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Local Area Marketing

Amplify every mail campaign with geo-targeted digital advertising, personalised to each location and built automatically at scale.

Your printed piece lands once. Local area marketing keeps the same message in front of the same catchment for weeks afterwards, and covers the areas your mail cannot reach.

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A mail drop gets one chance to arrive at the right moment.

Most campaigns do not fail on the offer. They fail on frequency. The mail lands on a Tuesday, the recipient is busy, and the message is gone.

Same catchment.
Same message.

More chances to be seen

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Local area marketing takes the audience definition already built for your mail campaign and puts it to work in digital display advertising across the same postcodes.

Two channels, planned together, from one brief.

Letterbox

Your printed piece lands in the catchment, addressed or unaddressed, personalised down to the individual recipient.

Screen

The same households and businesses see your brand while they browse, for weeks after the mail has been opened.

The gaps

Where mail volumes run short, or an area has already been covered, advertising picks up the shortfall to keep coverage even.

Two things make it work.

1. Amplification

The mail and the advertising target the same defined catchment, so your audience sees a consistent message through more than one channel.

  • Repetition builds recall
  • Digital extends the campaign window
  • Both channels reinforce each other
  • Gaps in mail coverage are filled by ads

2. Automation

Ad sets are generated per location automatically, carrying local details and local offers without manual production for every site.

  • Seven ad variations per location
  • Nearest address, phone and email
  • Scales to any number of sites
  • One approval covers every format

The printed piece does the heavy lifting.

Envelopes, letters, flyers and postcards, printed and mailed from our own facility. Addressed or unaddressed, personalised down to the individual recipient.

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A5 flyer
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MS J CARMODY
18 GLENROY AVE
CHELTENHAM VIC 3192
Dear Ms Carmody,
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Personalised letter
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MS J CARMODY
18 GLENROY AVE
CHELTENHAM VIC 3192
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DL envelope, windowed
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MR A NGUYEN
7/22 CHESTERVILLE RD
CHELTENHAM VIC 3192
valeplumbing.com.au · 9583 4412
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Example creative for an illustrative business. Your artwork, your brand, your offer.

One approval. Every size.

A full set of standard display formats is produced from your existing brand assets, so the campaign runs across desktop, mobile and in-app inventory without separate briefs.

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728 × 90 Leaderboard
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Same campaign.
Different branch on every screen.

Each location serves into its own catchment carrying its own address, phone number and offer. Built automatically, so the number of sites does not change the production effort.

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Cheltenham · 1042 Nepean Hwy
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Postcodes 3192, 3193, 3195
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Glen Waverley · 287 Springvale Rd
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Postcodes 3150, 3149, 3151
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Box Hill · 14 Station St
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Postcodes 3128, 3129, 3130

Mapped, not guessed.

Mail volume short here Ads weighted up Cheltenham Glen Waverley

Radius, postcode or suburb

Each site advertises into the area it actually services. Overlaps are de-duplicated so two branches never bid against each other.

Gaps covered

Where a suburb has too few deliverable addresses, or has already been mailed, advertising weight is increased to keep coverage even across the catchment.

Exclusions honoured

Areas outside the service footprint are excluded, so budget is not spent on enquiries that cannot be fulfilled.

Layer on the audience: age and demographics, in-market intent, life events, custom interest segments and website retargeting can all be added on top of the geographic targeting.

Brief to live in four steps.

1. Define the catchment

Suburbs, postcodes or a radius per location. If we run your mail, we use the same data.

2. Build the creative

A full set of banner sizes from your brand assets, personalised per site. Approve once.

3. Point it somewhere

Every ad links to your site or landing page, tagged so the traffic is attributable.

4. Run and report

Live across the catchment, with results reported alongside your mail performance.

We already know where your customers are.

Most agencies buy digital and hope it lands near the right people. We start from the mailing data and work outward.

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Every ad is tagged so campaign traffic is identifiable in your analytics rather than buried in general referrals, and where conversion tracking is installed we can report on enquiries and sales attributed to the campaign.

One requirement: a tracking tag on your website before launch. It is a small job, but it cannot be applied retrospectively.

30+ years mapping Australian catchments by postcode

24hr turnaround on artwork and campaign setup

7 personalised ad variations built for every location

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Paul D'Arcy

Paul D'Arcy

Direct Mail & Print Specialist

sales@directmailsolutions.com.au

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Frequently asked questions

Advertising aimed at a defined geographic catchment rather than a broad national audience. For a single site that usually means a radius around your premises. For a multi-site business it means each location advertising to its own surrounding area, with its own details and offers.

No. Local area marketing works perfectly well on its own. That said, the two channels tend to perform better together, because the same audience sees a consistent message in the letterbox and on screen.

This is one of the main reasons clients add it. Where a suburb has too few deliverable addresses to hit target volumes, or has already been mailed recently, we increase advertising weight in that area so coverage stays even across the catchment.

No. Campaigns run on flexible terms so you can scale up for a busy period and step back afterwards without being tied in.

Down to suburb, postcode or a set radius around an address. We can also exclude areas you do not service. On top of geography you can layer age, interests, life events and people actively researching a purchase in your category.

Wherever is most useful – a landing page, your homepage, an online catalogue or a booking form. A dedicated landing page almost always converts better than a homepage, and we can build one if you do not have a suitable page.

Yes. Every site can carry its own address, contact details and local offer, and link to its own page. This is handled automatically, so a business with forty locations is no more work to set up than one with a single site.

Yes. We produce a full set of banner sizes from your existing brand assets and work to your brand guidelines. If you would rather supply finished artwork, we can traffic that instead.

We recommend it. Consistency between the letterbox and the screen is what makes the repetition work – the second exposure should feel familiar rather than new.

Display advertising is priced per thousand impressions, and rates vary with audience, competition and how tightly you target. We quote per campaign rather than publishing a fixed rate, and we will advise on a sensible minimum for your catchment size.

Every ad is tagged so campaign traffic is identifiable in your analytics rather than showing up as generic referral traffic. Where conversion tracking is installed, we can also report on enquiries and sales attributed to the campaign.

Once artwork and targeting are approved, setup is usually complete within 24 hours, with ads serving shortly after subject to platform review.

Local Area Marketing Australia

Suited to any business serving a defined area – multi-site and franchise retail, trades and home services, healthcare and allied health, automotive, real estate and local professional services.

Whether you are opening a new site or growing an established one, our team will help you define the catchment, build the creative and put your message in front of the people who can actually walk through your door

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