Recounts the story of one of America's greatest mail-order geniuses, and points out by his example the most valuable lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs. Included here are detailed explanations of his famous success stories, such as the placement of a –44.00 ad in the Wall Street Journal that turned into a –15-million-a-year business and his artificial diamonds direct-mail campaign. Describes the 12 ``hats'' of direct marketing, how to pick products that will sell, and psychological and motivational aspects of the direct mail buyer.

Author Tyler G. Hicks shows readers how to reap quick riches from the privacy of their homes through an investment of just a few dollars. Hicks covers how to start a mail-order business, where to find what you'll sell, how to generate publicity, how to benefit from the 800-number boom, and using the Internet. Now in a revised second edition, this is one of the most accessible and practical books available on starting a mail-order business.

Joseph Sugarman had a major impact on direct marketing & received the highest honors in this field. Having created many businesses in his successful 25-year career, Sugarman has been credited with introducing everything from toll-free order taking to the new wave of consumer electronics. MARKETING SECRETS OF A MAIL ORDER MAVERICK is a compilation of many of the techniques he created & the results he experienced while selling thousands of different products to millions of people. Lessons include how to find a winning product, secrets for a successful layout, how to avoid typefaces that hurt response, how to buy media for less, testing a product's potential & hundreds of other insights that will guide the reader to understanding what works & what doesn't. The lessons are alternated with entertaining & enlightening marketing stories from Sugarman's vast personal experience. Sugarman's insights will be helpful to anybody in business - from the advertising director of a large corporation to the individual starting his or her own business. Cover quotes from Vice President Albert Gore, Jack Canfield, & national magazines.

Excerpt from Secrets of the Mail-Order Trade: A Practical Manual for Those Embarking in the Business of Advertising and Selling Goods by Mail Until the production of this volume, no treatise has existed which deals with the mail-order business in a comprehensive, unbiased and practical manner. This fact is quite remarkable in view of the importance of the mail-order trade, which amounts to millions of dollars annually, at present, and which is growing all the time. The author of this book has had a long and practical experience in various branches of the mail trade. In addition to this, he has had an especial opportunity for close observation of the business as a whole, having given it his constant study. No pretense is made that every person who reads this book can enter the mail trade and become successful, but we do assert that a person with enough general ability to make any sort of headway in any other mercantile lines, can make a particular success in the mail trade by giving the proper attention. The publishers will be pleased to receive criticisms upon this volume and further suggestions from its readers, with a view to assisting in the preparation of future editions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.