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IN THIS ISSUE This Month's Featured Selection Say It In Six by Ron Hoff Future World's ANNUAL HOLIDAY SALE features the lowest discount sale prices ever offered in this century! A Whole Sleigh-load of New Products just in time for the ANNUAL HOLIDAY SALE The Vanity URL Address Site let's you order your own personal Future World URL address On-line...or check to see if you've won a FREE VANITY SITE Set-up and Registration! The Y2K Dividend Contest voting is complete. Winners from all over the world announced! Y2K DIGITAL CATALOG On-Line Order Site lets you instantly enter an order for this powerful, personalized, promotional software package. Future World's LEAD Campaign takes a break this month. But get ready for January - the best Direct Mail month of the year! The Free Leads Program will continue next month with some fresh new names from "Year 2000" promotions. Direct Mail experts all seem to agree on one thing: December is the one month to skip in your annual mailing schedule (unless you happen to be selling holiday merchandise). So, take a break from mailing your opportunity brochures and promo paks and enjoy the holidays. But, after December 25th, you may wish to start gearing up for a major mailing promotion in January...the hottest and most responsive Direct Mail month of the year. We'll have the very latest leads ready for inclusion with your December FuturePrints which should reach you early in January. Until then, "Have a Cool Yule and a Frantic Feast".
Future World's Quantity Discount Program offers exceptional prices on retail merchandise at reductions as high as 85% in large lots. This offers enough room to sell this merchandise at wholesale prices of 40% to 60% off retail and still earn substantial profit. Say It In Six By Ron Hoff
GET THIS MONTH'S FEATURED SELECTION FREE! This month's Featured Selection,"Say It In Six" will be sent along FREE with your first order during the month for just about anything, with a value of $5.00 or more, at no additional cost. Since most Comms place an order for merchandise or supplies at least once a month, the Featured Selection rides along free with any of the other items you order, usually without additional postage required. All you need to do is to ASK for the free monthly product when you place your order. Even an order for the Promo Pak, Item #9111 (containing the supplies you'll need to respond to the new leads on your FuturePrint next month) will be enough to qualify for inclusion of the Featured Selection, FREE. Just ask for it when you order products or supplies. It's that easy. We're pleased to send it along, with our compliments. Free Browser Update To view all the latest features at your Future world Web sites, you need the latest JAVA-aware browsers such as Netscape Communicator 4.0 or later or Internet Explorer 4.0 or later. If you don't happen to have a JAVA-aware browser, here is your chance to download the latest version of either of these leading edge browsers free. DOWNLOAD Internet Explorer 5.0 FREE DOWNLOAD Netscape Communicator 4.7 FREE
The Votes are in! Here are the winners in the Y2K Dividend Contest. First Prize goes to Wakar Akhtar of Birmingham, ENGLAND for his medical equipment recycling idea...a concept that could easily be profitable for the next full year and beyond. Wakar was the clear winning with the greatest number of votes by far. The two second prizes go to Paul Maxwell of Antrim, Northern Ireland for his Y2K Upgrade Booklets and Manuals idea, and to Thomas Adamson, California, USA for his Y2K Preparedness idea. The three Third Prizes go to Dennis Tino, Minnesota, USA, Johan Sternberg of Norrhult, Sweden, and Greg Dabicci, Indiana, USA. Fourth Prizes were received by all the other finalists. They include: Peter Winter, Ontario, CANADA, John Getson, Prince Edward Island, CANADA, Stephen Brown, Massachusetts, USA, John Eley, Somerset, ENGLAND, Michael Nonhof, Wisconsin, USA, Donnie Lee Hatley, Tennessee, USA, Allan Rod, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND, Ghulam Rasool, Ontario, CANADA, Samuel Thrasher, Illinois, USA, and Don Mayeux, Louisiana, USA. Thanks to everyone who submitted an idea for the Y2K Dividend Contest.
