My Yard Sale Advertising Day,

A beautiful day so I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone and do a little yard sale looking and handing out my business cards also. It's a great way to approach people as their already outdoors so your not exactly "cold calling". This has worked well for us before but it had been a couple of years. I hit a couple of nice additions that had "community" yards sales (that's where there is 4-5 or more in the one addition). That way you can park and walk to a couple of houses. My real intent was to pass out the handful of cards I had brought with me.

Catch them at the right time of the day and their not too grouchy yet and will be receptive to "your sales pitch". Not only did I get rid of most of my cards but got about a half a truckload of misc. metal and electronics. I was pitching/talking at one place and a customer told me if I'd follow him (5 min. away) he'd give me a few items. ended up being a 42" flat monitor, 3 bottle tanks, satellite dish with pole, and pool cover tube which was all alum. about 6" diameter and 15' long. Also picked up a newer dead receiver, 15" flat monitor, copper truck radiator, 2 cell phones and a Apple IPad 2 (they say it's dead). Not bad for a lazy day as I've had a long dry spell.