{"id":23396419,"date":"2023-10-11T21:29:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T21:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vendasta.com\/blog\/?p=23396419"},"modified":"2026-01-11T03:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:09:51","slug":"achieving-agency-success-with-direct-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vendasta.com\/blog\/achieving-agency-success-with-direct-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"638: Achieving Agency Success with Direct Mail | Brian Davidson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_code _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<script async defer onload=\"redcircleIframe();\" src=\"https:\/\/api.podcache.net\/embedded-player\/sh\/4f451305-e5b4-4878-b293-63e3057356b8\/ep\/631263cb-c2a8-43bc-bd61-c679faa72dc6\"><\/script><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->    <\/p>\n<div class=\"redcirclePlayer-631263cb-c2a8-43bc-bd61-c679faa72dc6\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->    <\/p>\n<style><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->    .redcircle-link:link {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->        color: #ea404d;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->        text-decoration: none;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->    }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->    .redcircle-link:hover {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->        color: #ea404d;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->    }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->    .redcircle-link:active {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->        color: #ea404d;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->    }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->    .redcircle-link:visited {<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->        color: #ea404d;<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->    }<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><\/style>\n<p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><pee style=\"margin-top:3px;margin-left:11px;font-family: sans-serif;font-size: 10px; color: gray;\">Powered by <a class=\"redcircle-link\" href=\"https:\/\/redcircle.com?utm_source=rc_embedded_player&#038;utm_medium=web&#038;utm_campaign=embedded_v1\">RedCircle<\/a><\/pee>[\/et_pb_code][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-10-11T11:46:35-04:00\">October 11, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<p>Join us as we explore the power of direct mail in the digital age with our guest,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/briandavidson5\/\">Brian Davidson<\/a>. With over two decades of marketing experience, Brian\u2019s expertise spans both traditional and digital realms. He excels in creating comprehensive marketing strategies that boost sales and customer loyalty, benefiting clients from national banks to local restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Brian\u2019s remarkable success is a deeply personal motivation. Witnessing a friend\u2019s failure due to poor marketing inspired Brian to establish\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightswitchmedia.ca\/\">Light Switch Media<\/a>, a visionary agency focused on empowering business owners with time-saving solutions to foster genuine, impactful relationships, growth, and success.<\/p>\n<p>Brian\u2019s mission is to bridge the gap between Main Street businesses and corporate marketing agencies, fostering authentic one-on-one relationships. Whether you\u2019re a local gem or an aspiring entrepreneur, listen in to learn how\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/briandavidson5\/\">Brian Davidson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightswitchmedia.ca\/\">Light Switch Media<\/a>\u00a0are propelling businesses to new heights!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Giveaway:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/zfrmz.com\/hCCZftGXyFzOoYtxMT8F\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Download the eBook: 7 Step Online Marketing Plan eBook<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>(<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/zfrmz.com\/hCCZftGXyFzOoYtxMT8F\"><strong>https:\/\/zfrmz.com\/hCCZftGXyFzOoYtxMT8F<\/strong><\/a><strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Conquer Local is presented by Vendasta. We have proudly served 5.5+ million local businesses through 60,000+ channel partners. Learn more about\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"\/\"><em>Vendasta<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0and we can help your organization or learn more about\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"\"><em>Vendasta\u2019s Affiliate Program<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0and how our listeners (like yourself) are making up to $10,000 off referrals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Are you an entrepreneur, salesperson, or marketer? Keep the learning going in the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/academyn.vendasta.com\/\"><em>Vendasta Academy.