But how can you pre-qualify or target market your audience before placing an ad? If you are a beginner, it will take some time before you are experienced enough to do so. However, you can always get a sample copy of publication first and see what items other people are advertising. Then, test your ads in smaller mail order publication that offer low-cost advertising until you refine your ad and hit right market. As soon as you begin generating responses to your ads, keep in contact with these customers and grow from there. They will bring you more customers like themselves because "birds of a feather flock together."

Therefore - take my advice and SLOW DOWN a little. I know this is easier said than done - but if you don't slow down, you could easily get ripped-off and lose a lot of money. Just like attending college - you won't get a Master's Degree same day you begin classes. It takes 3-4 years!

Take your time to get to know some of pros and read what they have to say. Survey and study market. Read and educate yourself by investing time into study. Start out in mail order like you would start working for any company - at bottom. Learn tricks of trade. Make friends and associates with "good" dealers and stick with them. Honor your word and work dealerships to advantage of yourself as well as others. (Sounds kinda like Golden Rule of mail order doesn't it?)

But - I guarantee you'll be successful! Mail order works for anybody. You don't have to be rich, educated or a certain age, color or heritage. You don't have to wear certain kinds of clothes or have your hair styled in latest craze. The only limitations are your own abilities and confidence in yourself. I know because I started out really poor and brought my business up to a thriving, self-supporting home business!

Wouldn't it seem logical - if someone put together a catalog of products that other people could purchase WITHOUT joining into a MLM program? In fact, they could generate some sales for their products instead. What holds them back from doing so? It is fact that organization wants people to sell $349.95 package today because $5.95 order for product itself doesn't make them any money?

Please understand that I'm not talking about every company out on market. Watkins, NuSkin, Nutrition for Life and Golden Pride/Rawleigh each have catalogs of products you can buy without joining their program. The only problem is that you don't see very many ads for them. Instead you find ads that state "Make money with me and increase your income." or "Earn a new car within next 24-hours!"

Back in 1940's if you picked up a mail order magazine you saw REAL products you could order from REAL people. If you wanted a saw blade for your saw, you sent in a check and ordered one. You didn't join downlines to sell saw blades to others in your area. Now - if you want a blade for your saw you'd have to either wade through so much hype and bull that you may never find one. Instead, you just rely on Montgomery Ward or Sears.

See people - money is being lost in regular world of mail order simply because their are no REAL ads being run for REAL products. Pick up a mail order tabloid and you'll see immediately what I'm talking about. Why is everyone selling everyone else's stuff? What happened to our individual creativity? Most of answer lies in fact that so much hype is being pushed on general public it is ridiculous. People come on TV and tell you that you can make millions of dollars by running tiny little classified ads. They show you scenes of people relaxing on their yachts and making huge bank deposits. Society makes mail order business world look like something easy, carefree and non-tiring!

But perhaps, if I purchased a REAL product and loved it so much I might be enthused enough to join MLM concept later on down road. Wouldn't ultimate goal of building a downline be accomplished also while at same time selling product?