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Table Of Contents
The
Seven Questions You Must Answer In Every Ad You Create In Order
To Make The Most Money Possible! .................................................................................................
1
What
Kind Of Products Make It In Mail-Order Catalogs? The Answer Could
Make You Financially Set For Life! ......................................................................................................
2
The
Scientific Approach To Making Money With Direct-Response Marketing!
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How
Huge, Million-Dollar Companies Can Help You Build Your Fortune!
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The
Most Powerful Word In The Seller’s Dictionary! .......................................................
5
Use
Small Ads To Build A Super- Powerful Mailing List! .................................................
6
How
To Start Your Own Million- Dollar Business From Home ........................................
7
Follow-Up
Marketing Can Make You The Richest Person In Town! ...............................
8
Growing
With Your Profits Is The Ultimate Key To Success! ...........................................
9
Your
Product’s Image Could Be The Deciding Factor As To Your Future
Sales! .......... 10
Fifteen
Rules To Guarantee Your Product Will Sell By Mail! ........................................
11
A
Simple Technique To Making Up To $1,000 A Hour Or More! ..................................
12
Thinking
Of Marketing Overseas? The U.S. Government Is More Than Willing
To Help You…For Free! ..................................................................................................................
13
Eight
Things You Can Do To Pull In More O-R-D-E-R-S! .............................................
14
There
Are Many Talented Writers Out There Just Looking For A Chance
To Write Professionally – Give Them This Opportunity , And You
Could Profit Tremendously ! ...................................................................................................................
15
Remember
– Patience Is A Virtue! ...................................................................................
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How
To Give Something Away Free – And Make Money Doing It! ..............................
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Let
Other Peoples Marketing Secrets Make You Rich! .................................................
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How
To Quickly Learn What’s Hot In Your Market! ......................................................
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Here’s
A Great Way You Can Cut Your Magazine Ad Costs As Low As Half-Price!
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Some
Specific Magazines Out There Could Potentially Make You Millions
Of Dollars If You Advertise In Them! .....................................................................................................
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How
You Could Make Major Money By Being A Freelance Consultant! .....................
22
Seven
Ways To Sell Your Product Or Service Like Crazy! .............................................
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How
To Make Up To $100 Profit For Every $10 You Spend! .........................................
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How
To “Kill” Your Competitors In The Marketplace! ..................................................
25
There
Are Three Things You Must Have In Your News Release To Make Millions
Of Dollars! ...............................................................................................................................
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Make
As Sure As You Can That The List You Select Is Profitable – Test
With Nth Selection! ............................................................................................................................
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Four
Things That Could Make Your Advertising Pull Big Chunks Of Money!
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Here
Are Five Things You Can Do To Make Your Company A Super- Force
To Be Reckoned With! .................................................................................................................
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Fuse
Your Product’s Biggest And Best Benefits To Grab Your Prospects’
Imagination, Excitement, Desire – And Money! ....................................................................................
30
Grab
The Attention Of Your Prospects – With Your Headline! ......................................
31
Five
Ways You Can Use Optimism To Help You Succeed! .............................................
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Here’s
A Simple Way You Can Let An Employee Make You Many Thousands Of
Dollars! ...............................................................................................................................
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Here
Are Three Things You Can Test Right Now To Potentially Increase
Your Response! ...........................................................................................................................
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Feature
Easy Payment Plans In Your Ad – And Potentially Bring In More
Cash Than Ever Before! .......................................................................................................................
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If
You’re Able To Create An Offer That’s Exciting In Your Prospects’
Point Of View, Success Is Knocking At Your Door! .................................................................................
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The Seven Questions You Must Answer In
Every Ad You Create In Order To Make The Most Money Possible!
Your prospects will want to know seven
things when they read your ad. Your ability to answer these questions
will determine how high your response will be.
It’s not just a question of whether you answer them, though. It’s
also important to ask yourself HOW you answer them. You must answer
these questions in the most motivational way possible, showing
prospects that they truly have an advantage if they take advantage
of your offer.
Get creative. And remember, your prospects want to know only what’s
in it for them.
Here are the seven questions your ad must answer:
1. What is the product?
2. How much does it cost?
3. Is there a bonus if they buy?
4. Is there a refund guarantee?
5. Are there payment options?
6. Is there a special incentive?
7. Are there any restrictions, such as a limited-time offer?
‘Too many people itch for what they want
without scratching for it.’
Tom D. Taylor
‘Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at
last we cannot break it.’
Horace Mann
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What Kind Of
Products Make It In Mail-Order Catalogs? The Answer Could
Make You Financially Set For Life!
Mail-order catalog products that are
duplicates of a widely-distributed item often do not succeed.
Mail-order catalog items that do succeed are usually original
products that are original and less likely to be found through
other distributors.
You need an item that is definitely unique and different from
all the other things out there in the market. The more unique
your item is, the better. This is why many good products we recommend
to people are self-published items, such as cassette tapes programs,
manuals, reports, and guides. These kinds of items can be targeted
to a specific market very easily, and the profit margin is there,
so you can share it with the catalog house.
The point is, it should be an item that is not available in stores.
If the market can get what they want anywhere, there is no incentive
for them to order it through the mail. Ordering by mail these
days is much more impulsive since most of the time the person
only has to dial a number on a telephone, but it’s still more
of a hassle than going to a store and buying it. The item has
to be unique. If it’s something everyone has, then no one will
want it.
‘As the mind must govern the hands, so
in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man
of labor.’
Johnson
‘From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most
active case of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a
fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts
all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.’
Colton
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The Scientific Approach To Making Money
With Direct- Response Marketing!
Study the ads of successful companies.
Keep testing to find out what things will make you the most money.
Learn everything you can. Read books written by the “masters”
of direct-response marketing and mail-order. Try new things. Make
it your life and learn how to do it! This is the scientific approach
to making money in direct response marketing and how you can use
it to make $1,000,000 a year!
Many marketers are doing all of these things RIGHT NOW. If you
want to get rich and make your own million, you have to do the
same things they are doing. There is competition in this business.
Take us for example. We are out there following our own advice.
When it comes to our competitors, they’d better be as good as
we are at creating and developing campaigns and advertisements,
because we have made it our life. We can always out perform businesses
that aren’t really taking the business seriously or have stuck
themselves in a rut.
