June 2008
Find Out Why Sex Lubricants are Good and When to Use Water Based Lubricants
Are you not decided which water based lube to order? Your questions might be mentioned in this fabulous fruity lube post.
Water Based Lubes are not only primarily for hooking up. Getting oiled up for single fun is one of the most common uses for fruity lubricants, fruity oils and sex lotions. Using lube during one on one fun is safe, super and practical. You will want your vibrators to slip and move as significantly as possible.
If one is looking for a fruity lube which is safe to have with all sex aids stick to a water-based lube, there are innumerable delicious varieties out there like pineapple. And there are some that bubble.
Experienced users might well already know what sex lubricant is most perfect for them. But if you yourself are getting a fruity lube for the 1st time we would adore to recommend the following. It?s very best to begin off with a water-based lubricant. Water-based lubes do not stain and sex lubes are likewise totally safe to experiment on all marital aids. If you yourself wish to have a fruity lube for mouth play we recommend you yourself get one of the succulent chocolate flavoured ones. Anal devotees tend to go for thicker sex lubricant because these sex lubes are somewhat longer lasting. Remember, the more water based lube you yourself have the more awesome sex you yourself can have. You can always get a bargain with Cheap Sex Toys.
Researching the Best New Car Loan Interest Rate
You don’t need to accept the loan interest rate the car dealer offers you.
This may come as a bit of a shock to some car buyers who have begrudgingly
accepted a less than desirable rate because they didn’t think there was an
alternative. By doing a bit of research into current loan rates before
purchasing a new car, a person can save lots of cash in the long run.
Secure Financing First
It’s a good idea to secure financing for a new car before even picking out the
car. This can be done through a bank or credit union, and it takes a lot of the
pressure off the car-buying process. Many times a dealer may actually be able to
beat the interest rate, and that makes for a win-win situation because you
ultimately wind up with the best rate possible.
Become Familiar with Current Interest Rates
Make sure to check out one of the many websites available that follow and
forecast interest rates. It’s good to know what the interest rate trends are for
new car loans before applying; this way there is no surprise if rates are much
higher than you thought. After all, interest rates are constantly changing. Just
because your last car loan was at 3.9%, it doesn’t mean you’ll be able to find a
deal like that on future loans.
Compare Rates Online
Some websites act as loan brokers in the sense that they will take all the
necessary information and disseminate it to several lending institutions in
order to secure the best rate possible. Sometimes the best route to go is
through your own bank. If they have the lowest rates you can find, then there is
no reason to go through all the hassle of applying to many different lenders.
Researching the best new car loan interest rate is really worth it, and can save
quite a bit of money if done right.
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What Everybody Ought to Know About Food Additives
Every day we are bombarded with information about food products that are healthy, all natural, have no artificial ingredients, no preservatives, low fat, no fat, no cholesterol, sugar free, vitamin fortified and provide 100% of your daily vitamin requirements. Are these foods as healthy as the advertising tries to make us believe they are?
Let’s look at the facts. There are more than 3000 different chemicals added to our food. The company that wants to produce the chemicals or use the chemicals in the foods they produce usually does the testing for safety. Safety testing has only been done for individual additives, not for combinations of additives. Nobody knows the effects of the many different additives used in the thousands of different combinations. To make matters worse, because of political pressure, the FDA allows manufacturers to add small amounts of cancer-causing substances to our food. So, not only are many of our foods not healthy, they’re unsafe.
The FDA has even approved, as safe, additives it has known to be unsafe. Take, for example, Olestra, the fat substitute which was approved by the FDA over the objections of many leading food scientists. Olestra can cause diarrhea, abdominal cramping and may even contribute to cancer, heart disease and blindness. Foods containing Olestra must have a warning label on the package.
Then there’s the artificial sweetener aspartame, also known as Nutrasweet. Aspartame was approved and claimed safe by a specially appointed FDA Commissioner after his own Board of Inquiry that investigated aspartame claimed it unsafe. Aspartame can cause birth defects, central nervous system disturbances, menstrual difficulties, brain damage in phenylketonurics, seizures, death and a long list of other reactions too numerous to mention. It may cause irreversible health damage over the long term.
Fats are another story. A certain amount of the right kind of fat is necessary for your nervous system, your immune system, the formation of cell membranes, and the absorption of the fat-soluble vitamins. The problem is that over 90% of the food produced today contain hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oil, which contributes to heart disease, elevated cholesterol and triglycerides, non-insulin dependent diabetes and cancer. Research even shows an association between attention deficit disorder and hydrogenated oils.
