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If your goal is to get some immediate business, don't. Save the money and use it on your website's SEO instead, maybe split it with the FB.

If you are set on the mailings, replace the map with a QR code of your website. Replace the "As a gift for our neighbors" with "As appreciation to your neighbors"

It does not jive to say a gift and then charge them $19.99, imo :) I realize that it's your logo on the card, but the colors are low impact, so it's a judgement call, but i'd change the colors leaving the same logo picture, just to make sure the card is picked out of the slew of other mail and actually looked at for at least a split second.

 

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