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Say It In Six - Item
# 1023
Book Title 160
Printed Pages Illustrated
Author: Ron Hoff
for Say It In Six 160-page paper bound book - Item #1023 Single copies: $5.48 10 or more copies: $3.95 |
AS ALWAYS This month's Featured Selection,"Say It In Six" is sent along FREE with your first order during the month. Since most Comms place an order for merchandise or supplies at least once a month, the Featured Selection rides along free with any of the other items you order, usually without additional postage required. All you need to do is to ASK for the free monthly product when you place your order. Even an order for the Promo Pak, Item #9111 (containing the supplies you'll need to respond to the new leads on your FuturePrint this month) will be enough to qualify for inclusion of the Featured Selection, FREE. Just ask for it when you order products or supplies. It's that easy. We're pleased to send it along, with our compliments.
Don't miss the opportunity to do your holiday shopping with discounts so high you'll think you're dreaming of sugar plums!
But, of course you're not dreaming. With a company that offers everyday discounts of 50% to it Comms, we really have to do some serious price slicing to even talk about a Sale. And, that's exactly what we've done. Between now and the last day of this year, December 31, 1999 a product that retails for $10.00 and routinely sells to you for $5.00 will be available for for just $4.00 (20% less) when you place and order for at least $100.00 worth of merchandise retail. To put it another way, If you buy $100.00 (retail) or more of books, cassettes, and or CD's they will only cost you $40.00 (plus shipping).
All of them! Everything that appears in the printed Future World catalog or in your on-line showroom, while supplies last, is available at 60% off it's regular retail price (or 20% off it's regular wholesale (50%) price. To put it very simply, buy buying in $100.00 lots, you can get any Future World merchandise for just 40 cents on the dollar between now and the end of this year.
Order on-line, by mail, by phone, by fax or by email and save 60% on everything. Imagine buying at least half the gifts on your shopping list without ever leaving home and paying only 40 cents for each dollar of gift value that you give!
(1) Unlike most gifts, many books, cassettes, and CD's have the price printed right on the product. It is customary to remove the price tag from most gifts. But, no one removes prices from books. To do this would often damage the product. So, from the Ebeneezer Scrooge perspective, your gift recipients will never mistake the value of the gift you've given them. And, they'll never suspect, even in their wildest imaginations, that you were able to buy some of these beautiful, hardbound gift books for just 40% of the price actually printed on them.
(2)Literary gifts, like books and audiocassettes give hours of pleasure and benefit. And, they continue giving as the books are read and shared with others, imparting a lasting benefit that extends across generations, something that almost never happens with a tie, or a bottle of perfume, or an instantly obsolescent electrical device.
(3) Think of the time you'll save ordering your Holiday gifts from the comfort of home. Skip most of the mad Holiday rush at the stores and malls while giving gifts that will last a lifetime, or two, or three.
(4) Think of how much you'll have left over to spend on yourself, or the ones you care about most! Hey. You're in the information product business. Why not benefit from it by claiming enormous savings that you can enjoy immediately.
But, there's more...the opportunity for even more outrageous savings!
We've NEVER done this before. But, this year, the last year that will ever have a "19" in front of it, we've decided to make a sale that is truly unforgettable!
When the retail value of any of your orders exceeds $200.00, your actual cost will plunge from 40% of retail to an unprecedented 30% of retail!
This means that while you can buys $100.00 worth of fabulous books and audiocassettes for just $40.00...you can actually go ahead and buy $200 or more worth of any of these products for just $60.00. Another way of looking at it is that the second hundred dollars worth of merchandise costs you only $20.00 more. But, to keep it simple, just think of this as a sale where...
All orders over $200.00 are available at 70% off the retail price.
Think of it! $200. worth of holiday gifts for just $60.00...leaving your with a whopping $140.00 extra to spend on yourself on any other way you wish!
It sounds incredible, amazing, too-good-to-be-true. But, it really is true...but only for a limited time. And, the more you buy...the more you save.
With customers in more than 100 countries and Comms in more than 50 countries, it is virtually impossible for us to estimate the required quantities for every one of our products. A few of the gift products we are offering are in very short supply. So, it is possible that, during this Holiday Sale, a few Comms will order something that we simply don't have and can't get any more of. If this should happen to you, (we hope it won't and are trying our best to help insure that it won't) and the out-of-stock merchandise takes your order below the qualifying retail level of $100.00 (for 60% off) or below $200.00 for (70% off), you'll still receive the same percentage of discount you would have received if the product had been available. So, you'll still get the great savings no matter what.
