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    Good Advertising creates more production, thus greater
    consumption, faster turnover and lower sales price per
    unit. To a great extent it determines the success or
    failure of the mail order operator!


    When working up an advertising program remember that what
    is genuinely desirable to you may or may not appeal to the
    majority of your prospects!


    Different types of merchandise or services demand
    completely different advertising media. Your ad must be
    built around the ADVANTAGES of the product and designed to
    APPEAL to the specific customers who will BENEFIT from
    your offer!


    Since you MUST spend advertising dollars in order to make
    money in the mailorder business be sure you spend WISELY
    and with CONFIDENCE.


    RETAIN all advertising information, brochures, sales
    letter, catalog, etc., you receive. USE THE IDEAS from
    this information as a guide in formulating your various
    advertising programs!


    There are thousands of top mail order products to choose
    from, more than you can every use so choose the right ones
    for your programs!


    If the product or service can't stand the Truth do not
    advertise it...Don't handle it! Truth in advertising is a
    must!
    Your FIRM NAME, preferable, should be SHORT, DESCRIPTIVE
    AND EASY TO REMEMBER!


    When you find the item that is a mail order "HI
    According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product
    T", repeat
    your ads on the product in a number of magazines and other
    productive advertising media in order to PYRAMID YOUR
    PROFITS TO THE MAXIMUM!


    Advertising cost divided by inquiries = Ad cost per
    inquiry!
    Advertising cost divided by orders = Ad cost per order!
    Orders received divided by readership = percent of
    response!
    Number of pieces mailed + by orders received = Percent of
    return!


    Continuously use the simple formulas (above) so you will
    know who your advertising dollars are paying off!


    Ad to find new Products:
    "Calling all manufacturers, importers and suppliers ... We
    will feature and sell your new products in our catalog ...
    Send your information, sample products and programs
    to.....!"


    Test the position of your ads in the various Media!


    Test one ad against another on the same offer!


    Make your sales letters friendly, clear, simple and to the
    point!


    Your potential customers are more interested in themselves
    than in your product, consequently your ads and sales
    letter must be directed toward their point of view and
    their self-interests! Make them want your product because
    it will benefit them or will do the job better for them!


    Powerful attention getting words include: Free, Amazing,
    Weird, Odd, Strong, Rare, Big, Secret, Latest, Easy,
    Fortune, Now, N
    ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

    Examples of combination products may in
    w, How-to!


    You must put yourself in the place of your prospects and
    know how they feel, think and react to your ads! If "you"
    were the customer would your ads persuade "you" to buy?


    Your Ad must have a strong headline! It must tell the
    prospect what to do, such as: Order Now! Rush $5.00! Use
    order form and reply envelope! Act Now! Action words
    that urge the prospect to order. Explain with simple
    words JUST WHAT THEY WILL RECEIVE FOR THEIR MONEY! What
    the product will do for them. Use believable
    testimonials. Appeal to their reason and get their
    confidence, then use a powerful close. You can get the
    order!


    Repetition is one of the secrets of making a lasting
    impression on the memory.


    Use coupons in some of your ads!


    Since Suspense is a strong force in advertising, consider
    entering the name of your product toward the end of your
    ad!


    Most everyone wants prestige, confidence, money, security,
    advancement, leisure time, good health, popularity, less
    worry, happiness, success, more time, recognition,
    improvement, business ownership, independence, more
    knowledge, satisfaction, savings ... Appeal to your
    prospects... use such appeals in your ads!


    Quality, usefulness, reasonable price, up-to-date, and
    appealing to the sight are points to stress!


    Make no misle
    lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

    ding claims about your products.


    Review the many ads presented in leading mail order sales
    magazines advertisers. Make note of the many attention
    getting words and phrases that catch your eye and cause
    you to read the rest of the ad! Use these same words in
    your own headlines!


    With certain type products, consider turning the picture
    in your display ad upside down in order to attract
    attention from the ordinary ... If handled properly,
    curiosity will sell!


    Study the operation of other firms to get New Ideas for
    sales letters, methods of handling promotion, nature of
    offers and any other details which may be helpful!


    Some programs require a good deal of literature in order
    to present all the facts necessary to sell a product!
    With this type of product you should first advertise for
    inquiries then send the full ammunition by direct mail.
    Write up a list of important reasons why a person should
    inquire about your offer. Use the strongest of these
    reasons in your ad!


    If you usually pay cash for your ads, why not set up your
    own advertising agency as a secondary part of your
    business? Your registered business name as an advertising
    agency may qualify your business for the 15% discount when
    advertising in many publications!


    Direct Mail, mailing lists, not ads, are used t
    here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
    obtain
    business. You determine what type of person would best
    buy your product; then compile, rent or buy name lists and
    proceed from there.


    Lists compiled from business listings in the Yellow Pages
    are good for many kinds of mailorder products; however the
    names and addresses contained in the white pages seldom
    get any reasonable response. Ads in the daily paper are
    also generally poor for mail order products. Stay with
    the successful operators and advertise in the various
    media they use ... stick with quality name lists in the
    right category for your products!


