Succeed With Your Own Money Making Ad Sheet

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It's simple, easy, and with an unlimited income potential!

You can set this program up right from your kitchen table, and
easily build it up into œ100,000 per year!

You've no doubt heard of the millions of pounds "raked in" by
advertising agencies each year, and that's what this business is
all about.

In fact, that's the name of the game with this business!

Here's what you do:

Call up the owner, general manager or advertising director of your
local "free-sheet" or shoppers' newspaper.

Tell him you're a mail order advertising agency, with clients all
over the country. Explain to him that you'd like to have a
regular space, 2-columns wide by 6-inches deep, in every edition
of his paper for at least the next 12 months.

You'd like a headline on this space, the headline to read:

Mail Order Money-Making Opportunities

You will turn in to him on each of his advertising closing dates,
a number of mail order ads.

You will want him to set each ad within this space, just as if he
were running 2-columns of wanted ads.

Then, at the bottom of this space, you want him to set in slightly
larger-type the name and address of your advertising agency.

Below that, in italics, you want your slogan, such as:

A Full Service Advertising Agency for Mail Order Dealers
Nationwide!

By setting up a contract for a "defined" amount of space in each
edition of the paper for at least 12 months, you'll save at least
30% over the regular day to day and/or monthly rate charges.

By talking with the "top-dog" in charge, you'll be able to avoid a
lot of hassle and negotiate the best deal.

This is the first step - explain your plan and assure them that
you're going to be a long-tem, regular customer; and then
negotiate for the best, bottom-line cost figure.

Figuring that each ad you run in this space will require 3/4 of an
inch, this means you'll have room for 14 ads, plus your headline
and nameplate.

Your ad will probably cost between œ35 and œ50 per week on an
"every edition" annual contract.

So now, you simply set a price to charge your advertisers in
accordance with the total circulation of the publication.

Charge œ10 per ad - times 14 equals œ140, minus œ50 costs, leaves
you a profit of œ90 per week.

œ35 per ad times 4 = œ140, minus œ50 costs, leaves you with a
profit of œ140 per week.

œ35 per ad - times 4 = œ140, minus œ35 costs, leaves you with a
profit of œ230 per week.

You may want to start off with a larger space, say 3-columns wide
by 6-inches deep, for even more and faster profits.

The important thing is to set the first one up, and then duplicate
or multiply your efforts.

Just as soon as you've got your programmes set up with one
shoppers' newspaper, do the same with another one.

If there aren't too many in your town, take a trip to a near-by
larger city and get it set up there.

If there are no "shoppers papers" in your area, check it out with
your local newspaper.

Once you've established this program in the shoppers papers, start
making the rounds and setting it up with your area suburban
newspapers.

Remember, the more you duplicate the "set-up" of this program, the
more profits you'll make.

Now, you're ready to go after the advertisers.

I suggest that you visit your local stationery store; pick up a
pad of "fade out" graph paper and a roll of black or red border
tape about an eighth inch wide.

Take these materials home, and on a sheet of graph paper, measure
1 inch from the top, and on the line from left to right, make a
line with your border tape.

Do the same thing at the bottom of the page. Measure in a 1/2
inch from the sides, and do the same thing for each side. Then
take a sharp razor blade and square off the corners. You should
now have a perfect rectangle as framed by your border tape.

So measure down from the top of your frame a half inch, and run a
strip of border tape on this line from left to right.

This will be your "masthead". Now measure to divide your frame
into 3 equally wide columns and run a strip of border tape as
column dividers from top to bottom.

What you're coming up with is what is known as an "ad sheet" in
the mail order business, and it's looking beautiful.

Select a name, such as The Trailblazer or Ron's Mail Order
Opportunities.

Make another visit to your stationery store, pick up some 18 or 24
point "Letraset" in the style you want for your ad sheet title.

Take them home, and on another sheet of graph paper, write out the
title you want to use on your ad sheet.

Then take a ruler and razor blade, and cut the paper your title is
on, into one strip that will fit into that half inch space at the
top of your ad sheet - the space we talked about as being for your
masthead.