(1) Just to be sure that all the people on your gift list are happy, you may wish to order one or two extra items, just in case something is out of stock. At savings like these...up to 70% off...this great merchandise is almost free anyway. So, be sure and pick up something for every book lover on your list as well as those Future World products that you've been meaning to order and read or listen to yourself, but just never got around to ordering before. Get a few extra items and everyone on your list will be sure to be happy this season.
(2) Don't wait for stock to run out. Order now while supplies of merchandise are at their peak! Chances are good that we'll have everything on your list...even the hottest, most popular items and the merchandise that is in short supply. At prices this low, your pocketbook will hardly feel a thing!
(3) Stock up for the new year! If you find some especially appealing products, why not order extra copies for upcoming special occasions during the year...and save 70% on birthday gifts, wedding gifts, anniversary gifts, graduation gifts, and every other occasion for which a fine book our audiocassette would be appropriate.
The sale starts today.... so, don't miss it!
Here are just a few of the new titles:
The Portable MBA (Hardbound with full-color dust jacket. One of this year's hottest business books)
The New World Spanish/English - English/Spanish Dictionary from Penguin (Hardbound with more than 1000 pages...plus a comprehensive CD-ROM included)
The Arabian Nights (one of the greatest collections of stories in history, for children of all ages including Aladdin, Ali Baba, Sinbad, Geniis, Magic Carpets and much more in a beautifully bound full-color gift cover.)
Dinosaur Safari (A complete directory of all the great dinosaur museum and fossil sites in North America)
A Dilbert Future (The riotous comedy of Scott Adams in a full length, profusely illustrated hardbound book.)
Right Brain Learning in 30 Days (How to multiply your mental capacity by using both sides of your brain together.)
And, many, many more.
Visit the all new, NEW PRODUCTS SITE for complete details.
To announce this new vanity address service with fanfare, we are giving away the initial programming set-up (a $99 value as well as the $70.00 registration fee) for 200 personalized vanity site addresses, to a group of lucky Comms each month who will be able to choose the name may wish to appear after the standard domain name: future-world.com/
Your new Vanity URL address may contain up to 25 letters. Personalized names will be assigned in the order received, using the special URL search and reservation engine that is now operational on-line. So, if your last name is Smith, don't wait. You'll want to reserve your personalized site name right now.
A few late registrant's names were also drawn. And, an additional 25 sites were given away to NEW COMMS who joined after the the drawing was announced.
So, how can you tell if you've won for sure, even if you're not on the official list? Just visit your personal vanity registration site. Your name and Comm number will appear at this site along with your status.
If the site headline says "The set-up fee is just $99.00, plus $70.00 for on-time registration. You didn't win, but you will be able to use the site to reserve and register your new URL address on-line.
But, if the headline says "You've Won!"... You can use the on-line search and registration engine to reserve and register your Vanity Site FREE (the only cost is the $4.95 monthly web-space/CPU fee).
Click the following link to check the VANITY REGISTRATION SITE right now to find out if you're a winner.
The Vanity URL Registration Site is now operational. Winners and non-winners will be able to reserve and register their personalized site address by visiting the Vanity Registration Page and selecting their own, personalized site name within the future-world.com domain. Click the address below to visit the VANITY URL Address Registration Site:
https://future-world.com /cgi-bin/vanity.site.reg
THE NEW VANITY URLS... and the wonderful things you can do with them!
Q: What can I do with a Vanity URL Address... anyway?
A: Vanity URL Addresses make your Future World Sites easier for your customers to find and use. They allow you to include your own personal name or company name within the actual URL address if your Future World web site, which is way cool, super-convenient and very prestigious. It can even save you money when you place classified ads that ruin on a cost-per-word basis.
The button at the bottom of this article will allow you to enter the Vanity URL Registration Site.
