>This is intended for information and shouldn’t be construed as legal advice.
In order to make money by mail, you need to have something to
sell which others will want to buy. Everyone makes money by
selling something of value to someone else. Some folks are
content to sell “a little of themselves” one hour at a time.
Others want to work for themselves and sell their own products
or services to others.
Those individuals who desire to make more than just a few bucks
per hour need to have their own product or service to offer to
the rest of the world. This presentation was prepared for those individuals.
With the information, suggestions, and
information listed in this report, you could Price It, Advertise
It and Sell It!
Most of the guesswork, trial and error has been removed. This report has 21
plans and suggestions. It is NOT meant to be the “last and final authority”. It is more than
enough to give you a good idea, to encourage you to get started
and to begin receiving money in your mail box often. You’ll
learn more as you go along. You’ll run across other offers and
maybe some better deals. The best advice is: go slow, test and
try every offer that appeals to you! See what works and what
doesn’t. Stay with the things that produce results.
So, What can you sell to others by mail?
If you have nothing, besides yourself and your time, it is quite
simple to create something to sell to others or to offer to do
something for someone else that they can’t or won’t do for
themselves.
What follows are IDEAS and TESTED PLANS (by others) which you
can begin to advertise and sell to others by MAIL ORDER!
1. A Circular Mailing Business.
Sample Ad:
FAST CIRCULAR MAILING
3×6 and 5×8…………… 1 cent each
8-1/2×11……………… 2 cents each
1000 8-1/2x 11………… $15.00 Minimum (200 of each kind)
This is an inexpensive and easy way to begin. Offer to mail
circulars (distribute them by mail) to prospective buyers. You
charge a fee for this service, by asking for a set rate per week
or per month or per sheet charge. (Write and request
information from other advertised offers. Ask questions that
you would like answers to on starting and operating this type of
business. Know what is involved and know what you are doing
before you begin.) If you advertise, let other companies know
how much you charge to distribute their circulars.
2. Sell Packages of Mail Order Offers.
Sample ad:
QUALITY BIG MAIL! Packed with top mail order publications,
discount ad rates, money making opportunities, dealership
offers. FREE mailing list, FREE Big Mail Listing and much more.
Everything rushed to you first-class mail for only $2.00!
Order Today!
This ad shows that one company usually charges $2.00 for their
Big Mail. You can offer a “BIG MAIL” for $1.00 or $2.00… Keep
all the money and have this company fill your orders for free.
Write the ones you like for details. Buy other “Big Mails”.
Offer your own for $1.00. You make money both ways. Companies
pay you to distribute their circulars… AND your customers pay
you to be sent one.
Note: It is very strongly recommended that you first contact
each company you are interested in doing business with prior to
your placing any ads and offering any companies products to
others by mail!
3. Operate a Commission Mailing Business
This is different from item 1 above, in that you are not paid a
fee or collect any monies up front, to mail each circular. If
you mail “Commission Circulars” for other companies, you agree
to “take your cut” or commission from the orders received. This
can be MUCH MORE profitable! A lot of Mail Order companies are
willing to allow YOU to keep HALF the money from each order as
your commission for getting the order. Usually each circular
has a space for YOU to put your name on each one before you mail
them out. Your name will be the only one on each. All orders
will come to you. You keep your share of each order, forward
the remainder onto the company that supplied that circular and
they will (usually) forward the item direct to your customer for
you, under your name. (This is called “dropshipping”. For Mail
Order sources, you place ads which ask for “Dealerships” from
such companies or look for ads which ask for “Dealers Wanted”.
4. Contact Sources to Sell Their Products
Sample ad:
Dealers Wanted. Moneymaking Plans & Ideas! Ideal home
mailorder business. Up to 1300% profit. No inventory. We
dropship. Send $2.00 for 64-page catalog. Dealer details and
wholesale prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. ACT TODAY!
An ad like this one, is placed by a Mail Order company who are
seeking dealers to sell their products. Write them and ask for
all necessary details.
5. Sell Money-Making, Mail Order Plans
Sample Ad:
$10 Orders Filled Free! Easiest, most profitable mail order
program yet. Get easy $10 cash sales and keep all the money
yourself. Don’t wait – send now for free details now!! Rush
SASE to:
Write and ask for Dealer details, or their sales aids for
Commission Mailers. You may have to buy their book (or whatever
they are selling) before you can offer it to others.
6. Purchase or Type Up Your Own and Sell
Short Informative Reports.
Sample Ad:
FREE REPORT$. 38 $MONEY MAKER$. Fill YOUR pockets
with $CASH$, plus FREE reprint rights. Just a LSASE.
Besides selling a various list of suppliers, you can type up
short, one to four page, reports on a multitude of subjects,
like “Where to Get Free Advertising”, “Big Profits – Selling
Information”, “How to Write Profit Pulling Sales Letters and
Circulars”. You can type up other reports that you create for
greater profits. Get reports Printed; Advertise; Sell It!
7. Type Up, Print and Sell Your Own Booklet or Directory.
A booklet of several pages in length is no more difficult than
typing up a few reports and stapling them together. Look at
this short booklet: It is a model for how to do it. Have this
“camera ready” booklet printed, (minimum 50 each) and sell it to
others. (You can give copies away, hoping for sales later on,
from your ads that appear in this booklet.) You can even sell
copies to other dealers and let them sell it as their own. You
can advertise and sell quantities direct.
8. Offer a Name Listing Service.
Advertise that you will send your customer’s name to hundreds of
other Mail Order companies. Charge a small fee for this
service. Once you have a few hundred names of interested,
paying customers, type up their names on sheets and have copies
made. Advertise these as “Names of Prospective Customers”.
