Be unforgettable to the people who matter most to your business.

LENS becomes your publication, sent four times a year to the clients, prospects, and referral partners you choose.

One hundred forty pages. Zero advertising. Nothing about your industry. Remarkable people, places, and pursuits.

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LENS becomes your publication.

The front cover is pure LENS. Nothing on it sells anything. You are revealed the moment they open it.

This is what arrives.

Heavy paper. Substantial in the hand. No advertising anywhere in it.

The printed issue of LENS, closed, on a coffee table

This is what happens when they open it.

Your photograph, your letter, your firm. Four times a year.

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What they will actually hold

A gift they keep. A reason to remember you.

LENS is a gift of real value, and it comes from you. It stays with them for months, and every time they see it, they see your name. That is how the people who matter most stay close, and how introductions begin.

What they hold is a luxury lifestyle quarterly about remarkable people, places, and pursuits. Professional writers and photographers fill it with travel, craft, objects, and long-form stories about remarkable lives. Nothing about your industry, no market commentary, no advertising, ever.

LENS closed on a coffee table
The first issue

It arrives as a gift, in a box, with your name on the card.

The first issue arrives in a presentation box. Inside, a gift subscription card with your photograph tells them what you have given them: a new issue of LENS, four times a year, from you. Beneath the card, the publication itself.

People remember who sent it because the box, the card, and the letter all carry your name.

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The LENS presentation box open, with the gift subscription card on top of the first issue
The gates

Beautiful coffee table piece, personalized for you

The cover laid flat: your gate on each side, the publication in the middle. This is what every recipient opens, four times a year.

The LENS cover laid flat with the personalized gates open on each side
Made to be held. Kept.

Substantial enough to stay out for months.

One hundred forty pages on premium stock, bound flat. People who hold it use the same word: significant. It stays on an end table, a coffee table, a desk, and it keeps you present long after it arrived. A card or an email disappears in a day. LENS stays.

LENS open on a coffee table
What you get
  • Your own publication, four times a year.One hundred forty pages, printed, no advertising, with your name, your photograph, and your letter on the cover flap of every issue.
  • A list you build, starting at twenty-five.Your best clients, prospects, and referral partners. You choose them. You can add names any time.
  • The first issue as a gift, in a box.A presentation box with a gift subscription card that carries your photograph and your name, and the issue beneath it.
  • Every name on your list, yours alone.No other subscriber can send LENS to anyone you have already added.
  • Nothing for you to do after that.LENS prints, personalizes, boxes, and mails every issue. You never touch it.
What it does for you
  • It impresses them.A publication this considered, with your name on it, is a gift people mention to friends.
  • It speaks to your success.The people who receive it see someone doing well, and doing well is who they want to work with and refer.
  • It keeps you top of mind.It stays out for months, and a new one arrives every quarter. When someone they know needs you, they think of you first.
How it works

Three steps, and then it takes care of itself.

  1. 1

    You choose your people. Your best clients, prospects, and referral partners, beginning at twenty-five recipients.

  2. 2

    The first issue arrives as a gift from you, in its box, with your card and letter.

  3. 3

    A new issue follows every quarter. You never touch it again, and four times a year they are reminded who sent it.

The LENS cover on a coffee table
An open LENS spread on a table
LENS open to a feature, with reading glasses on the page
Exclusively yours

One sender per recipient, always.

Once you add someone to your LENS list, that name is yours. No other subscriber can send LENS to the same person.

By invitation

LENS works with a small number of professionals at a time, so every list stays exclusive to the person who built it. It is an investment in the relationships that grow your business. Subscriptions begin at twenty-five recipients. Pricing on sample request.

A proven model

Personalized publications have carried trusted names for decades.

Private banks, luxury houses, and the most respected firms have sent their clients a beautiful publication for as long as there have been clients worth keeping. The model is proven. What was missing was the version made for an individual professional and their twenty-five most important relationships.

LENS is that version. It is published by Brandon Lee, who built and ran two personalized-publication companies before this one, and it is made to the standard of the publications those firms send: no advertising, no compromise, nothing between the reader and the gift.

Brandon Lee with his family

The fastest way to understand it is to hold an issue.

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Questions

Does the recipient know it came from me?

Yes, from the moment it arrives. The first issue comes in a presentation box. On top sits a gift subscription card with your photograph and your name, telling them that a new issue of LENS will arrive four times a year, from you. Beneath the card is the publication itself, and every issue after that carries your firm, your photograph, and your letter on the cover flap. The front cover stays pure editorial, so it never looks like a mailing.

Is this industry content?

No. There is nothing about your industry in it, no market commentary, and no advice. LENS is a luxury lifestyle quarterly: travel, craft, objects, and long-form stories about remarkable people, written and photographed by professionals. That is the point. Industry content gets skimmed and recycled. A beautiful publication about the wider world gets read, kept on the table, and mentioned to friends, and your name is on it.

Are there compliance concerns?

LENS contains no industry content, no market commentary, no advice, and no offer, so there is nothing inside it that a compliance review would need to weigh. The only words about your work are the ones you write on the cover flap and in your letter, and those go through whatever review your firm already uses.

How does this bring me new business?

Through the people who already trust you. LENS gives your best clients, prospects, and referral partners something remarkable that comes from you, and it stays with them for months. Every time they see it, they see your name, and when a friend needs someone like you, you are the one they think of and mention. It is a reason to remember you and a reason to introduce you.

Who writes it?

Professional writers and photographers, working under LENS editorial direction. Travel, craft, objects, and long-form features on remarkable people. No industry content and no investment content.

What is the minimum?

Subscriptions begin at twenty-five recipients.

What if a competitor in my market subscribes?

Once a name is on your LENS list, no other subscriber can send LENS to that person.

How soon does it do anything?

It starts the day it arrives, and it keeps going for as long as the issue stays out.