| Earn Money & Lose Weight With This Great Home Biz Idea |
By Mike Morgan
http://homebusinesshelper.com
If you walk to lose weight, here is a way you can earn a
extra $100-500 a week for taking your daily walk. How about
starting a flyer advertising service?
This is an idea that has tremendous potential to be
customized to match your time needs and earnings wishes.
I'll get into ways to tweak the idea in a moment, but
here's the basic idea.
The Gist
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First, choose a walking route with a lot of close-together
residences. Figure out how many homes you pass during your
walk, and use that number to figure out how many different
areas of the neighborhood you'll have to walk to cover 500
homes.
That might be a little confusing, so...
o Let's say you walk five days a week, for 1.5 hours a day
in a large subdivision
o And say, for simplicity's sake, you pass 125 homes on
your daily 1.5-hour walk.
o If you choose a different area of the subdivision to
walk each day, in 4 days you'll pass 500 different
homes, right?
Why 500? Because now you'll offer to print and deliver 500
ads for local businesses for a ridiculously inexpensive
price -- say, $30. Businesses will jump at 500 highly-
targeted ad impressions for only $30.
"Thirty bucks? For four days' work? Mike, you've GOT to be
kidding," you say.
Stay with me. Here's where it gets fun.
First, you're taking the walk anyway for no pay, right? So
anything your earn is more than you make now.
Second, you're "working" 1.5 hours a day, which is $5 an
hour.
And third, you'll make quite a bit more than five bucks and
hour!
Here's how...
o Each business creates a 3" tall by 8.5" wide ad
o Group up to six ads (3 per side of an 8.5"x11" sheet)
for non-competing businesses
o Print a master copy of the ad sheet on you computer
printer and bring it to a copy shop and have 500 copies
made
Six ads at $30 each is $180. Less $15 for printing (at
$0.03 each for 500) nets you $165... which is $27.50 an
hour! (Better than $5 an hour, huh?)
A small ad in your local paper will get the ball rolling as
far as bringing in clients. Better yet, since you run a
flyer advertising service, why not get up early a few
mornings simply hang some flyers on the doors of local
businesses?
Variations On The Theme
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Work More
Obvious, I know, but if you hustle, you can deliver
1000-1200 flyers in a day. At $165 per batch of 500,
"working" only two days a week (say, the weekend) delivers
2000-2400 flyers -- and brings you an extra $660 to $792.
Not bad for one weekend!
Double Your Fun
You can pick up some plastic bags with doorknob holes
online for about $0.02 each, or $10 for 500. Simply put two
ad sheets in a bag. Guess what? You've just nearly doubled
your receipts.
Plug Yourself
If you have another business, especially a homeowner-
related service -- lawn mowing, window or car washing, dog
poop scooper service, whatever -- use one of the available
ad slots for advertising your own service. You'll more than
make up for the lost $30 in ad revenue in increased
business.
Less Space Could Mean Mo' Money
No matter how small the ad, most business owners will be
suspicious of an ad service that is TOO inexpensive. Why
not arrange the ad sheet into two columns of four ads
(instead of one column of three ads) and charge $15 bucks
per ad? That boosts your gross receipts from $180 to $240
per page but leaves your printing costs and delivery time
unchanged.
Bulletin Board Poster
Offer to post flyers for other home and small businesses to
your researched list of local bulletin boards. Charge $1
per location with a 20-location minimum.
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©2003, Mike Morgan. Reprinted with permission.
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