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How To Have Fun With Mail Order And Maybe Make Some Money
First off, you can have a lot of fun with mail order even if
you don't make a lot of money. It is something that can be done
at home, by anyone regardless of their physical condition as
long as they can read and write. I don't mean that you have to
be an intellectual. Most of mail order is conducted in simple
easy to understand language.
Let's take the example of a bed ridden person, still at home
with his or her family. This example has very little money to
spend, is bored to tears with television, either does not want
to or cannot read novels or non-fiction.
...Or, it could be the person taking care of an invalid who
cannot leave the house just anytime they want to and who also is
not loaded with cash to spare..
...Or it could be the housewife with little kids who needs an
interest in life.
...Or it could be the retired person with too much time on
his or her hands.
...Or it could be the shy bashful person who has difficulty
in dealing with people face to face.
...Or it could be the physically repulsive person, or
handicapped person who dreads facing the public.
The one thing you can do is make your daily mail an event to
look forward to. You can do this cheaply.
One way is to just order something by mail. In your newspaper,
usually on Sunday there are often inserts from companies like
Sunset House, Walter Drake Co. etc. that offer inexpensive
items. Order something from them even if it barely meets their
minimum order.
These companies eventually sell their Address Lists to other
companies and you will start receiving catalogs and offers. I
ordered some inexpensive address labels in September. It is
November now and so far I have received catalogs for clothing,
cheese, fruit cakes, five mail order houses like Walter Drake
Co., office supplies, and several others.
Place magazine subscriptions, as many as you can afford and for
things that interest you. They too sell their subscription
lists.
Just these two things will get you pounds and pounds of what
some people call junk mail and what I call fun mail. You don't
have to order any of the things you get offers for. Just when
your fun mail slows down, order something cheap or place
another magazine subscription and your fun mail will speed up
again.
There is another way to make your mailbox more interesting.
There are thousands of mail order dealers who publish
newsletters or small ad sheets and sell information by mail.
Many of them offer classified ads for anywhere from 5 cents to
10 cents a word. Many of them offer to publish your camera
ready ad 1 inch size for $1.00. Placing an ad in any one of
them will flood your mailbox with mail. Some of them have a
"BIG MAIL WANTED" column. For $1.00 or $2.00 they will list
your name and address as a "BIG MAIL WANTED". The flood of mail
will become a torrent.
Most of this mail will be offers of ways to make money, and
copies of other newsletters and ad sheets sent in the hope that
you will place an ad in their publication too. You do not have
to respond to any of this flood of offers. Once again for a
$1.00 bill and a postage stamp, you have increased your daily
mail ten fold or more. Later we will discuss how you can use
this flood of mail to make money yourself. Right now we are
just discussing the FUN of mail order.
Once again, when the flood slows down, palace an ad in any of
the sample copies of newsletters or ad sheets and the flood will
start up again.
For the purpose of fun mail it does not matter what your ad is
trying to sell. Your intent is just to get on people's mailing
lists so that your daily mail is the receipt of something
besides bills from creditors.
Following is some sample ads you might place that do not
require you to send them anything back.
BIG MAIL WANTED. Send me your best offers. (your name and
address)
Opportunities Wanted! All offers welcome. (your name and
address)
Following are three people who will run your ad for only $1.00:
B.L. Cooper, 2150 So. 1st St. #92, San Jose, CA 95112.
Elizabeth Lowery, P.O. Box 481, Soddy Daisy, TN 37379. Roy &
Ruth Schultz, 13901 S.E. Bush,, Portland, OR 97236-2941.
It takes a while for the flood of mail to start but when it
does you are going to receive so many offers of ways to make
money that your head will spin. You never have to respond to any
of these offers. If your purpose is just to have fun mail, the
only thing you ever need to do is:
Order something by mail like a magazine subscription or from
anyone's mail order catalog
Place another $1.00 ad in someone's newsletter or ad sheet.
BUT MAYBE YOU WILL BECOME INTERESTED IN TRYING TO MAKE MONEY IN
MAIL ORDER YOURSELF.
You certainly are going to see hundreds of ways other people
are trying to make money. Here is a partial list of what you
will receive if you place an ad with the people listed above.