The next time you grocery shop, look at the label of every item before you buy. Unless you already buy all organic and natural foods, almost every item you pick up will contain hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils. Instead, choose products that say no hydrogenated oils. Use raw organic butter instead of margarine, and extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil or flaxseed oil (flaxseed oil should never be heated).
If you’re eating more chicken, turkey and fish, because it’s healthier, you may be surprised to learn that sliced chicken and turkey from the deli contains nitrites. And nitrites cause cancer. Nitrites are found in almost all processed meats, including luncheon meats, hot dogs, sausages and bacon. Then there’s tuna, a healthy choice if it only contains tuna and water and is only eaten occasionally. But, most tuna contains broth or hydrolyzed vegetable protein, which contain MSG. And MSG is not required to be listed on the label because it is an ingredient in the broth, not directly added to the tuna. This is the way food manufacturers hide MSG in the food they produce. And hidden MSG can be a very serious problem to those who are sensitive to it. MSG can cause a wide variety of symptoms including migraines, numbness and tingling, asthma, seizures, diarrhea, panic attacks and heart problems.
Other sources of hidden MSG include autolyzed yeast, boullion, stock, malt extract, malt flavoring, barley malt, maltodextrin, natural flavors, pectin, seasonings, carrageenan, soy sauce, soy protein, whey protein, anything enzyme modified, fermented, protein fortified, or ultrapasteurized, fast foods, chips, condiments, salad dressings, lunch meats, sausages and soups. In fact, most processed foods contain MSG according to Kathleen Schwartz of the nonprofit group NoMSG.
So, buyer beware! Even if the label says “all natural ingredients” and “no preservatives,” the product could contain harmful additives. So, how do you know which foods are really safe to eat? You need to read the labels and know how to interpret the information on the label.
Here’s a few hints on what to eat and what to avoid: Eat fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, good quality protein and healthy fats. Avoid these additives:
Aspartame or Nutrasweet
Saccharin
MSG and Free Glutamates
Artificial colorings
Nitrites and Nitrates
Caffeine
BHA and BHT
Brominated vegetable oil or BVO
Olestra or Olean
Sulfites
Here’s a general rule of thumb: If the list of ingredients is long, there are probably a lot of chemical additives in the product, and you’re risking your health by eating it. If the list of ingredients is short, it may or may not have harmful additives in it, so you need to read the label carefully before you purchase it.
Dr. Christine Farlow has made it easy for you to identify which additives are harmful and which are not. In her handy pocket-sized book, FOOD ADDITIVES: A Shopper’s Guide To What’s Safe & What’s Not, now in its 2004 revised edition, she classifies 800 commonly used food additives according to safety, whether they may cause allergic reactions and if they are Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) by the FDA. In just seconds, you can find out if an additive in the food you’re buying is harmful to your health. It’s clear, concise and easy to use. Make this book your constant grocery shopping companion and you’ll never again wonder about the safety of the ingredients listed on the package. You’ll know.
Dr. Christine H. Farlow, D.C. is a chiropractor, nutritionist and author. She has helped thousands improve their health through nutrition. For more information on food additives and healthy eating, visit http://www.healthyeatingadvisor.com. Contact Dr. Farlow at dr.cfarlow@healthyeatingadvisor.com.
A Hurricane of Personal Technologies in the Near Future
Personal technologies are very interesting and if you read the personal Tech Newsletters and magazines they are quite popular with the techie crowd and more and more the mainstream reader. There always seems to be something new and something to write about in personal Tech.
This is great for the personal tech enthusiast who loves high-tech toys and it is great for retailers who sell them. In a future you can expect a hurricane and a flurry of personal technologies and this is because the competition to create new innovative toys and inventions, which help people do what they do better it is becoming a major industry.
There are many great places on the Internet to go to learn about Personal Tech and the latest and greatest toys and gadgets available. Often it is hard to keep up with the hurricane of new personal technologies that come out each week. Many other nations besides the United States of America have also jumped on the bandwagon and are now producing very innovative and creative new technologies.
Soon we will see the robotic android artificial intelligent robots that we were promised by science-fiction writers of the past. The future is here and the future is now and as long as it is hurricane season we may as well talk about the hurricane of excitement in personal technologies. Consider this in 2006.
