40 Mail Order Success Secrets
Here are some tips to help your mail order business be successful.
1. How do you develop a personal relationship with your customers?
Successful mail order firms make every effort to personalize their mail!
2. What inspires people to buy by mail?
Convenience and saving of time it would take to make a personal trip. Avoidance of rush hour crowds. Many find it fun to buy through the mail.. Many prefer to buy personal items, such as certain kinds of books, by mail. Exclusiveness of many mail order products.
3. How do you begin with a mail order business?
Check at the post office to obtain information on various permits and fees
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4. Why are most mail order ads losing money?
The product, the price, the media used, the timing of the ad and the right prospect are all critical factors. Proper items must be selected, those that will readily sell by mail. The price must be especially attractive. Ads must be simple and easy to understand; attention producing with strong
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5. What moves well in mail order?
Good novelty merchandise and scarce items. Books of interest to a large audience. Certain Multi-level marketing plans are good planswith good, reasonably priced products as a base. However, there are a great deal more poor, worthless, MLM programs floating around than there are good ones so one must be very cautious in choosing this kind of operation.
6. What make customers come back again and again?
The right product with orders handled carefully and quickly. Satisfied customers always come back,
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7. What limits the mail order business?
There is no limit to the mailorder business if you are willing to learn and expand. A real good hot item, even at a high cost can be a real winner. Don’t let your programs just sit idle. Test… Test and more tests. Keep on the top of all your activities and follow through.
8. After you have been in the business a short time what can you use to build confidence?
You can accumulate testimonials from you customers and use them in your ads to build customer confidence.
9. What one mistake costs the mailorder operator a lot of money?
It
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10. What are the 13 most powerful words for your ads?
Free, Rush, Limited, Guaranteed, Save, Sale, New, Get, Look, Money-making, Profits, Act, Now!
11. How do you get income coming from every direction?
After you have built up your programs (Sale of merchandise, books, publication, MLM, or whatever) and have a good customer list, rent or sell the names. Offer big mails for SASE to build up and expand your name list. Mail circulars of others, for a fee or commission, with your own Big Mails.
12. What should you know about catalog deals?
Stay away from catalog deals until
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13. How do you realize your dreams to be a success in the mail order business?
Keep your mind open for new ideas and don’t give up. Don’t throw away your dreams because of only a few failures. Proceed carefully; watch out for fraud and fast buck artists. Hang in there and you can become a great success!
14. What is one of the most common questions asked by the would-be customer of most any money-making, how-to, self-improvement, mailorder, idea, or success publication?
What can it do for me! With the millions of books on the market it is an difficult
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15. What are a person’s two main alternatives for success or failure?
As chaotic conditions increase in this mad money world they can crawl in the corner and let the world pass
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16. Whether you are in “Big Business” or just working from your “Kitchen Table”, what secrets must you apply in order to find riches?
Wealth will not materialize until you take action and generate the force needed to start the wealth-building process. Most people are just not oriented to do anything about gaining new wealth, while others believe it would take too much of their time and money to follow through a project to completion. They don’t realize that knowledge is power and wealth favors the trained mind.
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17. Who to contact pertaining to any questions about the mail service?
Your local Postmaster or the Consumer Advocate, U.S. Postal Service, Washington DC 20260-6320, Phone (202) 245-4514.
18. If you suspect Misrepresentation, Mail Fraud or want to stop sexually oriented mail, who do your contact?
Your local Postmaster, or Chief Postal Inspector, U.S. Postal Service, Room 3517, Washington, DC 20260-2100, Phone (202) 245-5445.
19. Where
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Consumer Inquiries, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC 20580, Phone (202) 523-3598.
20. From whom can you get the most general mail order questions answered?
The local Consumer Protection Agency, or the Direct Mail Marketing Association located at 6 East 43rd. St., New York, NY 10017, Phone (212) 689-4977.
21. Why do a great percentage of persons fail in mail order?
Mail order is a complex business. Every phase must be analyzed and tested. The right products must be selected, the correct type of ads placed in the proper media and 1,001 other details attended to constantly. The mailorder enthusiast is led to
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22. What is the “Inner Circle” of mail order?