Simply paste the strip of paper with your ad sheet title into this
space and you're ready to start pasting in ads - on your ad sheet
- from advertisers.

Incidentally, when you're over at the stationery store, pick up a
"Pritt Stick".

This is a tool you'll be using from now on, and if you'll go with
this for all your paste-up endeavours, you'll come out with a much
neater, as well as easier job.

I don't recommend household paste for your jobs.

Once you've got your ad sheet laid out, take it to a nearby quick
print shop, and have them make at least 100 printed copies.

You'll want it printed on both sides, with your masthead omitted
and your columns running all the way to the top of your frame on
the back of the sheet.

Then you take your pasted-up ad sheet original home and file it as
your "master".

You'll be using one of your printed copies each time you "paste
up" an ad sheet for printing and/or publication.

All of this is a part of setting yourself up and getting organised
for the business you're about to start.

The purpose of your ad sheet is strictly to afford you FREE
advertising for your primary project.

So, you make up an ad such as this:

Consider a "leader" item, and run an ad such as this:

FREE RAGS TO RICHES MAIL ORDER OPPORTUNITY guide! Send your name,
and address, and two first class stamps.

The in response to all the takers of this Free Officer, include
the complete sales letter, brochure, order form, and
self-addressed return reply envelope with the booklet you send
out.

Using this 2-step method, some people have attained 60 or 70 per
cent sales for their primary product.

Another angle?

FREE BOOK! Mail Order Millions From A Shoestring Beginning! Send
your name and address, along with œ1 for shipping and handling.

In response, you send out the book and a sales letter inviting the
recipient to avail himself of your mail order business consulting
services.

Again, the rules are:

Determine who you want for a customer.
Get his undivided attention, and then sell him your product or
service.


Simple, easy, and it works every time!

All it takes is a little bit of common sense on your part!

A small, inexpensive classified ad offering a "most wanted" leader
item, followed up with a dynamic sales letter ... and your success
is virtually guaranteed!

As a means to an end, particularly if you're wanting to enlist
people to sell your product for you.

Start an ad sheet - run exchange ads with every ad sheet
publisher in the country - there are literally hundreds of them.

But, instead of running ads to promote your ad sheet, run your
"leader item" offer and follow up with your sales letter on your
primary product.

From this, you'll get fantastic FREE exposure; inquiries from
people you can actually sell to; and the virtual "no cost"
establishment of a nationwide sales force to promote your
business.

To achieve success, know your product, profile your prospective
buyer, design advertising that appeals to the self interests of
that specific kind of buyer; and place your ads in publications
reaching those kinds of buyers.

If you're trying to sell by direct mail, send your offers to
prospective buyers - not sellers of the same type of materials
you're attempting to sell.

Very few people recognise a legitimate opportunity, even when you
hit them over the head with it - even so, unless you've got
something REALLY NEW, and a deal that really is THE OPPORTUNITY OF
A LIFETIME, save you money, and don't try to push your programme
onto other mail order dealers who may already be selling it.

Assuming that you "know" your typical customer, and the best media
to reach this kind of customer, the next step is putting your ad
together.

It's been said millions of times before, but it's important that
you UNDERSTAND, and REMEMBER.

Your ad MUST appeal to the self-interest of your prospect.

It must somehow be different, and better, than all the others,
particularly if your product is being advertised in the same
publication by other mail order dealers.

Nothing beats originality.

Write your ads from a different angle.

Lead off with the answer to every customer's most important
question:

What will I get if I send in my money?

Use words to paint pictures of success, wealth and happiness.

Eliminate the customer's fears of being taken or ripped off.

Picture yourself in your prospective customer's shoes, and give
him real reasons to send his money to you.

And finally, make it easy for him to order - use credit cards,
order now and we'll bill you later, self-addressed envelope.

Don't be too determined to sell your primary product from your ad.

Chances are, if it's as good as you say it is, and you really want
to make big profits, you should use a sales letter 4 or more pages
in length.