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Mail Order Selling: How to Market Almost Anything by Mail » (REV)

Book cover image of Mail Order Selling: How to Market Almost Anything by Mail by Irving Burstiner

Authors: Irving Burstiner, Burstiner
ISBN-13: 9780471097914, ISBN-10: 0471097918
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: July 1995
Edition: REV

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Author Biography: Irving Burstiner

Book Synopsis

A user-friendly, practical guide to starting and running a successful mail order operation. Describes what sells best through mail order, how to target prospective buyers, how to manage the new business and how to market through direct mail, print ads as well as TV and radio advertising. This revised, updated and expanded edition covers using a PC, telemarketing, promotion and publicity and more on direct marketing. The appendix contains examples of filled-out federal income tax forms.

Table of Contents

1Exploring the Exciting World of Direct Marketing3
2Starting a Mail Order Business10
3Targeting Prospective Buyers39
4What Can You Sell by Mail?48
5Basic Insights into the Financial Side57
6Organizing Your Mail Order Enterprise71
7Automation Alert: Go on Computer as Soon as You Can!93
8Promotion: Your Master Key to Sales Growth101
9Absorb the Fundamentals of Selling110
10The Basics of Print Production123
11How to Create Effective Print Advertisements131
12Direct Mail: The Powerhouse of Direct Marketing Methods143
13Managing Your Direct Mail Efforts155
14Building and Maintaining Your Mailing List165
15Newspapers as a Mail Order Medium176
16Magazines: Print Medium for the Long Pull187
17Radio and the Direct Marketing Firm205
18Television and the Direct Marketing Firm211
19Telemarketing217
20How to Manage Company Finances More Effectively225
21Planning Your Organization237
22Looking Forward in Time245
Appendix: Sample Federal Income Tax Forms263
Index287

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