Plus, if you test a mailing and get a poor response, all you have to do is change the letter. Simple.
Maybe just change the headline. How would you like to change a location or a decorating theme in a restaurant? See how easy this business is compared to a conventional business?
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Pyramid Your Profits
You can start small and then pyramid your profits. On line or offline, it’s the same. For instance, if you invest $100 in ads, get 120 inquiries, and get a 3% conversion rate, you make $1,113.20
after paying for the ad. Look at scenario 2: invest $400, and you make even more.
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Scenario 1
Scenario 2
Money in Ads
$100.00 $400.00
Leads generated
120 480
Conversion ratio
3.00% 3.00%
No. of purchasers
3.6 14.4
Avg. transaction
$337.00 $337.00
value
Sales Total
$1,213.20 $4,852.80
Profit$
$1,113.20
$4,452.80
But, want to see your wealth take off at hyper-speed?
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Let’s assume you invest all your profits & then invest all your profits again in further ads.
Look at what you can do!
Second Month
Scenario 1
Scenario 2
Profits in ads
$1,113.20 $4,452.80
Leads generated
1,335 5,342
Conversion ratio
3.00% 3.00%
No. of purchasers
40.05 160.3
Avg. transaction
$337.00 $337.00
value
Sales Total
$13,496.85 $54,007.62
Profit$
$12,383.65
$49,554.82
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Third Month
Scenario 1
Scenario 2
Profits in ads
$12,383.65 $49,554.82
Leads generated
14,860 59,465
Conversion ratio
3.00% 3.00%
No. of purchasers
445.8 1784.0
Avg. transaction
$337.00 $337.00
value
Sales Total
$150,234.60 $601,191.15
Profit$ $137,850.95
$551,636.33
It’s incredible how fast it can happen! I started with a free classified ad on the Internet and pyramided those profits into cheap classified ads and then into bigger and more expensive media and direct mail. It’s the perfect way to get started!
Most successful people discover that discretion prohibits them from talking or ‘bragging’ about how much money they’re earning. But Ted Nicholas, though a thoroughly likeable man, hasn’t been shy about revealing his figures... He earned $400,000 in his first 4 months in this business.
This is how he did it - pyramiding the profits from one ad into another.
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Before all the shooting was over, he’d sucked an incredible $500 Million out of the global marketplace !!!
You can do it, too! Believe it!
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What Job Security?
You have no job security.
Hundreds of thousands of honest Americans lose their job every year. Especially those 45 and above. Nearing retirement age... Imagine that!
If you feel more comfortable clinging to that little shred of security called a j.o.b. , start part-time
- there’s no shame in that. In fact, I would never recommend anything else. And then, in a few weeks or months when you replace your full-time income, quit.
There’s A Lot More To Life Than ‘Business’
In the ‘mail order’ business - especially when you market on the Internet - you have no geographic restrictions! You can live anywhere - in any location in the world - and do this business.
Equally as important, you’re not chained to the location of the business. When you want to go somewhere else - for an afternoon, a week, or a month - just do it! Even if you want to go somewhere else for a lifetime, just do it. Live where you want... Market where you choose.
You are completely mobile! Most people don’t think about this... but there’s a HUGE difference between being ‘home-based’ and home-confined!
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Even when you ‘work’ you are totally free. ...Any time. Simply forward your calls to your mobile phone (paid for with company profit$). Your son’s little league game or your daughter’s cheerleading... ...or a game of golf! Or another hemisphere completely.
With Success, You Live An Entirely New Life!
Add a laptop computer to your technology array and you are entirely mobile! Get your important messages and faxes online anywhere in the world! Europe or the Caribbean, Latin America, Australia, or even deep inside Russia. Use e-mail to write a few replies. Make a few phone calls.
These are all easily affordable technology tools, paid in full with only a few sales. All the rest is gravy!
Because you have so much money, all kinds of international opportunities open up, even 100%
legitimate travel. That’s exactly what Ted Nicholas, successful direct marketer, is doing... I just received a letter he wrote me...
