Do you send or receive Fillers?

What are Fillers?
Fillers can be samples, business cards, or flyer's. You send them out to other people who are having an event of some sort whether its a business fair, craft fair, or an expo. Some even hand out small goody bags at their home parties so they will take them at any time. You can also receive them whenever you have an event. This is a inexpensive way to promote and advertise your business to people all around.

I want to start sending and receiving Fillers, Where do I start?

www.mompack.com you can join their yahoo group for mompackfillers. There are thousands of users on this group and theirs always someone looking to receive fillers.

Here's a few examples of what to send for your fillers:
- Send Business cards with a coupon attached. Business cards work, but add that extra something to make it stand out.
- Have a candle company? You can send a small tea light (if your budget allows it) in a cute sample bag and attach your business card, or simply shred part of the candle for a sample.
- In or have a Beauty business? Attach a small sample bag of bath salts or scrub with your business card attached.

Receiving Fillers?
- you will want to have a cute way to hand them out. Try purchasing cute inexpensive bags to hand out, or have a Cute basket set out for everyone to take what they would like.

A few guidelines to Filler success:

- Don't spend a lot on shipping. Unless you are going to send out 20-50 fillers, don't use a large envelope. You can place 5-10 cute small fillers in an envelope and a cute thank you card for only $.39, or you can place 25-50 business cards in a $.39 envelope.
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Don't expect business, sometimes you will receive a few that are interested and even a few new customers. This works just like any other way of advertising.

- Give them out, don't just take them because they are samples, and Don't throw them away!

-Ask the receiver how many fillers she is wanting to except. You don't want to send too many, they may just go to waste.

-Do not accept fillers from companies that are similar to yours. If you are a rep for Party lite, you don't want to advertise for Mia Bella.

- If you are receiving Fillers make sure you announce if you are accepting adult companies.


I hope this gets you off to a great start! Have any other tips or suggestions? Please leave a comment :)