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$40K/Year Selling Ad Space on Local Postcards

  • Josh

  • Postcard Ad Broker
  • $40,000 year one revenue

📝 Josh, a 25-year-old in Utah, sells ad spots on shared postcards to local businesses – one plumber, one landscaper, one bakery, etc.

He ships the cards to 1000s of local homes via USPS’s Every Door Direct Mail tool – no mailing list needed.

Unit economics on a 10K-home card 👇

  • $2,500 postage (25¢/home)
  • $2,300 printing
  • $9,000 to $10,000 in ad sales (16 spots, $350 to $1,000 each)
  • $4,000 to $5,000 profit per card

He fills the spots by posting weekly in local Facebook business groups…

I probably close 95% of my deals over messenger or text.

His first-ever sale was a plumber paying $1,100 for a premium spot after just 5 DMs.

Year one: ~$40K revenue. Started under $100, no website, no LLC for the first two cards, no employees.

You could start this for free if you really wanted to.

Worth a swing in any US town with a post office and a Facebook group 😎

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Updated: April 21, 2026

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