Date: 11 May 2009 Comm: 0 comments

Practical Plans for Mail Order Beginners

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

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