This doesn’t only apply to our market, though. The people who
are out there making the most money - regardless of the market
they are in - are the people you will have to compete with. These
people have advertisements written by some of the best ad copywriters.
The ads are laid out by some of the best graphic artists. They
spend a lot of time developing their sales messages.
If you aren’t willing to learn everything you can about the business
and how it operates, you are going to have great difficulty in
finding the success you are looking for. You will never be able
to compete with those other companies out there.
‘Make money your God, and it will plague
you like the devil.’
Henry Fielding
‘Business is a combination of war and sport.’
André Maurois
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How Huge, Million-Dollar Companies Can Help You Build
Your Fortune!
By showing other companies that you
can expand their customer base and bring in more profits, they
will be much more willing to do business with you. And, the bigger
the company is, the more willing they tend to be to pay for your
services.
Why? Because the big companies are in for the long haul. They
are not worried about their day-to-day survival. They’re not worried
about paying their bills. Everything for them is automatic at
this point. They have more than they need, and now they are in
business to make the most profit they absolutely can. These companies
have more money to spend, so you can ask for a higher amount of
the profit margin. Also remember, many of these companies’ goals
are to simply make the most profits that they absolutely can.
Since they don't have much to lose and a lot they could potentially
gain from your proposition, they will be willing to let you have
a higher percentage of the profits because they will still be
gaining anyway. This is how million dollar companies can make
you piles of money!
‘Those who never retract their opinions
love themselves more than they love the truth.’
Venning
‘If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at
correcting the situation by carefully examining the service
you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are
rendering it.’
Roger Babson
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The Most Powerful Word In The Seller’s
Dictionary!
The most powerful word you will ever
use in your sales copy will be the word FREE! Use this word over
and over again and you could soon be rich! How is it possible
to give something away for FREE and still make money? You have
to be careful what you give away! In other words, if your profit
margin on your product is $25 each, don’t give away a free bonus
that costs you $30 each! You would lose $5.00 on each sale!
Instead, your goal is to find a product that has the highest retail
value but actually costs you the least amount of money!
One person we know has been giving away a free product that has
a value of over $100.00, but only costs him less than 25 cents!
What is it? He actually got in touch with a few magazines that
his customers would be interested in subscribing to. He told those
magazine editors that he would like to give away free sample issues
or subscriptions to his customers. In short, he now sends out
to his customers, as a free bonus, certificates for free issues
or sample subscriptions to a few different magazines. His cost
is in the paper that he prints those certificates on! His printer
charges him about 5 cents per page, so a couple of pages with
the certificates costs him less than 25 cents easily!
‘When you make a mistake, don’t look back
at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and
then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past
cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.’
Hugh White
‘Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.’
Shelley
This is just to show you how easy it
can be to come up with a free bonus that doesn’t cost you much,
but has a high value to the customer! Whatever you do, you should
try to come up with something that you can give away to your customers
for free!
The amazing thing is that customers really know in their mind
that there is no such thing as free! But, when they hear the word
“free,” it triggers an emotional sense that makes them feel that
they are getting a good deal on whatever they are buying! This
is why, when you really want to catch a reader’s attention, you
should use the word “free” in your sales copy!
‘As soon as government management begins
it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and
each interference only requires further bureaucratic control
until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.’
Adam Smith (1776)
‘Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome
for the character.’
James Russell Lowell
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Use Small Ads To Build A Super-Powerful Mailing
List!
Potentially, there are millions of people
who can make up your market. That means potentially you can get
millions of people to give you their money in exchange for your
product or service! How? By using small ads to attract those people
and build up your mailing list.
Use your small ads to attract prospects into contacting you initially.
Since there isn’t much room in a small ad, it is typically better
to use the ad to dramatically present your product or service’s
biggest and best benefit, and then tell your prospect how to contact
you for further information.
Another great idea is to use the small ad for an introductory
offer - for example, you could sell a very inexpensive product
and include a free gift with purchase.
When you get responses from your small ads, you are gaining the
names and addresses of good prospects to send future offers to.
Keep them and put them on your mailing list!
Once you build up a mailing list, you can go back to those people
on that list again and again with related products and services
and try to keep these people doing business with you. That way,
you’re able to keep the list you have of your best, regularly
buying customers and keep expanding it all the time with new customers!
‘I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have
seen yesterday and I love today.’
William Allen White
‘There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing
he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.’
Dr. Perle Thompson
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How To Start Your Own Million-Dollar Business
From Home
Here are the steps we first stumbled
onto by accident back in 1988. These steps have made us millions
of dollars from our home. Now we’re giving them to you:
1) Start with the market. Think about the people you want to sell
to. Don’t concern yourself with the product or service you’re
going to sell, that comes later.
2) Study this market. Become familiar with it until you know as
much as you can about it.
3) Find three other companies or individuals who are making money
in this market. Use their successful methods as your own model.
4) Get started. Go slowly. Develop a plan. Stick with it.
5) Concentrate on doing as much business as you can with your
best customers. Then create and develop new products, services,
and promotions around the things these people respond the best
to.
‘Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times
out of ten the bet thing that can happen to a young man is to
be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.’
James A. Garfield
‘Almost all men are intelligent. It is method that they lack.’
F. W. Nichol
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Follow-Up Marketing Can Make You The Richest
Person In Town!
The safest and most profitable form
of advertising is two-step lead-generating ads. This lets you
use the secret of follow-up marketing: FIRST, you get new customers
to respond to some type of inexpensive ad or sales letter. SECOND,
you follow-up with those people by selling them additional products
and services. This type of advertising can make you the richest
person in your town.
Here’s how simple it can be: You run small inexpensive classified
ads, small display ads, or use inexpensive postcards, self-mailers,
or cheap Direct-Mail packages. The purpose of this advertising
is to bring you qualified prospects. This can build your mailing
list, and give you people you can go back to and re-sell.
‘A little experience often upsets a lot
of theory.’
Cadman
‘I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction
that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it,
and that nothing can resist as will which will stake even existence
upon its fulfillment.’
Disraeli
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Growing With
Your Profits Is The Ultimate Key To Success!
The people who grow with their profits
are the people who will find the most success with mail-order.
Profits are a sign that you’re doing something right. Luck can
always be a factor, and it will always smile upon the people who
refuse to quit and keep coming up with new ideas.
