Learn the giant-postcard business — as we build one in public

Local businesses pay $500 for a slot on one giant 9×12 postcard mailed to 5,000 homes. Sixteen slots, one card, real money — and a business you can start with a phone and a spreadsheet. We run one ourselves and document every pitch, every card, every number inside the community.

Founding phase: free to join while we build — founding members keep early pricing when the paid tier opens.

Sample 9x12 shared postcard with local business ads
What a finished card looks like — local businesses splitting one giant postcard. (Sample layout)
16
Slots per card
$500
Per slot
$8,000
Revenue per full card
~$2,600
Print + postage (5,000 homes)

The model's math, not a promise — your results depend entirely on your effort. See the earnings disclaimer below.

Keep your job while you build

Pitches happen on lunch breaks and evenings. The card doesn't care when you sold it.

Start with ~$0 at risk

Advertisers pay before anything prints. A filled card funds itself.

Sell something businesses actually want

5,000 homes for $500 is a genuinely good deal — you're not pushing junk.

Community, not a course dump

Built live, with weekly discussion — not 40 stale videos and a goodbye.

The model

One big postcard. Sixteen paying advertisers. Your margin.

It's the oldest play in local advertising — shared cost, shared reach — on the single biggest thing in the mailbox.

1

Sell the slots

Pitch local businesses on an exclusive spot — one roofer, one dentist, one pizza shop per card. They get 5,000 homes for a fraction of mailing alone. You collect payment up front, before anything prints.

2

Print & mail

One print order, one USPS EDDM drop to 5,000 homes. No mailing list needed, no permits, no inventory. The difference between what advertisers paid and what printing costs is yours.

3

Report & repeat

QR codes show every advertiser their response. Happy advertisers renew next month — and a card that renews is a business, not a hustle.

Building in public — right now

We don't just teach this. We're doing it, on camera.

Most courses teach from a distance. The Postcard Playbook is documented from the field: we run Gwinnett Mailer, a real shared-postcard operation in Suwanee, Georgia — and every cold call, every closed slot, every objection, every invoice, and every mistake goes into the community as it happens.

You're not buying a highlight reel of screenshots. You're watching the business get built, with the receipts attached — and learning the playbook while it's being written.

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What's inside

Everything we learn, packaged as you go

Course

The Playbook, step by step

From picking your zone to your first mailed card: prospect lists, pricing, the pitch, card design, USPS EDDM logistics, and renewals — built module by module from our real cards.

Scripts

The exact words

Cold call, walk-in, Facebook message, and follow-up scripts — the versions we actually use, updated when we learn what works and what flops.

Live

Behind the scenes of a real card

Slot-by-slot progress on our own cards: who said yes, who said no, why, and what changed. The stuff no course shows you.

AI tools

The AI-operated edge

We run our operation with AI doing the heavy lifting — prospect list building, ad copy, design drafts. Members get the same workflows, prompts, and tools as they're built.

Community

Operators, not spectators

Ask anything, compare notes, share your card progress. Founding members shape what gets built next.

Founding perk

Free now, locked pricing later

The community is free during the founding phase. When the paid tier opens, founding members keep early pricing — permanently.

Chris, founder of The Postcard Playbook, holding a sample shared 9x12 postcard
Who's teaching

I've sat on both sides of this pitch.

I'm Chris. I own two furniture stores in Georgia — which means I'm the local business owner these postcards get pitched to. I know exactly why an owner says yes to a $500 slot, and exactly what makes them say no, because I've been the guy writing that check.

Now I'm building the other side: a shared-postcard operation of my own, run with AI doing most of the grunt work. I'm documenting all of it — the wins and the faceplants — because that's the course I wish existed.

— Chris, founder, The Postcard Playbook

Questions

Fair questions, straight answers

Is this actually free?

Yes — the community is free during the founding phase while we build the course in public. A paid tier is coming later; founding members will keep early pricing. No card required to join.

Do I need sales experience or money to start?

No experience — the scripts and the model are the training wheels. And the business itself is designed to need almost no capital: advertisers pay before you print, so a filled card funds itself. You need a phone, consistency, and tolerance for hearing "no."

How much can I make?

We won't promise you numbers — anyone who does is selling you something. What we show is the model's real math and our own real results, receipts included, inside the community. Your outcome depends on your market and your effort.

How is this different from other postcard courses?

Two ways. First, we're operators — you watch our actual cards get filled, not screenshots from years ago. Second, we run the business AI-first, and you get those tools and workflows as members. Nobody else teaches it that way.

How much time does this take per week?

Selling your first card is the heavy lift — figure 5–10 focused hours a week of pitching until it fills. After that, a card that renews takes a fraction of the effort: proofs, one print order, one USPS drop. It's built to run alongside a job.

Will this work in a small town?

Often better. Small towns have less ad competition, cheaper everything, and business owners who actually answer their phones. You need 5,000 mailboxes and 16 businesses that want customers — most towns clear that bar easily. Zone selection is module one.

What if someone already runs a shared postcard in my town?

Most towns have nobody doing this, and even covered areas have more neighborhoods than any one operator can serve. Zone selection is literally module one.

Where does the community live?

On Skool — one login, everything in one place: the course, the discussions, the live updates. The button below takes you there.

Free starter kit

Steal our starting documents

The three things you need before pitch #1, ready to use: the card-math worksheet (run your own numbers), the price-sheet template (what you hand advertisers), and the 40-category prospect list (who to pitch first). Free — we'll also send you what we learn as we build.

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Watch a postcard business get built. Then build yours.

Free while we're in the founding phase. The people in the room now are the ones we build it with.

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