“I’m having the time of my life relaxing at my residences in London, Spain, and Switzerland, playing tennis, traveling....”
That’s what ‘mail order’ in the Internet Age can do for you!
Experience the true quality of life that only money can give you! Independence. Choices. Boats, international trips, education, extravagances, investments, multiple houses, security... and above all, love.
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You work in a clean, professional, respected, prestigious business. Never work another day in your life!
EXTRA BONUS: You have no wasted commute time. As a home based business person, you enjoy the ‘8 second commute’, which, over the course of a year, gives you an extra 122 weeks of quality time in your life! Can you believe it?!!
Your Credit Doesn’t Matter
Your own personal credit doesn’t matter! Guaranteed! No matter what your personal credit looks like, you can quickly and easily accept credit card orders, even online - and boost your revenues by as much as 80%-120%! Spendable funds transfer automatically into your bank account. Easy to set up.
You Don’t Need A Product To Get Started!
Believe it! You don’t need a product to get started! Guaranteed. You’ll get more exciting info on
‘joint ventures’ later in this book.
I’ve also written a course on ‘Mail Order’ in the Internet Age, and dedicated an entire module to joint ventures. They’re simply the easiest way for you to get rich that exists! ...And if you’re Internet savvy - affiliate or associate programs are nothing but joint ventures!
Hang on to your hat, Baby, and your sunglasses, too!
Listen, you’ve already got your first joint venture going! Just by owning Mail Order in the Internet Age you have the license to sell the book - even on a downtown street corner sales will
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impress you - and keep a full 50% of all revenues generated! Not only that, but I’ll be glad to give you the rights to sell several of our most successful products, products that everyone wants... And you can keep a whopping 50% of all the profits! And, as they say around the cowlots of Ft. Worth, with a $997 sale, “That ain’t chicken-feed!” Want the inside scoop? Write me at resale@realprofit.com
Plus I’ll show you how you can easily get a powerful array of profitable, good, valid, high dollar products of your choosing that you can start selling immediately.
You see, though I’m an advocate of having your own products, I know that the most important thing is to get going. Get some success under your belt.
First get your information business going, then develop or acquire your own product when you have more time, more money, and lots more flexibility. Then you’ll get really rich!
When you discover the foolproof easy ways to create or acquire your own information products you’ll never have to wonder again what you can sell or how you can get it!
Money comes in whether you work or whether you don’t!
There’s nothing I love more than taking a trip to California or Florida - or slipping south to Panamá or Perú - and returning to a swelling bank balance back home. In mail order, especially when you do it on the Internet, you don’t even have to be there to get the orders!
How would you like to disappear for a few days or a week and still be packing in $1,000 hours back home? The elegant solution, is to let your website fulfill your products, of course. Or make
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arrangements with a fulfillment house to produce and ship your product. Perhaps hire a
competent secretary for a few of those $1,000 dollars? Talk about a good vacation!
By the way, I’ve got the coveted names, numbers, and addresses of all these contacts you need to do the business just waiting for you. They’re very hard to come by. Stay tuned... I promise to tell you how you can get your own private copy of my very own ‘Million Dollar Mail Order and Internet Marketing Resources Rolodex’ for free.
NO Accounts Receivables
This is one of the biggest problems of conventional business.
There are no accounts receivables in your mail order business! Nobody’s paying you on account!
(If you’ve ever suffered through a ‘profitable’ business without sufficient cash, you know how important this is!)
You never have to wait and hope and beg for your own money! All orders are prepaid with verified funds before you ever ship any product.
Information Products Are Cheap To
Manufacture And Cheap To Ship
There’s no product alive that’s easier or cheaper to manufacture than information products. We sell $500 courses that cost less than $10. It costs less than a buck to duplicate a cassette tape.
When you do digital delivery - it doesn’t cost a single penny!
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Information products are easy to ship, easy to store. No problems with a warehouse, the corner of a room will do just fine. No headaches or special handling with shipping when a simple slide-it-in-a-wrapper and send it away will do.
