Send us names...we send you money

WE'LL SEND YOU 50 CENTS FOR EVERY NAME & ADDRESS YOU COMPILE AND SEND TO US...SEND US 500 NAMES WE'LL SEND YOU $250...SEND US 2000 NAMES WE'LL SEND YOU $1000 IT'S THAT SIMPLE! NO TRICKS. NO GIMMICKS!

If you're like me you have visions of sitting down with your thick metropolitan phone book and "compiling" thousands of names for thousands of dollars per day!

HOW IT WORKS...

First of all you have to send in around $30, to be sure you are "serious" and for the complete information package. These companies tell you they are in the business of renting mailing lists to businesses who want to reach specific types of customers. For instance a garden seed company wants to reach gardeners, so they buy a mailing list of people who subscribe to a garden magazine.

You will be providing a valuable service to them by helping them expand their database of names. A database that is already huge but yes you can help make it bigger! Somewhere in these ads is probably a sentence similar to "we'll show you no cost advertising methods"
Wait a minute...advertising? I thought I could sit down with my phone book? Nope. You will have to categorize these names into various interests. You'll have to place an ad for your own "get rich quick schemes" or recipes or weight loss method or whatever else you can think of to sell. When you get a response, THAT is what the company is looking for from you. The name & address of the person responding and to what they were responding.

So what if you don't have your own "get rich quick schemes" or recipes or weight loss method to sell? No problem. All your ads will be looking for is interest. "Write (or call) for FREE information" As long as you don't ask for money, you don't have to send anything and you haven't broken any laws.

No doubt the most common "no-cost" method of advertising they will suggest to you is the Internet. "There are over 10,000 bulletin boards and you can put your message on everyone of them! AT NO COST!!!" If you had the time you could, but your computer would also explode from all the hate mail you would get in return for posting your commercial message. They might also suggest putting up flyers at the local grocery store. OK. Think now. How often have you copied down an address from a grocery store flyer?

I know what you're thinking. I'll put my phone number up there and they can tear it off and call me. OK. They do that. What happens when you don't send the FREE information? They'll call you and ask where is it? You don't have it, remember?
A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME & MONEY.

But just for argument, let's say you do all they say and you collect 500 names of people interested in losing weight. What do we remember from the original ad? They already have HUGE databases of names. What does that mean? They probably already have alot of the names and addresses you have given them. So, you won't be getting paid for those will you? Nope. SAVE YOUR MONEY.