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name: al-499-plan-door-hanger-walks-around-the-customers-you-already-h
description: "Door hangers work best on the streets around existing customers, but planning which houses to hit and tracking results is the part owners skip. AI Business Plays writes up a self-reported X post by a small lawn care business owner (@HomesteadHero). In one week his Grok Bot team mapped 272 houses into 10 door hanger loops (he dropped 200 fliers that Sunday), built a list of 21 HOAs to pitch for fall cleanups and helped land 5 new lawn clients. He doesn't say how many of the 5 came from the door hangers, and it is self-reported. Check local and HOA rules on fliers before you drop them. The same idea works for any local service, including a real estate agent farming a neighbourhood. Use when the user wants help with door hanger route planning (marketing) for a small business."
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# Plan door hanger walks around the customers you already have: have an AI group nearby houses into walkable loops, print a list for each, track which loop new customers come from, and list local HOAs to pitch

Door hangers work best on the streets around existing customers, but planning which houses to hit and tracking results is the part owners skip. AI Business Plays writes up a self-reported X post by a small lawn care business owner (@HomesteadHero). In one week his Grok Bot team mapped 272 houses into 10 door hanger loops (he dropped 200 fliers that Sunday), built a list of 21 HOAs to pitch for fall cleanups and helped land 5 new lawn clients. He doesn't say how many of the 5 came from the door hangers, and it is self-reported. Check local and HOA rules on fliers before you drop them. The same idea works for any local service, including a real estate agent farming a neighbourhood.

## Inputs to collect first
Ask the user for anything below that they haven't already given you. Don't guess missing facts.

- Type of local business
- Town
- Or paste addresses
- Offer, e.g. fall cleanup
- Seasonal service

## Instructions

Do the task below with the user's inputs in place of each [bracket].

I run a [type of local business] in [town]. Here are my current customers' streets [list or paste addresses]. 1) Pick about [250] nearby houses, starting with the streets closest to my existing customers, and group them into walking loops of [20 to 30] houses that I can do in one go. 2) For each loop give me a printable list in walking order with a start point and an estimate of how long it takes on foot. 3) Write a short door hanger message for [offer, e.g. fall cleanup] that mentions I already work on their street, with a QR code or code word per loop so I know which loop a call came from. 4) Make a tracking table: loop, date dropped, calls or messages, new customers. 5) List the HOAs within [5] miles with a public contact for each and a 3-sentence pitch for [seasonal service]. Check and tell me any local or HOA rules on door hangers you find.

## Safety checks (share these with the user)

- Remove names, contact details, account numbers and other personal data the task doesn't need before you paste, and check your AI tool's data and training settings.
- Read and edit the draft before it reaches a customer or goes public. If you later automate this prompt, start with "draft and notify me", not "send automatically".
- Check names, dates, numbers and any claim against your own source material before you use the answer. AI can misread or invent details.
- Say clearly which parts need a person to review or approve before anything is sent, paid, posted or filed.

## About this skill

- Works with: Grok Bot, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Maps
- Based on this real-world example: https://aibusinessplays.com/plays/lawn-care-bot-team-5-new-clients-272-houses-door-hangers/
- Free prompt from AgentPlaybook Real Estate: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/prompt/al-499-plan-door-hanger-walks-around-the-customers-you-already-have/
- To install in an agent that supports Agent Skills, save this file as SKILL.md in a folder with the same name as `name` above (for example in your skills directory). Install steps for Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/skills/