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HEALTH ADVICE FOR HOLLYWOOD AND WOMEN MID/POST DIVORCE: DIVORCE AUTHOR, AMY BOTWINICK AND HEALTH PRO
HEALTH ADVICE FOR HOLLYWOOD AND WOMEN MID/POST DIVORCE DIVORCE AUTHOR, AMY BOTWINICK AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS SPEAK OUT
Aniston-Pitt. Richards-Sheen. Simpson-Lachey. Romijn-Stamos. Hollywood is buzzing with divorce in the headlines, and while the world gawks at the ‘news,’ one vital thing is missing…. HEALTH ADVICE for the over-stressed women of divorce who have even more stress if they are going through their divorce in the Hollywood spotlight. Emotional, mental/psychological, spiritual, physical and sexual health. Author, Amy Botwinick, Author of “CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR DIVORCE: The Road To Finding Your Happily Ever After” is pro-actively gathering a collective network of health professionals together to help share the message about the effects divorce can have on the mind, body and spirit. From promoting vibrators via her website www.divorcesextoys.com; to her book and the long list of resources and information at www.todaysdivorcedwoman.com, Botwinick’s mission of benefiting women’s shelters with the proceeds from book and product sales, while generating constant messages about health, safety and well-being is her own journey, as a divorced woman helping women. Dr. Joan Torgersen Magill, Licensed Psychologist/Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist/Certified Sport Psychologist describes Botwinick’s book as “essential” for women considering or going through a divorce. “As a stress management specialist, this clinician endorses her writings for the stress reduction possibilities, alone, though there is much else here, as well,” states Magill.
Botwinick explains how women going through divorce, like Jessica Simpson can benefit from stress reduction. “Stress is a by product of a primitive instinct called “fight or flight” that helped us escape dangerous situations during our prehistoric past. Women of divorce can range from young brides like Simpson, to women who have been married for years and into their fifties – divorce does not differentiate by age or celebrity, especially when it comes to stress, effects on health and safety. I’m here to share information. If I had just five minutes with Jessica Simpson, I would tell her about sexual safety and stress, first and foremost. She has a stressful profession – and particularly with her and Lachey going through their divorce in the ‘Hollywood spotlight’ – added stress. If the level of stress created over a prolonged period of time is ignored, it can cause life threatening illness and symptoms that can create considerable consequences mentally and physically. In terms of sex – we all commended Simpson for being a virgin when she got married, but not being married anymore doesn’t mean she has to deny her God-given sexual urges. That’s why vibrators are a safe-sex alternative, when emotionally healing during a divorce.”
While the message of safe sex is NOT a new one, it may be a message worth re-exploring for women of divorce, who have been in monogamous relationships with their spouse. “As the divorced woman re-enters the dating scene, it is essential to realize that along with the excitement and pleasure found in a new relationship, there are potential dangers that accompany physical intimacy. There are roughly 70 million people infected with one of 25 sexually transmitted diseases. These diseases do not discriminate based upon age or marital status. However, transmission is almost always preventable. Be smart, be safe, and do not be afraid to consult your gynecologist for any questions regarding STD prevention,” states Dr. David Lubetkin, who is an OBGYN. Botwinick as a divorced woman and as a chiropractor for twelve years, says she’s discovered many wonderful conventional and unconventional ways to heal on all levels. “I have treated many chiropractic patients with physical symptoms resulting from stress resulting from divorce. Patient complaints included tension headaches, migraines, back pain, muscle tightness, TMJ, upset stomach, nervous twitches and more. . As a primary health care provider I believe every patient should have a team of traditional and alternative healing professionals available to them along their journey, especially as they transition through the uncoupling process,” states Botwinick.
Botwinick practices what she preaches. She sought out the help of Dr. Brian Sheen, Executive Director of The Quantum Healing Center, Delray Beach Florida (www.spiritgrowth.com) for her own wellness and divorce recovery. “Divorce is powerful time for personal reassessment to look within for healing and growth. Unless a deep search of the underlying issues that brought you into the relationship and then out of it are undertaken with professional direction, the chances are there will be piles of blame, regret and resentment that will distort and prevent a healthy relationship in the future,” states Sheen.