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Achieving Agency Success with Direct Mail<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:<\/strong>\u00a0Welcome to the Conquer Local Podcast! Our show features successful sales leaders, marketers, thought leaders and entrepreneurs who will inspire you with their success stories. Each episode is packed with practical strategies, as our guests share their secrets to achieving their dreams. Listen in to learn highlights of their remarkable accomplishments and get tips to revamp, rework, and reimagine your business. Whether you\u2019re a small business owner, a marketer, or aspiring entrepreneur, the Conquer Local Podcast is your ultimate guide to dominating your local market. Tune in now to take your business to the next level!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m Jeff Tomlin and on this episode, we\u2019re pleased to welcome Brian Davidson. Brian is the President and Chief Marketing Officer of Light Switch Media. A marketing expert with over 20 years of experience, he excels in both traditional and digital marketing, creating integrated strategies that boost sales and customer loyalty. Witnessing a friend\u2019s failure due to poor marketing inspired Brian to establish Light Switch Media, a visionary agency focused on empowering business owners with time-saving solutions to foster genuine, impactful relationships, growth and success.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Get ready Conquerors for Brian Davidson coming up next on this week\u2019s episode of the Conquer Local Podcast.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Brian Davidson Transitioned from Direct Mail to Light Switch Media Amid the Pandemic<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:<\/strong>\u00a0Alright, fellow marketer, coming all the way from Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, Chief Marketing Officer and President at Light Switch Media, Brian Davidson, how are you doing, man?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019m good, yourself?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019m doing good. Hey, thanks a lot for taking a few minutes to sit down with us and have a chat. Hey, I\u2019m always interested in the beginnings, so tell me about your journey into the marketing world, where you started, and how you got to where you\u2019re at.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0Sounds good. I\u2019ve been in the marketing game for 23 years now in various different forms, and I really cut my teeth in the direct mail or direct marketing world, so I ran a direct mail company for 20 years. And yeah, just helping, working with Canada\u2019s largest banks and financial institutions, all the way down to local mom-and-pop restaurants, and kind of everything in between. And yeah, that\u2019s kind off where I got my start.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:\u00a0<\/strong>Hey Brian, I love the name Light Switch Media, tell me a little bit about the origins on how you started the agency. And you guys had some challenges, as we went through Covid, so talk a little bit about that and how you went from there to booming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0So, I mean, Light Switch, the reason Light Switch came to be is we started getting, so we moved the direct mail company from Toronto to one of the suburbs east of the city, and as a direct result, we started working with some smaller clients. It wasn\u2019t just the downtown big corporate companies, so we had these small companies that were looking to, they were already kind of doing their own social media, that kinda stuff, but they wanted to do direct mail, and they wanted to tie the two things together somehow, and they didn\u2019t really know how to do that. So they started asking us if we could do that. \u201cCan you help us with the social media to talk about this \u201cand tie it in with the mail advertising \u201cthat we\u2019re doing?\u201d And so that\u2019s kinda how we got started into that, and we didn\u2019t really have anybody in-house to do that. So I took that on myself, and then it just kind of started to grow, and there were more and more customers coming on board asking for things, like websites and social media content management, and it got to the point where I was, I had an exit plan in place for leaving the mailing world and going into Light Switch full-time. And then Covid came along, so at the end of the plan was the end of 2020, right, I was going to leave the mailing company and go into Light Switch full-time. And March 17th was the day, it was St. Patrick\u2019s Day. I was actually in Florida visiting my in-laws, and I got a call from the owner of the mailing company saying, \u201cEither we got to lay you off, or we got to lay the staff off. \u201cWhat do we do here?\u201d So I said, \u201cKeep the staff, because we needed them to keep running,\u201d and it was March 17th, 2020, a week after the pandemic was named, I\u2019m on my own, fully invested in Light Switch in the middle of a global pandemic.