The freight is cheap, because you also don’t have to worry about any special packaging.
Information products are practically indestructible, therefore they don’t get hurt in shipping.
Knock on wood, but out of the thousands of information products we’ve shipped out, we’ve never received one return for shipping damage.
And, get this, your customers pay for all the shipping and handling expenses! In fact, if you do it right, you can even clip a small profit off the shipping charges!
Outrageous Mark-ups Get You Rich!
You know how I said you’d have to try not to make more than $100,000 per year?... Information products routinely take outrageous mark-ups! You can sell products for $477 that cost you $6.18!
That’s An Outrageous Markup! - the product only costs you a pittance compared to its large selling value. Compared with conventional standards, your profits soar through the roof!
Now I know, if you’re past puberty, you recognize these mark-ups as nothing short of
phenomenal! That’s the beauty of marketing specialized information. Mark-ups like these are the sure road to riches.
Even at the high prices Information Products command, they sell themselves!
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People Want Information!
They’re the starving crowd
We keep talking about!
And they’ll pay you for this information!
The Ultimate Leverage!!!
Make no mistake about it, one of the greatest things about marketing information products is that you do your job once, whether it takes you a night, a week, or a month, and you continue to sell your product for years and years!
And everything thing you do - from sending out a direct mail piece or uploading an e-book, to appearing on Oprah Winfrey, to helping someone get happily involved with your product has multiple consequences. A sale is not simply a sale, but in itself stimulates further sales, builds relationships, and ensures your enduring business success.
What you can do is incredible!
Contrast that with working at the factory or at the office. You’re not building your future, no matter how much they promote that delusion... After the last 2 decades, with downsizing, right-sizing, replacing people with 15-35 years in the company, drawing high salaries, with young low salary people... There is no security in the corporate world.
But every product you ever put together in your own information products business builds your wealth - immediately and for the foreseeable future.
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Believe me, I don’t like to work, but if I have to do it, I want to get paid 5, 10, 25 years for doing it. Don’t you?
Only information products offer you this incredibly sweet leverage!
Publishing-On-Demand
Rake In Obscene 7,700% Earnings On Someone Else’s Money!
Publishing on demand is the perfect solution to always having plenty of cash on hand! You don’t even have to waste your money on inventory!
Most companies sink their precious dollars into inventory... dead inventory. If you were very frugal it could cost you $8,000-$9,000 to print up 5,000 books. (Bookstore books.)
But you can waltz down anytime - paying for the products you need with the customer’s money, because he’s ALREADY ORDERED and SENT YOU HIS MONEY!!! They run them on the
high-speed copier, so 10 minutes and $9 later you’re out of there! Then you ship the product!
And it’s even kooler when you’re delivering your Information Products over the Internet, because there are no costs! 100% pure profits!
An Autopilot Business
Whether you emphasize offline marketing or online marketing - or integrate them strategically, the way we recommend - the direct response business is a setup for an autopilot operation. All you do is place the e-zine ads or classifieds, your website or a lead taking service takes the leads,
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mails or e-mails your irresistible special report to interested people, and processes the orders -
either 100% online in realtime or through an order-taking / fulfillment house.
And all the revenues are automatically electronically deposited in your account. This is good!
It’s this feature of the business, plus, of course, the big buck$, that really give you, the individual entrepreneur, such freedom and independence.
No Selling!
You know how distasteful selling can be. Well, in money order you don’t ever have to meet any people or persuade anyone in face-to-face contact.
Let ads and the mail to do the magical work of turning prospects into client$.
Your Income Is Unlimited!
Learn this secret, and the powers of fortune will sprout and grow forever! If you’re not satisfied with your income, the solution is easy... and it’s in your hands... and it doesn’t take another degree or years of brown-nosing....
Just send more mail
The more you mail the more you sell!
Literally, when you want more money, you simply run more ads and mail more letters! It’s crazy, but that’s how simple it is!
