Brochures, Flyers, etc
This weekend I feel like I got alot done, but as always there is so much left to accomplish. I tracked down 162 landlords and mailed them the letter that I mentioned a couple of days ago. Hand-addressing all of those letters was not the best use of my time, but I am so strapped for cash right now, I had no choice. I think all of those letters took about a combined 6 hours to complete. I got those dropped those letters in the mail today, so I figure that I should get some calls beginning Tuesday or Wednesday. I project that I’ll get about 10 serious cash-buyers from the deal. That would make the effort worth it, at the least.
I also spent today posting some brochures to houses via door-hanger sleeves. I put out 200 brochures and it didn’t take me as long as I had thought it would. I spent about 3 hours on the job. It wasn’t that bad. I took my IPOD with me and kept a fairly brisk pace, wasn’t as torturous as I had presumed. I only canvased one street in Urbana, IL and I found a few things interesting. One was that there seemed to be many home owners that have “save my pets in case of emergency” stickers on their doors. I found this strange for some reason. The other interesting observation was that many houses had “No Soliciting” stickers on their doors also. I guess Urbana gets hit hard with soliciting, I’ve never noticed “No Soliciting” notices on Champaign houses. And by the way, I should mention that the only reason I focused on Urbana, IL houses is because door-to-door advertising is legal there and not in Champaign. Strange…I know. But, I’m staying within the lines on this although I get many advertisements on my door in Champaign. I’m not saying any names….Domino’s….Chinese Restaurants….AT&T….okay so I did.
As far as flyers go, I had 40 printed out and ready to post. But of the places that I was planning to post, they didn’t have bulletin boards! WTF! I was only able to get 2 flyers posted. One to a coffee shop and the other to a sandwich shop. Walmart and the local grocery stores had no bulletin boards. I need some ideas on this one. Where do yall think I can post some flyers…I have 38 more of these things I need to get out.
- Justin
