Making Money With A Mail Order Business | Part 1
Posted on November 16th, 2008 in Online A Mail Order Business
Making Money With A Mail Order Business:
Starting and making money with a mail order business is easy and inexpensive. However, there are three things of absolute importance that must be considered before you begin.
The first consideration is your product, then there’s your capability to advertise, and finally you have to have a handle on your operating costs.
One of the most profitable and easiest products to sell via mail order are short, no-nonsense reports and folios that guide or instruct other people in how to make money. Reports such as this one.
Look at it this way, the majority of the people in the world are looking for a “magic method” of making money without putting forth too much effort, time or money. You write or buy the reproduction right to 100 different titles - titles that appeal to these people looking for that “magic method” to riches - circulate a list of these reports, priced at $2 to $3 each, and you’ve got yourself a real gold mine! Sell a thousand copies of each of these reports each year, and in 10 years you will have made a million dollars or more! It’s easy - it’s being done every year - and you can do it too!
Advertising is the life-blood of any mail order business - for a direct mail enterprise, it’s the mailing list. But with an honest mail order business, your real profits or losses will depend almost exclusively on your advertising.
Classified ads are the safest and simplest way to get started. Regardless of what you’re selling, the best way to drum up business is through what is known as the “two step” approach. Advertise a “loss leader item” such as: FREE REPORT! $50,000 a year profits with a spare-time business from your home. Details for SASE to : (Your name & address).
Start out by running this ad in as many of the mail order publications as you can afford, keeping your costs as low as possible. When you receive responses from these ads, simply take one of your one-page “How-To” reports and slip it into the self-addressed stamped envelope that you received, along with a listing of your other materials you have for sale - see our enclosed list of other money making reports - and along with an order form showing your address - send it back out to them.
With this kind of plan, you’ll be building a mailing list which you can rent out or sell as soon as you’ve accumulated a thousand or more names. Renting and/or selling mailing lists of people who have responded to your ads can be big money for you - all by itself - simply by renting or selling the same list over and over to different people.
At the same time, you should clip off the postage stamps from all your incoming mail. When you’ve acquired a shoebox full of these stamps, you can sell them. A couple of buyers are: Fun Mates, PO Box 6466, San Francisco, CA 94101 and, DuVall Press, 920 W. Grand River, Box 14, Williamston, MI 48895.
Save the envelopes - you can sell them to just about anybody, or specifically to: Prime Source List Corp., 103 Washington Street, Morristown, NJ 07960 or List Buyers Group, Manalapan 1000 Office Park, Manalapan, NJ 07726.
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