They say luck comes when preparation meets opportunity. The truth
is, if you’re using the profits of your business to grow, and
you stay flexible to new ideas and new things, you will always
be able to do well.
Always keep that cash flow moving, and use your profits to expand
to get more business. When you do, you’ll find the success you’re
looking for.
‘In my opinion, he only may be truly said
to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable
pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or
useful art.’
Sallust
‘The world is divided into people who do things and people who
get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class.
There’s far less competition.’
Dwight Morrow
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Your Product’s Image Could Be The Deciding
Factor As To Your Future Sales!
By creating and using the best looking
cover that you can, you can potentially make at least ten times
more money than if you don't pay any real attention to it.
Why? Many of our readers will not be trying to get their products
into bookstores, instead focusing on the direct mail method. But,
you're after customers that will continue to buy from you repeatedly.
And part of the secret of getting people to buy from you repeatedly
is presenting a very good image of yourself and your products.
Gaining repeat sales will help you push your profit margins higher
and higher. So you should always come up with the best cover you
can - because the cover of your book can easily make you ten times
more money!
‘Let us show, not merely in great crises,
but in every day affairs of life, qualities of practical intelligence,
of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion
to a lofty ideal.’
Theodore Roosevelt
‘Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind
than in the one where they sprang up.’
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Fifteen Rules
To Guarantee Your Product Will Sell By Mail!
There are 15 rules that you can follow
to find out if your product will sell well by mail! If your product
doesn’t have all of these things, it may not be suited for direct-mail
sales. But, if your product has all these things, you are virtually
guaranteed to make money selling it by mail.
Here is the list of the 15 things your product must have to sell
by mail:
1) Appeal to a target market.
Mass-marketing is usually really expensive and too much of a gamble.
If your product is specialized and marketed to a target group
of people who are most likely to benefit from it, you are more
likely to be able to sell it by mail!
2) It must fill a need.
The more your product can fill a need, the more benefits your
product will have! The more your product benefits the customer,
the more they are likely to buy it.
3) It must sell year-round.
If your product is a seasonal product, then you must be able to
make a huge amount of profit in just a short time. This usually
doesn’t happen. So, your best chance for huge profits is to find
a product that will sell year-round.
‘Common sense is the knack of seeing things
as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.’
Stowe
‘Four things come not back – the spoken word, the sped arrow,
the past life, and the neglected opportunity.’
Arabian Proverb
4) It should
not be readily available in retail stores.
Why would your customers feel urged to buy your product by mail
if they could just go to a retail store and by it anytime they
want?
5) It shouldn’t already be sold by a lot of other
mail-order marketers.
If too many other marketers are selling the same product, it will
be hard for you to distinguish yourself from the competition.
Don’t be afraid, though, to have a couple of competitors out there!
6) Targeted mailing lists should be available.
You must have access to a specialized list of buyers who are most
interested in your product. If you can’t find such a specialized
list, your product may not sell by mail!
7) You must have fast suppliers.
You must be able to contact your suppliers with an order and have
them fill it very quickly. Your success depends on how quickly
you can get your product delivered to your customer. If you have
to wait for your product, then so does your customer.
‘Perfectionism is a dangerous state of
mind in an imperfect world. The best way is to forget doubts
and set about the task in hand… If you are doing your best,
you will not have time to worry about failure.’
Robert Hillyer
‘Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and
brave men, or they are no better than dreams.’
Emerson
8) The product
must be mailed easily and inexpensively.
If you have to spend too much money to ship the product, it will
cut down on your profits! Sure, you can ask the customer to pay,
but that will cut down on your response! So, make sure you can
mail your product without spending an arm and a leg!
9) It should have repeat sales potential!
If you can’t think of other related products you could market
to your customers on the back-end, then maybe your product shouldn’t
be sold by mail. You will limit your earning potential if you
can’t come up with back-end products to sell your customers.
10) It may be best if you are the exclusive
marketer.
This one isn’t a must, but it would be best if you were the only
business they could buy this product from. If you don’t have any
competition, you won’t have anyone to share the profits with!
11) It must be manufactured on a long-term basis.
If your manufacturer decides to quit making a product you are
selling, your business will cease to exist. You need to find a
product that has long-term potential.
12) The profit margin must be adequate.
Your product must bring in enough money for you to take home a
nice profit while leaving enough left over to market more product.
‘It is foolish to try to live on past
experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge
ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did
twenty years ago.’
Spurgeon
‘A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who
wish to believe it.’
E. W. Rice
13) It must withstand
the shipping process.
Your product must get to the consumer in excellent condition.
If your product arrives in bad shape, they won’t blame the post
office. They will assume you produce poor-quality products. So,
you need to make sure your product will pack and ship well.
14) Ideally, you should be able to reproduce
or manufacture the product.
If you are the one who controls the production of the product,
you can control the profits! If you must rely on other people
to produce the product, you can’t control the profits. Your supplier
may increase the price. Or, they may go out of business, etc.
15) It should be inexpensively produced.
If you have to keep your money tied up in the production of the
product, you will lose money! You won’t have the necessary funds
to do more marketing. So, make sure you can get the product produced
as inexpensively as possible. These 15 things will help you decide
whether your product will sell by mail! If your product doesn’t
do at least 12 or 13 of these things, you may want to think twice
about marketing it by mail.
‘Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never
converts him.’
Schiller
‘The man who follows the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.’
Donnell
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A Simple
Technique To Making Up To $1,000 An Hour Or More!
THE SECRET IS WRITING ADVERTISING COPY.
Here’s a technique that has made us $1,000 an hour and MORE:
(1) Brainstorm. Find all the reasons why your product/service/offer
can benefit the person you want to sell it to.
(2) Make the longest list you can on all these major selling reasons.
(3) Write small paragraphs of copy around these major selling
points. String them together.
(4) Then re-arrange them. Take the major selling points and put
them towards the beginning of your ad or sales letter.
(5) Test as many headlines as you can. Writing copy can be this
simple. It takes work and time. But this can pay you HUGE sums
of money for every hour you spend writing your copy.
The more of these promotions you do, the better you’ll get. The
best advertising copywriters make it look easy because of the
amount of time they’ve invested in their craft. Your knowledge
and experience in this area can pay off. We have earned well over
$1,000 an hour for the time we’ve spent developing our various
sales promotions. We believe it’s possible for you to do this,
too. Follow the get rich-tips, tricks and strategies in this manual
to learn all of our secrets.
