The Georgetown Spotlight

Inaugural Georgetown edition

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Founding business invitation · Georgetown, Texas

Put your business in about 10,000 Georgetown mailboxes.

The Georgetown Spotlight is an oversized 9″ × 12″ postcard shared by a curated group of local businesses — one per category. We’re inviting selected businesses to join the inaugural Georgetown edition as founding businesses, at 15% off.

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Founding placements from $425 — about 4¢ per door. Mailing on your own can run a dollar or more.

from4¢per door Sample layout of the front of The Georgetown Spotlight postcard, with large, medium and small ad spaces under the masthead.
Sample layout · 9″ × 12″, full color on both sides
  • 9″ × 12″two-sided, full-color postcard
  • ~10,000Georgetown homes and businesses
  • 1 per categoryno competitor beside you
  • All includeddesign, printing, postage, distribution

How it works

One card, shared by Georgetown businesses

  1. Local businesses share one postcard

    Instead of funding a mailing on your own, you share one large, full-color card — and its cost — with other Georgetown businesses.

  2. Each category stays exclusive

    One business per category in each edition. If you’re the dentist on the card, no other dentist is.

  3. We handle the production

    Ad design if you need it, printing, postage, handling and distribution. You approve your ad; we do the rest.

  4. Georgetown gets the card

    The finished postcard is mailed to approximately 10,000 Georgetown homes and businesses.

The postcard

A real piece of mail, not a page you scroll past

Two sides, full color, and bigger than almost anything else in the mailbox. Every ad sits directly on the card.

Front of the postcard, sample layout: masthead reading The Georgetown Spotlight, Georgetown, Texas, Inaugural Edition, above two large, three medium and two small ad spaces.
Front
Back of the postcard, sample layout: a mailing panel with postage and address area, one large, three medium and two small ad spaces.
Back

Sample layout. The final arrangement depends on the placements in the edition. No real businesses are shown.

How big is 9″ × 12″?

Drawn to scale against what usually arrives with it.

Size
9″ × 12″, two-sided
Color
Full color, both sides
Reach
Approximately 10,000 Georgetown homes and businesses
Businesses
A curated group, one per category
Placements
Large 5.7″ × 3.8″ · Medium 2.8″ × 3.8″ · Small 2.8″ × 1.8″
Included
Ad design if needed, printing, postage, handling, distribution

Why businesses take part

What a shared, one-per-category card gives you

  • Cents per door, not dollars

    Send an oversized mailer on your own and design, printing, postage and a mailing list can easily add up to a dollar or more per door. Shared across a curated group, your placement works out to a few cents per door.

  • Your category, alone

    No competing business appears beside you. Category exclusivity is the heart of the Spotlight.

  • Seen without opening anything

    No envelope, no pages to flip. Every ad is printed on the surface of the card.

  • Done for you

    No designer? No problem. We create the ad, print the card and handle the mailing.

  • Georgetown reach

    It goes to Georgetown homes and businesses — the neighbors around the Square, along Williams Drive and across town.

Inaugural Georgetown edition

Become a founding business

This is the first Georgetown Spotlight. Businesses selected for the inaugural edition join as founding businesses and receive 15% off regular placement pricing for that edition.

Because each category can appear only once, availability depends on what you do. Checking is free and quick: tell us about your business and we’ll confirm whether your category is available in the inaugural Georgetown edition.

Checking your category doesn’t purchase or reserve a placement. It starts the conversation. If your category is open, we’ll follow up with the details.

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Pricing

Three placement sizes. Founding pricing for the inaugural edition.

One price per placement, per edition. Each size is roughly twice the space of the one before it.

Small

2.8″ × 1.8″

Regular $500

Founding $425

$75 off the regular price · about 5¢ per door at regular price

Medium

2.8″ × 3.8″

Regular $800

Founding $680

$120 off the regular price · about 8¢ per door at regular price

Large

5.7″ × 3.8″

Regular $1,400

Founding $1,190

$210 off the regular price · about 14¢ per door at regular price

Diagrams show each placement’s share of one side of the 9″ × 12″ card. Per-door figures are the price divided by approximately 10,000 mailboxes.

Cents per door, not dollars.

What it costs to reach one Georgetown mailbox with an oversized, full-color card:

Mailing it on your owndesign, printing, postage and a list, all on one business

$1+per door

Your Spotlight placementfounding price, everything included

4–12¢per door

Bars drawn to scale. The solo figure is a typical all-in cost and varies by printer, quantity and list; the Spotlight figures are the founding prices divided by approximately 10,000 mailboxes.

Every placement includes

  • Custom ad design, if you need it
  • Full-color printing
  • Postage, handling and distribution
  • Delivery to approximately 10,000 Georgetown homes and businesses
  • Your category exclusive in that edition

No monthly fee and no software subscription. You’re buying a placement in an edition.

Planning ahead? Optional three-edition prepay

Prefer to commit to three editions at once? You can prepay at the founding price for each edition:

  • Small: $1,275 total (3 × $425)
  • Medium: $2,040 total (3 × $680)
  • Large: $3,570 total (3 × $1,190)

Entirely optional. Most businesses can start with the inaugural edition alone.

Questions

Straight answers

What is The Georgetown Spotlight?

An oversized, two-sided, full-color 9″ × 12″ postcard featuring a curated group of Georgetown-area businesses, one per category. Businesses share the cost of producing and mailing it, and each gets its own placement on the card.

Where is it delivered?

It’s mailed to approximately 10,000 homes and businesses in Georgetown, Texas.

Can two businesses from the same category participate?

No. Each edition includes one business per category, so no competing business appears beside you.

What if I don’t have an ad designed?

Custom ad design is included when you need it. Send us your logo, contact details and what you’d like to promote, and we’ll design the ad for your review before it prints.

What happens after I check my category?

We’ll confirm whether your category is available in the inaugural Georgetown edition. If it is, we’ll follow up by email with placement sizes, founding pricing and next steps.

Does submitting the form reserve my spot?

No. The form is an availability request only. It doesn’t purchase, hold or reserve a placement. If your category is open, we’ll explain how to confirm your placement.

What does it work out to per door?

Divide the placement price by the approximately 10,000 mailboxes it reaches. At founding prices that’s about 4¢ (Small), 7¢ (Medium) and 12¢ (Large) per door, with design, printing and postage included. A business mailing an oversized card on its own can easily spend a dollar or more per door.

Is this a monthly subscription?

No. You pay for a placement in an edition — not a monthly fee or software subscription. An optional three-edition prepay is available if you’d like to plan ahead.

Category availability

Is your category available?

Tell us about your business and we’ll confirm whether your category is available in the inaugural Georgetown edition.

Prefer to talk? Call or text 512-665-0555.

We’ll only use your information to follow up about The Georgetown Spotlight.