Founder & CEO, Dope Marketing
I make direct mail simple for home-service companies.
I’m Dave Carroll. I started as a Minnesota power washer who figured out that the houses next to a finished job were the easiest next customers. That neighborhood math became Dope Marketing — Data On Previous Engagement — automated postcards, handwritten notes, and print with no minimum order.
I’m a husband, a dad of five, and I still run. Everything I build is for them.
Inc. 5000 · 2025 #670
Inc. 5000 · 2026 #864
401% 3-year growth
The short version
That is me, on our channel, walking through how contractors use Dope. If you want the longer origin story — exiting a home-service company, then building the mail engine other owners actually use — the office-tour conversation with Jack Wendt is here, and the conversation with Dennis Yu is here.
Watch & listen
Most of my teaching already lives as video. These are the doors I want a stranger to walk through first.
Three years on the Inc. 5000
#475, #670, then #864. What the ranking actually measures.
Neighborhood reactivation
Get more jobs in the streets you already won.
Office tour with Jack Wendt
The print floor, the API, and why we built it this way.
HighLevel + direct mail
CRM events that send the postcard for you.
Untrapped Podcast
Mindset after you have already survived the hard years.
Dope Conversations
25 episodes. Start with the direct-mail pivot.
Dope Marketing
Automated direct mail, print, handwritten notes, and neighborhood tools for home-service operators. Eagan, Minnesota. Make direct mail simple.
On this site
This domain is my entity home — who I am, what I built, and the conversations I’ve already recorded. For buying mail, use the company site. For the story, stay here: About, the library, Watch & listen, and connections.