This is more suitable over in the forums not the blogs. However there are literally hundreds of threads on this. I suggest looking at locating under Ultimate beginners thread or use the amazing search engine this forum has!!! You'll get hundreds of results and answers!

My favorite method which I find most affective is look a location up in the yellow pages, get some intel, and then meet with either the owner or manager. I tend
To get a higher approval rating by having some knowledge ahead of time instead of going in blind

I hired someone off of CL to go out and get locations I told them $35 for each location.