WHAT EVERY GIRL WOULD LIKE TO DO
Get up in the morning when you have your sleep out. Arrange your working hours to suit your convenience. Engage in some kind of employment that you could do at home. Earn enough money to buy beautiful clothes, live in a comfortable home and command all the other comforts and luxuries incidental to a happy life.
On the following pages we will outline a plan which offers an opportunity for you to live the life so much wished for by hundreds of girls. You can sit right in your home and earn two or three times what your present position pays you without one-half the effort. You will be your own boss. You can start to work in the morning when you feel like it and stop when you feel like it. You can sit in your bedroom in your negligee or dress any other way you please. If you want to accomplish big things and operate a large office you can do so. What could be a more ideal situation than this? No labor to mar your hands or otherwise mar your physical appearance. The cleanest, most enjoyable and most profitable work any girl can engage in. The only qualification necessary is to be able to read and write.
Here is the plan:
We will send you a quantity of folders which tell all about the Book of Good Manners and the Woman’s Library. We will also send you a quantity of envelopes. You address these envelopes to all the girls and women in your vicinity. You can get their names from the telephone directory. Next you insert these advertising folders in the envelopes which you have addressed and mail them with a one cent stamp. We also send you a quantity of small envelopes which you address to yourself and inclose with the folder together with an order blank which reads as follows:
I herewith enclose $3.00 as full purchase price of The Book of Good Manners. In addition to the Book of Good Manners I am to receive, ABSOLUTELY FREE, the woman’s library consisting of six books, as follows: “Plain Talks On Avoided Subjects”, “How To Prepare and Serve A Meal and Interior Decoration”, “Physical Beauty”, “Color Harmony and Design in Dress”, “How To Make Money”, “The Book of Culture”. You are to ship them at once wrapped in a plain box to the following address:
Now let us see what happens:
You make $1.50 on each set of books. Suppose that you only sell twenty people out of each hundred to whom you send the folder. Your profit would be $30 on each hundred folders you send out. One person can address about 1,000 envelopes each 8–hour day, so if you sent out 1,000 folders each day you would make $300 per day if you sold twenty people out of each hundred you sent them to. If you only sold ten people out of each hundred, you would make $150 per day, and if you even only sold five out of each hundred you would make $75 per day, provided you sent out 1,000 folders each day.
When you finish mailing to everyone in your vicinity, start mailing to the near-by towns. You can employ other girls to do your addressing after you get started.
What could be more pleasant than having the postman bring you an armful of mail each morning with each letter containing $3 of which $1.50 is profit to you?
If you wish, you can use your own name and address. Some girls work their plans under the name of The Woman’s Library and either use their home address or just rent a lock box at the Post Office. If for any reason you do not want people to know who is running this plan, the latter suggestion is better.
When you get started with this plan, we will furnish you with other things to sell by mail. The first thing you know you will be proprietor of a large mail-order establishment.
Later on in this book we will tell you how to get started on this plan.