‘An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.’
English Proverb
‘It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.’
E. H. Harriman
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Thinking Of Marketing Overseas?
The U.S. Government Is More Than Willing To Help You . . . For
FREE!
The U.S. government has a staff of highly
qualified business experts that will help you for FREE! Trained
Department of Commerce business analysts will assist you in making
a market analysis for foreign market research. They will help
you determine the foreign countries with the most potential for
your products, advise you on that country’s import tariffs, import
and export controls, and offer you detailed descriptions of market
conditions.
They also will furnish up-to-date economic conditions and arrange
meetings with the Bureau of Foreign Commerce Country Specialists
in Washington, if requested.
The International Commerce report prints listings of specific
foreign business people who have visited U.S. embassies and consultants
to ask about buying U.S. products. Consequently, trade lists,
compiled by U.S. Foreign Service Officers, list all reliable companies
that want to import U.S. goods. These lists are available from
any Department of Commerce field office.
Trade contact surveys are the fastest and most reliable way to
find sales representatives and distributors for any foreign country.
World trade directories are a valuable means of determining the
operations, products handled, size, and reputation of any company.
‘There are no gains without pains.’
Benjamin Franklin
‘People seldom want to walk over you until you lie down.’
Elmer Wheeler
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Eight Things You Can Do To Pull In More
O-R-D-E-R-S!
Here’s the simple eight-step advertising
strategy we’ve used to pull in millions of dollars worth of sales
and profits. You can use it to pull in more orders, too:
1) Keep your layout simple and your graphics clear. Make all of
your sales material easy to read.
2) Focus on your primary offer. Avoid multiple offers that might
confuse your prospect. Keep it simple.
3) Make your offer stand out. Don’t hide it somewhere in your
sales material. Make it clear and compelling.
4) Use subheads, copy blocks, and illustrations.
5) Employ “eye-directional” devices that will lead your prospects
to your order form.
6) Highlight all important points.
7) Give your prospect enough information to make a decision, but
no more.
8) Make it easy for people to order.
This eight-step strategy has the potential to make you huge amounts
of money, just as it does for us. Use it as a checklist before
you send any of your sales material into the marketplace.
‘What we see depends mainly on what we
look for.’
John Lubbock
‘Wasted time means wasted lives.’
R. Shannon
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There Are Many Talented Writers Are
Just Looking For A Chance To Write Professionally – Give Them
This Opportunity, And You Could Profit Tremendously!
You don’t have to be a writer to be
a self-publisher. Today’s smart entrepreneurs know they can make
enormous profits by having a professional ghostwriter create books,
manuals, reports, or anything else that requires copy, for them.
Many people dream of writing for a living. If you put a small
classified ad in a newspaper that says “WRITER WANTED, PAY CAN
AVERAGE $10.00 AN HOUR,” you will attract a lot of people.
Ghost writing is actually a remarkable opportunity for a person
to follow. Many people dream of the ability to write, to stay
home in the day, and to have a secure job opportunity.
Ghostwriter situations can be handled several different ways.
You can supply the ghostwriter with the reference material and
tell them you want something similar or following the main ideas
without plagiarizing. You can give your writers your ideas and
let them put it into print.
‘Wisdom thoroughly learned, will never
be forgotten.’
Pythagoras
‘Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in
iron chains. The more one has to do the more he is able to accomplish.’
Sir Thomas Buxton
We have utilized ghostwriters to put
together over 75 different products, and these are 75 products
that we are able to sell forever. We had to pay the ghostwriter
once - but these products are ours to market forever and make
profits with forever! This is how a ghostwriter can make you RICH!
A ghostwriter supplies you with a product that you can sell again
and again and make more profits from over an extended period of
time! If you can keep coming up with new ways to market the product,
it has the potential to keep making money for you indefinitely!
To locate ghostwriters, refer to the classifieds in any of the
following publications:
Book World, Washington Post Co., 1150 15th St, NW, Washington,
D.C. 20071
The Writer, Box 892, Boston, MA 02117
Writer’s Digest, 9933 Alliance Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45242
Writer’s Market, 9933 Alliance Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45242
Writer’s Update, 4812 Folsom Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95819
‘Courage in danger is half the battle.’
Plautus
‘Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough
ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth – rain or shine. To
carry your cargo and make your port is the point.’
Maltbie Babcock
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Remember - Patience Is A Virtue!
Many times we have had promotions where
it appeared that the campaign just wasn’t pulling enough profit.
Consequently, we would stop paying as much attention to it. Then,
a couple of months later, we would go back and look at the campaign’s
numbers - and the campaign was making money.
Be patient! This is how you can still make money if you run your
ad - and nothing happens. Be patient! Don't wait a few weeks and
then drop your campaign.
Many marketers do not give a winning concept enough time to start
working for them. They allow four weeks to pass and expect miracles.
When the orders do not flood in as anticipated, these marketers
experience an anxiety attack and bail out.
It can take time for a campaign to start pulling in money. Be
patient! Your patience could result in more success than you ever
expected!
‘We often rebel against the strenuousness
and chaos of our time. But historically it has always been in
such time that man won his great inner victories.’
E. M. McKee, D.D.
‘Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness
without action.’
Disraeli
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How To Give Something Away FREE - And
Make More Money Doing It!
Did you know that many businesses are
giving something away for FREE to their customers - and getting
rich by doing it? Not many people realize this, but when you offer
something for free, it increases your front-end response. Then,
you can build a bigger customer base to mail your back-end offers
to! It really works!
Millions of dollars have been made with this one secret alone!
Let’s take a look at some real-life examples of how this method
really works to make more money!
A photographer will offer a free 8 X 10 photo. Well, sure he/she
loses money on the photo but, he will make money by 1) The sitting
fee, 2) The frames he may sell you, 3) Future pictures you have
taken by him/her.
A Music Club will offer you 10 CDs for 1 penny! Sure, they lose
money up front, but they are betting that you will buy more CDs
in the future, and they know that they can make their money back
quickly!
A Direct-Response Marketer will give away a book valued at $25.
Sure, they lose money on the book, buy they have studied the market
and know that on average they will make their money back selling
that person other related back-end materials!