    Unless your ad is read you will come out in the red! Make
    it clean, clear, concise, simple, professional and focused
    to the "right market" for the type of product being
    offered!


    Always test! test! test! before spending large sums to
    promote or advertise your product ... Be sure it is a hit
    then go all out!


    Your ad must name the product, describe it, tell what it
    will do for the reader, how he can obtain it, and where to
    get it!


    The best part of your advertisement is the words that can
    be read "between the lines"!


    The direct mail packet consists of the sales letter,
    catalog, or brochure, order blank and the business reply
    envelope.


    The ad must attract attention and create interest and
    desire bef
    d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

    Combination pro
    re the customer will act!


    Know your product well so that you can be specific,
    sincere and positive in writing your ads!
    Enthusiastic ads properly laid out will generally get
    enthusiastic results!


    It is simple to record test results for your ads and
    programs in the various media. DO IT!


    If your product has distinctive features or trademarks,
    use them over and over again in all your ads ... Take
    advantage of the repeat psychology of keeping the name of
    your product constantly out in front of the Public Eye!
    If your product is familiar to the user, prove that it has
    better quality or price over competing items. Educate the
    consumer when presenting brand new items.


    Prospects are usually more impressed by what others have
    to say about the product than by what the dealer tells
    them. Write to your customers, asking for their opinion
    on what your program or product has done for them and
    request permission to use their endorsement in some of
    your ads. Retain their letters as your authority for
    using their testimony.


    Classified ads must have a great deal of thought and
    preparation! Use as few words as you can, but don't leave
    out image building words that tell stories, paint pictures
    and compel action!


    One way to increase the readership of your ad is by
    inviting person
    ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc
    to send in money saving ideas. Print the
    best idea each week, or month, and award the winner $$$
    ... They will read the ad in each issue in order to find
    out if they won and if not to see if the winners ideas are
    better than the ones they submitted!


    Many products can be readily adapted to radio & TV
    selling. This can be arranged whereby you pay the station
    a percentage of only what is sold. There are publications
    available which explain how to present such offers to the
    stations and lists of stations that supposedly operate on
    this basis. You can locate such firms by a search at your
    local library or through salesmen and opportunity
    magazines....However; this method for selling mail order
    products is not readily available on a flexible basis,
    unless you have something really special.


    You must be in a position to change your advertising
    approach with changing times and conditions.
    The First Paragraph of a sales letter must create
    attention and interest or the entire message will go to
    file 13!


    The Second part, or body, of the letter must arouse desire
    by pointing out the advantages and describing the product,
    preferably in use, or in action and should state the
    price...or the entire message will wind up in file 13!


    The Final Portion of your letter should strongly urg
    easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi
    the
    prospect to act and tell him how to order or the entire
    message will go to file "13"!


    You don't have near the space for your message with
    classified and small display ads, as you do with the sales
    letter so unless they are well presented they may make a
    faster trip down the tube to file 13!


    Always use TOP QUALITY letterheads, mailing materials and
    supplies...This is your BUSINESS IMAGE in mailorder!


    It could be good policy to place your ads through a
    legitimate advertising agency...It costs no more than if
    you place your own. Before doing business, get full
    information about the agency, its services and rates.


    Since you must get your message across in top form, in
    order to pull inquiries and get orders, the ideal ad made
    just for the particular item being for sale is another
    great secret for mail order profits....Many times just one
    little word will change a dead ad to one that pulls
    thousands of orders!


    Since you do not have a "window display" to use for
    mailorder advertising you must either draw pictures or use
    picture words to describe your product. Prepare
    advertising copy so that your prospects can "visualize the
    product" in their mind and "see" themselves using it to
    good advantage.


    The headline of your ad must be powerful enough to catch
    immediate at
    nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
    ention.


    Use words that emphasize your product or service at the
    beginning or end of sentences!



    Another gimmick for obtaining name lists for nothing...An
    ad such as..."?BIG MAIL? Send 200 of your address labels
    and 50 cents. We will send to mailorder dealers,
    wholesalers, distributors, etc....!"


    "Before and After" type ads get great response on certain
    products.


    Test and compare with different worded ads on the same
    type of merchandise in the same media.


    When advertising make your most important points first!


    When you find a new product that has possibilities for
    mailorder, test it! Prepare an ad for a quick test in a
    magazine or in a paper with a fast closing date (time from
    date ad is received to date it is published). As your
    test prove out "HIT" that particular item hard and heavy
    in other publications!


    Test various price levels for the same product.


    Qualify your prospects with proper classified ads.


    Get the prospects confidence by offering free samples, by
    allowing a full money-back guarantee, by building your
    business image without exaggeration, and by showing proof
    of satisfied users.


    Use the P.S. in sales letters to gain added attention!


    When using an illustration or picture of your product in
    an ad, have one that shows the product in use! Picture
    th
    and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ
    merchandise in use giving the owner profit or pleasure
    thus generating a positive, confident "YES" attitude.
    Remember that a picture will often sell better than 10,000
    words.


    Command attention to your ads or mailing pieces by
    marginal sketches, cartoons, different size and type
    styles of various words and/or paragraphs...Take the
    monotony out of the ad!