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Light Switch Media\u2019s four Ts: Team, Time, Tech and Traffic Drive Success<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:<\/strong>\u00a0You know, that\u2019s amazing. Like, I love hearing these stories, and I can\u2019t get enough of them, of how people navigated the change and the challenges that were presented then, because they say necessity breeds innovation, and there\u2019s so many people that figured out how to make it work, and turned from scratching their head to thriving in some sort of way. That\u2019s a great story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, there were definitely challenges along the way, right? Like, you\u2019re all of a sudden, no income coming in, you\u2019re full-time into this. And no one\u2019s spending money, no one\u2019s really spending any money on marketing at the time, because everyone was just terrified of where things were gonna go. And so we just, we had to, it was me, myself, and I at the time, just trying to figure out where to go, who to contact, what contacts from the mailing world do I leverage and try and work with? And then, we just slowly started building a stable of clients, as people started realizing, okay, things aren\u2019t opening back up. We better be able to figure out how the hell to sell stuff online. And we got to that point, so it just started to grow from there. And it was a slow build, in particular in that first year, because Covid just, everyone was afraid to open up their pocketbooks, and probably rightly so, because you weren\u2019t really sure where things were going. But yeah, and then it just, it just kept going from there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:<\/strong>\u00a0So most successful people have a little formula that works for them or a recipe for success, so at Light Switch, you guys have the four Ts. So talk a little bit about that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, what\u2019s really worked was we started to figure out after those first few months of Covid and things sort of settled into whatever semblance of a routine there was, we kind of realized that people were, they needed to get online, they needed to make sure their digital marketing was working and driving business for them, but they didn\u2019t have the expertise. So we built ourselves as a virtual marketing team, so hired someone back, later on in 2020 in the summer. And so we started building these four Ts, and the four Ts are team, time, tech, and traffic, right? So, the team is pretty self-explanatory. These are local businesses. They don\u2019t have a budget necessarily to hire a marketing person, that\u2019s just too much overhead for a small business or a local business to handle, so we took our expertise, my 20 years in the marketing world, I hired someone who was doing content marketing since Facebook started. So we had our experience, so we created a team for them without having to hire, without all the costs and the overhead associated with that. And the whole point is to drive, is to create time, because local business owners, as as we are as an agency, we never have enough time in the day. So we wanted to give them enough time to get back to doing what they started their business for. They wanted to become a baker or a plumber, they didn\u2019t want to become a digital marketer. It\u2019s just one of those things that has to be done to grow a business, so we gave them back some time. And we look at tech, which was really interesting when we started diving more into the technology that local businesses were using, it was all over the place, right? There was social media software over here. There was a CRM maybe over here, there was something else, and none of those things talked to each other. So we kind of figured, if we could get the tech tied together and easier to use for them, that\u2019s going to help with the time, and it\u2019s just going to make more sense, and then save them some money too because they were spending money all over the place. And then last, everything we do in digital marketing, in particular at Light Switch, what we do, everything has to drive traffic. It\u2019s either gotta drive traffic to their website or if they have a physical storefront, it\u2019s got to drive to the storefront. So again, putting that tech in place, giving them the back the time, having a team with expertise, and then all of that has to result in new business for them.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Direct Mail Success: Digital Fatigue, Perceived Value and Gen Z Engagement<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, all right, hey, so I\u2019m gonna bridge with a story here to get to a topic that I\u2019m really passionate about these days. So I was having a conversation, this is probably a couple of years ago, with a good buddy of mine, who\u2019s got an agency down in New Orleans that focuses on SEO and content. And he\u2019s one of the authorities down there, and he said, \u201cJeff, you\u2019re never gonna believe what we\u2019ve been experimenting with and having a lot of success with.\u201d I said, \u201cWhat?\u201d He said, \u201cSnail mail. We\u2019re sending people mail.\u201d And I said to him, \u201cWhat are the conversion rates like?\u201d He says, \u201cAmazing.\u201d And I said, \u201cSo, well, why do you think that is?\u201d He said, \u201cWell, maybe it\u2019s people aren\u2019t doing it, and what\u2019s old becomes new again, but for whatever reason, it\u2019s standing out and it\u2019s blowing my mind.