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The Best $8000/Month Side Hustle of 2025

Mitchell TeboJuly 18, 20253:00

A quick breakdown of the 9x12 postcard side hustle: sell 16 ad slots at $500 to local businesses and mail the card to 5,000 homes through EDDM.

Key takeaways

  • You sell 16 slots on a 9x12 postcard to non-competing local businesses, typically $500 each, collecting $8,000 before you pay for anything.
  • Advertisers send their own ad designs or you can have them designed cheaply, then every ad goes onto one digital postcard.
  • Each business reaches 5,000 households for about 10 cents per door, compared to roughly a dollar per door mailing on its own.
  • USPS Every Door Direct Mail delivers to every home on the routes you pick, so you never need a mailing list and postage costs less.
  • With All Inclusive print and postage to 5,000 homes at $2,999, a sold-out card leaves about $5,001 in profit.

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I call it the 9 by12 method. And the reason it's called the 9x12 method is because you take a 9 by 12 in postcard and you actually sell individual ad slots on that postcard. So you're selling them to non-competing local businesses. You can see there's multiple slots. So instead of spending thousands of dollars per month on advertising, these businesses can spend, you know, $500 to all join a community mailer.

And instead of being seen as junk mail, it's seen as, like I said, a community mailer. So, you're helping small businesses that typically can't afford to do this sort of advertising. You're helping them win. And then you win because of it because here's here's how the financials break down. So, there's typically 16 slots on the card, right?

And your first job is to just reach out to these businesses and get them to buy in. So, they pay you $500 for a slot typically. That's what I recommend. So, that gives you $8,000 cash in your pocket in advance. And no, business owners are not skeptical and afraid to pay $500 to somebody they just met.

That's honestly peanuts to most business owners for a valuable offer, which ours is. So, you have $8,000 cash in hand and now you collect all of their ad designs. Or you can even offer ad design and just hire somebody really cheap like my team if you want to that that can actually take care of the designs for you. But that's a really simple part of the process. And then once you have all those designs, you put them all together on this digital postcard and then you send them to the printer and the printer will actually print the postcards.

But if you if you use the right printing company, they'll also take care of the mailing. But I'm getting ahead of myself because why are they paying you $500 for an ad on this postcard? Like where does it go? Why is it worth $500? That's a great question.

It goes to 5,000 households or 5,000 doors in your given town or your given county or zip code, right? So, it's going to 5,000 doors in your town. That's the value it's advertising for them. So, they're instead of paying a dollar per door to send out mail themselves, they're only paying like 10 cents per door to go to 5,000 households, which is absolutely absurd. That's like a tenth of the price.

That's the value that we bring. And so you might be wondering, where do we get all those 5,000 addresses to actually mail the postcards to? And that's a great question. You don't you don't need a single address. And here's let me explain.

So the US Postal Service has a system called the Every Door Direct mail system is you just choose specific routes in your town and the US Postal Service will send those postcards to every single door on those given routes. So instead of actually having to have specific addresses to mail to, you send them just to entire routes in your town. The benefit is it's about a third of the price as well for postage. So you pay US Postal Service even less. So you get a majority of the profit.

So we we have the $8,000 cash in hand. We pay around $3,000.

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