From the Founder

I Built SpotDrops. Then I Used It to Sell 3 5 Spots in 24 Hours. Here's Exactly How.

Two new markets. Zero dollars spent. Just SpotDrops and Facebook groups.

Dustin Myers · April 16, 2026 · 7 min read

I'm the founder of SpotDrops. I'm also an operator.

I run The Local Loop in Texas, and I sell spots on postcards the same way every other operator does — by finding local business owners, showing them what a community mailer can do for their business, and closing the deal. The only difference is I also built the platform I run it on.

I'm telling you that upfront because I think it matters. I didn't build SpotDrops from a conference room. I built it because I needed it. Every feature exists because I hit a wall running my own campaigns and thought there has to be a better way to do this.

This week I put that to the test. Here's what happened.

The Setup

I wanted to prove something simple: can a brand-new operator — someone with no existing advertiser list, no warm leads, no prior relationship with a market — go from zero to paid spots using nothing but SpotDrops and a Facebook group?

So I picked two markets I had no presence in: Southlake, TX and Georgetown, TX.

No cold email list. No purchased leads. No existing relationships in either city. Just me, SpotDrops, and Facebook.

The Method

Here's exactly what I did, step by step.

Step 1: Join local Facebook groups.

Every city has them. “Southlake Business Owners,” “Georgetown Small Business Network,” stuff like that. I joined a few in each market. Took about 5 minutes.

Step 2: Gauge interest.

I didn't lead with a sales pitch. I posted something conversational:

“I'm putting together a little co-op of local businesses as a way to work together to reduce crazy marketing costs! The postcard will be sent to about 2,500 high income homes in Georgetown featuring respected local businesses who serve that area. I don't allow competition (1 from each industry), so it's first come first serve! These will be going out monthly, and businesses who are already on it get first dibs on next mailers!”

That's it. No hard sell. No link. Just a question that invites a conversation.

Step 3: Spin up a drop on SpotDrops.

While I waited for responses, I created the campaigns. On SpotDrops, I call these “drops.” I picked my routes, set up the card, and had a live page with available spots ready to share.

This took under a minute per drop. Not exaggerating.

Step 4: Share the link.

When people responded to my post — and they did, quickly — I sent them the drop link. They could see the card, see which spots were open, and buy right there. No back-and-forth. No invoicing. No “let me send you a PDF.”

Step 5: Get paid.

The first spot sold within about an hour of sharing the link. Southlake, Spot A1, $200. Paid through the platform, done.

One of the other spots sold while I was going to bed. I woke up to a sale notification. The advertiser had seen the link, checked out the card, picked their spot, uploaded their logo, filled in their business info, and paid — all on their own time, without me being involved at all. They onboarded themselves. I had everything I needed for their ad without a single follow-up.

The Results

In 24 hours:

• 3 spots sold 5 spots sold across two markets (2 3 in Southlake, 1 2 in Georgetown)
• $600 in gross revenue $1,000 in gross revenue through the platform
• Zero dollars spent on tools, ads, or lead generation
• Two cities I had no prior presence in

I didn't use a CRM. I didn't buy a lead list. I didn't spend 3 hours researching contacts on Google Maps. I posted in a Facebook group, created a drop, shared a link, and people paid.

Want to see what those numbers look like in your market? The profit calculator lets you plug in your own spot price, mailbox count, and format to estimate profit per drop.

Why This Matters (Beyond My Own Sales)

I'm not sharing this to brag about $600$1,000. I'm sharing it because this is exactly the workflow SpotDrops was built for.

The old way looks like this: find leads manually, build a spreadsheet, send invoices, chase payments, track who's paid and who hasn't, manually manage which spots are filled. Every one of those steps is friction, and every piece of friction is a spot that doesn't get sold.

The SpotDrops way: create a drop, share the link, get paid. The platform handles the rest — spot tracking, payment processing, advertiser dashboards, everything. Advertisers can check out whenever it works for them. They enter their own business info, upload their own logo, and pay online. You wake up to a sale notification and everything you need for their ad is already in the system. No chasing.

And because SpotDrops doesn't charge a monthly fee — I only pay a platform fee when a spot actually sells — the math works at every scale. If I sell zero spots in a month, I pay zero. If I sell 50, the platform earns its cut from the revenue it helped me generate. My costs scale with my success, not ahead of it.

What I'd Tell a New Operator

If you're just getting started with community mailers, here's what I learned this week:

Start with Facebook groups.

They're free, they're local, and business owners are already there. You don't need a lead scraping tool or a cold email list. You need a conversation.

Don't overthink the first card.

Pick a zip code, pick some routes, create a drop, and start talking to people. You can optimize later. The first goal is one sold spot — proof that someone will pay you for this.

Let the platform do the heavy lifting.

I didn't send a single invoice this week. I didn't manually track a single payment. I shared a link and SpotDrops handled the transaction. That's time I got to spend on the next conversation instead of chasing the last one. Want to see what this looks like in action? Watch the 2-minute walkthrough.

You don't need to spend money to make money on this.

My total tool cost for these 35 sales was $0 upfront. SpotDrops is free until you sell. That's not a gimmick — it's how it works. When you do sell, it's just 7% per transaction plus Stripe's standard processing fee.

Try It Yourself

If you've been thinking about running a community mailer, or you're already running one and the tool stack is slowing you down, come look at what we built.

No credit card required. Spin up a drop and see how fast you can go from idea to live campaign.

And if you want to see the actual drops from this week, they're live on the platform right now: Southlake May 2026 and Georgetown April 2026. Go poke around.