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This copy & paste business makes me $10,000 every month

Mitchell TeboFebruary 25, 20258:46

Mitchell shows the cold email system behind his 9x12 postcard business: building a lead list, avoiding spam filters, warming up accounts, and BCC sending.

Key takeaways

  • Build a lead list by searching an industry plus your town on Google, then check each site's header, footer, contact page, and Facebook link.
  • Copy each business name, email, and phone number into one spreadsheet, and skip any site that has no contact info in those four places.
  • Send no more than 30 emails per account per day, and set up about three accounts so you can scale wide without landing in spam.
  • Warm up new accounts at 10 emails a day for two weeks, then 15 a day in three sessions, then 30 a day after a month.
  • Paste the script, add contacts in the BCC field so businesses can't see each other, then highlight contacted emails in your spreadsheet.

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I make about 10 grand a month just simply sending this simple copy and paste email and I know that sounds absolutely insane but I'm going to show you step by step exactly how I do it and not to mention I have over 1,800 people in my online community which is totally free by the way who are doing the exact same thing and absolutely killing it in their own town or city and I know what you're thinking he's probably blasting out emails all day long that's not sustainable but guess what I work about 2 hours a day 5 days a week and the rest of the time I spend doing crap like this and by the way I get it if you're a skeptic like me it can be helpful just to tell those little negative monkeys to be quiet just for 5 minutes just so you can listen to a stranger on the internet this will be the one time that you won't regret listening to a random stranger on YouTube I promise so at this point you're definitely wondering what the heck are we selling anyway it's simple I call it the 9x12 method this is where you sell advertising slots on a large post card to local businesses and the card is 9x1 12 in hence the name the 9x12 method it's actually a pretty cool Community Builder because it allows local businesses to actually be able to afford mail marketing because they actually split the cost of marketing and at the same time you benefit by bringing the businesses together because you make around four grand Profit just for coordinating it once you've sold out all of the ad slots and pasted in their ads that they design for you or you design yourself the card is mailed to 5,000 households in the community so it's great for the business it's great for you for coordinating it and making profit and the community benefits because they get discounts for local businesses around them that they already love oh and by the way I take care of the printing and shipping so that you guys can focus on selling but we'll talk about that in another video or you can find out about that on my community but imagine if you do this in two separate towns that's 8,000 a month and why is the sale allegedly so easy that we can just do it all over email because you're not a salesperson you're a Community Connector you're helping businesses come together to split the cost of marketing you're not even selling anything that means no sales resistance and more genuine relationships heck I actually met my best friend by selling him an ad slaught and before I dive into exactly how I send emails to make sales I want to let you know that I've created a free course and Community now with over 1,800 people where I show you exactly how to do everything step by step from choosing the right town to finding the best Industries to reach out to scripts that reduce friction collecting payments designing ads everything is totally laid out for you like I said we've got over 1,800 active members who share their wins share their failures share what they've learned and have conversations every single day we even do live trainings and calls it's truly a support system to make sure that you succeed quickly for example Kevin here just sold three ads in one day that's $1,500 in sales and Natalie struggled at first but as soon as she started trusting the systems she sold eight ad slots that's literally 4 grand in 2 days so if you're interested in joying that free community with the course attached the link is in the description of this video now I'm going to stop throwing big numbers in your face it just gets me amped to see so many people winning and let's talk about where to start which is building your lead list now first I'm going to make the assumption that you already know the best Industries to Target because you've already joined our community where we actually provide that list once you've chosen an industry in what town to Target you're going to look up industry in town on Google so for example realtors in Granville Ohio and then go down the list one by one go into to each business's website and find their contact info so now we're on one of those realtor websites and you're only going to find their contact info in one of four places I promise if you look anywhere else you're just wasting your precious time first you're going to want to look at their header and as you can see we already found this realtor's email the second place the email could possibly be is in their footer and there it is again the third place where you might find their email is on their contact page obviously and lastly if you find the Facebook icon you've struck gold just click on that icon and it'll bring you directly to their Facebook page where you'll definitely find their email and on some websites you won't find any of these things and that's okay just move on forget about it you will waste your time if you try to look anywhere else you're going to want to copy and paste the company's name email and phone number onto a spreadsheet that way you have everybody's contact information in one place in my free community I already provide this spreadsheet as a formatted template that way it's already formatted for you to just easily drag and drop again Link in the description and if you don't want to spend hours digging around for local businesses emails I don't blame you you might have a full-time job I actually provide this as a service where you'll just tell me the town and the 10 Industries you want me to Target and within 48 hours I'll send you a fully completed list that I actually collected myself using the strategy that I just showed you I've gotten really fast at it I guarantee 300 leads and I'll probably actually give you more than 10 Industries don't tell anybody just hire me to do the boring work if you're busy that way you can focus on the money-making activities like making sales one of our community members David used my service and was blown away as you can tell so now that you have an email list let's talk about sending emails getting flagged as a spammer by the email robots is the last thing you want because then nobody ever will see your emails that's not a good way to make sales there's three primary reasons that an email provider would Mark your messages at spam number one is sending too many emails in a short period of time the second reason would be if you're getting a low response rate and reason number three is actually using spammy words that the email robots are trained to not like and lucky for you problems number two and three can actually be avoided by joining my free community and using the exact scripts that I provide people actually respond to these scripts and they're worded naturally to slip by the robots spam filters also lucky for you I'm going to show you how to avoid problem number one so then you'll be all set I recommend sending no more than 30 emails per account per day so what does this mean if you want to send more than 30 emails a day and make more sales well just make more accounts it's actually that simple I call this scaling wide and I use it and top cold emailing companies use it as well to keep their email domains in good standing and now there's one caveat that I have haven't mentioned yet and that's that email robots are actually more weary of brand new email accounts this is why I recommend setting up three email accounts to start out and slowly warming them up over time to warm up your accounts start with sending 10 emails per day per account split up over two sessions one session at 8:00 a.m. and one session at 10: a.m. then after two weeks you're safe to bump it up to 15 emails per day per account split into three sets now one session at 8:00 a.