A Mailorder House is commonly defined as “An establishment conducting business by Mail”. A Mailorder Dealer is simply one who sells by mail. The circle of mail order relates to the thousands of mailorder dealers operating throughout the country. The “Inner Circle of Mail Order” refers to those successful professionals who have “climbed to the top” in the mail order field by long, hard work, study, knowledge and persistence.
23. How do you get
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As you learn and progress in the many and varied phases of mailorder business methods, you will set various goals. You must continuously change plans and programs to attain these goals. Unless you are one of those fortunate few who hit it “lucky” overnight with some special program, product, or gimmick, the best way to arrive at Ultimate success in mailorder is to “Dive” right into the “outer fringes of the Inner Circle” and start “climbing”. When your successes overtake and offset your failures, as you work your way up to the “Hub of the Wheel”, you will have finally reached the Ultimate height in Mailorder… The Inner Circle!
24. Where
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The best way to start is to work with those who are already there. Obtain several small mailorder trade magazines. Get one page ad sheets and various circulars. You can spend a small amount on BIG MAILS and be flooded with magazines, adsheets, circulars, etc. with thousands of different offers and potential opportunities. For a dollar or two you can get listed in these various media as wanting offers and “be assured”, you will get your money’s worth!
25. What is one of the most valuable assets for the mailorder beginner?
“Junk Mail”. As you receive information and various packets, analyze the offers and send for full information on
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26. What must you do as your files accumulate, in order to succeed?
Don’t just send off for the many deals, then wait until you accumulate a room full of files. Time is money. You can handle only a small percent of the programs available, so right away,
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27. Some great money-makers to include in your mailorder business?
Printing and publishing… publish your own mailorder books and manuals. Manufacture your own product in your garage or basement. Purchase your product direct from factories at distributors cost. Get involved in the sale of the thousands of How-To books and programs available. Make up unique How-to-reports, stories, etc., in cartoon form. Write valuable promotion deals for the millions of merchants and retailers… put it on tape. Sell or lease
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28. How to stay ahead of the game?
You must constantly keep up with what other dealers are doing! Check out the successful programs and build your own around them. Give constant attention to your ideas. Write them down and act on the good ones. Find new products, develop “solid” plans around them and test them in the market place.
29. How to double your earnings in mailorder?
Begin
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30. What is another method to double your income?
Multiply the number of products or services. If you are offering the right products and advertise in the right media you can be greatly surprised by the results. Continuous investment of profits for advertising and new items that generate orders are the secret if you wish to succeed in any business and mailorder is certainly no exception.
31. How do you get set
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You place your ad in a trade magazine or adsheet that is “Co-Publishable”. Send your ad and remittance to the Co-Publisher who will forward the same, along with 50% of your payment to the Prime Publisher. Your ad will appear in the next issue and the publisher will send you full details on becoming a Co-Publisher.
32. What are the usual benefits of Co-publishing?
As a Co-Publisher, you generally get your future ads placed at one-half the published rates; 50% on commission ads you obtain; 50% for subscriptions received; 50% on products advertised in the publications which are to be ordered through you, the Co-Publishers, and receive 20 to 100
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33. How you can control the number of orders you get as a Co-Publisher?
The number of orders you receive will depend on who you mail them to.
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34. What must you do to get started economically and efficiently as a “top” commission mailer?
Order a good rubber stamp… Send for some free commission circulars, pay only the postage for these. They are available from prime source mailorder firms… Send for some free names
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35. How do you make $50,000 a year by working from your kitchen table 4 hours a week?
There is money in the mailorder business but not as some advertise it. Don’t believe it. You won’t
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36. What is one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a commission mailer?
It is good policy to never get your circulars, and your mailing list, from the same dealer.
37. How do you get started with your own adsheet?
Adsheets are sometimes started by the publisher cutting others ads from various adsheets or magazines and pasting these on their own adsheet without cost
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38. How do you keep your Co-publishing costs to Zero?
The discounts for your own ads are generally 50% with most of the mailorder publications. In return for the discount you are expected to mail a few copies. “Piggy-back” the copies in orders you fill and in your big mails, or advertise offering them free for payment of postage. Using these methods your postage cost to mail your copies can be Zero!
39. What colors are the most appealing to
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Red, Violet, Blue, Green, Orange, White, Yellow.
40. What colors are the most appealing to men in order of preference?
Blue, Red. Violet, Green, Orange, White, Yellow.
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