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| | The Minding Your Own Business Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | How the letter carrier’s walk (LCW) works for you. | Views: 2273 | | Mar 25, 2007 4:42 pm | | How the letter carrier’s walk (LCW) works for you. | # | 
Robert Harrington | |
Its spring and you’re scraping by at a low wage part time McJob, are physically good to go, and want to upgrade your income.
If you live in or around residential high-rise or Condo areas this is a slam dunk.
Go onto your Postal web site and drill down to the LCW or Letter Carrier Walks.
Pick out your walks containing all high end or upper income condos.
Why?
Because you want to sleep in, avoid long commutes, get home early, work indoors out of the crappy weather, be your own boss and make $200.00 $500.00 day.
Not big bucks but nice.
You are going to clean some nice older people’s carpets.
The big zillion dollar truck- mount carpet cleaning machines around town are only good for three stories high and are noisy and expensive to operate.
They do the same job as a small commercial portable carpet cleaning machine, pump warm water and cleaning solution into the carpet and suck the same stuff back along with the dirt out of the carpet. Throw in some deodorant to mask the smell of the wet carpet until it dries and “voila” done. You are a professional carpet cleaner. Too easy.
Don’t believe me? Check out the big carpet van parked by a high-rise and note the guy taking a small portable out and into the elevator to do higher floors.
So to recap.
The postman’s walk has targeted your market for cheap, maybe $100.00, you printed your own flyers for like real cheap, and the local janitorial supply company has rented you a carpet cleaning machine for $35 to $50 plus a huge jug of cleaning chemicals and deodorizer, total maybe a hundred with an option to buy it over 6 months on store credit.
So your “in” for a couple of hundred, your letter carrier’s walk gets you at least 10 calls and 6 sales at $75.00 each or $450.00, and you still have lots of chemical left as your cost of each job is around $5.00
A quick word of mouth campaign and soon Condo and property managers are lining up to call you.
When in-condo or in-suite water heaters inevitably break an leak all over the carpet. YUMMEE! The insurance company will pay huge dollars to get this sucked up with your portable.
However, this is just one of many "real world" micro biz plan that really works using a well crafted flyer and the post person.
Better than any MLM and cold calling.
I would like to hear your biz plans. All ideas are great and many can be adapted to a particular persons business style.
Cheers
Bob
Private Reply to Robert Harrington | | Mar 26, 2007 10:06 pm | | re: How the letter carrier’s walk (LCW) works for you. | # | 
Lisa Braithwaite | | Very creative, Bob! I didn't know we could get the post office to deliver mail pieces by hand like that.
LB
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