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Digg it UP - Practical Plans for Mail Order Beginners
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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 smal
Did you know that an online business forum could pay significant dividends in customer service?Customer service is a very important aspect of your online business. Some businesses err on the side of too little interest shown to customers while others can be extremely overbearing and smother a new client until they consider a restraining order.There is a middle ground that can show your customers you care without pushing them to make an additional purchase. The struggle we all face in customer service is being able to adequately meet the needs of valued customers.Certainly one of the best things we can do is respond swiftly and in the consumers best interest if they have a complaint. Future sales rest on the success of your ability to manage consumer complaints.One of the ways to minimize consumer complaints is to allow customers to take an issue directly to other customers through a forum. At first blush this may seem like a good idea. However, it seems that when a consumer has the opportunity to ask questions from a third party they have a better chance at resolving many issu
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
Strategic philanthropy is a unique and powerful way to combine your company's marketing goals with a your desire to increase the well-being of mankind.We call it strategic philanthropy. Two of the more popular names are cause -related marketing or community partnering. No matter what you call it, strategic philanthropy is a positioning that connects your company with a not-for-profit organization or cause. In this way, while you are being helpful and working for the common good in your community, your business is receiving parallel benefits. These benefits include exposure, lead generation, employee retention and increases in performance and productivity. They can even include benefits to your bottom line.Basic PhilanthropyMany businesses already engage in basic forms of philanthropy, such as:Donating gift certificates to a church's silent auctionAllowing a high school club to set up a car wash on the company parking lotContributing coffee for a community eventBuying a school yearbook adSponsoring the local c
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 smal
I lost my mobile telephone. The telephone company told me to file a police report and then come down to their office to buy a new phone.When I arrived, the counter staff member was helpful and understanding. She gave me a discount on my new phone purchase and a free replacement SIM card holding my personal account details. I was pleased and grateful.Five months later I lost my handphone again! This time I knew what to do. I filed a new police report and went back to the company to buy a new phone.The counter staff member was helpful and understanding, but she gave me neither a discount on the new phone nor a free replacement SIM card. I asked if she had forgotten, or if the company policy had changed.She replied, ‘We are very sorry that you lost the phone, and our policy is to give a discount and a free SIM card to make things a little easier for you. But our records show you lost your phone five months ago, and we can only feel sorry for you once a year.’ Key Learning Point --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 smal
Being laid off is dramatic and traumatic and not a nice experience. It is easy to get very bitter and angry but if you want to climb out from this you need to develop a more positive approach, here is how.Being made redundant is not the end of the world, neither are you alone and it can be changed to positive good.I’ve been made redundant three times now and each time it was a painful experience it is not nice and I would have preferred not have done it.But it did work out for the best, because of it, I have my own business, something I had dreamed about but never had the courage to do.This too could be your solution, it is not as impossible as it may seem at the moment.Before we get into that though lets get one thing straight you are not alone, there are many more like you, layoffs are happening all round the world, so to succeed you need to stand out from the crowd, there’s no point in being defensive.You need to develop a positive attitude to life and decide that you will not be put down. Yes you can do it and here is how to go about it.This is the tim
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 smal
DECISION BY AUTHORITY RULE: Many groups start out with—or quickly set up a power structure that makes it clear that the chairman (or someone else in authority) will make the ultimate decision. The group can generate ideas and hold free discussion, but at any time the chairman can say that, having heard the discussion, he or she has decided upon a given plan. Whether or not this method is effective depends a great deal upon whether the chairman is a sufficiently good listener to have culled the right information on which to make the decision. Furthermore, if the group must also implement the decision, then the authority-rule method produces a bare minimum of involvement by the group (basically, they will do it because they have to, not necessarily because they want to). Hence it undermines the potential quality of the implementation of the decision.DECISION BY MINORITY RULE: One of the most often heard complaints of group members is that they feel “railroaded” into some decision. Usually, this feeling results from one, two or three people employing tactics that produce action—and therefore must
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 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 beginni
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