‘The man who graduates to-day and stops
learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.’
Newton D. Baker
‘When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything
you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man’
Bertrand Russell
These are powerful examples of how you
can give away something for FREE and get your money back on the
back-end by offering other products for sale! Try to come up with
something that you can give away on the front-end. Here are a
couple of guidelines to follow:
1) Make it inexpensive to produce, for example, a paper and ink
product that may only cost you a dollar or so to copy.
2) Make it have high perceived value. Your customer needs to think
that you are getting the short end of the deal!
‘They that govern the most make the least
noise.’
Selden
‘Have a variety of interests... These interests relax the mind
and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests
live, not only longest, but happiest.’
George Matthew Allen
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Let Other People’s Marketing Secrets Make
You Rich!
Here are four ideas for making money
with other people’s secrets:
(1) Legally steal. Look for marketing materials and ideas other
people are using. Be a detective. Snoop.
(2) Value the sales materials others are using. Keep these materials.
Study them. Spend time analyzing them.
(3) Find ways to use these valuable ideas. Weave them into your
marketing plan and sales material.
(4) Teach yourself how to see the “big picture.” Look for the
unrelated ideas others are using. Determine the ideas that are
behind the strategies. Ask yourself “why are they doing this?”
Play with these ideas in your mind...
See if there are ways you can incorporate these ideas into your
products/ services or company... Remember, the money-making ideas
that are working for others right now are secrets because:
(A) Most people don’t recognize them.
(B) Most people don’t think there’s any way to use these ideas
in their business.
‘There are safe and unsafe ways of doing
nearly anything. The knowledge or the knack of doing things
safely is gained by experience, properly directed.’
Ralph Budd
‘Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing
them the minute they rise out of the grass – or they are gone.’
Thomas F. Kennedy
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How To Quickly Learn
What’s Hot In Your Market!
When you see ads that run over and over
again, you have come across an ad that is making the person or
company money. Why else would it still be running after a long
period of time? By paying attention to this, you can learn more
about the market you’re in. You can learn what’s hot and what’s
not.
This is not limited to products, either. It can also point out
the phrases and copy styles that are pulling more orders. There
is more to successful advertisements than just offering a good
product.
A successful ad has gone through numerous tests - not only to
perfect the offer, but also to perfect the very wording and phrasing
of the ad, so that the ad is as exciting, appealing, and desire-inspiring
as possible. And you can use the same techniques in your own advertisements,
as long as you don’t copy word-for-word or plagiarize. Simply
make the ideas work in your ad!
By finding out which ads are running repeatedly over and over,
you can easily find out who is making money - and who isn’t. This
hot information can be vital to your success! By learning what
is making these ads so successful, you can incorporate that in
your own ad copy somehow!
‘Things that I felt absolutely sure of
but a few years ago, I do not believe now; and this thought
makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect
all men to agree with me.’
F. D. Van Amburgh
‘Have patience. All things are difficult before they become
easy.’
Saadi
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Here’s A Great Way You Can Cut Your Magazine
Ad Costs As Low As Half-Price!
Remnant space is how to run your ad
for up to HALF the cost others pay!
If there is blank space in a magazine, they have to fill that
space. And if you can make a deal with that magazine publishing
company that would allow you to advertise there for free and split
the profits, you can turn that blank page in an advertising space
for you . . . and profit from it! This also saves on the money
you would normally spend for advertising.
You can even save a lot more than half on your advertising. Some
people are paying as little as ten cents on the dollar for remnant
space! Let the magazines know you want it, go after it, and get
determined to gain that space!
‘The Government can destroy wealth but
it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management
working with creation.’
“Alfalfa Bill” Murray
‘People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up
and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.’
Frank Romer
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Some Specific
Magazines
Out There Could Potentially Make You Millions Of Dollars If You
Advertise In Them!
You must pay attention to the people
who read those magazines. The key is in the market, not with the
product. You have to place your product in the right magazines
that cater to the market your product is developed for. This makes
choosing the magazines that you advertise in rather simple.
There are magazines for nearly every interest that you can think
of. So the key is finding the ones that fit your product. This
is why certain magazines will help you make thousands and even
millions of dollars!
This allows you to zero in on that specific group - the group
most likely to want what you have to offer - the group that is
most likely to spend their money on your product.
This is especially useful in specialized markets, like hobbies,
because you can key in on the certain types of people that are
interested in hobbies by advertising in hobby magazines. Look
for a specific target! If you are trying to reach a certain type
of interest group, key in on their magazines.
‘I don’t want to do business ‘Iwith those
who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service.’
Lee Bristol
‘He that loveth a book will
never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful
companion, an
effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one
may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in
all weathers, as in all fortunes.’
Barrow
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How You Could Make Major Money By Being A
Freelance Consultant!
Many consultants are people who worked
for years for other companies. Now they are freelancing. The benefit
for the businesses that hire them is the fact that they can pay
these consultants on a per job basis instead of having to pay
them a fixed income.
They pay as needed. Therefore, the companies don't have the high
fixed cost of hiring another employee, paying their salary, and
supplying them with costly benefits. They just pay them the rate
that the consultant charges for the job he or she did. They don't
have to pay again unless they bring the consultant back to work
on another problem.
Many companies are more willing to use freelance consultants rather
than employ full-time consultants that would cost them more money
in the long run.
Many companies are very happy to hire on the per job basis. So
the consultant can potentially be kept busy and make plenty of
money simply by moving to another job at another company after
their current job ends.
Even by charging top-dollar consultant fees, your client will
be money ahead. This is how to “freelance” for really big profits!
‘Do no think that what your thoughts dwell
upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.’
Bishop Steere
‘To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately,
cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.’
William Louden
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Seven Ways To Sell Your Product Or Service
Like Crazy!
Here’s a simple 7-step formula we’ve
used to sell millions of dollars worth of our products and services:
1) Attract the “right audience” for your product, service, and
sales message. Remember, you’re only trying to reach a certain
type of person. The clearer you are about this, the more POWER
your sales material will have.
2) Capture and hold your readers’ attention. You do this by talking
about them, not you, by talking about their interests, not yours,
by giving them the most compelling reasons why you can give them
what they want.
