Starting & Building Your Catalog Sales Business – Secrets for Success in One of Today′s Fastest–Growing Businessess

Now––America′s #1 marketer and consultant puts together the first complete guide to catalog sales! Starting & Building Your Catalog Sales Business Some of America′s best known and most successful businesses, such as Sears, Spiegel, L.L. Bean, and Lands′ End, are "catalog companies," earning a major percentage of their profits through catalog sales. If you′re a business owner or entrepreneur, now you can do the same with the help of this book. Written by bestselling author Herman Holtz, Starting and Building Your Catalog Sales Business is a complete guide to catalog sales that explains how to get started in and manage a catalog business profitably. Packed with anecdotes, worksheets, and examples drawn from successful catalog sales businesses, it explains:

∗ The basics of direct–mail selling and catalog sales

∗ The secrets to creating catalog copy that really sells

∗ The essential elements in the catalog mailing––including how to create a strong sales letter and a user–friendly order form

∗ How to choose and use the right mailing lists

∗ Managing the two essentials of the catalog business: sales volume and pricing