A two-minute overview of the 9x12 postcard side hustle: 16 local businesses pay $500 each for a slot on one card mailed to 5,000 homes through EDDM.
Key takeaways
- Local businesses such as restaurants, realtors, and plumbers each pay $500 for a slot and get to be the only business in their category.
- At $500 for 5,000 homes, each advertiser pays about 10 cents per door, far cheaper than mailing a postcard on their own.
- The pitch is simple: you are sending a large postcard featuring local businesses to 5,000 doors in town, and asking whether they want to join.
- Sixteen slots at $500 bring in $8,000, and All Inclusive printing and postage to 5,000 homes is $2,999, leaving $5,001 in profit.
- You choose USPS Every Door Direct Mail routes instead of buying addresses, and advertisers who want frequent exposure stay on month after month.
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Three words, simple local side hustle. This is a 9 by12 inch postcard and it can make you $5,000 by the end of this month. I did it myself. I made $5,000 my first month, $10,000 my second month, $15,000 my third month by selling three of these. And now I want to spread it to the world.
I am low-key an idiot. You can do this with very little skill. It's just going to take a little bit of work. It's not going to be easy, but it is extremely simple. All we're doing is bringing local businesses together like your restaurants, your realtors in town, your plumbers, and we're helping them split the cost of marketing.
So, this is a large oversized postcard and they all pay us $500 for a slot on the card, but they get to be the exclusive realtor, the exclusive plumber. That's what makes it special to them compared to like advertising in the newspaper. So, they already pay for mail advertising. We just give them a cheaper alternative. They each pay us $500 for a slot on the card.
We promise to send this card to 5,000 doors in town. So, it's 10 cents a door for them. That's crazy value for them. That's way cheaper than if they did it any other way. So, we're emailing them, sending them, giving some phone calls to them saying, "Hey, I'm sending out a large postcard featuring local businesses to 5,000 doors in town.
Is this something you'd be interested in joining?" Of course, they're going to say yes. And then you're going to have a conversation about the price. Some people aren't going to want to pay that money, but a lot do. And as simple as that.
They give you their ad or you design it for them free of charge. It's very simple. You do it on Canva and then you put it on the 9x12 postcard template and then you send it to the printing company. The printing company will do the total fulfillment. So, they'll do the printing, the shipping, they'll send it to the US Postal Service.
That way, it gets distributed to 5,000 doors. And no, you don't need to send them a list of 5,000 addresses. You don't have to pull that from anywhere. We use the Every Door Direct mail system through the US Postal Service. You can look it up.
So, all you have to do is choose a specific routes and it'll go to every door on that route. Okay. So, we collected $8,000 in revenue cuz there's 16 slots on the card. And it cost you $3,000 to print and ship and fulfill the cards completely, including postage. And you're left with $5,000 in profit.
And then you can rinse and repeat every month because some businesses want frequent advertising will choose to stay on the card every month so your job is easier every single month. Comment print and I'll send you the full step-by-step tutorial for free on exactly how to sell out your first card within one month. Comment print and make sure you follow me so I can actually send it to you. It's time to take some action.
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