If you think you will want to dabble in mail order yourself, I
suggest you place a $1.00 ad with all three people. They are
from different parts of the United States and will have
different mailing lists. Your ad will be seen by 1000 people in
each newsletter or ad sheet. For $3.00 your name will probably
be picked up by at least 1/2 of these people and probably more.
The offers you will probably receive are:
Copies of other newsletters, and ad sheets. A copy of each ad
sheet or newsletter that your ad is in. Chain letters
Multi-level sales schemes Information sellers Ad sellers Offers
for you to sell books Offers for you to sell information Offers
to introduce you to mail order Requests for money Requests for
coupons, stamps, etc. Offers from other people who what you to
place ads with them. Offers to sell magazines. Post office laws
- you buy Offers to sell you BIG MAIL packets Offers to do
typesetting Offers to sell rubber stamps Offers to sell labels
Print and Mail offers Offers to sell name lists Offers to sell
"How to" books Offers to sell "How to" reports and folios AND
MANY MORE
At some point in time you will be tempted to stop thinking of
this flood of mail as fun mail and start calling it opportunity
mail. (I still call it fun and opportunity mail.)
Let me warn you. Chain letters re illegal. Dave Rhoads and
Edward Green do not exist. You can not make money with chain
letters. A chain letter tells you to mail $1.00 or more to
three or four people and place your name in number three of four
position and mail out copies to 100 or more people. You are
told that when you name reaches #1 position you will make a
fortune. Don't believe it. You will spend $29.00 in postage to
mail 100 copies and you will never receive even one dollar back.
(Jason Robards doesn't exist either.)
Some of these will include an offer to send you 100 names and
addresses to mail your circulars to, for a price. Don't fall
for it. Some of them will request stamps instead of dollars.
The stamp chain letter activity is very high right now. People
think it is not illegal because no money is involved.
You wouldn't get into any trouble by trying these schemes. The
Post Office can't possibly catch everyone doing it and doesn't
prosecute participants. But you will waste your money and this
particular activity does nothing to increase your fun and
opportunity mail.)
Another thing to beware of is multi-level marketing. You will
receive hundreds of schemes from simple ones to schemes so
complex you can read the offer for hours and still not
comprehend what they are offering. There are some legitimate
multi-level schemes but they are based on the old pyramid
structure. In order for you to actually make money with them
you have to devote hours and hours and dollars and dollars in
postage building up what they call downlines - people you are
supposed to sign up to sell the same thing. Beware of these.
They always fail in the end and many people have lost a lot of
money on them. Save any participation in multi-level marketing
until you have really absorbed mail order in general and read
the articles written by experts, pro and con.
If you have decided to get your feet wet, I suggest you start by
trying to sell information. I did not intend this article to be
a sales presentation and I am making this offer only to help you
get started. You can sell this report. Here are several ways
to market it:
Place the following ad in as many ad sheets and newsletters as
you can afford. Place several in publications that offer to
print and mail your ad for $1.00. Place at least one in a
publication that is mailed to 5,000 or 10,000 circulation.
HOW TO HAVE FUND WITH MAILORDER. AND MAYBE MAKE SOME MONEY.
Send $2.00 to: (your name and address)
Start with the advertisers mentioned earlier and if you can
afford to do so, also place this ad in several publications.
It will be a 2" ad and will cost $2.00 instead of $1.00:
HOW TO HAVE FUN WITH MAILORDER AND MAYBE MAKE SOME MONEY.
Detailed report. Put some FUN MAIL into your life. Make money
too if you want to. Send $2.00 for report. (your name and
address).
If you can afford to do so, also place this ad. It will be a
$1.00 ad.
HOW TO HAVE FUND WITH MAILORDER AND MAYBE MAKE SOME MONEY. SEND
FIRST CLASS STAMP TO: (your name and address)
Attached to this report is a circular designed to sell this
report. In ad #3 above, when you receive a stamp and a request
you will then send them the circular with your name on it as the
seller. Just insert your name and have copies made at your
local copy center.
You will also have copies of this report made to send to people
who respond to ads #1, #2 or to the circular. Don't make the
copies until you receive your first order. Then make about 10
copies at a time.
This exercise is just to get your feet wet. It shows you that
whatever you decide to sell, you carry a theme for your ads and
circulars. The name of this one is "How to Have Fun with
Mailorder and Maybe Make Some Money". It is in every ad. It is
the title of the circular. It is the tile of the report itself.