    Consider greater pulling power of colored ads on many
    kinds of products. Test for added response and sales, as
    balanced against the much higher printing costs for color!
    The use of borders, lines, etc., can enhance your ads but
    be certain they are not placed in such a way that they
    detract from your message.


    Type is expressed by "points". For example, one point
    equals 1/72 of an inch. A pica is 1/6 of an inch. Learn
    the various type styles and sizes. Use the right print in
    your ads to emphasize the best features of your product.


    Don't bore the reader; Keep the sakes letter to one page
    whenever possible.


    Offer something extra or something free in order to get
    immediate action!


    Test only one factor at a time in order to determine which
    "change" made the difference in the number of responses
    received from your ad!


    By the end of the first month after receipt of the first
    response from your ad you should receive 60
    ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
    of the return
    you are going to get from monthly magazines, 75% from
    weekly newspapers, 75% from direct mail, 80% from Sunday
    newspapers, 90% from daily papers and 100% from Radio or
    TV! Within 2 weeks...From magazines 20%; Weekly magazines
    40%; Direct mail and Sunday papers 60%; Daily papers 75%
    and Radio and TV 90%. DON'T DEPEND ON SUCH
    STATISTICS!!!!! Response can vary drastically depending
    on many factors, including products offered, media used,
    season, price, economy, etc.!!!! Your ad should be
    repeated again and again, as long as it is bringing back a
    profit....After the saturation point is reached, pull the
    ad. Test it again in a few months. The classified ad is
    the best to use for testing. For fast results, newspapers
    can be tested periodically. Magazines with the greatest
    number of responses for the least cost per inquiry should
    have priority for your ads. Only tests can prove which
    are the best ads and media for your various offers!


    Have a "Built-in" follow-up program when preparing your
    initial advertising and promotion materials!


    Your ad must end with words that compel action...Ask for
    the order! Now! Don't let the prospect put the offer
    aside or it will usually end up in file 13. Notice the
    many ads in the mailorder publications that close with <
    ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

    Following aspects would a
    R>action getting words and sentences. Use such ads to
    develop ideas for your own ads!


    Use the personal touch in your sales letters! You must
    have a good mailing list for direct mail advertising.
    Your sales letter should be written as though you were
    talking in person to the reader. Read it out loud...Does
    it sound like talk or is it canned?


    Offer mailing labels with personalized pictures, photos,
    or cartoon caricatures, at cost, in order to build name
    lists of mailorder buyers!


    Choose the publications with the greatest pull for your
    particular ad...Determine the greatest circulation for
    every dollar spent...Is it better to advertise in a
    magazine with 10,000 readers at 20 cents per word, or pay
    $2.50 per word for one with 3,000,000 circulation? Even
    this must be tested. Perhaps the 10,000 readers are
    buyers of the type of offer you are promoting and will
    order more than the 3 million!


    Determine the kind of person who reads the various
    publications and buy your space accordingly...Advertise
    ladies apparel in a media read by women, not in a science
    publication!


    Publications which carry a large classified section
    generally produce good results. Be sure to advertise
    under the right classification for your order.


    Don't be afraid to ask for the order.


    Take advanta
    dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

    Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
    Which combination prod
    e of free advertising and publicity whenever
    & wherever available!


    If practical for a given program, include a picture of
    yourself, your business building, or a photo of your
    product...This, of course pertains basically to direct
    mail programs or for display ads.


    Your ad will fail if:
    The program you choose has already been worked to death:
    A number of dealers had an ad approximately the same as
    yours in the same publication; You are advertising an out
    of season product; Your price is not competitive; The
    offer wan not attractive; Your copy was poorly written, or
    it you advertised in the wring classification for the item
    being offered!


    You generally get nothing but curiosity seekers with ill
    placed display ads.


    "KEY" you ads in order to know what is the best way to
    spend your advertising dollars. Final sales volume, is
    the measurement of success or failure of your advertising
    programs!


    Combine the best features of your product in preparing
    your ad. Not so much as to the physical characteristics
    but by the feeling and interest it generates in others!


    Generally, you should $ ASK $ for the money in classified
    ads only when a small amount is required for the product!
    Do not expect to get good response from a high cost item
    asking for money with a small classified a
    cts are meaningful and rational?
    Which therapeutic categories to select?
    Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
    Do combin
    . Offer free
    details to get the inquiry first, then send your direct
    mail packet...Sell your low priced items direct from the
    classified or display ad!


    Build and maintain your list!!!!


    Remember....For us in the mail order industry, advertising
    is a must! We cannot reach success without it! We can't
    operate successfully with it, unless we do it right!
    Advertising is second in importance, only to a high demand
    product at a reasonable price, but neither can win without
    the other...The day we stop advertising is the day we give
    up the mailorder business and go back to punching the old
    worn out time clock!!!!!!!


    Copyright by DeAnna
    This article may be freely distributed on the Internet as long as the resource box is included.

    DeAnna Spencer is a virtual assistant that helps entrepreneurs run a successful business by providing affordable administrative help. She also publishes a blog for small business owners. Visit this small business resource today.
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