Door to Door Small Business "walk"

Okay, so yesterday was a different day for me.  Dropped the 3 yr old at school and since it was my "off" day from work, I had the baby with me.  Instead of doing the normal clean the house stuff, I loaded her up in the stroller and took a 2 hour walk through the neighborhood.

Now of course this was not a normal walk through the neighborhood. I also had with me...yup you guessed it...FLIERS for AZ Mom Gifts. I printed up some fliers and took them door to door.  First time for that.  It took a lot longer than I thought with pushing the stroller and water breaks for the baby (it is Arizona of course and was over 70 degrees before 10am).  Now if I had been smart I would have found the guy that was obviously going door to door placing business cards ahead of me.  I though several times that it would be worth giving him 20 bucks to hand out my fliers while he was doing his. But then my suspicious nature thought that he might just pocket the money and toss the fliers...hmm.

Well after about 45 mins baby girl fell asleep so I kept going. I saw some really nice yards and some really cute ideas for front yard/entrance way improvements.  Then I ran across some really obnoxious and loud landscapers and turned back towards home.  Baby girl woke up about a block from the house so we just kept going until we reached the house.  Two hours and I think I only placed fliers on about 60 or 70 houses. I would take me a few weeks if I spent time every day to even finish this neighborhood.  Might need a new idea.

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Well I am still getting the idea of blogging down as well as other social media. I have to say starting your own small business is not easy or cheap.  I was driving home listening to my 3 yr old talk about the sun setting and at the same time trying to keep a train of thought on how to promote my business. Conclusion: I think I will take a try at placing fliers on people's houses in the immediate neighborhood.  I am expecting that to be time consuming, but it will be a good chance to fight with the double stroller with the girls in that while I go up to doors... Now the tricky part, what time of day are people not at home so that I won't bother them... Or better yet, have people be home and show off the baby and catalogs at the same time... Will have to think about that.  Of course the fliers will have to be rather easy to print from our cute home printer that likes to do a paper jam every 1st page; that should be fun to fight with.  Oh well, if it was easy then everyone would be doing it. Any more ideas???