This Side Hustle Changed My Life. Try it While You’re Early
Mitchell TeboFebruary 11, 20262:58
A quick step-by-step guide to the 9x12 postcard side hustle: collect leads, email businesses, charge $500 per slot, design in Canva, and choose EDDM routes.
Key takeaways
- Search an industry plus your town on Google Maps, visit each business website, and add every contact's details to a spreadsheet.
- Email each business a simple copy and paste message about a community postcard going to 5,000 doors, and expect most not to reply.
- Selling all 16 slots, eight on the front and eight on the back, at $500 each brings in $8,000 before you pay for printing.
- Place the ads on a 9x12 Canva template and download the finished design as a PDF Print file for the printer.
- On the USPS EDDM tool, select routes until the total is close to 5,000, then copy the route codes from the table view.
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If you are looking for a side hustle that is completely free to start, then you have to watch this video. It's super simple, but you have to stay consistent. I'm going to keep this as straightforward as possible. I even made step-by-step notes on exactly how to do it. I'm going to let you screenshot.
Okay, screenshot this. Step one, collect local businesses contact info from Google Maps. Look up things like roofer in Palm Springs and then open up maps and then just go to each of their websites and collect their contact information. And then once you have their information, put it into a spreadsheet. Step two, email all of those businesses with a simple copy and paste email asking if they want to join a large community focused postcard that's featuring local businesses and going to 5,000 doors.
And tell them that the price is only $500. To you that sounds expensive, but trust me, they'll be shocked. Now, 90% of businesses will not respond or they'll say no, but the other 10% will be more than willing to pay. Step three, charge them each $500 using a payment processor like Stripe or Venmo. Or you can accept checks or cash, too.
Now, there's 16 slots on the card. Eight on the front and eight on the back. So, once you've sold out all of the slots, 16 times $500 is $8,000 in your pocket. And now you can run away with the money. Just kidding.
Don't do that. It's time to fulfill. So step four, go to canva.com and put all of their ads on a 9 by12 in size template like this one or just comment print on this video and I'll send you the template and the tutorial for free. Then you're just going to hit share download and download it as a PDF print.
You're going to press download and just save that for now. Keep that off to the side. Next, go to eddm.usps.com and type in your zip code and press search.
This tool is going to allow us to choose the mailing routes that we want the cards to go to. That way, we don't actually need a list of 5,000 addresses. So, now what you want to do is zoom in and click on a bunch of mailing routes until the total amount of mail pieces adds up to just around 5,000. It's going to be almost impossible to get it exact, but you wanted to get it as close as possible because we're promising 5,000 doors. Okay, so I was able to get it to 4,917.
That's pretty close. And we're going to make it clear that it's just about 5,000 doors. Now, you're going to want to go to table view and any of the ones that you have checked, just copy that and paste it into your notes and keep all of those codes off to the side for now. Those are the mailing routes that the cards will go to. Step six, go to print.
n912method.com. Choose 9 by12 in because that's what we're doing. We're doing 5,000 cards and then choose all-inclusive so that we handle all the total printing and fulfillment for you. You don't have to touch the cards at all.
Now, the price is going to be $2,900, but remember, you already have $8,000 in your pocket from before. Step seven, once you've submitted the order, you'll be prompted to send us over email the final PDF that you saved from earlier. And then we will print and ship your cards to the US Postal Service. We will tell them the routes that the card should go to, and fulfillment is taken care of from there. So, now you're left with $5,000 in profit because you made $8,000 and you paid $3,000.
That's $5,000 in profit. Now you can repeat this every
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