3) Create desire for whatever you’re selling by using the right
copy. Personalize your copy by writing to just one person. Put
the reader in the picture. Make them “own” the benefits you’re
offering by making these seem real.
4) PROVE what you’re saying is true. Make the reader trust you
by giving them examples. Give them testimonials from other satisfied
customers. Show them statistics or vital facts and figures. These
things build a strong case for whatever you’re selling.
‘It is the hardest thing in the world
to be a good thinker without being a good self-examiner.’
Shaftesbury
‘Money is a stupid measure of achievement but un- fortunately
it is the only universal measure we have.’
Charles P. Steinmetz
5) Establish your credibility and eliminate
their fear of getting cheated. Always tell your readers about
yourself, even if you’re writing to a customer who already knows
you. Remind them about your Unique Selling Position (U.S.P.).
Remind them of all the reasons they can trust you, and why YOU
are different from everyone else who is selling similar products
and services.
6) Make it easy for them to take action and send you their money.
Give your customers a strong guarantee. Take all the risk off
of their shoulders and put it on your own. Let them know they’ll
get a full (no questions asked) refund if they’re not 100% happy.
Also, make your ordering instructions crystal clear. Give them
several ordering options by letting them call in their order,
fax it, or mail it to you.
7) Give them a reason to act NOW! Make them a compelling offer.
Make it so irresistible it’s hard to pass up! Limit your offer
so it can expire any time. This creates a sense of urgency and
makes them want to buy right away.
Following these steps can help you sell huge amounts of your products
and services, just as it has for us. These steps are proven to
make money. Think about the ways you can use these steps. Study
how others are using them now. Create. Find all the ways to use
these steps in your next promotion, and you can sell your product
or service like crazy.
‘The surest way to establish your credit
is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.’
Switzer
‘Half the work that is done in this world is to make things
appear what they are not.’
E. R. Beadle
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How To Make Up To $100 Profit
For Every $10 You Spend!
Sell specialized information to your
best customers. The profits you make for doing this can be enormous
because of two things:
(1) The high perceived value of information.
(2) The fact that your best customers trust you.
These two factors work together:
(A) The high-perceived value of information lets you sell it for
huge amounts of money,
and
(B) The trust from your best customers can make you BIG profits
because a large percentage of them will re-buy from you. We’ve
made huge profits of up to $100 profit for every $10 we spent.
This is the secret you can use to do it.
‘I set myself on fire and people come
to watch me burn.’
John Wesley
‘Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of
all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have
wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.’
Gian-Carlo Menotti
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How To “Kill” Your Competitors In The Marketplace!
Develop a strong Unique Selling Position
(U.S.P.). This is a proven way you can dominate your market. Most
businesses are weak in this area. There’s no compelling reason
to do business with them.
You can “kill” these competitors in the marketplace. All you have
to do is clearly communicate the specific benefits of doing business
with you instead of them. Make sure all your prospects and customers
know this. Use your U.S.P. in all of your ads and sales letters.
People will see your U.S.P. and favor you over your competitors.
‘Human society is based on want. Life
is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world
without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can’t be done.’
H. G. Wells
‘There is work that is work and there is play that is play;
there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only
one of these lies happiness.’
Gelett Burgess
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There Are 3 Things You Must Have In Your
News Release To Make Millions Of Dollars!
Readers want;
1. Interesting,
2. Factual,
3. Useful information.
And that is what you must present to them in your press release.
Yes, of course you are selling the main benefits to the prospect.
But the whole project should be geared towards helping people.
You have to write press releases that are interesting to the readers,
factual in nature, and supply the readers with useful information.
This makes the readers want to read it.
The power is in the fact that the reader believes that a story
telling about a great new product is just a service to them that
the magazine is offering. People don’t realize that whenever the
magazine writes stories about products, services, and companies
in the marketplace that may interest their readers, the story
almost always simply started out as a press release the company
sent to the magazine.
‘The smallest actual good is better than
the most magnificent promise of impossibilities.’
Macaulay
‘When we know how to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom
of the hearts of others.’
Denis Diderot
Everything centers around your attempts
to try to serve people and show people how the product or service
will improve or greatly benefit their lives somehow. These are
the things that really interest people.
Everybody’s looking - Everybody desires - products and services
that are going to improve their life at some level somehow. You
should do your homework and find out how it’s done. Then, help
the editor and the writers of the magazine to see all of the benefits
easily.
Implementing these three things in your press release requires
you to do some home-work. It never happens by accident. You have
to work at it and do the best job of it that you can in order
to ensure that you have given yourself the highest chances of
success.
‘Opportunity rarely knocks until you are
ready. And few people have ever been really ready without receiving
opportunity’s call.’
Channing Pollock
‘Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress
what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.’
Calvin Coolidge
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Make As Sure As You Can That The List You
Select Is Profitable - Test With Nth Selection!
When a mailing test is done, the user
will usually request the Nth selection. This ensures that the
test will include the effectiveness of the entire list, as opposed
to segments.
“Nth Selection” refers to a number of names that are randomly
selected by a computer from an entire list. Nth selection is like
shuffling a deck of cards. Then you pick one of those cards randomly
and test it out.
If you are unsure about your selection, test. Make sure you’re
never cheated by testing a randomly picked sampling of the list.
That way, even though you do lose some money, that amount is minuscule
compared to the amount you would have lost if you had mailed to
the whole list.
Testing a small portion before sending your direct mailings to
the whole list is how to make 100% sure that you never ever get
cheated when you rent a mailing list!
A user should always use Nth selection because it prevents a broker
or list owner from including loaded names. A user might rent the
best list ever and get great results the first time around. But
follow-up lists might be padded with names that will be less than
appropriate. Without a Nth selection, a renter could only wonder
what happened the second time around.
‘We can believe almost anything if it
be necessary to protect our pride.’
Dr. Douglas A. Thom
‘Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.’
Syrus
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Four Things That Could Make Your Advertising
Pull
BIG CHUNKS OF MONEY!
The principal role of advertising in
America today is one of persuasion and appeal, rather than of
education and information.
The mission of marketers is to persuade prospects and customers
to act in a manner that will be to the advertiser’s advantage.
The most successful, however, combine these four things that can
make your advertising PULL IN BIG CHUNKS of money!
1. Persuasion,
2. Appeal,
3. Education,
4. Information.
You should always remember, though, that advertising is intrusive.