m. send five emails at 10:00 a.m. and five emails at noon time and then after a month you're free to go to 30 emails per day and you should be pretty safe and always keep these spread out over three sessions just to be safe this email warm-up prevents your account from getting blacklisted right away which would just be a setback for you and to be clear you are selling this entire time you're still using the scripts that I provide and sending these emails to actual businesses and making sales this is why we're using three different email accounts so you can still start out by sending 30 emails a day which is more than enough for reference I only send about 50 emails a day to make my income and once your emails are warmed up by the end of the month you'll finally have the capacity to send off 90 per day if you really wanted to so you've already done the work of collecting leads or you've hired me to do so and you've also learned what the spam robots don't like so now let's start sending emails and again in the free course I provide you with all the scripts so you don't have to guess what to say and I'm going to assume that you've already gone to the course and collected those so at this point life is actually very easy simply copy the script and then paste the script and Don't Stray away from it do not try to reinvent the wheel you will end up with a triangular wheel if you try to reinvent the wheel and honestly sending emails should take up the smallest portion of your day CU you can actually just bulk send them using the blind copy feature this allows you to send all the emails at once without the other businesses seeing each other's email addresses once you've copied the script in all you do is copy the contacts from your spreadsheet and paste them into the BCC field and then send you can easily keep track in your spreadsheet of who you've already contacted simply by highlighting the email addresses that you've already contacted easy you don't have to disappear for 3 months to go learn some fancy smashy CRM just save your money save your brain and use a spreadsheet to start well until I create a custom 9x12 CRM for you guys of course stay tuned for that there's Everyday People in my group absolutely freaking crushing it we have stay-at-home moms just looking to stay busy college students looking to make a side income middle-aged men literally escaping the rat race and retirees making fun retirement income just by following the systems in my free course they all started with zero experience just like everybody and just by following the steps in the course they are now cashing in the course literally holds your hand step byep to sell out a card I promise and there's literally nothing you have to pay for up front not even a CRM cuz like I said just use a spreadsheet if you're interested in joining it's free we'd love to have you if you hate it just leave no hard feelings again the link is in the description of this video thank you for watching and we'll see you back at school

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