Checklist for Starting a Decal Business: Essential Ingredients for Success
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ASK FOR ACTION! DEMAND THE MONEY!
Lots of ads are beautiful, almost perfectly written,
and quite convincing - yet they fail to ask for or demand action
from the reader. If you want the reader to have your product,
then tell him so and demand that he send his money now. Unless
you enjoy entertaining your prospects with your beautiful
writing skills, always demand that he complete the sale now, by
taking action now - by calling a telephone number and ordering,
or by writing his check and rushing it to the post office.
Once you have got him on the hook, land him! Don't let
him get away!
Probably, one of the most common and best methods of
moving the reader to act now, is written in some form of the
following:
All of this can be yours! You can start enjoying this
new way of life immediately, simply by sending a check for $XX!
Don't put it off, then later wish you had gotten in on the
ground floor! Make out that check now, and "be IN on the ground
floor!" Act now, and as an "early-bird" buyer, we'll include a
big bonus package - absolutely free, simply for acting
immediately! You win all the way! We take all the risk! If you
are not satisfied, simply return the product and we will quickly
refund your money! Do it now! Get that check on its way to us
today, and receive the big bonus package! After next week, we
won't be able to include the bonus as a part of this fantastic
deal, so act now! The sooner you act, the more you win!
Offering a reward of some kind will almost always
stimulate the prospect to take action. However, in mentioning
the reward or bonus, be very careful that you don't end up
receiving primarily, requests for the bonus with mountains of
requests for refunds on the product to follow. The bonus should
be mentioned only casually if you are asking for product orders;
and with lots of fanfare only when you are seeking inquiries.
Too often the copywriter, in his enthusiasm to pull in
a record number of responses, confuses the reader by "forgetting
about the product," and devoting his entire space allotted for
the "demand for action" to sending for the bonus. Any reward
offered should be closely related to the product, and a bonus
offered only for immediate action on the part of the potential
buyer.
Specify a time limit. Tell your prospect that he must
act within a certain time limit or lose out on the bonus, face
probably higher prices, or even the withdrawal of your offer.
This is always a good hook to get action.
Any kind of guarantee you offer always helps you
produce action from the prospect. And the more liberal you can
make your guarantee, the more product orders you will receive.
Be sure you state the guarantee clearly and simply. Make it so
easy to understand that even a child would not misinterpret what
you are saying.
The action you want your prospect to take should be
easy - clearly stated - and devoid of any complicated procedural
steps on his part, or numerous directions for him to follow.
Picture your prospect, very comfortable in his favorite
easy chair, idly flipping through a magazine while
"half-watching" TV. He notices your ad, reads through it, and he
is sold on your product. Now what does he do?
Remember, he's very comfortable - you have "grabbed"
his attention, sparked his interest, painted a picture of him
enjoying a new kind of satisfaction, and he is ready to buy...
Anything and everything you ask or cause him to do is
going to disrupt this aura of comfort and contentment. Whatever
he must do had better be simple, quick and easy!
Tell him without any ifs, ands or buts, what to do -
fill out the coupon, include your check for the full amount, and
send it in to us today! Make it as easy for him as you possibly
can - simply and direst. And by all means, make sure your
address is on the order form he is supposed to complete and mail
in to you - your name and address on the order form, as well as
just above it. People sometimes fill out a coupon, tear it off,
seal it in an envelope and don't know where to send it. The
easier you make it for him to respond, the more responses you'll
get!
There you have it, a complete short course on how to
write ads that will pull more orders for you - sell more of your
product for you. It's important to learn "why" ads are written
as they are - to understand and use, the "master formula" in
your own ad writing endeavors.
By conscientiously studying good Advertising
Copy-writing, and practice in writing ads of your own, now that
you have the knowledge and understand what makes advertising
copy work, you should be able to quickly develop your
copy-writing abilities to produce order-pulling ads for your own
products. Even so, and once you do become proficient in writing
ads for your own products, you must never stop "noticing" how
ads are written, designed and put together by other people. To
stop learning would be comparable to shutting off from the rest
of the world.
The best Advertising Copy-writing writers are people in
touch with the world in which they live. Every time they see a
good ad, they clip it out and save it. Regularly, they pull what
makes them good, and why they work. There's no school in the
country that can give you the same kind of education and
expertise so necessary in the field of ad writing. You must keep
yourself up-to-date, aware of, and in-the-know about the other
guy - his innovations, style, changes, and the methods he is
using to sell his products.
