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Sadly at any given moment somewhere in the world somebody is taking a perfectly honest business practice and bending it to suit their purposes. While this is not always a bad thing there are those who over step the mark and take advantage of unsuspecting genuine customers with an outright scam. Only those [...]

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Publishing and distributing a mail order ad sheet can be very profitable. They are simple and easy to produce, with most quick print shops able to handle the printing at fairly low cost. The important consideration is that you can use them to pull in advertising dollars for yourself, as a free advertising media for [...]

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Publish your own Advertiser (Ad Sheet), TV schedule or business directory. It is no longer absolutely necessary to have a printing press to be a publisher, although you may decide to get one once you get started good.
Printing can be contracted with commercial printers in your area, or even out of town. Another alternative that [...]

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Co-op Mailing (short for co-operative) means that two or more businesses share in the cost and distribution of a direct mail campaign. It’s kind of like having you and another non-competing business split the cost of printing, assembling and mailing an advertising flyer to a shared (same) market base.
Co-op dealing is very beneficial (and [...]

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Here is a plan that will enable you to get your circulars printed and mailed free, plus reduce the cost of your own mailing to nothing.
Locate an offset printer in your area, or by mail order in one of the many mail order publications, who will print both sides of a 8 1/2 x 11 [...]

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An average mailing by a small, one person mail order company is generally about a thousand pieces, and many such operators rarely mail more than a hundred pieces per week. If you know your conversion statistics, you know that the order return on mailings is about 1% to 2% when using a rented [...]

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Promotion and advertising can be a heavy expense, especially for a new business that wants to make itself known in a community. Ahome-based business, however, more often than not, has a very limited budget when it comes to advertising. The home business owner needs to make the public aware of his or her product or [...]

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The best of all worlds is to have a product you can give away free and still make money. That world exists. The product need not be expensive or elaborate. It can be something simple – a sticker with a happy face, a pen with a logo, or some other intriguing item.
This marketing approach is [...]

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Part two of how to compile mail order publications
1. List of dealers who will publish your 1″ C/R AD for $1.00.
2. Dealers who will send their Big Mail for postage only.
3.. List of opportunity seekers.
4. List typesetters of camera-ready ads and their rates.
5. Dealers who will send 50 copies of your C/R ads for $2 [...]

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Compiling a Directory and selling it in the mail order market is not only a fun but a most lucrative and yet untapped field. However, if you want to be successful, you will have to be on your toes, always looking for new ideas and constant advertising.
Compiling and selling directories can bring fortunes because:
1. It’s [...]

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