\u201d And because he never really got into it. We live in a digital age, so case study time, so talk to us about how people can find success with direct mail in this digital world we live in now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0Absolutely, so again, this is my history, this is where I come from, but it\u2019s a simple answer of why does it work? Digital fatigue. People are just tired. Like, I don\u2019t know what your phone looks like. I can only imagine what your phone looked like every day, hundreds of messages, phone, emails, DMs, whatever. There\u2019s just so much of it there, and we\u2019re constantly bombarded 24\/7 on those things. And the pace at which things roll through is so fast, that those messages are gone, and the attention that they grab, because marketing\u2019s an attention game, right, all we\u2019re trying to do is grab attention for our customers. So the attention\u2019s gone in seconds, maybe minutes if it\u2019s really good, so digital fatigue is a real thing and it works. And the other reason it works is there\u2019s a perceived value to direct mail versus an email. There\u2019s a touch and feel, it\u2019s real, right? There\u2019s a tactile sensation to it, it\u2019s paper, and people know that to create a postcard costs money. So maybe the message is more valuable because it\u2019s been put on a piece of paper and then sent through the mail, and so it grabs attention. And funny story again, I\u2019m based in Canada as well, working with Canada Post for all these years. They\u2019ve got studies on it, and Gen Z and Millennials have huge adoption rates on direct mail because it\u2019s so unique to them. It\u2019s just not something that they\u2019ve grown up with, whereas, maybe you and\u00a0 I, of a slightly different vintage, we\u2019re used to seeing direct mail, right? That was my nice way of putting it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:\u00a0<\/strong>Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Calling us old bastards, are you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0Pretty much, yeah, yeah. But we\u2019ve seen that, and it\u2019s not necessarily unique, but it\u2019s becoming unique again, because there\u2019s not much in your mailbox anymore other than bills. So that perceived value, that uniqueness to it, the tactile feel, and then the lifespan, right? I have a great story from the direct mail world, about five years ago. A client, they did a promo and it was a direct mail piece, and it went out and someone took that. They weren\u2019t ready to buy whatever the service was at the time. They put it in a drawer where they put such things. Six months later they called in, and they made a sale off it. You\u2019re never gonna get that out of a digital marketing piece, it doesn\u2019t live six months. So all of those things make it unique and different, and there\u2019s lots of different ways you can make sure that it stands out in the mailbox that\u2019s there. The most important thing is that it\u2019s, the message has gotta be targeted and it\u2019s gotta be timely, so you\u2019ve gotta make sure you know what you\u2019re putting on the piece and make sure that it\u2019s being delivered at a time that makes the most sense. So, if you get the targeting right, that piece is gonna yield some great results. So you want a case study, I\u2019ve got a great set of numbers if you wanna hear them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:<\/strong>\u00a0I wanna hear \u2019em, I wanna hear \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0So, this is a micro campaign, like a really small little campaign. It\u2019s actually a case study that we did. These are actual real numbers that we have achieved. I wish I could achieve these results with all my campaigns, but we\u2019ve done other ones, so we targeted local, independent restaurants in my town of Oshawa. We identified 20 of them that had been established and met the criteria that we were looking for. We did a letter, a letter campaign, so a number 10 envelope, a standard envelope that you get in there. We had our logo on it. There was a tagline across the top in colour to make sure that it, to entice them to open the letter. Inside was just a simple sales letter and a brochure. So we sent out, we spent $20 on the postage, and sent it out to 20 businesses. We had four responses, and two booked sales. Revenue generated from that $20 spend was $4,500. That\u2019s a 22,400% return on investment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:<\/strong>\u00a0Wow. Holy smokes. Wow, yeah, so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0And it\u2019s repeatable.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Direct mail with Digital Integration, QR codes, and Targeted Ads<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, there\u2019s not too many people that can get that type of return on a digital campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0And it is a micro campaign, so it\u2019s not, but we have, I\u2019ve seen 10 times return on investment is very, very common, very, if the targeting\u2019s right, it\u2019s easy to achieve. So a 10-time return on your investment, if you spend $1,000 and you can generate 10 grand in revenue, I\u2019ll take that every single day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:<\/strong>\u00a0Every single day. And so, you also have some strategies on how to integrate the direct mail with your digital campaigns as well, and so you wanna talk about a couple of strategies so that you can leave listeners with this amazing to-do list that they\u2019re going to walk away with here because you\u2019ve already got them motivated. Those are some big numbers, Brian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, and like I said, we\u2019ve repeated those, never to that level again, but consistently, 10 times ROI or higher. But yeah, some of the strategies, I mean, there\u2019s some basic things, so, in the direct mail piece that\u2019s going out, you gotta make sure you utilize the things that are available to you today. QR codes, I know, if you\u2019ve been in the game long enough, we know that QR codes were the big thing, probably five, 10 years ago, but it never really got the adoption rates, because it was, you had to download an app, and the app