How To Make Money Fast, Renting Mailing Lists
Anyone wanting or needing to build a fast source of income should definitely consider establishing a mailing list rental business. All it takes to get started is your time, and once you're organized, you can easily parlay this business into a $100,000 a year income.
The first thing of course, is the compiling of names for your mailing list. This is done simply by noting or listing on 3 by 5 index cards, the names/addresses on all your incoming mail. Arrange these cards in zip code and alphabetical order, and you're almost ready for business.
To build your list of names, simply run an advertisement in as many of the mail order publications as you can afford, offering a free list of 100 mail order buyers for a self-addressed, and stamped envelope. And again, as you get these responses to your ad, list their names/addresses in your card file system, and file them alphabetically with your other cards.
When you've got a thousand names in your card file, the next thing is to purchase a box of self-adhesive or peel and stick labels, and type your names/addresses onto these sheets of labels. Type up 31 sheets - 33 labels to a sheet will give you 1,023 names on 31 sheets of labels - take these sheets of labels to your nearest photo-copy shop; copy them onto plan paper masters and you're ready for business.
Meanwhile, be sure to file your plain paper masters and hold them/guard them with your life. You can send out the labels you typed on to your first customer.
Look through all the publications offering advertising space for mail order operators - clip out and study those advertisements offering mailing lists - and from these, make up or have made up for you, a similar ad for yourself.
You should be offering your lists for one-time-use at $5 per 100 names; $20 for 500 names; and $35 for 1,000 names.
Check with your paper supply sources for best wholesale prices on reams of plain paper, gummed labels, and the peel & stick kind. At the same time, explain what you're about to do with the owner or operator of your local copy shop, and arrange a deal whereby you can copy your names at reduced prices, so long as you provide your own paper.
Then, when your orders start coming in - you simply take your "master mailing list sheets" to the copy chop, copy them onto plain paper, gumme
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