$2,520 from a simple idea

Originally Posted by angel653922

You mentioned that your costs are less than $100. Can you tell us how many take out menus you print for the restaurants and over how much of a timespan?

From what Ive seen most people do around 2500-5000 to start. Not sure on time span.

I am working on this business idea myself right now I will be sure to post my results. I have a lot of other stuff going on so not able to dedicate much time to this but so far I have made some business cards, websites, and picked up a couple of takeout menus + 11x17 legal paper to copy them to + advertisements.

Once I finish the website I figure I will go get approval from restaurants, and then I'll find advertisers. Last time I tried this (when I had practically no time at all to work on it so I never finished) I had a difficult time getting only one person to pay me $100 for an adspot, let alone $290 ...

I think I am going to offer like $50 per thousand ads or maybe even less. I'll have to see what people are willing to pay I will of course start higher.

seems to be pretty much profutable business, huh?

Originally Posted by danielvulrich

seems to be pretty much profutable business, huh?

I thought so. I had absolutely zero luck with finding advertisers so far... I went to every local business and had all answers of no. Ive been in sales since I was 14, I dont take first no, and in general I normally have above avg results in most any field of sales.. I enjoy door to door and in person business sells, but I got shot down hard by everyone!

I am hoping thats because I live in a very small city where every single local business is off of a couple mile stretch of Hwy.. And they all say pretty much the same thing any advertising seems to bring in the same customers..... So I guess I will wait until we move to nacogdoches a bigger city and I'll try again there.

(Oh and getting the restaurant to let you give them free menus that part is extremely easy!)

I did pickup some business cards from small work for themselves people and I'll try calling them.. Even if I can cover my cost Im going to do it just for the heck of it and put some of my own advertisements on it.