Journey To $100 Million

In this episode, Erik talks about a recent mistake that he made in deciding to send out over 300 mailers himself. His mail list was made up of numerous past and present business and personal contacts. First, he obtained a quote for a third party company to print and mail the letters. It was going to cost about $700 for them to print and send the letters, and about another $200 for postage. That seemed high to Erik so he decided to do it himself. He had done these types of mailings before but never for this quantity. It took Erik an entire day just to do the mail merge online and print out the 300+ letters. Then it took him roughly another day to print out the envelopes. The envelopes kept getting jammed, they would print out crooked, some would smear and he would have to print them again, and he could only fit about 10 envelopes into the printer at once so he had to keep refeeding the printer. It was a nightmare. That wasn't even the worst part. About three-quarters of the way into printing the envelopes