This first-time author shares her own journey in a helpful girlfriend-to-girlfriend conversational guide to help women through the divorce process and beyond. Botwinick is currently enjoying her “happily ever after.” She is a divorced mother of two, and has been a chiropractor for the last twelve years and has held a teaching position at a local college. Her business for over a decade has been about listening, learning and helping others. Amy’s research and writing convey a directness and honesty that comes from personal experience. There are over two million divorces in the U.S. each year. Cinderella’s prince charming has either turned into a toad or run off with Sleeping Beauty. Left in the pixie dust are millions of women looking in the mirror each morning wondering, now what? CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR DIVORCE: The Road to Finding Your Happily Ever After (Health Communications, Inc.; December 2005; $12.95) by Amy Botwinick explores all facets of divorce: from making the decision, surviving the legal battles and getting on with life. Through the author’s own experiences and those of other women, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR DIVORCE prepares readers for the road ahead: how to get through the business of divorce with humor and aplomb, get beyond the bitterness and on to a healthy, happy life.
This is not another dry book about the process of divorce from a lawyer or psychologist. CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR DIVORCE is fun and uplifting and for women only. The author shares her own struggles, emotional foibles and stories from others, to help the reader through her own emotions. A special section on the male perspective opens the door to the workings of the male mind, helping readers find some common ground with their ex or soon-to-be ex, making an easier transition to “uncoupling.”
Sections of the book include: Making peace with your decision, taking stock of the financial situation, dealing with reactions from family and friends, the legal three-ring circus, forgiving and letting go, dating and new relationships, and telling and helping the children.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR DIVORCE is a breath of fresh air that helps the reader transform her feelings of being trapped to feelings of empowerment. It describes the world of divorce–warts and all–with some much-needed comic relief and heart. The reader will realize she’s not alone as she learns how other women have coped with the emotional craziness of uncoupling, jettisoned their emotional baggage, and gotten back on the road to defining and finding their happily ever after.
Financial Planners, Why Advertise When Free Publicity and Marketing Is Better?
Commit this to memory, please: To get in the media, being good is good enough.
You don’t need to be perfect, or even the best in your profession. There’s no elaborate entrance exam or competition to determine who gets media coverage.
The prize goes to those professionals who are competent or better, and who understand how to play the publicity game.
I have absolutely nothing against advertising as a means of getting exposure and a wider audience. In many cases, it’s just what you need, and deserves a spot in your marketing mix.
But (have you noticed?) it is expensive, isn’t it? And, in the end, it’s still you saying you’re great, which isn’t as good as them saying it. I just think of it this way:
Advertising – buys you visibility
Publicity – earns you credibility
Sure, you’re good. But, let’s face it. So are many of your financial planning peers and competitors. But you can be the one who gets into the media. Because you knew how to get a reporter’s attention.
You understand that getting in the media doesn’t require you to be the best financial planner on Earth.
I am also a big believer in direct mail marketing. It’s a superb tactic to build ongoing relationships with clients, customers, and prospects.
But, unless you’re ready to cough up big bucks to buy mailing lists, it limits you. You can only reach the people you already know – the ones in your database. All those people will get to know you better, and that’s good – but you won’t be meeting any new prospects. To do that, it’s either spend on lists or advertising, or learn how to get yourself some free publicity.
Ned Steele works with people in professional services who want to build their practice and accelerate their growth. The president of Ned Steele’s MediaImpact, he is the author of 102 Publicity Tips To Grow a Business or Practice. To learn more visit http://www.MediaImpact.biz or call 212-243-8383.
How to Buy Mountain Bikes Online
It is not as hard as one may think to buy mountain bikes online. It’s actually just like looking in your local newspaper and finding one that sounds interesting. Type in your bike of choice and see what comes up. There are a ton of sites that specialize in buying mountain bikes that you’ll probably be able to sell your old one or buy a new one.
There are a few things you should know before trying to buy mountain bikes online. The price or going rate of the bike and how much you are willing to spend. If you only have $100 to spend on a mountain bike you aren’t going to go with the fancy one you’ve been dreaming of, unless it is used. Shop around for the best deal and if you really think you’ve got it in you try haggling to see if you can get it for a lower price or at the same price but with a few extras.
Before you make that final purchase try to find out as much as you can about the bike if it is used. Many times if you purchase a bike online you aren’t sending it back. Once you have your bike be sure to test it out and hit a few bike paths.
Free Traffic Building – Take a Methodical Approach
Building traffic is important for earning income with your web site. Every webmaster needs visitors to click their Google Adsense ads, buy their affiliate products, or sign up for their newsletter.
