Case study · Permanent lighting · Peoria, IL

From $5,000 in postcards to $50,000 in work

Max calls it virtual door knocking: a card in every mailbox showing that homeowner their own house, lit up. He put $5,000 into Light Launch cards. By his count, they brought back about $50,000 worth of work, and the highest-paying jobs his company has ever had.

See the numbers
10x return $5K in cards ~$1 a card ~1 month to results
A minute and forty seconds, in his own words.
Meet the installer

Max. Manta Ray Lights.

Max owns Manta Ray Lights, a permanent lighting company in the Peoria, Illinois area. Once his Light Launch cards started paying, he put it plainly: “We have officially found a new method to marketing for permanent lighting.”

The idea

Virtual door knocking.

Door knocking works because the homeowner sees what you’re offering, standing at their own house. But a crew can only knock so many doors in a day. Max’s cards do the same job from the mailbox.

“It’s a way to get your foot in the door with customers who otherwise will probably never see what you’re doing unless you’re going door to door.” Max, on why he calls it virtual door knocking

Every card is an AI mockup of that homeowner’s house with his lights already on it. Their first name runs across the top, and the back carries another mockup. In the video, Max holds up one of those cards, then walks outside to the house it shows. That home has his lights on it now.

The honest part

Cash up front, and about a month.

Max doesn’t pitch it as instant. You pay for the cards before the first call comes in, and it can take around a month for the cards to land and homeowners to pick up the phone.

“Don’t get me wrong, you’re going to have to put some upfront capital into this and you’re not going to see a result for maybe a month later, but the result is insane.” Max, on what to expect

And his take on the price: “They’re around a dollar a postcard. And that’s nothing, guys.”

The results

Five thousand in. Fifty thousand back.

What Max put into cards, and what he says they brought his company.

$5,000
Into Light Launch postcards
~$50K
Worth of work the cards brought in
10x
Back per postcard dollar
~$1
Per card, custom render included

The math

Light Launch postcardsAbout 6,000 cards, every one a custom render $5,000
Work the cards brought inMax’s own count, on camera ~$50,000
Back for every $1 mailed ~$10
Highest-paying jobs they’ve had Highest-intent customers they’ve had ~1 month to first results

$5,000 is Max’s Light Launch card order. The ~$50,000 is his own figure for the work the cards brought in, as he reported it on camera in September 2026. Your market, prices, and crew are your own; no two installers see identical results.

How he got there

Why the cards paid off.

Max points to four things:

  1. The homeowner sees their own house. “These postcards right here are AI mockups of the home.” Their name on top, their house lit up. It’s the door-knock pitch without the door.
  2. The best-paying jobs he’s had. “We are getting the highest paying jobs that we’ve ever had from these.”
  3. The most serious buyers. “…and the highest intent customers we’ve ever had.” People who call off a card of their own house already want the lights.
  4. He could see every number. “Broke down all the numbers so that I could see everything that was going on in my business. And it was insanely helpful.” We walked through his results with him, so he knew exactly what the cards were doing.
Final thoughts

“Very easy to use.”

Max’s summary, at the end of the video:

“They got us like 50K worth of work. It was actually insane, very profitable and very easy to use, great experience overall.”

“When you can see the results that I’ve gotten from these, it’s unreal.”

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