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Add You - Practical Plans for Mail Order Beginners
Have you ever seen all the illegal aliens at the local car washes? Did you know that they are completely exploiting that labor? They are and do you know how they do it? Simple really they tell all the illegal aliens to come to the car wash at opening. Then they put them on the clock as the place gets busy you see.Next if the business gets slow they start taking people off the clock. The illegal aliens hang around hoping it will get busy. Many are paid in cash under the table, not withholding taxes, social security, nothing. You see the car wash can do this as they are in a cash type business.Many of these illegal aliens are paid whatever the owner in the area can get away with. Sometimes these illegal aliens work there for a while until a local Contractor hires them away. It is if you will a “Stepping Stone” type job for the illegal alien who has no local connections and has newly arrived here, after breaking the law and sneaking over the border. But they find comfort in another law-breaker, the car wash owner who hires them and violates our immigration laws also and then exploits them for
As soon as you get more requests for Big Mails than you have circulars, increase the number of your circular mailing ads. If you get more circulars to mail than requests for Big Mails, increase the number of your Big Mail ads.
If you stick to your mailing copies of magazines in which you are advertising in your Big Mails, you will sell enough ads to pay for your own advertising. And if you include commission circulars in the Big Mails, your sales from them will be "pure gravy". Circular Mailers soon learn that there are dozens of ways to make money in this business - if they keep their eyes and their ears open!
PLAN #6 - BECOME A "COMMISSION MAILER". The first thing you should do is
sit down and order SMALL quantities of commission circulars from about twenty or
thirty different dealers. Most will charge you about $1.00 per hundred. A few
will supply them for just the postage. Once you have done this, order at least
one new batch of commission circular
I am an expert at 6th grade math. I am fair at recognizing SPIN. I have told my friends that oil’s end product, gas, was selling at retail 2 yrs ago, for $1.17 in Phoenix, Az.At that price, the oil companies were making a good profit. Of that retail price, a maximum of 30% was imported oil. Let’s do the math;1.17 x 33% [same thing as 30%] is 3 8.6 1or .39..39 was imported and the rest was HOME grown. OIL has now gone up from $35 a barrel to 75 a barrel. Or 2.3 times.OUT of each gallon we buy, 33% is imported, so, 33% we bring in per gallon at $75 a barrel.1/3 of our gallon of gas has gone up 2.3 times. Our 1/3 used to cost us .39 x 2.3= .81. Our new gallon of gas at war HIGH costs, should cost us 1.17 + 81 = 1.98WE are paying about $2.98. That is $1 per gallon more than can be explained away.WE are told about Iran, Iraq, and other nation’s battles and arguments. Who cares? We are talking about .81 per gal of gas. FOUR years ago, that was our retail price. .81!!Someone is getting an extra $1.00 a gal. ON the house. FROM our US pock
Below are six simple, practical plans that will enable you to start and build your own money making mail order business. These plan have made money for others, and they will make money for you - If you will REALLY work at them!
PLAN #1 - SELL BIG MAILS. The easiest way to start selling by mail is to
advertise and sell "Big Mails". To get started, co-publish at least three Mail
Order Magazines and several ad sheets. Use an ad like this:
BIG MAIL - $1.00 - Commission Mailed Free!
(Your Name and Address)
When someone sends you $1.00, send him one copy of each magazine, one copy of each ad sheet, and one copy of every commission circular that you have in stock. If you advertise regularly, and fill each order by return mail, you will soon by selling ads and subscriptions, as well as merchandise offered on the commission circulars. You can expand by regularly adding to your list of magazines and ad sheets. There are some dealers who advertise in more than 100 Mail Order Magazines every issue. If you are willing to work, you can do the same thing!
PLAN #2 - SELL DIRECTLY FROM ADS. If you are selling merchandise which
is used by Mail dealers and Opportunity seekers, such as rubber stamps,
information directories, envelopes, labels, mail order manuals, sample copies of
opportunity magazines, etc., you can make money selling them directly from ads in
the Mail Order Magazines. If you buy the merchandise in quantity, you can ship
orders directly to your customers yourself. Otherwise, you can use the drop-ship
method.
To be successful, you must schedule REGULAR FOLLOW-UP MAILINGS to your customers offering more of the same merchandise or items that are closely related to it. Do this consistently, month after month, and you will be amazed at the number of checks you will have to deposit in your bank account!