was kinda wonky, and sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn\u2019t. Well, with today\u2019s smartphones, it\u2019s just, point your camera at it, and boom, the website opens up. It\u2019s just so, so simple so that seamless connection. So the adoption rates for QR codes are that much higher, so when we send out a direct mail piece, we\u2019re working on another campaign for ourselves. We have a box in there with a QR code line driving to a landing page. That means the camera\u2019s just going to quickly scan and go to that, so making sure your landing page is mobile-friendly is super, super critical. But when we do the integrating with, we\u2019ll do Facebook. We\u2019re going to be doing Facebook-targeted ads to the geography that we\u2019re going to with that, so you make sure that you\u2019re telling them in those ads, \u201cHey, keep an eye out in your mailbox, because there\u2019s a postcard with details coming soon.\u201d So, you\u2019re sending the message out in a multitude of ways, so that they get it, and they see that when it comes into the mailbox, and now they understand what it is. And from a direct mail perspective, and really with any marketing, but in particular direct, it\u2019s not a one-and-done. Don\u2019t send one thing because that might just get missed, a gatekeeper might get a hold of that and not get to the person you\u2019re trying to get to. Do a series of three, four, or five different pieces. Make sure there\u2019s always that QR code. Make sure your landing page is mobile optimized, and it\u2019s easy to fill out forms, whatever it is you\u2019re looking for. Putting Snapshot form, the acquisition widget kinda thing on there so people can get the information that they\u2019re looking for on that landing page, but you\u2019re driving all that stuff to there. And then, on the digital part of it, so that we\u2019ve got the direct mail piece. We\u2019ve talked about how to use the Facebook ads and Facebook posts to, hey, let people know stuff\u2019s coming, but we just make sure that the digital foundations are in place. So when we talk to our clients, we kinda do a four-phase approach with it. So yeah, we\u2019re gonna do a direct mail campaign, but we gotta make sure that your foundations are, your website\u2019s right, your SEO is kind of, the basics are in place. We wanna make sure your social media content is doing the things that it needs to do to inform people about what\u2019s going on, then we\u2019re gonna use the direct mail for that targeted lead gen, but maybe a LinkedIn Sales Navigator type campaign in there as well. And then finally, we run the digital ads to the mix, so now, we\u2019ve got them sort of, let\u2019s get the backend, that conversion point that we talk about in the Vendasta world. Make sure that the conversion point\u2019s right in the customer journey, and then make sure that all the rest of the pieces are in place so that when you do the direct mail piece and then the digital ads, everything\u2019s gonna click the way you want it to.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Webinars with Educational Value Lead to Successful Prospecting for Services<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:\u00a0<\/strong>Yeah, so you\u2019ve got a great process for doing your own prospecting with webinars, and so talk a little bit about that process because that\u2019s a super interesting funnel as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, so we\u2019ve really found a niche that works for us with online communities, like the owners of those communities that are offering services to businesses that are complimentary to what we\u2019re doing, and the two best examples are two different types of coaches. So we actually have a coach to professional organizers, so this individual built a professional organizing business in the States, and now they\u2019re coaching other professional organizers on how to create a strong business foundation in that space. And then the other is a coach to coaches, so they built a successful coaching practice, and now they\u2019re teaching others how to do the same. So they\u2019re coaching people on how to build those businesses, but they don\u2019t have, they didn\u2019t have marketing services built into that. It was telling them you needed to do SEO, but they didn\u2019t have a vehicle to provide the SEO services. So we went in and prospected and networked and met with people, and built rapport. Often, what we did with them is we would go in and offer some complimentary services as a proof of concept to what it was, so we would show them what an SEO campaign would look like, and we wouldn\u2019t necessarily charge for that because we knew where the backend of that could look like. So it was a bit of a calculated risk on that side, so once we did that, we got in, and they were all on board. Now we\u2019ve got a person who has a community of 500, 700, 1,000, and 2,000 business owners in a space, and they\u2019re talking to them, and they\u2019re promoting marketing services that we provide as part of their team. What really works for us is webinars, so what we do, is they host these free webinars for the community, and we talk about topics that are important. So some of the ones we\u2019ve done, we did an SEO campaign, because there\u2019s a lot of questions about, well, what is SEO, why is it important? Why don\u2019t I just do my Google business profile? Isn\u2019t that good enough? So we had a webinar explaining the difference between the two and what it is and how you