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Professional Services Lead Generation in Portland, OR

If you sell to Portland companies, your market is 72,943 business locations across 7 counties, and 3,491 of them have 50–499 employees. Sapper turns that list into booked meetings, phone first.

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The Portland market at a glance

72,943

business locations in the Portland metro (Census, 2023)

3,491

have 50–499 employees

2,010

human resources managers in the metro

360

training and development managers in the metro

What this means for your outreach: The average Portland business location employs 15 people. The 3,491 locations with 50–499 employees are a starting pool. Which of them fit depends on what you sell, and you approve the list before anyone calls.

Which Portland sectors to call first

Sector	Locations	Jobs	50–499 employees	500+ employees	Change since 2022
Health care	9,591	171,438	500	24	+288
Manufacturing	3,084	118,458	428	30	−18
Construction	8,453	84,067	262	9	+2
Professional services	9,313	86,690	242	7	+37
Wholesale trade	3,245	59,817	220	7	−130
Information	1,478	29,187	100	9	−15
Finance & insurance	3,524	44,152	92	11	−131

Where to start: Health care has the deepest mid-size list here (500 locations) and employs 171,438 people in the metro. Health care added the most locations between 2022 and 2023 (+288).

The counties behind the Portland metro

County	All locations	Finance	Health care	Prof. services
Multnomah, OR	27,204	1,023	3,767	3,974
Washington, OR	16,355	865	2,325	2,034
Clackamas, OR	12,862	794	1,547	1,525
Clark, WA	12,552	682	1,471	1,459
Yamhill, OR	2,760	109	327	232

Where the market sits: Multnomah County and Washington County hold 59.7% of the metro’s business locations across 7 counties. Washington County has 865 finance and 2,034 professional services locations. The metro crosses state lines (OR, WA), so buyers here answer to more than one state’s rules.

Portland roles worth a first call

2,010

human resources managers, 17% more per job than the US average

360

training and development managers, about the US average per job

21,070

general and operations managers, 23% fewer per job than the US average

What it suggests: Portland has a higher-than-average concentration of human resources managers: 17% more per job than the US. That makes the title worth testing when it matches what you sell.

Who else is calling Portland buyers

The metro has 9,313 professional, scientific and technical services locations. Not all of them sell what you sell, but many are reaching out to the same HR and operations leaders.

What wins: a sector-specific opener. A health care buyer should hear a problem from their own work in the first sentence.

From Portland target list to booked meeting

1. We agree on the accounts first

You approve the target list. It is exclusive to you.

2. We introduce you, then keep going

Phone first, backed by email, LinkedIn and mail.

3. We qualify before we book

Need, timing and who else is involved, confirmed.

4. You walk into a warm conversation

With 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. The Portland data points to health care first, with 500 locations of 50–499 employees, and the largest share of locations in Multnomah County. How appointment setting works →

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Questions

How many potential clients are in Portland?

The 7-county Portland metro has 72,943 business locations. 3,491 have 50–499 employees and 155 have 500 or more (Census County Business Patterns, 2023).

Where should a Portland professional services campaign start?

The most mid-size locations are in health care (500), followed by manufacturing (428).

Which titles should a Portland campaign test first?

Titles to test first include human resources managers. The metro has 2,010 of them, plus 360 training and development managers. Your offer decides the final mix, and nothing is called until you approve the list.

Nearby markets: Professional Services in Seattle (145 mi), Professional Services in Spokane (290 mi) and Professional Services in Boise (345 mi).

Selling to contractors or home-service companies instead? See Abstrakt’s Portland page.

Let’s build your Portland target list

Start with the Portland professional services market brief. When you’re ready, we’ll build the target list with you.