PLAN #3 - MAKE SALES THROUGH CIRCULAR MAILERS. If you have a good offer
- one which really appeals to opportunity seekers - have your printer set up an
attractive 3 x 6 circular and then pay circular mailers to mail them for you.
Your circular will only pull if it offers something that mail dealers and
opportunity seekers want and need.
Ideally, 3 x 6 circulars distributed by circular mailers should offer "leader items", items which are appealing, useful and priced right (never more than a dollar or two-even less if possible). The purpose of the circular is to attract new, steady customers for your mailing list.
You should plan to make regular mailings to each person who purchases your leader item. It is the REPEAT business which makes Mail Order Profitable.
If you send 200 circulars to mailers every day for thirty days, you will have 6,000 circulars in the mail at the end of the month. If you send 500 a day, you will have 15,000 circulars in the mail at the end of the month! There are mail dealers who rely entirely on circular mailers to find new customers for them. Some of them distribute as many as 100,000 circulars every month!
PLAN #4 - SELLING THROUGH COMMISSION MAILERS. This plan is similar to
Plan #3 except that you do not pay mailers to mail your circulars. Instead, you
print a good commission ad on the backs of your circulars, leaving a blank space
for the commission mailer to rubber stamp his name and address.
The mailer stamps his name on them and includes them in his mailings. When he receives an order for them, he keeps about half of the money as his commission and sends you the other half to drop-ship his order for him. You will probably make a small profit from his sales, but your real profits come from the circulars which he is mailing at no cost to you. This method is a little more complicated than Plan #3, since you have to stock merchandise and fill drop-ship orders - but in the long run, it is cheaper than paying mailers to mail your circulars.
You can give your circulars away free, you can ask mailers to pay their
postage for them, or you can run ads in the Mail Order Magazines like this:
COMMISSION CIRCULARS!
100 - $1; 500 - $3
We drop-ship for half.
There are literally hundreds of people looking for good commission circulars. This can be a very effective way of building up a very prosperous Mail Order Business - if you have the stamina to work at it!
PLAN #5 - GET PAID FOR MAILING CIRCULARS. Start by studying the mailing
rates of other mailers in the Mail Order Magazines and then create a similar ad
for yourself. Start small - advertise in lots of 100 and 250. Later, as you
gain experience, advertise for circulars in 500 and 1000 lots.
Besides your mailing ad, you should also run an ad like this!
BIG MAIL - - FREE!
Postage Appreciated.
Soon after your mailing ad appears, you will start receiving small packages of circulars to mail - each with money in them! (Be sure to send a sample mailing to the mailing customer. It is the only way you will get more circulars to mail!) You will also get letters with stamps in them. Use the stamps to mail the circulars which you have been paid to mail.
As soon as you get more requests for Big Mails than you have circulars, increase the number of your circular mailing ads. If you get more circulars to mail than requests for Big Mails, increase the number of your Big Mail ads.
If you stick to your mailing copies of magazines in which you are advertising in your Big Mails, you will sell enough ads to pay for your own advertising. And if you include commission circulars in the Big Mails, your sales from them will be "pure gravy". Circular Mailers soon learn that there are dozens of ways to make money in this business - if they keep their eyes and their ears open!
PLAN #6 - BECOME A "COMMISSION MAILER". The first thing you should do is
sit down and order SMALL quantities of commission circulars from about twenty or
thirty different dealers. Most will charge you about $1.00 per hundred. A few
will supply them for just the postage. Once you have done this, order at least
one new batch of commission circulars
If you dream about having a different career, but don't act on that dream, you may be operating under the assumption of a career myth. In this article, I expose 10 myths, sayings you've heard before that simply are not true. Let's explore them.Career Myth #1: You can't make a living doing something you really, truly loveThis is the grand-daddy of career myths, the belief that you can't have a "practical" career doing something that you were passionate about. It has to be one or the other.This myth is rooted in fear. Fear that we have to sacrifice our happiness to make a living. Don't buy the myth that you can't earn a living by doing what you love.When I first started coaching, I heard from plenty of people that it would be very difficult to make a living doing this work. I just decided to find coaches who were successful, and to learn from them (simple, eh?).If you find yourself buying into this myth, consider this question - As you look back on your life, what will you regret more? Following your passion or following your fears?Career M
To be successful, you must schedule REGULAR FOLLOW-UP MAILINGS to your customers offering more of the same merchandise or items that are closely related to it. Do this consistently, month after month, and you will be amazed at the number of checks you will have to deposit in your bank account!
