FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES
Meet your next customer before they start searching for you.
Moving changes almost everything — where people eat, who services their home, where they work out, who cares for their pets and which local businesses they trust. Hello Simcoe helps great local businesses become part of that decision before the search even begins.
TIMING CHANGES EVERYTHING
MOVING SOON
Mover, storage, insurance, cleaning, legal help
MOVING DAY
The key handoff, the first questions and a whole new routine
WELCOME HOME
Food, coffee, fitness, pets, wellness and local experiences
SETTLING IN
Electrical, plumbing, HVAC, cleaning, lawn care, home improvement and more
BEFORE THE SEARCH
Google helps people choose after they start shopping. We want to introduce you before that.
Wait for the search
Customer already knows they need the service. Multiple competitors appear beside you. Businesses compete for the click, while price and reviews can dominate the decision. The relationship begins as a transaction.
Be there first
Meet residents during the moving journey. Become part of a trusted local welcome. Build familiarity before an urgent need occurs and begin the relationship through introduction rather than interruption.
Search advertising captures existing demand. Hello Simcoe helps you build preference before that demand becomes a search.
TRUST BEATS INTERRUPTION
A recommendation feels different from an ad.
Less Friction
You’re being introduced as part of a helpful local experience, not appearing as a random business asking for attention.
Trust Starts Earlier
The resident becomes familiar with your business before the day they urgently need your service.
Better Conversations
When a resident specifically asks Hello Simcoe for help in your category, the introduction begins with intent — not a cold click.
The goal isn’t more leads. It’s better introductions.
THE NEW HOME RESET
One move can create dozens of new customer relationships.
Think about everything that changes when someone moves. They may need a new electrician, plumber, cleaner, insurance broker, dentist, gym, dog groomer, favourite restaurant, coffee shop, lawn company and more. Most businesses spend their marketing budget trying to convince someone to leave a provider they already know. A newcomer often hasn’t chosen one yet.
HOME
Electrician · Plumbing · HVAC · Cleaning · Locksmith · Lawn & Snow · Pest Control · Handyman
LIFE
Restaurants · Coffee · Fitness · Wellness · Dental · Shopping
FAMILY
Pet Services · Kids Activities · Recreation · Community Groups
MOVING & MONEY
Movers · Storage · Insurance · Mortgage · Legal
They’re not necessarily looking to switch. They’re choosing for the first time.
That’s a very different marketing opportunity.
BE ONE OF THE FIRST
Someone is going to become their new favourite local business.
Every newcomer eventually figures out where to eat, who to call, who to trust and which businesses they’ll return to. The question is whether they discover you early — or discover someone else first. Hello Simcoe is designed to put great local businesses into that discovery window.
FIRST FAMILIAR NAME
If a resident sees your business during their Welcome Home experience, you have the opportunity to become familiar before the need even arises.
FIRST GOOD EXPERIENCE
A useful offer, thoughtful welcome or great first interaction can become the beginning of a long-term customer relationship.
FIRST CALL
When the resident eventually needs your category, being a business they already recognize matters.
You don’t need every newcomer. You want the right newcomers to know your name before they need you.
THINK BEYOND THE FIRST JOB
The first purchase is only the beginning.
A new resident might meet an electrician because they need one small job. But over the years that same household may need renovations, service calls, upgrades, referrals and ongoing maintenance. The same is true for restaurants, gyms, dentists, pet services, cleaners, insurance professionals and many other local businesses. A good customer relationship can last long after the moving boxes are gone.
FIRST HELLO
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FIRST PURCHASE
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REPEAT CUSTOMER
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REFERRALS
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LONG-TERM LOCAL RELATIONSHIP
Hello Simcoe is focused on helping create the first connection. What happens after that is where a great local business shines.
HOW IT WORKS
We create the introduction. You earn the relationship.
01 — WE FIND THE MOMENT
We connect with residents during the moving journey through Realtors, moving relationships, local partnerships and the Hello Simcoe experience.
02 — THEY TELL US WHAT THEY NEED
Residents choose to participate and tell us what they are interested in, where they’re moving and what they may need help finding.