People are busy with their lives, and they know that you're trying
to sell something. They read advertising very passively, if they
bother to scan much more than the headline at all. Therefore,
you have to look for dramatic new ways to represent what you are
trying to sell. Make your advertising interesting and compel them
to read it.
These are new ideas that can make you a fortune! Why? Because
they grab the reader’s attention and keep them hooked throughout
the ad. By the time they are done with the ad, your product or
service will stand out in their mind, and you will have given
them enough desire to send away for your offer. The more you're
able to get people's attention, interest, and desire, the more
money you will be able to potentially make.
‘They are happy men whose natures sort
with their vocations.’
Bacon
‘Almost all of our sorrows and joys spring out of our relations
with other people.’
Schopenhauer
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Here Are Five Things You Can Do To Make
Your Company A Super-Force To Be Reckoned With!
Regardless of the actual size of your
company, you can give your company the appearance of a super-force
if you will follow these five guidelines:
1. Select a name that is short, easy to remember, and that describes
your business. When it comes to your business name, don’t be too
specific. Your business may grow beyond what your name implies.
For example, you may choose the name “Mary’s Balloon Shop” for
your balloon shop. But, what if you decide in a year to start
to sell gifts and cards as well. So, a better name to begin with
might be “Mary’s Gift Shop.”
2. Create a niche in the market that can be yours. The best way
to create your niche in the market is by checking out the competition.
You must find something that your customers want and need but
can’t get from anyone else. Then, you will have your niche that
can make your business super-profitable. Your niche might change
over time, but you must always search to find something to give
your customers that they can’t get anywhere else!
‘Do not spill thy soul in running hither
and you, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others.
The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.’
Emerson
‘Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.’
Washington Irving
3. Visually implant your image into
the minds of your prospects with a company logo. You want people
to remember your company by your logo. It creates a visual picture.
What do you think of when I say “the golden arches!” That’s right!
McDonalds! Your business needs a logo that people can think of
in relation to your business. It creates a visual picture. There
are other ways to visually implant your image into the minds of
your prospects. You can put a picture of yourself at the top of
the first page of your sales letter. Also, you can use a “catch
phrase” such as “it’s everywhere you want to be!” Who says that?
Of course, it’s Visa Credit Card!
4. Create a down-to-earth, yet professional, identity. You must
be personal, yet professional. Write your sales letters to one
person, not the masses. Do not speak down to your customers, but
use easy-to -understand words. Treat them like a close friend
that you are sharing information with. And, be careful with your
language. You don’t want to say anything that would offend your
prospect!
5. Be able to handle large volumes of mail. Be sure that your
mailbox can handle large volumes of mail. This probably means
that you won’t be able to use your own mailbox. You would be wise
to get a mail-drop that allows you to use a street address rather
than a post office box. If you have an actual street address,
people will be more likely to do business with you.
These five things will help give your business the appearance
of a large company that is to be taken very seriously! Do these
five things, and your customers will treat you more like you are
worthy of spending their money on. If they get the feeling that
you are a small-time operation that can’t serve their needs, they
will not do business with you!
‘To-day a reader, tomorrow a leader.’
W. Fusselman
‘Character is not made in a crisis – it is only exhibited.’
Dr. Robert Freeman
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Use Your
Product’s Biggest And Best Benefits To Grab Your Prospects’
Imagination, Excitement, Desire – And Money!
By using the biggest, most important
benefits to your specific market, you can produce the desire in
your prospects and customers that will make them want to buy from
you!
These benefits should be clear to the reader. Make them see themselves
having the benefits in their mind. If you can make them see that
in their mind, you’re able to create that desire for what you
are offering them.
In every market, the people are longing for something ... Something
that will make their tasks easier ... Something that makes work
less difficult ... Something that saves them time or effort.
Fishermen want lures that will catch more fish. Golfers want clubs
that will let them drive further with better accuracy. Home-business-people
want more profitable business options. The list can go on and
on.
Your job as a marketer is to come up with products and/or services
that serve as the solution to the problem your market has. That
solution is the biggest and best benefit of buying that product.
Therefore, it is ESSENTIAL that you dramatically show your prospects
the benefits of your product or service in your advertising! Your
product is the answer to their troubles - it will supply them
with something that they have wanted for a long time. And, if
you are able to illustrate those key benefits dramatically and
justify them, your ad will be much more powerful . . . and much
more profitable!
‘Worry, whatever its source, weakens,
takes away courage, and shortens life.’
John Lancaster Spalding
‘It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.’
Kossuth
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Grab The Attention Of Your Prospects - With
Your Headline!
The purpose of any headline is to attract
readers, and get them interested in your offer. Bottom line: Headlines
are how you can attract customers. Some writers will create a
blind ad or another clever headline that is designed to attract
a general audience. However, that does not mean there will be
orders.
Often, an ad’s targeted prospects may fail to realize that the
ad is offering something they want, and they scan right over it.
Ads must be targeted at the “most-likely” prospects.
The headline is what makes the prospects and customers the compelling
beneficial promise that in turn draws the reader into the ad copy.
Also, you should make your headline as dramatic as you can. This
helps make the headline very clear and very compelling. It draws
people into your ad. The more dramatic you can make it, the better.
‘There are three things to aim at in public
speaking first to get into your subject, then to get your subject
into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into your hearers.’
Gregg
‘One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power
of lighting its own fire.’
John Foster
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Five Ways You Can Use Optimism To Help
You SUCCEED!
Here are five ways to stop living from
paycheck to paycheck! Here is how to take your ideas and put them
into a specific formula. These will help you transform your ideas
into huge amounts of money:
1. Problem Focusing - Optimists
are planners. They examine the situation, and then, as much as
they can do something about it, try to resolve it.
Optimists take action sooner. They act quickly to prevent small
work assignments from mushrooming into big overwhelming jobs.
They break big problems down into smaller, more manageable problems.
Optimists tend to formulate sub-goals or intermediate steps that
will help them eventually reach their ultimate goal.
You can apply this step-by-step approach to any overwhelming commitment
or obligation. If you plan to write a book, for example, the enormity
of the project could be daunting, unless you say something like,
“I can write five pages a day, so I can write a chapter a week,”
etc.
‘Business is like a man rowing a boat
upstream. He has no choice, he must go ahead or he will go back.’
