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This Side Hustle Only Takes 1 Hour Per Day ($5000/month)

Mitchell TeboFebruary 3, 20262:17

A quick overview of the 9x12 postcard side hustle: 16 local businesses pay $500 each for a slot on one card mailed to 5,000 homes, in about an hour a day.

Key takeaways

  • Businesses pay $500 for a slot on a 9x12 postcard mailed to 5,000 homes, which works out to about 10 cents per door.
  • Selling all 16 slots brings in $8,000 up front before you pay for anything, with no inventory, storefront, or ad spend.
  • All Inclusive print and postage to 5,000 homes is $2,999, leaving $5,001 in profit on one sold-out card.
  • Outreach is simple email and phone calls telling businesses you're sending a postcard to 5,000 doors in town and asking if they want on.
  • Many businesses want to stay on every month, and since one card takes about an hour a day, you can add a second town.

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I can basically guarantee you've never heard of this business or this side hustle before because it's relatively new and it's not very flashy. Not many people are talking about it, but I'm going to put you on because honestly the economy sucks. It basically cost you your left tesle just to buy a freaking apple. And honestly, I don't mind adding to my competition cuz you could just do this in your local town and odds are you don't live where I do anyway. But this has allowed me to move to my dream location and stay here with a very very modest amount of work.

And when I say modest, I mean like if you're in school, you can do this. If you're retired and you only want to work an hour a day, you can do this and make a decent income. And I know people that do this on their lunch break while they work a full-time job and they're using this to escape their full-time job. So really, there's no excuse not to do this. Now, it's called the 9 by12 method.

And the reason for that is because we're using a 9 by12 in postcard. And we're basically bringing businesses together to split the cost of marketing. And before you say, hey, nobody's going to pay for that. Well, this person sold out a car and made $5,000. This person sold out a car and made $5,000.

This person sold out a car and made $5,000. This person sold out a car and made $5,000. You see what I'm getting at? People from all walks of life are doing this. So, if all you're going to say is, "Oh, no one's going to buy that."

Well, you're just wrong. So, go cry about it. So, all businesses are doing, they're paying us $500 for a slot on this card, and our promise is that we're going to send it to $5,000 in town. Okay? That's the value to them.

They pay us like a 10 cents per door. A lot of these businesses already pay for mail marketing, so they know how expensive it can be. Typically, it would cost thousands of dollars to send that much mail. So, when we say it's only $500, it's a no-brainer to them. We're just reaching out over email and phone calls, which is why you can literally do it like on your lunch break or after work or just when you first wake up in the morning.

And all you're really saying to them is exactly what it is. Hey, sending out a postcard to 5,000 doors in town. You want to be on it? And some of them say yes. And then they're going to give you their ad.

You're going to put it on the 9x12 postcard template and then you're going to send it to the printer. Oh, by the way, you collected $8,000 upfront cuz there's 16 slots and you charge $500 each. So you have $8,000 in your pocket before you paid for anything at all. There's no inventory, no ads. And then you're going to go to the printer and the printer is going to charge you $3,000 to print and fulfill the cards completely to the US postal service.

$3,000. So you're left with $5,000 in profit when all is said and done. And then you can repeat this every month because a lot of the local businesses are going to want to do this every month. So your job gets easier each time. And then if you're really serious and you want to potentially quit your job or make even more income, you can do this in a second town because it really only takes about an hour a day to sell out one of these cards within a month.

And now I know you're not really going to be my competition cuz like I said, this is a local thing. So I want to see win.

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