You do really have to drive the area and avoid run down multifamily apartments and foot traffic from busy streets, e.g.

If you pair SEO with credibility, you can instantly start getting leads by manually driving traffic to your site, with the use of the other "free" methods David described.Facebook posts, Craiglist, D4D, bandit signs yada yada yada.Send them all to your highly credible site and you will start converting leads by tomorrow!

All you need for leads is this:DEALS= SEO (FB, DMM, D4D) + credibility.Now:this part of the equation: SEO (FB, DMM, D4D is important because you get different typs of traffic depending what you use and different cost.SEO doing it yourself is virtually free, and you get the highest possible traffic.

Keep doing what you've learnt, and keep learning from what you do....and, most important, don't let impatience coax you into buying a property that isn't a deal. 

., but I would like to generate additional traffic and bookings. 

For now you need to trust me .. get your website up.The point of DMM is to send traffic to your website, NOT to make a deal right then and there.This is a process.

He said traffic was too bad and he wasn't even going to try to make it. 

TEN and ONLY then go drive traffic to your site, DMM, D4D.. etc etc.Seriously though... don't be a rookie... don't drive for dollars,  if you are going to start a business do it right.

You CAN get that many leads or more, IF you optimize your site for credibility and manually drive a lot of traffic to your site.

I am just impatient.