Lewis E. Pierson
‘Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be
changed, and the courage to change the things which should be
changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.’
Bishop Oliver J. Hart
2. Perseverance
- Stimulated by positive emotions and past successes, optimists
keep going when others might quit.
Problems often have unexpected repercussions, beyond the effects
on morale or finances. Optimists have a certain amount of tunnel
vision that keeps them focused on their goal.
3. Positive Solutions - People who think positively
tend to emerge from difficult situations thinking:
I have developed a greater trust in my judgments.
I must modify my personal or career goals to more closely match
my true interests, abilities, or values.
I have gained confidence in my ability to handle other difficulties.
I have discovered I can rely on others to help me get a job done.
These types of thoughts allow a person to feel that he/she has
a chance to improve. There is much confidence and satisfaction
to be gained from getting through a problem and being able to
say, “I handled that pretty well.”
‘Life is a mirror and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.’
Ernest Holmes
‘In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up,
that makes us rich.’
Henry Ward Beecher
4. Social Support
- Optimists believe others can help. They tend to talk to others
about a problem and follow pertinent advice.
5.Acceptance or Resignation - Optimists
are realists. They seem to know instinctively wen to charge forward
and when to back off. When reason tells them a situation is out
of their hands, they accept it and focus on situations they can
control.
Instead of focusing on the cause of a problem, pessimists become
preoccupied with anger, hurt, frustration, or other emotional
distress. In short, they get upset and give up. This is why some
people never make any money no matter how hard they try - and
no matter what they do! They allow themselveget overwhelmed. They
let the negative energy shut them down before they even get started.
Don’t let this happen to you!
‘No matter how much work a man can do,
no matter how engaging his personality may
be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through
others.’
John Craig
‘The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor many perfected
without trials.’
Chinese Proverb
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Here’s A Simple Way You Can Let An Employee
Make You Many Thousands Of Dollars!
You will need the best of the best to
make it work and grow. Incredibly, some marketers overlook the
most obvious prospects who already have a deep understanding of
the overall operation - their employees. Many of them already
have experience in some of the areas you want to cover in a teaching,
knowledge-sharing seminar.
Here is a good example. Our company has developed a certain skill
in the way that we develop, create, and promote informational
products. Many of the companies that also sell to our market -
and even many companies that don't - could potentially benefit
greatly from some of the shortcut techniques, strategies, concepts,
and ideas that we have learned over our years in business.
It would be very simple for us to put together a one, two, or
three day seminar showing these people how they can develop, package,
and sell information easier than they have ever done it before.
We could teach the seminar ourselves - or we could hire people
to do it for us, be it one of our own employees who understands
and knows the concepts, or someone we brought in and trained in
the concepts. Our employees could actually run our seminars, teach
our materials, and all we would have to do is sit back and count
the money as it came in.
‘He who reigns within himself, and rules
passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king.’
Milton
‘We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening
our own.’
Ben Sweetland
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Here Are Three Things You Can Test Right
Now To Potentially Increase Your Response!
You already know that testing is one
of the most critical aspects of business. Here are three different
things you can test to quickly find out if you can increase your
response:
1. Test different bonuses.
Some people will buy a product because of the bonus instead of
the product itself. Test various bonus offers to find out which
ones make you the most money!
2. Test different prices.
You can run three different ads all with the exact same wording.
The only thing different is the selling price of your product.
You will find that one price will bring a higher response than
the other two. This will help you establish the best price for
your product.
3. Test the wording of your offer.
This can sometimes make a huge difference. For example, try to
change your “50% OFF” offer to “Buy One, Get One Free,” and see
if the response goes up! You will be surprised how changing the
wording on your offer can increase your response!
These three tests can prove to be very profitable for you! Try
to come up with several ways that you can test these three things
and then chart your results. Find out how much you can possibly
increase your response! You might be amazed!
‘Wise men learn more from fools than fools
from the wise.’
Cato
‘Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics
of a vigorous intellect.’
Johnson
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Feature Easy Payment Plans In Your Ad
- And Potentially Bring In More Cash Than Ever Before!
Installment-plan offers generate more
sales than would otherwise be made. Many successful direct-response-marketing
ads have featured the easy-payment appeal in their headlines.
Here are six things you can use in your ads to make it super easy
for your customers to spend their money with you!!
Remember, though, you are trying to find ways to lower people’s
barriers and get them to trust you and what you say. These are
six good examples that have been used successfully by many companies
- including us!:
1. First payment due in 30 days!
2. Only 3 payments of $49
3. Send no money... We’ll bill you later!
4. Your credit is pre-approved!
5. Use your Visa/MasterCard!
6. We’ll send it C.O.D.
‘He that wrestles with us strengthens
our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.’
Burke
‘A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than
a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.’
Rupert Hughes
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If You’re Able To Create An Offer That’s
Exciting In Your Prospects’ Point Of View, Success Is Knocking
At Your Door!
One sad fact is that many of the unprofitable
ideas that marketers come up with could really be good ideas.
The marketers just need to look at the ideas from the prospects’
or customers’ point of view.
You might need to add services with the product or change it slightly.
You have to see the vision of what your prospects and customers
could possibly gain by accepting your offer, and then effectively
communicate that vision to them in all your marketing and sales
material.
Imagination is the key here, and this is how to grab your share
of the millions of dollars that are being wasted every year!
Another important thing many companies don’t regularly do that
keeps them from reaching their true profit potential is testing.
They don’t test different sales messages to see what might bring
them the most money. They think that one sales message they create
is the ultimate sales message, period. They put it into their
copy, and they don’t test it against any other sales messages.
‘Uncertainty and expectation are the hoys
of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking
and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.’
Congreve
‘The bigger a man’s head gets, the easier it is to fill his
shoes.’
Henry A. Courtney
This can very well cripple a business
and drastically compromise the business’s profit potential. In
many cases another sales message could double or triple their
sales.
Millions of dollars are being lost every year because of laziness.
Businesses don’t test like they should. Once again, imagination
is a key. Look for fresh new ways to look at your product or service
and present it to your prospects and customers.
In order to optimize your ability to bring in the most money you
can, you have to test. Use your imagination and your creativity.
Look for different angles and themes you can use. Come up with
as many different things as you can and test them against each
other. Then, when the results get back, you will know which ad
made you the most money.
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