If you’re on a budget, you’ll need to consider free or low-cost ways to drive visitors to your site.
Most free traffic methods tend to be labor intensive, though, so organization and time management are imperative to not wasting time and effort.
Free traffic methods:
- writing articles
- posting in forums
- commenting on blogs
- hit exchange sites
- you can probably think of others
Did I say labor intensive? Yes, you will have to do some work.
Did I say free? Make that trade your time for traffic.
However, if you forget which forum you signed up on or the URL for it, as well as the password and username, you’ll probably lose your motivation and not bother.
First, get organized:
Make a list of all the activities you plan to do to drive traffic to your site. List specific forums you post to, blogs you comment on, article directories you submit to, etc.
Now make a job description from these activities. How many posts will you make per day? How many hits will you click for? How many articles will you write? You’re the boss, so give yourself some orders!
Set up a web page:
To save time, consider setting up a simple web page consisting of links to the various sites you need to go to.
It doesn’t need to be a work of art, just record the information.
Make it easy to get to your traffic-building sites with a simple click.
- Forum site
- Blog site
- Ezine Articles site
- etc.
If you don’t have a web site, use the free web space you have with your ISP or any free site provider. Then keep that page listed in your favorites so you can access it easily.
Include your username and password information on your web page so you don’t have to look for it on scraps of paper all over your desk.
Now that you’ve planned your work, you can work your plan! Promote your web site in a methodical manner and watch the payoff!
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Fashion Tips for Women Online
A noted philosopher and politician Aristotle once said, women are the best creatures of god.
And for ‘you’ creatures that are bold, beautiful, gracious and smart, wrapping and carrying yourself is of utmost importance. According to the varying shape and size or body shape and colors, etc, here are few wrapping and carrying tips i.e. Fashion Tips For Women.
But before jumping into those tips to make you smarter, beautiful and bold definitely you would like to know What is Fashion for Women, especially if you are a bit extra cautious about your looks and appearance.
Fashion For Women
Women are directly linked with fashion. It would be right to say that the word fashion is synonyms to woman. It is something more than wearing clothing. If you are an urban beauty, the fashion trend and style should go well and that too in advance with you. Few of the factors that define your fashion statement are body frame, skin tone, level of comfort and personal attitude.
So beautiful ladies, come on, lets have a feel according to your body frame, skin tone and after all your level of comfort.
Body Frame- Are you a plump women, if yes, try avoiding sleeveless cuts. Choose dark color clothing rather than lighter shades. Or prefer over a range of dull colors like dull blue or dirty blue. If you wear small prints and vertical line prints, you will look slimmer. If you have extra pounds in you, avoid kota sarees and cotton sarees and stick to Chiffon and Georgette Sarees.
Choose beige and fawn colors, if you have a medium structure. In case of blouses, try on nets as these are of great help in disguising physical flaws.
Thin women, cheer up, you will look gorgeous in all the color ranges. All the colors and shades will suits on you. You also can try on sleeveless, deep cuts and strapped blouses.
Skin Tone- If you have fair complexion, gold with a blend of copper will make you cool. If you are a medium / wheatish colored, prefer mix shades of white, beige and bronzy golden. If you have dark skin, prefer to wrap yourself in golden copper shades.
Personal Attitude and Level of comfort- Your attitude and level of comfort is very important along with your appearance and clothing sense. If you want to maintain a cosmopolitan outlook but do not feel very much comfortable with western wear, try Indo Western style. A blend of Indo Western style should add an extra charm to your personality. A boat necked saree with a squared necked blouse is definitely for a shy and introvert women. Bold ‘n’ beautiful should choose from sleeveless, deep-necked blouses and may be straps.
So no matter what is your body frame and skin tone or how bold is your personality, fashion is for you, LADIES.
Tania writes on fashion tips for women.
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Secrets to Profitable Mail Order Products
The most profitable mail order products are simple 3-to-5 page informational reports such as this one. Once you’ve got your act together, these 3-page reports can be produced for $10 per hundred or less, and sold for at least $200 per hundred.
Generally speaking, everybody either in or wanting to get into mail order, feels that they have the final answer to what the general public will beat a path to their door to buy. The problem is that once they’ve invested a good deal of hard-earned cash and countless hours, their programs don’t sell quite as well as they had hoped they would. Thus it is that these people begin to feel that they’ve left something out or perhaps not doing “some little thing” that they should be doing.
