About Longshot Branding
Connecting local businesses to the communities they serve.
We believe local businesses deserve thoughtful, accessible ways to reach the households most relevant to their services. That belief shapes everything we do.
Our mission
Longshot Branding exists to help local businesses become familiar, recognizable, and easy to contact before their customers need them. We do that through shared-cost community postcards, strategically selected mailing routes, professional creative design, and practical QR-code tracking, a managed advertising service for locally owned businesses across Colorado.
Why we started with the Community Card
An oversized postcard is one of the most effective pieces of local advertising there is , and one of the most expensive to mail alone. By sharing the cost among noncompeting businesses, we make that power accessible to the local businesses it was always meant for. One card, many businesses, divided cost, real delivery.
How we choose advertisers
We use an in-house evaluation process to curate an appropriate mix of reputable businesses. That process considers reputation signals, service-area relevance, category fit, and campaign suitability. This is our own curation, not an independent certification or formal endorsement. We're looking for businesses that care about their reputation and want to build long-term visibility in the communities they serve.
What we value
Community-based marketing
We bring noncompeting local businesses together so each can reach more households for less.
Strategic route selection
Routes are researched, not guessed, delivery counts and neighborhood estimates guide every choice.
Thoughtful creative
A professionally designed card is worth keeping, and keeping is the point.
Practical tracking
QR tracking adds honest measurement without overpromising what a scan proves.
Transparent reporting
We share the reasoning and the limits behind our numbers.
Familiarity before the need
We help businesses become recognizable before a customer needs them.
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Based in Colorado
We're based in Montrose and now serve communities across the state, from the Western Slope to the Front Range. We're locally invested, the businesses on our cards are our neighbors, and the households we mail to are our community.
An invitation
If you run a reputable local business and want to build lasting visibility in your community, we'd like to meet you. Tell us about your business, your service area, and what you'd want to promote. We'll be honest about whether the next Community Card is a fit.
Let's talk about your business
Reach out and tell us what you do and where you do it. We'll explain what's available and what makes sense for you.