Restaurants get free custom-designed placemats. Local businesses pay you for the ad space around them. You keep the difference — and you sell the space before you ever pay to print anything.
This isn't another "start a digital agency" course. It's an old-fashioned, boring-on-purpose local business model that still works.
Most people can launch with less than $500, often less than $200. No office, no employees, no inventory to carry.
You line up advertisers and collect payment before a single placemat gets printed, so the business is funded by your customers, not your savings.
Advertisers who see results renew month after month, which means the income compounds instead of resetting to zero every month.