can do it on your own. We\u2019ve done the Google Analytics switch over to GA4, different, what does a good website look like? Those types of things, but really, what we come at it from is that it\u2019s, we\u2019re trying to add value, we\u2019re trying to add value to those communities. So we\u2019re not selling, we\u2019re educating, and we\u2019re telling them how they could do something on their own, if they wanted to do that on their own. And really, we\u2019re just trying to help, if we, and coming across as, hey, you need to do this in your business, so here\u2019s how you can do it, and we teach them how. And there, we\u2019ve shown videos, and we\u2019ve done walkthroughs of things, and then at the end, it\u2019s, \u201cHey, if you don\u2019t have the time, you don\u2019t have the inclination, you just don\u2019t wanna deal with this, then we\u2019re here to help.\u201d And so that value add without the hard sales pitch, without the, download this form, but if you need help, we\u2019re here for you. That message seems to have resonated, and we have yet to do a webinar where we haven\u2019t walked away with a new client.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:\u00a0<\/strong>True inbound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0Or at least a booked sale or maybe.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key Takeaways: Try Direct Mail, Add Value, Find Good Partners and Be Authentic<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, I love it, a true inbound marketer. And the people that are really finding the most success right now are leading with education, because most people don\u2019t want to be hard sold these days, right? I love the approach, and I love the hard takeaways with the different formulas that you have. So, if we\u2019re gonna leave people with some key takeaways, so enumerate some of those for the people listening today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0So, try direct mail. I mean, there\u2019s number one, give it a whirl. I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll be disappointed if you get the messaging and the target right. If you know what you\u2019re looking for, you know who you\u2019re trying to get to, there are, in Canada Post or the USPS, there are ways to get to that business or that individual through that channel. Give it a shot. There\u2019s lots of local businesses that are out there that can help you with that. Small print shops often will do direct mail services for you. Find someone who can help you with that. And I think you\u2019ll see, in particular in Canada, that sort of avoid anti-spam legislation, direct mail\u2019s a really interesting way to prospect because you don\u2019t have to worry about that side of it. Another take, add value, just add value. Just be there coming from a place of wanting to help, and that\u2019s what\u2019s worked best for me. So if you\u2019re there, and you\u2019re kind of giving away content or helping and showing them how to do it for themselves when they get to the point where they\u2019re either, they can\u2019t take it any further, they\u2019re going to remember that this person helped me and they got me to a point, and now that it\u2019s time for me to spend some money on it, they\u2019re gonna come back and talk to you. So that would be that. Find some good partners, find partners that work well with you, or that just sort of share the same values. And then probably the biggest one is just to be yourself. It\u2019s kind of funny, I was talking to my wife before coming on today to the podcast. I\u2019m like, \u201cShould I put a nice shirt on? \u201cWhat should I do?\u201d This is me, this is who I am. I\u2019m wearing a pink hoodie, and so I think it\u2019s pink, I\u2019m colourblind. But it\u2019s be yourself, because people buy from people.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key Advice: Be patient, and No Need to Reinvent the Wheel.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, I love that takeaway, and I was gonna ask you what advice you\u2019d have for marketers, but I couldn\u2019t think of some better ones than to be yourself and add value along the way. Anything else you\u2019d add to that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0Maybe just two things, be patient, it takes time. I mean, there are overnight successes and good for them, and high fives to them, but it takes time, and it\u2019s not a straight line. 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Thanks for taking some time out of your very busy schedule to join us in the Conquer Local podcast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0Thanks very much for havin\u2019 me, it\u2019s been fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:\u00a0<\/strong>Good luck to you, sir, and we look forward to havin\u2019 a follow-up chat sometime down the road here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Davidson:<\/strong>\u00a0Sounds good, thanks Jeff.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Jeff Tomlin:\u00a0<\/strong>I really enjoyed our conversation with Brian. Direct mail marketing can still be highly effective in today\u2019s digital world due to digital fatigue. Providing targeted and valuable content through direct mail can grab the attention of customers, especially when combined with digital strategies like integrating QR codes and Facebook-targeted ads.<\/p>\n<p>Building a successful marketing agency requires patience and perseverance. 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