You will only make $2.00 less copy and postage costs for each
report sold but you are learning how to handle paperwork and
orders. You are seeing your Fun and Opportunity Mail turn into
Money Producing Mail. Every day you can't wait for the mail to
arrive with a few dollar bills in it.
Will you make a fortune selling this report. NO. You won't.
You'll get most of your responses from ad #3 and mot of your
sales from the circular you send out. You'll make a few
dollars, yes. These dollars will trickle in over a period of
months. Some will start arriving within a month and they'll hit
a peak and then go on for about a year, one or two orders at a
time..
You can now consider some of the other offers you have received
and seen in the various publications you receive. If you have
handled the paperwork with the sale of this report you can add
another offer. Maybe you'll sign up for a dealership to sell
rubber stamps or you'll try Print and Mail. Certainly the
purchase of a rubber stamp with your name and address on it is
not a lost money effort. You can use it for your personal
correspondence if you decide to forget mail order. With a
rubber stamp you can offer to mail circulars, etc. for other
people. They send you their circulars, you rubber stamp your
name and address in the Order Form section and you mail them out.
You can mail four pieces of paper 8-1/2 x 11 for a first class
stamp. You should have at least four things to offer so you
don't waste postage.
The people who make money in mail order started this way. Some
of you will go on to become full time mail order professionals.
Some of you will just dabble around for the fun of it and keep
the fun and opportunity mail going. How do you become
professional?
You keep adding things to your agenda. You can reinvest all the
money you receive into more ads. You sign up for more
dealerships. You send for a few books on mail order success and
study everything you receive in the mail. You read all the
articles published in the newsletters.
You may decide to design your own circulars, prepare your own
reports. You may sell recipes. You keep getting more and more
involved until you are offering as many as 50 to 100 different
things in ads. You place ads in all the newsletters and ad
sheets and have 10 to 12 ads running at any given time. Your
mail box gets fuller and fuller. You may try to publish your
own ad sheet or newsletter. After studying the field for a full
year you may select one or two of the multi-level schemes to
try. (Be sure it is one that sells a product of some kind that
is drop shipped. Do not invest your money in a product that
will sit on your shelf forever if you can't sell it!)
You join a few of the associations of dealers. You correspond
with other dealers. Some of them have become so successful
that they bought their own printshop. Others at least invested
in a copy machine and a computer.
You develop you own address list and maintain it. To be
professional, you just keep at it and if one thing fails you try
another. If one ad doesn't get response you try another.
Remember, you develop your business as you go along and as you
can afford it in both time and money. If money runs out you can
pause and continue again when you can.
What you do is entirely up to you.
If you want fast response place ad #3 in The National Enquirer,
Star or Globe scandal sheet. It costs a lot but you should get
lots of requests to send your circular to and many of them will
result in orders.
---------------Ad Circular to Sell Above Report----------------
|HOW TO HAVE FUN WITH MAIL ORDER AND MAYBE MAKE SOME MONEY TOO!
There are two very simple and inexpensive things you can do to
make your daily visit from the post man the most interesting
part of the day.
You can have a lot of fun with mail order whether you make money
or not.
You can dabble in mail order very cheaply and have one heck of a
lot of fun. You can also MAKE MONEY if you want to or you can
plan your activities so they just support your mail order habit.
Try It.
Anyone can indulge themselves in mail order activity. You can
be handicapped, house bound, bashful, or retired.
There are eight 8-1/2 x 11 pages in this report. The first two
pages tell you how to just have fun with mail order. The next
four pages tell you how to maybe make some money with mail order.
Page 7 has some sample ads you might place to help you get
started.
Page 8 is a circular you can use to try to sell this report.
YOU RECEIVE FULL REPRINT RIGHTS TO THIS REPORT.
It can be the first thing you offer to sell by mail.
After you receive this report you will NEVER receive another
piece of Junk Mail because every piece of mail you receive will
be looked at as either FUN MAIL or FUN AND OPPORTUNITY MAIL.
This report will change your life if that life is now dull and
boring.
The cost of this report is only $2.00.
Send all orders to:
[ Your name and address ]
- - - - - - - - - - - - Order Form - - - - - - - - - - - - - --
Enclosed is $2.00. Please send me the report HOW TO HAVE FUN
WITH MAIL ORDER and maybe make some money.
Name: _______________________
Address: _____________________
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