PLAN #3 - MAKE SALES THROUGH CIRCULAR MAILERS. If you have a good offer
- one which really appeals to opportunity seekers - have your printer set up an
attractive 3 x 6 circular and then pay circular mailers to mail them for you.
Your circular will only pull if it offers something that mail dealers and
opportunity seekers want and need.
Ideally, 3 x 6 circulars distributed by circular mailers should offer "leader items", items which are appealing, useful and priced right (never more than a dollar or two-even less if possible). The purpose of the circular is to attract new, steady customers for your mailing list.
You should plan to make regular mailings to each person who purchases your leader item. It is the REPEAT business which makes Mail Order Profitable.
If you send 200 circulars to mailers every day for thirty days, you will have 6,000 circulars in the mail at the end of the month. If you send 500 a day, you will have 15,000 circulars in the mail at the end of the month! There are mail dealers who rely entirely on circular mailers to find new customers for them. Some of them distribute as many as 100,000 circulars every month!
PLAN #4 - SELLING THROUGH COMMISSION MAILERS. This plan is similar to
Plan #3 except that you do not pay mailers to mail your circulars. Instead, you
print a good commission ad on the backs of your circulars, leaving a blank space
for the commission mailer to rubber stamp his name and address.
The mailer stamps his name on them and includes them in his mailings. When he receives an order for them, he keeps about half of the money as his commission and sends you the other half to drop-ship his order for him. You will probably make a small profit from his sales, but your real profits come from the circulars which he is mailing at no cost to you. This method is a little more complicated than Plan #3, since you have to stock merchandise and fill drop-ship orders - but in the long run, it is cheaper than paying mailers to mail your circulars.
You can give your circulars away free, you can ask mailers to pay their
postage for them, or you can run ads in the Mail Order Magazines like this:
COMMISSION CIRCULARS!
100 - $1; 500 - $3
We drop-ship for half.
There are literally hundreds of people looking for good commission circulars. This can be a very effective way of building up a very prosperous Mail Order Business - if you have the stamina to work at it!
PLAN #5 - GET PAID FOR MAILING CIRCULARS. Start by studying the mailing
rates of other mailers in the Mail Order Magazines and then create a similar ad
for yourself. Start small - advertise in lots of 100 and 250. Later, as you
gain experience, advertise for circulars in 500 and 1000 lots.
Besides your mailing ad, you should also run an ad like this!
BIG MAIL - - FREE!
Postage Appreciated.
Soon after your mailing ad appears, you will start receiving small packages of circulars to mail - each with money in them! (Be sure to send a sample mailing to the mailing customer. It is the only way you will get more circulars to mail!) You will also get letters with stamps in them. Use the stamps to mail the circulars which you have been paid to mail.
As soon as you get more requests for Big Mails than you have circulars, increase the number of your circular mailing ads. If you get more circulars to mail than requests for Big Mails, increase the number of your Big Mail ads.
If you stick to your mailing copies of magazines in which you are advertising in your Big Mails, you will sell enough ads to pay for your own advertising. And if you include commission circulars in the Big Mails, your sales from them will be "pure gravy". Circular Mailers soon learn that there are dozens of ways to make money in this business - if they keep their eyes and their ears open!
PLAN #6 - BECOME A "COMMISSION MAILER". The first thing you should do is
sit down and order SMALL quantities of commission circulars from about twenty or
thirty different dealers. Most will charge you about $1.00 per hundred. A few
will supply them for just the postage. Once you have done this, order at least
one new batch of commission circular
Did something catch your eye in a direct mailing this past week? Have you recently gone to a website and encountered something entirely new that caught your attention? Did a friend of yours try out a new marketing idea and generate a few thousand dollars of extra business overnight?As a small business owner, it's all too easy to get caught up in the hype of new marketing techniques that promise quick rewards for little cash. I'll even admit that we copywriters are trained to overcome your psychological objections to buying what we're selling so that you're ready to whip out your wallet right then and there.And especially in certain marketing circles, the marketing materials for a new whizbang idea are so compelling, you're driven to dump everything you've been doing in order to start trying the latest, greatest end-all be-all marketing technique right away. But this can be dangerous to your bottom line -- or even your entire business.Whenever you try out a new marketing idea, it's important to proceed with caution. Here are 6 quick tips to keep you on track:1. "If it ain't
You should plan to make regular mailings to each person who purchases your leader item. It is the REPEAT business which makes Mail Order Profitable.
