Own the card or share it
Direct Mail Postcards for Tree services
Own the whole 5,000-home card from $4,399 and ship in about 3 weeks, or split the card and take the only tree service slot on it.
Trees are a storm-season trade. The card in the kitchen when the branch comes through the roof is the one that gets the call.
Own the whole card
$4,399
5,000 homes, about $0.88 a door. The whole front, edge to edge, nobody else on the card.
Or share it
$349 to $599
One tree service slot per card, set by slot position and how many homes the drop reaches. Nobody else in your trade is on it.
Solo ship window
3 weeks
A solo drop gets its mail date at checkout. A shared card mails once the zone fills.
Why postcards work for tree services
Tree services are storm-triggered. The homeowner is not thinking about the oak in the front yard until a branch falls, a wind storm knocks it sideways, or the insurance adjuster tells them they need it down. At that trigger moment, category-exclusive direct mail is the only channel that guarantees you are on the fridge with nobody else in your trade competing for the same call.
Preventive work (pruning, thinning, dead-wooding) runs in a different cycle and is easier to sell off a postcard because the homeowner is not in panic mode. Seasonal offers work well, spring shaping in March and April, fall cleanup from September to November. Trees also have an obvious referral pattern on the street, one removal job generates three more calls from the immediate neighbors who watched the crane show up.
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Questions before you buy
How much does tree services direct mail cost?
Two ways to buy. Own the whole card, from the smallest size up: $1,399 for about 1,000 homes, $2,299 for about 2,000 homes, or $4,399 for about 5,000 homes. Every size gives you the entire front of the card, edge to edge, with no co-advertisers anywhere on it. Share the card instead and one category-exclusive slot runs $349 to $599, set by the slot position and how many homes the drop reaches. You see the exact price before you pay.
When does the postcard mail?
A solo card mails within 3 weeks of purchase, on the date shown in your order. A shared card mails once 9 of 12 slots on it are taken. Nothing is charged before that, and LocalAd publishes no estimate of how long a zone takes to get there, because no zone has got there yet. You see the live slot count for the zone before you pay.
Will a competitor be on the same card?
No. A solo card is yours alone, with no co-advertisers of any kind. A shared card runs one business per category, so once you take the slot, no other business in your trade is on that card.
Is it available in my ZIP?
Solo runs in any US ZIP with residential mail delivery. Some ZIPs are PO boxes only, or belong to a single business or a military base. Those have no carrier routes, so there is nothing to mail. Type your ZIP at localad.io/solo and a zone opens on the spot, so there is nothing to wait for. Shared cards run in neighborhoods where a zone is filling.