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7 Steps to $5000 with the 9x12 Method Side Hustle

Mitchell TeboJanuary 20, 20262:54

Mitchell lays out seven steps to sell out a 9x12 postcard, from collecting business emails and sending 30 a day to picking EDDM routes and getting renewals.

Key takeaways

  • Collect emails for local roofers, restaurants, realtors, and plumbers from their websites on Google Maps and keep them in one spreadsheet.
  • Email 30 businesses a day saying you are mailing a large postcard to 5,000 doors, you are looking for their industry, and asking if they are interested.
  • Sixteen slots at $500 bring in $8,000 upfront, and All Inclusive print and postage to 5,000 homes costs $2,999, leaving $5,001 profit.
  • Use the USPS EDDM tool to choose mailing routes that add up to roughly 5,000 homes, then give those routes to the printer.
  • After delivery, tell advertisers the cards went out and invite them to rejoin, since repeat advertisers leave fewer slots to sell next month.

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Seven steps to make $5,000 by the end of this month. And I swear you can do this from your kitchen table. You can do it starting with zero dollars. I swear on my life. And I don't care if you're in high school or college or just retired and bored.

I've literally seen all of the above. Be successful in this. And it's pretty sad how simple this is. And I'm not saying it's easy, but it's simple. I'm not here to shoot sunshine and rainbows.

I'm here to tell you the truth. It's not going to buy you a Lamborghini. It's not going to buy you a yacht or anything like that, but it can make you $1,000 this week and $5,000 by the end of the month. Let me explain. So step number one, you're going to go to Google Maps and go to all the websites of local businesses in your area.

Collect their emails like roofers, restaurants, realtors, plumbers. Collect all of their email addresses and put it in a spreadsheet. Step number two, you're going to email 30 of those local businesses every single day saying exactly this script. Good morning. I'm sending out a large oversized postcard to 5,000 doors in town featuring respected local businesses.

I'm looking for a industry. So you would say their industry there, like plumber, roofer. Is this something you'd be interested in? So like, hey, I'm sending out a large postcard to 5,000 Doors in Boston. I'm looking for a plumber.

Is this something you'd be interested in being featured on? Of course, they're going to respond back and say yes. So we got that initial commitment. And now we talk to them about the price. So here's the next step.

Step number three, get 16 of them to pay you $500 each for a slot on the card. Now 500 might sound like a lot to you, but you're not selling out of your own pocket, okay? That's peanuts to many business owners. So 16 times $500, that's going to leave you with $8,000 in your pocket. And now that's not profit, so keep listening.

Step number four, you're going to design a very simple ad for them on Canva and put it on the 9x12 postcard template. So once you've put all the ads on the card, you're going to go to the EDDDM tool through the US Postal Service. And this is going to allow you to select specific mailing routes that you want the cards to go to. And remember, we promised that it would go to 5,000 doors. So, you're going to select routes that adds up to roughly 5,000 houses.

And now, step number six. Once you have those routes written down, you're going to go to the printing company, which you can use us. We're like the cheapest in the US for 9x12 postcards. Now, you see that I don't win until you win. So, you better keep listening.

We're going to charge you $2,900 to print and ship and fulfill these postcards completely with postage to the US Postal Service. You're going to tell us the routes that you selected earlier, and we're going to make sure that these cards end up at all 5,000 doors on that route. And that's all for $2,900. So at the end of the day, you collected $8,000, remember? And then you pay $2,900.

And that leaves you with $5,100 in pure profit at the end of the month. Now, wait, there's one more step. Step number seven, you're going to tell your advertisers that they got delivered and try to get them to join for next month because you can do this every single month. And some businesses are going to choose to stay every single month because it's great value to them. It's easy marketing, cheap marketing.

So, you're going to have an easier job selling the card every single month because you'll have less slots to sell. Now, I've done this myself on repeat to prove that it works.

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