If you send 200 circulars to mailers every day for thirty days, you will have 6,000 circulars in the mail at the end of the month. If you send 500 a day, you will have 15,000 circulars in the mail at the end of the month! There are mail dealers who rely entirely on circular mailers to find new customers for them. Some of them distribute as many as 100,000 circulars every month!
PLAN #4 - SELLING THROUGH COMMISSION MAILERS. This plan is similar to
Plan #3 except that you do not pay mailers to mail your circulars. Instead, you
print a good commission ad on the backs of your circulars, leaving a blank space
for the commission mailer to rubber stamp his name and address.
The mailer stamps his name on them and includes them in his mailings. When he receives an order for them, he keeps about half of the money as his commission and sends you the other half to drop-ship his order for him. You will probably make a small profit from his sales, but your real profits come from the circulars which he is mailing at no cost to you. This method is a little more complicated than Plan #3, since you have to stock merchandise and fill drop-ship orders - but in the long run, it is cheaper than paying mailers to mail your circulars.
You can give your circulars away free, you can ask mailers to pay their
postage for them, or you can run ads in the Mail Order Magazines like this:
COMMISSION CIRCULARS!
100 - $1; 500 - $3
We drop-ship for half.
There are literally hundreds of people looking for good commission circulars. This can be a very effective way of building up a very prosperous Mail Order Business - if you have the stamina to work at it!
PLAN #5 - GET PAID FOR MAILING CIRCULARS. Start by studying the mailing
rates of other mailers in the Mail Order Magazines and then create a similar ad
for yourself. Start small - advertise in lots of 100 and 250. Later, as you
gain experience, advertise for circulars in 500 and 1000 lots.
Besides your mailing ad, you should also run an ad like this!
BIG MAIL - - FREE!
Postage Appreciated.
Soon after your mailing ad appears, you will start receiving small packages of circulars to mail - each with money in them! (Be sure to send a sample mailing to the mailing customer. It is the only way you will get more circulars to mail!) You will also get letters with stamps in them. Use the stamps to mail the circulars which you have been paid to mail.
As soon as you get more requests for Big Mails than you have circulars, increase the number of your circular mailing ads. If you get more circulars to mail than requests for Big Mails, increase the number of your Big Mail ads.
If you stick to your mailing copies of magazines in which you are advertising in your Big Mails, you will sell enough ads to pay for your own advertising. And if you include commission circulars in the Big Mails, your sales from them will be "pure gravy". Circular Mailers soon learn that there are dozens of ways to make money in this business - if they keep their eyes and their ears open!
PLAN #6 - BECOME A "COMMISSION MAILER". The first thing you should do is
sit down and order SMALL quantities of commission circulars from about twenty or
thirty different dealers. Most will charge you about $1.00 per hundred. A few
will supply them for just the postage. Once you have done this, order at least
one new batch of commission circular
North Pole – Who’s the greatest businessman of all-time? No, it’s not Henry Ford, nor is it John D. Rockefeller. Donald Trump? Give me a break.The greatest businessman of all time is, without a doubt, Santa Claus.Think about it. His customers return year after year. He has a factory that churns out toys 24/7 with little overhead. He has loyal employees (of course, there aren’t a lot of jobs elsewhere for elves these days). He has a promotions department that secures prime visibility in crowded malls and gets him grand marshal positions in parades. He also has a public relations staff that writes songs, poems, and even produces television shows with him as the star. And talk about customer service. He knows what you want, often without your even telling him.But, sometimes I think Santa Claus is slipping a bit the last few years. He hasn’t really embraced new technology very well. His workers still use basic tools from the pre-Industrial Revolution. His mode of transportation still involves livestock (and don’t tell me one animal with a light bulb on his nose is innovative
You can give your circulars away free, you can ask mailers to pay their
postage for them, or you can run ads in the Mail Order Magazines like this:
COMMISSION CIRCULARS!
100 - $1; 500 - $3
We drop-ship for half.
There are literally hundreds of people looking for good commission circulars. This can be a very effective way of building up a very prosperous Mail Order Business - if you have the stamina to work at it!
PLAN #5 - GET PAID FOR MAILING CIRCULARS. Start by studying the mailing
rates of other mailers in the Mail Order Magazines and then create a similar ad
for yourself. Start small - advertise in lots of 100 and 250. Later, as you
gain experience, advertise for circulars in 500 and 1000 lots.
Besides your mailing ad, you should also run an ad like this!
BIG MAIL - - FREE!
Postage Appreciated.