At this point in their lives, they’ll spend a couple of dollars for anything that pretends to fill them in on the secrets that they haven’t yet discovered. The bottom line in building a fortune through mail order is not necessarily in working your plan, but in “filling in” the people who either have tried and failed, or else are wanting to get into mail order but are not yet quite sure of themselves.
The numbers of people fitting into the category are literally millions! The idea is to take a complete inventory of these reports – the titles of each report “promising” an answer to their specific problems – and sell it – your complete inventory of titles – a thousand times over each year. Assuming that you have an inventory of 100 titles – reports that sell for $2 each – and you sell 1,000 copies of each report per year for 10 years, you would have made a million dollars.
Nobody likes to get taken, and nobody likes to pay anymore than the absolutely has to for what he wants – yet, it you get right down to the real nitty-gritty of life, everyone wants “in on the secrets” of getting rich. Thus, by allowing these people wanting to get rich – the majority of the people on the face of the earth – in on a program or a method of operation that could make them very rich, for just a couple of dollars or so, you will have a steady stream of people beating a path to your door with money in hand!
The ideal approach is to write these reports yourself. However, not everyone is blessed with the talent of stringing words together coherently – but that’s no big deal when you consider the number of people out there, clamoring for “how to get rich” information.
In fact, the best way to learn – and to get started – is to get your name on as many mailing lists as possible, and then to “check out” the various people offering reports of this kind. Always look for the prime source, and when you find the one you want, ask about their dropship and reproduction rights prices.
If you “hook up” with the prime source, you’ll generally be allowed to advertise and promote their list of reports – at your cost – and then on all orders you receive, you’re generally allowed to deduct 50% for yourself, and required only to send the remaining 50% with the order form in to the prime source. The thing is, this allows you to get into the mail order sales field without having to spend a lot of money for set-up and inventory. Many of the biggest advertisers in mail order operate from their kitchen tables, spare bedrooms or one room offices with all of their orders being fulfilled by someone else.
Often-times a prime source will sell you the reproduction rights to his reports at a special price because you buy a specific number of reports and/or spend a specific amount of money. Provided you’re buying the reproduction rights to “new” reports, and the titles of these reports really appeal to the get-rich market, this is the best way to go. With these thoughts in mind, it’s always best to send for a few sample copies in order to see for yourself the quality, and value of the reports you’ll be selling.
Once you’ve got the reproduction rights to a set of reports, you can rewrite them – change the addresses and make up or have made up, your own advertising circulars to sell them as you wish. If you have a printing press, or a quick print shop, you can make millions with these reports almost overnight! If you don’t have a printing press or a photocopy machine, your best bet is to set up a working agreement with a quick printer or copy shop – they print or photocopy your reports either at a great reduction from their retail charges or you give them a percentage of the profits. In other words, you might get a quick printer to print up a supply of 100 of these reports for you, with the agreement that you would allow him 25 cents from each report you sell.
Quite naturally, you let him hang onto your inventory – coming to him for replenishment as you need it. You might even work a deal where you would use his address as your business address, and that way he’d know for sure just how many had been sold, and which ones he needs to print more copies of. There are hundreds of angles and ideas to launch such a mail order product and business such as this – the important thing is to keep your costs as low as possible – and you do this by allowing other people to make money as you make money.
Renting and/or selling mailing lists can make you just as rich as selling “get-rich” reports, but compiling mailing lists, and keeping them up-to-date, requires a lot more time and work. Basically, you make out a 3-by-5 index card on every name you come across. File these cards in shoe boxes according to zip code, and type out an envelope for each name as you file it.
Eventually, you will want to input these names into some sort of a database.
Then at the end of each month, you send out all these envelopes with your primary offer, always supplemented with a listing of the “get-rich-quick” reports you have for sale.
Those that send in an order, mark the date, the amount and what was purchased on their card… Those that don’t order, don’t do anything to – just leave them in your file… Those that come back marked refused, out-of-business, or moved – mark an “X” across their card in your file.
When you’ve acquired a thousand or more of these names and address simply start advertising and sending out direct mail sales letters, offering to rent or sell these names. Generally speaking, you can rent your names – they’d have to be typed up onto mailing list masters from your cards – for $25 per thousand and, providing your list pulls a minimum number of reruns, you can quickly build a mailing list rental business into a sizeable income.
Copyright 2004 by DeAnna Spencer
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