You don’t need lukewarm leads.
NeighborBell: Customer stories delivered neighbor to neighbor.
What is NeighborBell?
NeighborBell delivers short, genuine testimonials and recommendations to nearby homes using doorbell cameras and a physical card. It’s designed for local businesses that grow best through trust, not ads, and it’s already proving to be fast, respectful, and scalable.
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Field Test Results
Initial test
- 30 houses in 35 minutes
- 20 doorbell messages delivered
- 5 brief in-person conversations
Note: 5 conversations was unusually high for this short run. Typically, far fewer doors are answered.
What this shows:
- Reliable pace: ~1 house per minute
- High doorbell camera density in typical neighborhoods
- In-person interactions are short and non-disruptive
- Every house receives a card, regardless of camera
Expected throughput: ~60 houses per hour with fewer interruptions
How delivery works
For each home:
- Ring the doorbell
- Play a 20-second video message from a real customer (iPad on tripod)
- Leave a card at the door
- Live voice message: state exactly where card was left
- Leave immediately
No selling. No pressure. No awkward conversations.
Delivery may be handled by a trained NeighborBell rep. The message itself always comes from a real customer — the neighbor recipients see and hear in the video.
If someone answers the door:
“Oh, I’m so sorry for taking your time. I was just leaving a short video message on your doorbell camera. The QR code here will show you the video.”
What’s Included
Included at no cost
- Customer interview
- Script development
- Custom video message recorded by your customer
- Card and QR design
- Field setup and routing
This is where I’m supposed to tell you the dollar value of the bullet points above, but you already know. This is pure gold.
Paid service
- Door-to-door delivery to every house in the target area
- Every house receives a card
- Every house that has a doorbell cam receives a message, unless there is a no soliciting sign
- Every doorbell message ends with a live, customized micro-commitment: the exact location of their valuable card *
- GPS tracking available (real-time and retrospective) to confirm legwork
* Every recipient will go retrieve the card from exactly where we left it. That means every recipient will have a tangible, neighbor-delivered offer in hand, sized to fit easily beside their credit cards. Even if they throw it away, they will have it in their hands first.
Example card:
Pricing
$2 per door. Every house counts. Every house receives a card.
- No tracking by camera, video, or conversation
- Simple pricing: pay only for houses reached
- GPS tracking available (real-time and retrospective) to confirm legwork
Minimum Distribution: 1,000 houses
One Simple Price
NO AUTOMATIC PAYMENTS
If it works, order again.
$2 per door
Card printing (optional)
If you’d like us to handle ordering the cards, printing cost is passed through at cost ($85 per 1,000). You can use your preferred printer if you’d like.
We will design a card for you based on our experience influencing human behavior to create raving fans for hundreds of small businesses over the past 15 years. Custom redesigns or revisions are billed at our standard hourly rate.
What we’ll measure
- Cards redeemed
- New customer count
- Repeat visits from punch cards
- Cost per new customer
- Optional diagnostic: QR video views (detect non-camera engagement)
Key question: does NeighborBell acquire loyal local customers at a profitable cost?
Based on results, we decide: expand, refine, or stop.
Summary
NeighborBell offers your business:
- A new local acquisition channel
- Predictable cost per household
- High trust, high-visibility, low-pressure delivery
- Simple pricing
- NO automatic payments – place another order any time. Returning customers may set up long-term agreements with auto-pay if they prefer.