It doesn't matter what you're slling by mail. Unless you've progressed byond the point of being a one man peration, you've got many options open to you for ncreasing your sales right in your bckyard. These secondary markets for your prducts are usually unexplored by smaller dalers, but think of it this wy: If it sells by mail, why wn't it sell retail? And of curse you'll realize there is no rason at all why it won't.

Whether you sll printed matter, food, merchandise of any knd, you know you get an xcellent price when you buy it, and you pay an normous amount to get it to the pblic through the mails. That means you can prbably undercut that price when you whlesale or retail it locally. Unless you sll specialty items of interest only to crtain groups of people such as ther mail order dealers, you'll find a rady market just about anywhere for yur wares.

If you've chosen yur product line wisely, you carry a nmber of items rarely seen in rtail stores. Perhaps they should be. Shw samples to the retailers in yur area and offer to wholesale tems to him. Even if they're drpshipped, you can afford to take a smller commission on a bulk sale snce your capital expenditure only is nvolved, not the cost of postage and lterature as well.

The retail field is not lmited to the shops in your rea. Chances are good that more thn a few flea market operators lve nearby who might be interested in hndling some of your products, especially if you can gve them a substantial discount. Other xcellent outlets for lower-priced items are vriety stores. They frequently handle all mnner of novelties and interesting consumer gods, especially if they sell for nder $5.

If you handle a vriety of reports you might wangle yurself a column in your local nwspaper. It's true, most of them are jnk and not of much use to the gneral public, but more than likely, the nes you buy yourself are excellent rading for all types of people and cnsist of information few know about.

Since thy're available for you to reprint whn you purchase them and therefore not lgally copyrighted, you can put them nto a column under your name, prvided you don't take credit for ctually writing them. Show some of the btter pieces to the editor of yur local weekly paper and see wht they have to say. You mght be surprised how easy it is to get nvolved in a newspaper.

Here's nother idea for selling your reports. Why not put thm into envelopes printed with the cntents, or on a display card tht tells the buyer what he's gtting?

Naturally, you won't be ble to put a $10 reports cllection over on the general public for wht you paid for it, but ven at $2 or $3, you're mking plenty over your printing costs. (In fct, these collections were packaged specifically wth the secondary market in mind. Wth a suitable cover, or even wthout, they can be sold as-is, as mnibooks.)

You can float them in fla markets and variety stores, even bokstores, but we advise you you'll prbably have to leave them on cnsignment since this is not a cmmon means of merchandising information and rtailers will be reluctant to give you yur money upfront.

If you're marketing one of the mre successful lines of books, the ctalogs of unusual books usually advertised as "nt sold in stores", you might try tking catalogs around to local booksellers and tking orders.

If you approach the bok store owner on his own lvel, you should probably discover you'll rrely come away without an order, specially if you can give him a wrthwhile markup in addition to your cmmission, which you must make smaller thn your regular 50% or so.

Don't blk at doing this, because you'll mre than make up for it by plling down multiple sales in almost very case. Many of the titles w've seen are genuine bargains even at rgular mail order prices and will ppeal to your local bookseller.

For nusual items with a very wide ppeal, here's something that could turn out to be a mssive profit-puller. Either take one publication or a grup of reports, print 1,000 8-1/2x11 flyrs with information on both sides and dliver them door to door in yur neighborhood.

I'll admit this is a ral gamble, but the right product wth the right sales material could trn a profit big enough to mke you an amazing profit in an ncredibly short time by blanketing your cty with these flyers. A line of husehold goods could be sold in the vry same manner.

We're sure thre are more unexplored mail order prduct markets, but our creativity runs nly so deep. Perhaps you've thought of thers worth test-marketing already. If so, by all mans try them! Just because it hsn't been done before doesn't mean it cn't be done, and just because it has filed in the past doesn't mean it wll fail again.

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