What’s the True Cost of Outsourcing?

Outsource Weekly

So many new marketers are reluctant to outsource, because they don’t like spending the extra money. They think it would be a waste of cash to pay someone else to perform tasks they can do themselves. But that thinking is very flawed.

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Mystery Shopping for Fun and Profit

J. Stephen Pope
by J. Stephen Pope

How would you like to get paid to go shopping? That's right! Get paid to shop for clothes, eat in restaurants, watch movies, play golf, travel, and so on.

You can have your cake and eat it too! Enjoy the best of both worlds. Make money and have fun at the same time as a mystery shopper.

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Where To Place Your Classified Ads: One of the least kept secrets in the Mailorder industry

J.F. (Jim) Straw
by J.F. (Jim) Straw

If I have been asked once, I've been asked a thousand times; in different ways…”Where Should I Place My Classified Ads?”

Well…the renowned philosopher/sage/pundit; Anony Mouse, put it this way, “Give a man a fish and you will feed him for today. Teach a man how to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime.” – So, instead of telling you “where” to place your Classified Ads, I'm gonna tell you “how” to figure-out for yerself “where.”

Besides…I can't find enough fish to feed everybody.

What I am about to tell you is probably one of the least kept secrets in the Mailorder industry…but…I've done it so long and so often, I even forget to tell my best friends about it.

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INTERNATIONAL MAILORDER | Exporting is nothing more than selling overseas … by mail.

J.F. (Jim) Straw
by J.F. (Jim) Straw

Believe it or don't…MOST export sales are still accomplished by direct marketing (mailorder) methods.

Think about it! – Most companies that export their products do not maintain offices in other countries. They do not hire and employ sales people in other countries. Nor do they ever meet the people they sell to.

Instead of opening offices or hiring sales people in other countries, most exporters market their products overseas by mail. They sell their products in volume to other businesses who, in turn, resell the products in their country.

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EXPORTING – The Fastest Way To Grow A Small Manufacturing Business!

J.F. (Jim) Straw
by J.F. (Jim) Straw

When most small manufacturing businesses start-up, they concentrate their sales efforts on the known markets here in the U.S. Defining their markets as the known users of their products; known distributors of those products; and known, or accessible, sales areas within the U.S., overlooking the larger, more profitable, markets outside this country.

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