Prior to opening your Company you Need to
decide upon the general price Amount you expect to keep. Are you
going to appeal to
people buying in the high, medium, or low
price range? Your choice of location, look of your institution,
quality of merchandise
handled, and solutions to be provided
will depend on the customers you would like to bring, and so
will your costs.
After establishing this overall price
level, you are ready to price Individual items. In general, the
price of an item must cover
the cost of this product, all
other expenses, and a profit. Thus, you will need to markup the
thing by a specific sum to cover
costs and make a profit. In
a business which sells few things, total prices can readily be
allocated to each item and a markup
quickly determined. With
many different things, allocating costs and determining markup
might need an accountant. In retail
operations, products are
often marked up by 50 to 100 percent or more simply to earn a 5%
to 10% gain!
Let us work through a markup example.
Suppose your organization sells 1 product, Merchandise A. The
provider sells Product A to
you for $5.00 each. You and your
accountant decide the costs entailed in selling Merchandise A
are $4.00 per item, and you also
desire a $1 per item profit.
What's your markup? Well, the sale price is: $5 and $4 plus $1
or $10; the markup therefore is $5. As
a percentage, it is
100%. So you have to markup Merchandise A by 100 percent to
produce a 10% profit!
Many small business managers are
interested in understanding what Industry markup norms are for
various products. Wholesalers,
distributors, trade
institutions and company research companies publish a massive
assortment of such ratios and company
statistics. They're
useful as guidelines. Another ratio (along with the markup
percent ) significant to small businesses is the
Gross Margin
Percentage.
The GMP is similar to your markup percentage
but whereas markup Refers to the percent above the price to you
of each item that you
must set the selling price so as to
cover all other costs and earn profits, the GMP indicates the
association between sales
revenues minus the expense of the
product, which is your gross margin, and your earnings earnings.
Exactly what the GMP is telling
you is your markup bears a
certain relationship to your sales revenues. The markup percent
along with the GMP are basically the
exact same formula,
together with the markup speaking to individual product pricing
and GMP referring to the item prices times the
amount of
items sold (volume).
Perhaps an example will clarify the
point. Your firm sells Product Z. It costs you $.70 each and you
choose to sell it for $1 each
to cover costs and gain. Your
markup is 43%. Now let up state you sold 10,000 Product Z's Last
month thus producing $10,000 in
revenues. Your price to
purchase Product Z was 7000; your gross profit margin was $3,000
(revenues minus cost of goods sold). This
is also your gross
markup for your month's volume. Your GMP would be 30 percent.
Both these percentages utilize the exact same
primary
numbers, differing only in branch. Both are used to establish a
pricing method. And both are printed and may be utilized
as
guidelines for small firms starting out. Often managers
determine what Gross Margin Percentage they will need to make a
profit
and just go to some published Markup Table to find the
percent markup which correlates with that margin requirement.
While this discussion of pricing might seem, in some
respects, to Be directed just to the pricing of retail
merchandise it could
be applied to other kinds of companies
as well. For solutions the markup must pay for selling and
administrative costs as well as
the direct cost of performing
a particular service. If you are producing a product, the costs
of direct labor, supplies and
materials, components purchased
from other issues, special equipment and tools, plant overhead,
selling and administrative
expenses must be carefully
anticipated. To calculate a price per unit needs an estimate of
the amount of components you plan to
produce. Before your
factory gets too big it would be smart to consult a lawyer about
a cost accounting system.
Not all items are marked up by
the average markup. Luxury articles Will take more, staples
less. For instance, increased sales
volume from a
lower-than-average markup on a specific item - a"loss leader" -
may bring a higher gross profit unless the purchase
price is
lowered too much. Then the resulting increase in earnings will
not raise the entire gross profit enough to compensate for
the minimal cost.
Sometimes you Might Wish to sell a
certain item or service in a lower Markup so as to increase
store visitors with the expectation
of increasing earnings of
Regularly priced product or creating a high number of new
support contracts. Competitors' costs will
also regulate your
prices. You cannot market a Product if your competition is
greatly underselling you. These and other reasons
Can cause
you to change your markup one of items and services. There is no
magic Formula that will work on every item or each
service
all of the time. But You ought to keep in mind the overall
average markup which you want to make a Gain.
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