Mail Order Dealers and other companies will pay you 3 cents,
current price or MORE for each name. Sell the same names to ALL
who are willing to buy them. You get PAID to accumulate names
and you get PAID when you sell the names. You make money from
both ends. No way you can lose on this deal! Keep advertising
your listing service (charge $1 to $3 to each person to list
their name). This can be a “Money Maker”!!
9. Sell Names of Mail Order Buyers by Mail.
Sample Ad:
Mailing Lists. Opportunity Seekers. Fresh Daily. On Peel &
Stick Labels. These “Hot Lists” really pull. Buy direct from
the source.
If you have your own names of past customers, type their names
and addresses on sheets of paper or on labels. Sell them for 3
cents to 6 cents each or current prices. Or buy names from
others and sell their lists to your customers. It can make
money for you.
10. Start a Club and Sell Memberships To It.
What kind of club? You can start any kind of club you want. A
stamp club, cooking club, pen-pal club, a writers or readers
club, coupon or discount club, you name it. Each new member
joining pays a fee. List all members on a roster.
11. Issue a Monthly Bulletin or Club “Newsletter”
Once you have your club going, ask for contributions of notes
and news from members, including you own. Put it in a
Newsletter, sell subscriptions to it. Sell it to members, for
a fair monthly or yearly fee, but realize a small profit from
it. Sell ad space . Members can list their wants and needs in
it and it will be read by all members.
12. Offer a Typing Service.
Many people don’t know how to type or even have a typewriter.
Charge so much per page… $4 to $6 or more for difficult copy.
Type resumes, salesletters, college papers, reports, bulletins,
circulars, instructions, copywriting, newsletters, etc. It must
be sharp, clean and error free. Advertise your services in
local papers and/or yellow pages.
13. Offer a Card Mailing Service.
Others may be too busy or too forgetful so you do their card
mailing for them… For a Fee! Arrange in writing all details
to mail their birthday, anniversary, Christmas cards, etc. for
them each year. They supply the names and addresses, etc.
Advertise it and let others know.
14. A Mail Forwarding Service.
Forward mail for other people. This is great if you live near
some well known site. Others send you their cards and letters,
you then remail them from your location, but charge them up
front by the letter or a straight fee.
15. An Advice/Consultation Service.
People will be happy to pay some expert for their advice. Why
give away your knowledge or wisdom? Charge people to hear your
advice. This is accomplished in person, fact sheet, statistical
sheet or by newsletter. Financial advice, investment advice,
marriage help, crafts, building, planting and so many, many
other topics. Everyone of us knows something that few others
know. Charge people to learn it from you.
16. Re-writing or Ads and Sales-Circulars, etc.
A great many people don’t know how to put their thoughts and
ideas into simple, every day sentences. If you know how to
string words together, sell that ability to others. Re-write
their ads and circulars, letters or reports or whatever.
Advertise it. Charge by the hour, per item or by the inch.
Note: Send LSASE means that the advertiser needs your help to
get more details to you quicker. He wants you to send a long
self-addressed stamped envelope along with your letter.
17. Make Money With Your Computer
Sample Ad:
HOW TO GET RICH with your Microcomputer. SECRETS REVEALED. No
experience necessary. Potential tax break! Invest in YOUR
future. CASH IN ON THE $100 BILLION COMPUTER INDUSTRY. Order
Book #XXXX.
Lots of people have their own computer and lots of people wish
they could afford one. If you have one, rent it out, sell its
abilities and make yours pay for itself. With local advertising
and word of mouth you may find more work than you can handle.
PLUS… receive a nice income doing something you enjoy. Visit
your library or local book store for books or manuals regarding
how to start up this type of business. Individuals, business
persons, etc, need and will find your services very necessary.
18. Sell “Made to Order” Stamps by Mail.
Sample Ad:
RUBBER STAMPS. Made to order and stock rubber stamps. 3 lines
$2.25 ppd. Additional lines 50 cents each. Signature stamps
$7.00 ppd. 25 unmounted 1 line stamps $5.50 ppd. Catalog 50
cents.
This is a VERY needed and popular item to sell by mail. The
cost is low and you make a nice profit per sale. Read and study
ads you’ll always find in Mail Order publications. Send for
their rates along with a letter asking for ways on how to get
started in this type of business.
“PPd.” means the advertiser will pay all additional postage or
shipping costs… And that you need not send along any extra to
pay postage.
19. Sell Labels and Stickers by Mail
Sample Ad:
DESIGN LABELS. Designs created for product labels, stickers.
Free details.
Again, your need to contact sources and ask for dealer details
or sales aids for commission agents. Some may not want or need
dealers. Some who advertise may not be the source. They may be
another dealer of the source. Write and ask.
20. Start/Operate a Profitable Newsletter Home Business.
Join the smart ones who presently write simple or sophisticated
styled NEWSLETTERS. If you do possess GOOD IDEAS, VALUABLE
ADVICE, OPTIONS OR INFORMATION or have access to any one of
these, you will find that this is all that is really needed to
get you started in selling valuable information that thousands
of people are looking for, and profit handsomely while doing so.
Thousands of newsletters are being published covering almost
any subject you can imagine. EVEN YOURS.
21. Selling Recipes.
Pick out one or several of your very best recipes. Ask Grandma
or Mom to write down their very own original delicious
creations. Whether from city, farm or the “old country” these
unique recipes can be sold through classified ads. Rainy day money or
survival money, it’s there waiting for you.
Copyright 2004 by DeAnna Spencer
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