed by email, LinkedIn and mail.
3. We qualify before we bookNeed, timing and who else is involved, confirmed.
4. You walk into a warm conversationWith the account history and a confirmed time.
For a professional services firm, we build the list around the services you sell, the sectors you know and the size of company you serve best. In Atlanta, a first pass could start with the 823 mid-size health care locations and the 707 in professional services. How appointment setting works →
The 29-county Atlanta metro has 163,103 business locations. 8,507 have 50–499 employees and 485 have 500 or more (Census County Business Patterns, 2023).
The most mid-size locations are in health care (823), followed by professional services (707).
Titles to test first include human resources managers. The metro has 5,300 of them, plus 1,010 training and development managers. Which of them fit depends on your offer. You see and approve the Atlanta list before the first call.
Nearby markets: Professional Services in Chattanooga (104 mi), Professional Services in Greenville (137 mi) and Professional Services in Birmingham (140 mi).
Selling to contractors or home-service companies instead? See Abstrakt’s Atlanta page.
