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This simple local business changed my life. Your turn!

Mitchell TeboFebruary 19, 20262:14

Mitchell shares how a simple local postcard business pulled him out of a broke stretch and breaks down how anyone can run a 9x12 card in their own town.

Key takeaways

  • Local businesses already pay for newspaper ads and mail marketing, and a shared oversized postcard gives them a cheaper way to reach 5,000 doors.
  • Sixteen businesses at $500 a slot brings in $8,000 up front, before any print or postage bill is due.
  • Prospecting can be as simple as emails, phone calls, or Facebook group posts, and some owners say yes with barely a question.
  • On his first day, Mitchell sold $1,500 to $2,000 in ads from a single Facebook post, without having a following.
  • The printer mails the cards through USPS Every Door Direct Mail, so you never need a list of addresses.

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One year ago, this card saved me from brokesim, made me $5,000 in profit within 1 month doing it. And I'm not some guru, I'm just a normal dude who wants to spread this to the world because it literally changed my life. So, I'm going to skip the fluff without further ado. This is how it works and how you can do it in your town. It is the most underrated side hustle in my opinion of 2026 because it is skipping all the AI BS.

You don't have to sell cheap Chinese products and you can actually provide some value to your local community without necessarily having to show your face if you're an introvert like I am. So, all we're doing is helping local businesses split the cost of marketing. They already pay to advertise in the newspaper, they pay for mail marketing and if they can afford it, but we're bringing them a cheaper alternative. So, they're all splitting the cost of this large oversize postcard and we're going to mail it to 5,000 doors in town. Each business, like your local restaurants, your local realtors, roofers, they're each going to pay us $500 for a slot on the card and there's 16 slots.

So, that means we've collected $8,000 upfront once we've convinced 16 people to join. And now, here's why I love it so much. All you do is send emails or call them if you want or post in Facebook groups. The prospecting is super simple. You barely have to sell because it sells itself.

And I'm not saying everybody's going to say yes and just hand over 500 bucks, but sincerely, some some people just do. Some people barely ask questions and they just are like, "Yeah, I'm in." Because they see the value of it. It's just way cheaper to hit 5,000 doors than if they were do it themselves. Okay, so now you've sold out the card, you put their ads on the ad template.

You can offer to design their ads, but often times they'll just give you one. And then once you have that template put together, the printing company is going to charge you $3,000 to print and completely fulfill the postcards. They use the US Postal Service to send it to 5,000 doors in town. You don't even even need a list of addresses, you use the every door direct mail system. So, that means you're left with $5,000 in profit.

You didn't have to pay for anything upfront. All you had to do is reach out to some businesses and provide value by bringing them together to split the cost of marketing. This saved me financially, changed my life. Now, I'm on a mission to spread it to the world, but you're early as long as you don't procrastinate like most people. I started reaching out to businesses the first day that this idea came to mind, and I sold $1,500, maybe even $2,000 worth of ads in one day just by making a Facebook post.

And no, I don't have followers. So, I swear you can do this if you're a normal person like I am.

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