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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!grady
- From: grady@world.std.com (Dick Grady)
- Subject: Re: What is needed to start a Mail Order Business?
- Message-ID: <Bs6ovB.3xF@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <18342@drutx.ATT.COM> <26490025@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 04:09:10 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <26490025@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM> fritz@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Gary Fritz (tmp)) writes:
- >> For example, last year involvement devices (things that make a recipient do
- >> something such as pasteing a stamp on the return mailer) were hot. This year
- >> they are completely dead. Customers don't lick, stick, poke or push anymore.
- >
- >Then why do the big magazine-pushers (Ed McMahon and his ilk) still do it?
- >One would assume, with the massive mailings they do, they would be pretty
- >careful to stay on top of the latest trends.
-
- In the Publisher's Clearing House promotion, if you are ordering a magazine,
- you don't have to do all that lick & stick nonsense.
- You only have to lick & stick if you are *not* ordering a magazine.
- Perhaps they hope that you'll not follow directions exactly and therefore
- be disqualified.
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- Dick Grady grady@world.std.com
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