03 — YOUR BUSINESS BECOMES PART OF THEIR HELLO
Relevant partners can participate through welcome gifts, helpful offers, local recommendations, resources and category placement.
04 — WE HELP CREATE THE CONNECTION
When a resident wants help in your category, Hello Simcoe can create a permission-based introduction.
NO COLD LISTS.
We are not building Hello Simcoe to hand businesses lists of strangers to cold-call. The resident experience comes first.
FOUNDING PARTNERS
This is more than putting your logo on something.
BE PART OF THE WELCOME
Show up at a meaningful life moment instead of interrupting someone’s day with another ad.
CATEGORY VISIBILITY
Become one of the local businesses residents discover when they’re forming new buying habits.
GIFTS & OFFERS
Give residents a reason to experience your business instead of simply seeing your name.
PERMISSION-BASED INTRODUCTIONS
When residents specifically need help in your category, Hello Simcoe can help connect you.
MULTIPLE TOUCHPOINTS
Relevant businesses may appear during Moving Soon, Welcome Home and settling-in experiences.
PARTNER INSIGHTS
As the pilot develops, help partners understand interest, engagement and introductions generated through Hello Simcoe.
WHY JOIN EARLY?
The businesses who help build Hello Simcoe will help shape what it becomes.
We’re not launching this by signing hundreds of businesses and filling the experience with ads. We’re starting with a smaller group of local Founding Partners so we can learn what residents respond to, what creates value for businesses and what belongs in the experience.
MORE ATTENTION — A smaller founding group means the experience is not crowded with dozens of competing businesses.
HELP SHAPE IT — Early partners can give us feedback about what creates meaningful customer opportunities.
GROW WITH US — Hello Simcoe is the first local market within the larger First Hello Canada vision.
FOUNDING RECOGNITION — Businesses who support the launch become part of the story from the beginning.
We would rather work deeply with a smaller group of great local businesses than sell space to everyone.
If your category makes sense for Hello Simcoe, we’d rather talk now than after the pilot is already built.
BUILT HERE
This isn’t another marketing company selling into Simcoe from somewhere else.
We’re local residents and local business owners. We know what it feels like to pay for advertising, wonder what worked, chase leads and compete with businesses with bigger marketing budgets. We also know what it feels like to move somewhere new and not know who to call, where to go or who to trust. Hello Simcoe sits between those two problems.
Help good local businesses and good local customers find each other.
Grassroots at heart. Technology behind the scenes. Community first. Hello Simcoe is being built locally as the first community experience from First Hello Canada.
START SMALL. GET IT RIGHT.
We care more about creating something that works than making it look big.
We’re starting in Barrie and Simcoe County intentionally. We want to understand what residents love, what local businesses value and what creates real relationships before expanding the model into other communities.
RESIDENT FIRST
If something isn’t genuinely useful to a new resident, it doesn’t belong in Hello Simcoe.
LOCAL BUSINESS FIRST
We want partners to see real value — not buy impressions and hope for the best.
PROVE IT HERE
Build something our own community loves before taking it elsewhere.
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Would you want us recommending your business to a new neighbour?
That’s really the standard. We want businesses that care about their reputation, their customers and the community they operate in.
BEFORE THE MOVE
Movers · Storage · Boxes / Moving Bins · Cleaning · Junk Removal · Insurance · Mortgage · Legal
FOR THE HOME
Electrical · Plumbing · HVAC · Locksmith · Cleaning · Lawn Care · Snow Removal · Pest Control · Handyman · Renovation
LIFE IN SIMCOE
Restaurants · Coffee · Bakeries · Fitness · Wellness · Dental · Pet Services · Retail · Kids Activities · Local Experiences
Don’t see your business? If you help people feel more at home in Simcoe, talk to us.
FOUNDING PARTNER OPPORTUNITY
Do you want your business to be one of the first names they learn?
We’re building the first Hello Simcoe partner group now. If your business is a strong fit for new residents, we’d love to learn what you do and explore how you could become part of their first Hello.
No hard sell. Let’s see if there’s a good fit.
PARTNER WITH US
Tell us about your business.
No giant application. Just enough for us to understand what you do and where you might fit.