I need help finding

I live in the South and been scrapping for about 2 years and now i can't find ****. I go through the city and town dumpster diving, getting stuff out of peoples dumpster, trash can, pulling **** out from under bridges, pick up cans, keep my food cans, just w/e i can do to find it.

But now I think that its dried up around here, I can't find anything. It takes me 2 weeks to find a load that will be worth 40 dollars. I usually try and pile up aluminum and copper.

I just need some ideas as to where to go to find scrap and things that are worth something that most people think wouldn't be worth anything.

Sometimes you have to offer to buy stuff from people, throw some ads up on craigslist, go knock on doors, tell your friends and family to save stuff for you.

Have you tried storage lockers? More and more businesses are using them to work out of and their using their dumpsters to get rid of their waste. It works great for me!!!

Tip - think about it and look where others aren't or get out in front of them. Following everybody else only gets you where you are.

Read the old threads on the forum, they are full of how, where, and who of getting material to scrap. More importantly there are lots of ways to increase the value gotten from your scrap.

Lastly we enjoy knowing a little our new members so go to the introduction section and start a thread. Read some of the other intro's so you will understand. Mike.

Network with other people. You have a printer (maybe) to go with your computer. Make up some flyers, brochures, business cards and hand them out to everyone you know or meet. That's networking, those people know people that know people. Get the idea? I'm still getting calls from casual repeat customers from two years ago when I hit the yard sale circuit hard. Just got two carloads of electronic junk from a customer that called, some has a little scrap value, some was just junk but I hauled it all away, next time might be a lot better. I cleaned up her back yard pile and she might refer me later on,,,

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...ess-cards.html

Also try to hit up stuff that other people are not going after, if 10 people are going after general scrap you might have to go more for escrap or car/truck parts or other stuff. Might look at CraigsList ad's to see what the competition is going for.

Just to go along with all my other stuff, I have a small sign in my front yard that I buy old car/truck batteries.
I don't get rich from it but I average 1 or 2 a week, goes along with my scrap when a load goes in.

If you are out in the country,look for a row of mailboxes that has a lot of sh** around them[garbage and such]. Drive down that road and most often you will find old appliances, stacked steel, cars dieing in the pasture or woodland. Sometimes you will need to fork out a few bucks for it most often some the older residents will be happy to get it cleared off their lot.

The thing is in the south, and I can say this as a certified '**** Yankee' living in Alabama that people are living a little differently down here. They focus on the worth of things more and everyone here has a truck and a trailer and they can haul their own stuff off with. Don't underestimate the overwhelming appeal of meth, people are wired up on that s**t and they can't hold a real job so we are competing with them as well. In fact, we have to work twice as hard down here. If I were you I would focus on the nicer areas of town, restaurants/businesses that are closing down or being remodeled/rebuilt, etc. The key is also forming relationships with people like electricians and framers who don't have much time to deal with scrap. I got an associate who's side work is cleaning up after electricians. He spends an hour or so walking around a house that's being built and he collects the romex left behind (scrap cutoffs) and spends that next day stripping it. He does good at it. Don't give up, just gotta work harder and smarter than your competition.

I think you should expand you business by taking a help of any better business advise from expertise in recycle segment.