Door to Door Marketing in Calgary
There are three real ways to put your business at a Calgary front door: hang a printed piece on the handle, drop a flyer, or send people to knock. Each one wins somewhere. This page lays out when, what each costs, and why proof of delivery is the variable most campaigns ignore until the budget is spent.
What is the best door to door marketing in Calgary?
Calgary businesses have three door to door options: door hangers (from $650 per zone, designed and printed), delivery only of pieces you already printed ($1,995 for 5,000 doors), and canvassing teams paid per day. Printed pieces cover roughly 4,000 homes per zone; canvassers convert harder doors but cost far more per contact. StreetDrop hand delivers hangers and flyers with GPS and photo proof of every drop.
Your three options
Door hangers
From $650 per zone plus GST
Premium 14pt cardstock, die-cut to hang on the door handle, full colour both sides. The piece stands alone at the door instead of landing in a pile, and homeowners keep it. Designed, printed, and hand delivered by our own GPS-tracked couriers.
Wins when you want the highest impact per door: a home service offer, a grand opening, a seasonal push where being kept on the fridge matters.
Door hanger serviceFlyer delivery
$1,995 plus GST for 5,000 doors, delivery only
Already printed? We hang your pieces on the door handle instead of the mailbox pile, done in one week, delivered by the same couriers with the same GPS route log and photo proof of every drop. Not printed yet? We put your flyer on a door hanger and deliver that.
Wins when you already have hangers printed, or when budget per door is the constraint and you want the lowest cost per door delivered without giving up hand placement or proof.
Flyer delivery serviceCanvassing and sales teams
Wages or commission per knocker, per day
People knocking and having live conversations. It converts the hardest doors but costs the most per contact, is slow to scale past a few streets a day, and carries compliance weight: Alberta requires direct sellers to hold a provincial licence, and unsolicited door to door sales of household energy products, furnaces, water heaters, windows, air conditioners, and energy contracts have been banned in Alberta since 2017.
Wins when the sale needs a conversation on the spot: high-ticket quotes, petitions, fundraising. For awareness and lead generation, printed pieces cover far more doors per dollar.
Compare channelsThe proof problem
Door to door marketing has one structural weakness: you are paying for work that happens out of sight, on streets you will never walk yourself. A canvassing team hands you a tally sheet. A blanket flyer crew hands you an invoice. A mail reseller hands you a route-level distribution count. None of those tell you whether your street, your zone, your ten thousand pieces were actually served.
StreetDrop was built to close that gap. Our couriers walk assigned routes with GPS logging on, and every drop is photographed with a timestamp. When your campaign finishes you see the map of where we walked and when, door by door, and any zone that falls short of the logged route gets re-delivered. That is the standard we think every Calgary business should hold its door to door spend to, whoever it hires.
Frequently asked
What does door to door marketing cost in Calgary?
With StreetDrop, delivery only of hangers you already printed is $1,995 for 5,000 doors, and a door hanger designed, printed and delivered starts at $650 per zone, both plus 5% GST, with a Calgary zone covering roughly 4,000 homes. A canvassing team costs wages or commission per person per day and reaches far fewer doors, so it only makes sense when the sale needs a live conversation.
Door hangers or flyers, which should I pick?
A door hanger, because a loose flyer has nothing to hold it on the door and Canada Post does not allow non-mail items in the mailbox. If you have a flyer design, we lay it out as a door hanger and print it. If you already have hangers printed, we deliver them for less per door. Either way they are hand placed on the door handle by the same couriers with the same GPS and photo proof.
Is door to door sales allowed in Calgary?
Canvassing and door knocking are generally allowed, but Alberta requires direct sellers to hold a provincial direct selling licence, and since 2017 unsolicited door to door sales of household energy products, furnaces, water heaters, windows, air conditioners, and energy contracts have been banned in Alberta. Leaving printed marketing at the door, the door hanger and flyer model, is not a sales visit and does not carry those restrictions.
How do I know the marketing actually happened?
That is the weak point of most door to door marketing, and the reason StreetDrop exists. Every route our couriers walk is GPS logged and every drop gets a timestamped photo, so you see a map of exactly where your campaign went and when. Any zone that falls short of the logged route gets re-delivered.
Which Calgary neighbourhoods can you cover?
All four quadrants. Calgary is mapped into zones of roughly 4,000 homes, from Panorama Hills, Evanston, and Sage Hill in the north to Mahogany, Auburn Bay, and Cranston in the southeast, plus Red Deer and Central Alberta. You pick zones on a live map with household counts and pricing shown before you commit.
Put it at the door. Then prove it.
Pick your Calgary or Red Deer zones, see pricing instantly, and get a GPS log plus a timestamped photo of every drop. Door hangers from $650 per zone, or delivery only at $1,995 for 5,000 doors, plus GST.