Getting clients

**Willsmith391** · 05-27-2011, 08:22 AM

I'm new to scrapping and all I do is drive around and find spots and ask if people wanna get rid of anything they have sitting around. Mostly farms where I'm from so that's the spots I've been hitting. I was just wondering what everyone else does to get people to either call them to remove scrap or find the spots themselves?

**parrothead** · 05-27-2011, 08:36 AM

That is the best start and probably where most people start. Make sure that when you talk to these people, you leave them a contact number. Eventually they will be calling you back when they have something or a friend of their's does.

Get some cheap business cards made for this purpose. It is a small expense that goes a long way toward making you look professional.

**Willsmith391** · 05-27-2011, 08:40 AM

Thanks I definitely will, now I gotta check around and see exactly where I can get business cards made haha.

**easyrecycle** · 05-27-2011, 08:59 AM

Type into google free business cards. Vista print is the cheapest way to go.

**Mick** · 05-27-2011, 10:02 AM

Staples. I think mine were about $40 for 250 cards. I never liked those "DIY" ones - just never came out right.

**dherik** · 05-27-2011, 10:44 AM

I buy my business cards from vistaprint, they're always running specials I got 500 cards for 10 bucks, and they turned out great. Free shipping, took a little over a week to get them.

http://www.vistaprint.com

coupon code for 250 premium cards, for 4 bucks, 250 free plus i think like 6 dollar shipping.

**parrothead** · 05-27-2011, 04:31 PM

There ya go. Some nice advice on getting the cards at a good price. I get vista print e-mails all of the time, but have never used them yet. Good to hear that they are as good as they sound.

**Willsmith391** · 05-27-2011, 09:09 PM

Thanks guys! Appreciate the help!

**Mechanic688** · 05-27-2011, 09:35 PM

Yea, I ordered a double order of business cards from Vista print and when I got them(after almost 2 weeks) the print is so tiny nobody can read them, I am severely disappointed. Flushed over $30.00 down the drain,,,

**Willsmith391** · 05-27-2011, 09:38 PM

I'll make sure the font is larger lol

**IdahoScrapper** · 05-27-2011, 11:57 PM

Here's mine. Made it through Vista Print.

**dherik** · 05-28-2011, 08:25 AM

business cards are only part of it. I also did up some fliers, and post them anywhere they'll let me, gas stations, panera bread, the indoor flea markets, you name it I've put up a flier. The computer shops I deal with have also been letting me put out business card holders with my card on it. Kind of a reciprocal deal, if someone calls me asking about fixing a computer I refer them off to one of them, and they refer scrap pc's off to me. Heck since I started marketing it as a pc recycling, not a scrap pc business the health food stores are letting me put up fliers.