Soon after your mailing ad appears, you will start receiving small packages of circulars to mail - each with money in them! (Be sure to send a sample mailing to the mailing customer. It is the only way you will get more circulars to mail!) You will also get letters with stamps in them. Use the stamps to mail the circulars which you have been paid to mail.
As soon as you get more requests for Big Mails than you have circulars, increase the number of your circular mailing ads. If you get more circulars to mail than requests for Big Mails, increase the number of your Big Mail ads.
If you stick to your mailing copies of magazines in which you are advertising in your Big Mails, you will sell enough ads to pay for your own advertising. And if you include commission circulars in the Big Mails, your sales from them will be "pure gravy". Circular Mailers soon learn that there are dozens of ways to make money in this business - if they keep their eyes and their ears open!
PLAN #6 - BECOME A "COMMISSION MAILER". The first thing you should do is
sit down and order SMALL quantities of commission circulars from about twenty or
thirty different dealers. Most will charge you about $1.00 per hundred. A few
will supply them for just the postage. Once you have done this, order at least
one new batch of commission circular
What is the most important part of showing at a trade show? Well I know that the first thing I worry about is the trade show promotion. I want to know how I am going to draw people to my booth and how the organizers will draw them to the show in the first place. Trade show promotion, in the end, is all a trade show really is. Without it, there are no people and without people there is no point in being there. Also, if you can’t draw the people to your booth, it doesn’t matter how many are at the show in the first place, now does it? There are a number of trade show promotions you can do to make sure your booth is going to get traffic at the show. The first thing you can do is get a copy of the show attendance list from the previous year. Then, you can send targeted pre-show mailings to prospects as part of your own trade show promotion. Let them know about your company, what you are offering, and who the people will be at your booth that can help them. Then, to make sure you don’t get lost in the shuffle upon their arrival, enclose a map of the trade show floor with directions on where your exhi
As soon as you get more requests for Big Mails than you have circulars, increase the number of your circular mailing ads. If you get more circulars to mail than requests for Big Mails, increase the number of your Big Mail ads.
If you stick to your mailing copies of magazines in which you are advertising in your Big Mails, you will sell enough ads to pay for your own advertising. And if you include commission circulars in the Big Mails, your sales from them will be "pure gravy". Circular Mailers soon learn that there are dozens of ways to make money in this business - if they keep their eyes and their ears open!
PLAN #6 - BECOME A "COMMISSION MAILER". The first thing you should do is
sit down and order SMALL quantities of commission circulars from about twenty or
thirty different dealers. Most will charge you about $1.00 per hundred. A few
will supply them for just the postage. Once you have done this, order at least
one new batch of commission circulars EVERY DAY! (You will find them advertised
in the Mail Order magazines or you can buy lists of commission circular suppliers
from most dealers.) Also order 100 names of opportunity seekers from two or
three different dealers.
It will take two or three weeks for your circulars to start arriving, due to present day third class mail service. As soon as you have about fifteen different circulars, start mailing them. Set a daily quota and stick to it. Five letters a day is 150 letters a month, 33 letters a day is 1,000 a month!
When orders come in, forward the order to the drop-shipper IMMEDIATELY! Then acknowledge the order and let your customer know that his order is being shipped to him direct from the supplier VIA THIRD CLASS MAIL. With your acknowledgment - INCLUDE SOME MORE CIRCULARS! I cannot over stress the importance of this. Your customer likes you and your offers - give him the opportunity to buy something else from you. He is your best source for more business.
Orders will be slow - very slow - in the beginning, but don't get discouraged. Initially this is a slow business, and the only ones who succeed in it are those who have the patience to persevere.
When you find a customer, send him a new mailing every month for at least three months. (That is why you should be ordering NEW circulars every day!)
Once you find a circular that "pulls" - order more of them. If possible, order them with your names and address PRINTED on them. (They will almost always pull more than rubber stamped circulars.) Eliminate circulars that do not produce orders, but keep mailing the ones that do. Eventually, you will develop a mail order "package" that will be irresistible to your prospective customers.
As your customer list grows, you will soon discover that your mailings will become productive (providing that you mail to your customer regularly). A "customer list" will always pull more than a cold list. Making the first sale is certainly the hardest. Commission mailing is difficult in the beginning. Most beginners do not stick with it log enough to give it a fair chance. If you will stick with it - you can make money mailing commission circulars. It takes determination and a willingness to really work at it!
Copyright 2004 by DeAnna Spencer
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