BECAUSE ... Over the past 37 years, I have (really) sold over
$400 Million worth of products and services -- everything from
Beauty Supplies to Heavy Equipment ... Burglar Alarms to Sleeping
Bags ... Fishing Lures to Women's Wigs ... Automobiles to Wheelchairs
... Seafood to Investment Opportunities ... Consulting Services
to "How-To" Courses - all by mailorder.
Although I have written over 700 books, booklets, reports, briefs,
programs and articles about "how-to make money" (in
a wide variety of fields) ... each from my own personal experiences...I
have never before written on the subject of "mailorder."
But, I guess I've read and studied 10,000 (or more) writings
on the subject ... while I was making millions doing it. - All
of them...from marketing textbooks to "get-rich-quick"
hype ... offered insight into the methods and techniques used
to generate "mailorder fortunes."
The reason I had never written on the subject of "mailorder"
was because ...
It would be something like Muhammed Ali writing a book - "Float
like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee" - about how to be
a world champion fighter. He could write about his training,
his fights, his diet, his opponents and even his famous rope-a-dope
technique. But, even after reading it, you wouldn't be ready
to crawl into the squared-circle with a 'real' opponent. At least
not until you had spent years and years practicing what you had
read. Even then you would have to 'take a licking' (probably
more than once) before you got it anywhere near right.
If I were to write about "mailorder," I felt it would
be much the same. My personal opinion has always been that ...
Mailorder is more "art" than "science."
Like "art," mailorder can be explained from a thousand
different angles. Any "artist" can tell you how they
(personally) go about creating their masterpieces - but - their
explanation won't make you an artist.
On the other hand, if mailorder were a "science," it
would be provable and repeatable. Anyone and everyone who entered
the field would be guaranteed their success, just by following
the step-by-step method in a book.
Then, I discovered ...
A more "scientific" approach to Mailorder!
Actually, I had known about and used this method ... very
profitably ... for years but hadn't realized its provable and
repeatable (scientific) nature until I answered this classified
ad ...
"Mail Order Business For Sale by Owner. Established
9 years.
Grosses $600,000. Nets $180,000."
The company was sold before I could make an offer for it but
not before I had received all the details about the operation.
- I even had an opportunity to talk, at length, with the owner
and pick his brain about how he had started and succeeded in
his business. - His story was fascinating.
When he started, he was working in a "retail" store
as an assistant manager.
Like so many people, he often dreamed of owning his own business
but didn't know exactly what business he wanted to get into.
So, he read everything he could get his hands on about starting,
owning and operating a small business. Of course, some of what
he read was about "mailorder."
One day, at the store, he noticed a flyer from one of the store's
suppliers offering a product the store didn't carry. - He took
that flyer to his boss with some sales ideas he had gleaned from
some of the mailorder books he had been reading. - Being the
'typical' small retail shop owner, his boss dismissed his ideas.
Undaunted, our hero asked his boss if he could buy some of the
product from the supplier at his own expense to try his mailorder
idea. - With permission from his boss, he set-up his own account
with the supplier and ordered a quantity of the product.
Even before the product arrived, the fledgling entrepreneur had
already placed some classified ads, prepared his sales material
and established his 'office' in the corner of his bedroom (annoying
his mother with his "business nonsense").
If he hadn't been working full time...and living at his parent's
home, rent free ... he would have starved to death. - He didn't
sell enough of his product the first six months to even cover
his advertising costs. - As a matter of fact, he said the only
smart thing he did that first six months was to subscribe to
a variety of publications relating to his product and the industry.
Answering an ad in one of those publications put him on the high-road
to mailorder success. - Within six months after he answered the
ad, he was making more money in his mailorder business than he
was making working at the retail store. (NO! It wasn't Multi-Level
Marketing!)
In another three months, he quit his job, bought a house of his
own, and started expanding his business using the same formula
for success he had learned from the ad he had answered.
When he ran the classified ad offering to sell his business,
he had just celebrated his 30th birthday. He was selling over
100 products by mailorder ...had over 50,000 customers nationwide
... and worked by himself in the basement office in his home
six days per week (until the business started grossing over $250,000
per year, he only worked 2 or 3 days each week).
He said, it was time to quit working so hard and spend some time
with his wife and their new baby. After all, if he ever needed
to make money again, he could start another business just like
it with any number of non-competing products in any number of
industries.
If I had bought his business, I would have hired someone to do
his work, doubled the business using the same formula, never
worked in the business myself, and added a nice piece-of-change
to my bottom line each year. - He could have done the same thing
himself (you can too) but he decided to sell out and put the
cash into passive investments instead.
Even though I didn't get the chance to buy this guy's business,
looking at it and talking with him did give me a chance to stand
back and view my favorite business (mailorder) from a different
perspective. - Sometimes you have to get out of the forest to
see the trees.