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Your revenues, of course, cover the marketing costs of the ads, and put a weighty profit in your wallet, too.
There’s a long list of people in direct mail and Internet Marketing consistently earning over $1
million per year, including Joe Sugarman, Tony Robbins, Ben Suarez, Russ von Hoelscher, Eileen & T.J. Rohleder, Ron LeGrand, Ted Nicholas, Gary Halpert, Jay Abraham, and others.
Ordinary people.... Fast as lightning!
One day pizza delivery boy Terry Dean decides to try Internet Marketing. Today he makes $55,000 when he makes a single offer to his Internet-based list!
The best part? It doesn’t cost him to put that mailing in the Electronic Post Office! Not 1 penny!!
Ted Nicholas, $50,000 in debt, made $400,000 profit in his first 4 months, on a single product, without any backend. Robert Allen, struggling real estate entrepreneur, launched the ‘Nothing Down’, phenomenon with a $20 classified ad and was earning $10,000 a week within 4 weeks.
Jay Abraham has gone from being behind the 8-ball and near starvation to being the world’s most sought after marketing consultant, able to fill a room with $1.5 millions dollars worth of profit$ on a single Saturday afternoon!
Residual Income
This business gives the ultimate boost to your financial destiny... Talk about leverage!!!
Produce a work once, get paid for it thousands of times over!
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This is truly the lazy man’s way to riches!
You Get A Part Of Every Sale That’s Ever Made!
Ah! the sweetest income of all, and the subject of the Mail Order in the Internet Age Protégé Program, which I’ll tell you about later.
When you write, record, commission, or license a product of your own, which is incredibly easy to do, you’re guaranteed to get rich! People who want the product have to come to you! You eliminate all competition. You get a part of every sale that’s made!
Your Income Is NOT TIED To The Hours You Work!
Finally, put the magical powers of multiplication to work for you! This is the only way to get rich easily!
Make Money Even While You Sleep...
It’s ALWAYS great fun to wake up and log online, scope out the fax machine, and get the mail.
Money, money, money! And it all comes without you even being there!
Sleeping, waking, or partying the money rolls in by itself!
It’s 7:56 pm on New Year's Day. My Beloved, myself, and a couple of friends slip
up to the upper floors of my 4-story estate, where my office is, to look briefly at
something on the Internet. At 8:01pm I hear the familiar cherished sound of that
partial ring before the fax kicks in. And a slow whir-r-r-r-r-r-r, and there’s an order
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on my desk! 5 minutes of doing nothing but enjoying the good life and another
$782.00 comes pouring in! It’s a great way to start any year!
The Newest "Millionaire-Maker" - The Internet
The Future Is Bright - And Unlimited! More people are buying more products and services every day on the Internet!
The U.S. Department of Commerce projects that there are over 100 million people online -
today. Others say 300 million. Some say 1 million new users a month are coming online. Some say 200 million.
They also are aware of the incredible commercial bonanza of the Internet. Their projections are that sales - on the Internet alone, not counting other direct response channels - will soon top the trillion dollar mark.
Thought Experiment: Folks, don’t blink! This is not going
The most important location in
to happen on some faraway intergalactic date. It’s today, on your town is on the Internet
Earth!
In a recent piece, Success Magazine, notes the billions that are currently being made on the Internet, mentions some of the incredible projections, and addresses you, the reader:
The question is, what are you going to do about it?
Surely you salivate!
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The Genuine Opportunity To Live Your Dreams
Sitting In Your Spare Bedroom,
Your Business Spans The Planet!
But what I want to share most with you is, it’s startling how easily you can harness the reach and sweep of the Internet to draw in tons of profitable world-wide orders!
When you open up your own mail order business in the Internet Age you’ve instantly got a global business. Imagine! A global business that you can start and run from your kitchen table.
Your customers come from México, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Argentina, Germany, England, the good old U.S.A., and every other part of the world you can think of!
You’re playing in the biggest marketplace the world has ever known!
What that me