Earn money for every FOR SALE / SOLD sign you see

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Section One: An Outline of The Business Plan 1) Take a walk or drive around your area and when you see a "For Sale" sign, make a note of the address. Go around the area regularly, i.e. once or twice a week. When the "For Sale" sign is changed to "Sold", make a note of this also. Then, as soon as, or very shortly after, the new occupants have moved in, deliver a letter addressed to "The New Occupants". 2) This letter from you will, first of all, welcome the new family to the neighbourhood. Then it will go on to promote local trades and professional people to them. A sample copy of the kind of letter you will have printed is enclosed with this business plan. 3) Along with your letter you will enclose a set of business cards. These will be from a variety of local businesses and service providers that you have recruited into your promotional scheme. These cards could include the offer of discounts for first time customers/clients to encourage the new residents to make use of the services offered. 4) Ideally each
pack of business cards should contain 36 cards, each advertising one of 36 different products or services. (36 is an excellent number from the point of view of printing, as will be explained later. 5) Your financial reward comes directly from the business and professional people to whom you are providing this promotional service. They agree to provide you with a commission for all new business resulting from your advertising. The rate of commission is up to you to negotiate, but as a rule of thumb, 5-10% of the value of the business you generate for them is a reasonable rate. 6) The business operators will know that the new request for goods or services has come to them via your advertising because the customer or client will have to present the business card in order to claim the discount offered. 7) To ensure that you receive all commissions you are entitled to via this scheme you can do regular checks with the new residents by dropping them a short questionnaire, with a reply paid envelope addressed to y
ou included. You will find that the vast majority of business people will happily pay you the commissions due in order that they will continue to receive new business, and consequently more profit, via your service.

Section Two: How to Operate The Business Plan

Here is how to set up and operate this most simple and potentially very lucrative business: 1) Firstly you will have to set up a credible business image. To do this you will have to have some letterheads and business cards designed and printed. You could also have reply envelopes printed with your name and address. 2) You can use either a company name or you can trade under your own name, whichever you choose you should open a separate bank account for your business to enable you to easily keep your business financial dealings separate from those of a personal nature. 3) Whether you trade under your own name or under a business name of your choosing, you should incorporate wording such as "Marketing Agent" or "Advertising Services" into your business stationery. 4) Use either your home address or, if you wish to avoid callers to your home, or are in rented accommodation where you are prohibited from running a business, you could rent a mailing address or open a post office box. 5) Once you have had your busi
ness letterheads printed you should write to all the local businesses in your area to introduce yourself and your service. Emphasise the fact that you are offering a service which will cost them nothing until they have received new business from it. Because your advertising will cost them nothing if it is not successful, they cannot lose, so you should find a high percentage of businesses which will take advantage of it. 6) Once you have collected a range of local businesses willing to use your service you will need to put together your advertising package. This will consist of a letter of introduction, see example enclosed on page 12, and the cards (incorporating discount offers) of the participating businesses. A few examples of how cards could look are printed on page 13. 7) Some businesses will be able to supply you with ready printed cards. Although, because you want the cards to include the discount offer, which will allow the business to know that you will be due commission, you will have to have most
of the cards printed yourself. 8) Once you have received a response from a business, you will need to meet the owner/manager in person to discuss the discount they are prepared to offer, and to discuss the design of the cards you will distribute to promote their offer(s). 9) You can have a total of as many as 18 cards printed onto one A4 sheet. You could then have these cut into individual cards, or simply have them printed with a dotted line around each one to allow recipients to cut the cards out with scissors. Two full cards will cover a total of 36 businesses, each with their own special offer. Each advertising package which you place through the doors of recently sold houses should cost you no more than 30-40 pence, including the envelope.

Section Three: Up and Running Once you have established contact with local businesses and arranged for them to employ your services you have the cards printed and deliver them to newly sold houses throughout your chosen area. If you are advertising as many as 36 services many new householders will want to make use of at least three or four of them. Your commissions will vary considerably from as little as a couple of pounds for the likes of a pizza order, to as much as several hundred for building work. In occasional cases, like introducing a builder to add an extension to a house, could even net you over a thousand pounds at one time! Because the patients of most family doctors are national health patients, you may not want to include doctors' addresses with your cards. However, you might find some of them willing to offer you a small commission for introducing new patients, because although the national health patient doesn't pay the doctor, the doctor is still paid by the NHS for each patient he or she s
ees. If you have the use of a small van you might consider a service to clear gardens and garages, or even disposing of the numerous empty boxes used by the new owner whilst moving into the new house.