Looking back, over the past 30 years...just as a fine artist
learns to paint or sculpt ... I learned by trial and error to
sell things by mail. As a Master Craftsman of the mailorder art,
I can tell anyone how I do it but, being more art than science,
the chances of them duplicating my success would depend 100%
on their individual talents. But ...
Using a more scientific approach to mailorder ...as the young
mailorder entrepreneur did ... you can actually Own Your Own
Mailorder Business with an almost absolute chance of succeeding.
Of course, even in the highest levels of scientific endeavor
success is never an absolute.
Even if someone gives you the formula (recipe) for a chemical
compound (like gunpowder), you could still mess it up ... or
blow your hand off ... if you substituted ingredients; mixed
the ingredients in the wrong quantities; or otherwise "did
your own thing" with the formula.
So, a more scientific approach to mailorder ... not an absolute
... is still the best anyone can do - but - using the formula
as written in "Own Your Own MAILORDER BUSINESS"
your chances of success will be much, much greater than trying
to start your own, from scratch (almost an absolute).
Much like the difference between starting your own hamburger
restaurant or buying a McDonald's franchise. Only, in this case,
it will be your own business without any franchise fees, royalties
or other opportunity expenses. All you have to do is provide
a place to work (maybe your bedroom)...then do the work necessary
to operate your business.
In "Own Your Own MAILORDER BUSINESS"
you will learn the only proven and repeatable method of making
money in mailorder almost without fail.
"Own Your Own MAILORDER BUSINESS" includes
everything you need to succeed in your own Mailorder business
- except - your time, your effort and a little bit of money ($500
to $1,000 will do nicely; even less if you've already started
in some kind of mailorder undertaking).
In "Own Your Own MAILORDER BUSINESS"
I tell you the best and easiest products to sell but, not everyone
who takes this short-course will want to sell them. So, I also
show you where and how to get any kind of product you want to
sell. - No matter what you want to sell. - This more scientific
approach to mailorder works with almost any product you can imagine
(again, it's an almost because nothing in business can ever be
an absolute - anyone who tells you different is a fool or a liar,
or both).
So ... if you really want to "Own Your Own MAILORDER
BUSINESS" this is your chance.
And, if you already have a proprietary product you want to sell
by mailorder, I will teach you how to double, triple, even quadruple
your sales ... almost overnight ...using this method in reverse.
Or, if you are already involved in a business (any kind
of business) of your own, I will teach you how to use this same
approach to expand your business...almost exponentially...without
much more effort on your part. I will also tell you about
the best resource guides to using a more scientific approach
to mailorder ever created...one of them has been around for well
over 20 years but most people don't even know what they've got
when they get it.
"Own Your Own MAILORDER BUSINESS" is
only $49.95 - less than it would cost you for dinner for
two at any fine restaurant ... it's even less than the profit
from one-sale of some of the products it directs you to.
If you've ever been involved in mailorder ... or, if you've ever
read anything about "how" you can make a fortune in
mailorder ... I guarantee this short-course will open your eyes
to a world you've never seen before (a tree you haven't seen
because you've been looking at the forest).
Order your personal copy of "Own Your Own MAILORDER
BUSINESS," TODAY!! - You'll never regret it.
Sincerely,
J.F. (Jim) STRAW
Mailorder Master
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Don't wait for a second invitation. It may never come!
Mailorder IS a business ... just as Manufacturing,
Wholesale, and Retail are businesses.
Think about it this way ... if you decide to fabricate a product,
you will be in the Manufacturing business. - If you decide to
sell products for further distribution, you will be in the Wholesale
business. - If you decide to sell products to the end-user (consumer),
you will be in the Retail business.
Why then, if you decide to sell products or services by soliciting
orders by mail, are you not in the Mailorder business?
As far back as my research has been able to reach, it has been
stated emphatically, by writer after writer, that "Mailorder
is not a business. Mailorder is only a way of doing business."
Granted, "mailorder" can be a way of doing business
... f or a Manufacturer, Wholesaler or Retailer - but - it can
be, and is, a business unto itself. - It needs no other purpose
than that of "selling products or services by soliciting
orders through the mail."
As for me, I am a Master Craftsman of the Mailorder Art...a Mailorder
Marketer...proud of the fact that I can bring the products and
services of the world into the homes and offices of people who
would not otherwise, except for my efforts, have convenient access
to those products or services.
You are, hereby, invited to join me in my chosen profession ...
become a Mailorder Marketer - satisfy the wants and needs of
the public by taking products and services directly to them,
in their homes and offices, by mail.
Order your
personal copy of "Own
Your Own MAILORDER BUSINESS" - TODAY!