This Special Reservation and Registration site allows you to search the Future World URL Address Database to find available URL addresses that are both short and personal. Short, simple, easy-to-remember sites are often the best. A first or last name, such as:
future-world.com/bill
or
future-world.com/smith
or both first and last names, such as :
future-world.com/bill.smith
or
future-world.com/bill-smith
would make an excellent site name that is short and memorable. You can also use company names, family member names, made-up names or any combination of the 26 lower case letters of the alphabet "a" through "z", the numerals zero "0" through "9", and the following two symbols: a period "." and a hyphen or dash "-".
Don't try to use commas, apostrophe's, pound symbols (#) or any other non-alphabetic or non-numeric character.
The following symbols are ALL illegal characters and MUST be avoided in your addresses...if you want anyone to be able to find you on the net:
You'll be able to reserve a name with this "weird" characters in it, but Internet Browsers will recognize these symbols as "illegal" and no -one will actually be able to find your site, including you.
The site name: future-world.com/k-9dog is acceptable. It follows the above rules.
However, the site name: future-world.com/ Agent#86 is not acceptable. It uses a capital letter, which can produce unpredictable results with some types of browsers. It also uses a "#" symbol which is simply invalid and will not allow a browser to locate the site. Remember to use only lowercase letters, numbers, periods and dashes and your vanity address will work properly. If you reserve an INVALID address, you will need to contact a Future World programmer to have this address modified or removed, which incurs a site-reprogramming fee of $9.00. You can avoid this by only registering addresses that comply with the International URL address standard: letters, numbers, periods, and dashes.
If you reserve and/or register a site name that, in Future World's sole opinion, is offensive, profane, pornographic, or otherwise demeaning, Future World reserves the right to terminate the URL address and sever any links it may contain without prior notice. Use good sense and you will have no problem with this.
Q: How many Vanity Sites may I register?
A: Five. If you have either won the recent Vanity Address Drawing, or are otherwise eligible to receive FREE Registration and Programming Set-up you may use this free set-up and registration for a maximum of FIVE Vanity URL Addresses. This means that the Registration ($70) and Set-up ($99.) fees have been waived for you. Your only cost will be $4.95 per URL per month, which will be added to the cost of your monthly subscription. This works out to about 16 cents a day. Even though the cost is negligible, the value of having your own personal or company name in your URL address may be priceless. If you haven't won one of the Free Set-up and Reservation Prizes, the Cost is $70.00 to register and $99.00 for programming set-up. These one-time fees will cover the cost for establishing up to a maximum of five Vanity URL addresses. The only ongoing cost is the $4.95 monthly fee for each vanity URL Address.
Q: How can I tell if I've won a FREE Vanity URL?
A: To determine if you've won a FREE Vanity URL Set-up and Registration Package, visit the Vanity Reservation Site at:
future-world.com/cgi-bin/ vanity.site.reg
Q: How can a vanity site improve advertising response and lower ad costs?
A: The primary benefit of a unique Vanity URL address is that you can advertise this short, easy-to-remember address in classified, display, or direct mail advertising and your customers will find it much easier to type in. In the case of classified ads, the cost of the much shorter address will usually save much more than it's monthly cost in reduced (per word) advertising costs.
A Vanity URL address may be as short as you wish...even as short as a single letter, such as:
future-world.com/z
But, addresses are often more effective and memorable if they spell a word, such as:
future-world.com/now
or
future-world.com/money
or
future-world.com/success
The Vanity URL Registration Site site features a special search engine that will allow you to check for currently available Vanity URL address names. Search as many times as you wish until you find the name that you wish to register. Once you have found one or more names that you wish to reserve, you can register them yourself on-line by choosing the RESERVE NOW option. This option let's you choose which site, your SHOWROOM or your CLONEME site you wish to have your new Vanity URL Address point to.
Q: How can I use my New Vanity URL Address with INTRO PAGES and Search Engines?
A: In addition to pointing a vanity URL address to your showroom or clone sit directly, there is also a third option. You can choose to have your Vanity URL Address point to a special INTRO PAGE, which the system will automatically clone for you. This INTRO page is designed to allow visitors to choose which of your two sites they wish to visit. The INTRO PAGE option allows you to use just one Vanity URL address to allow visitors access to both your Future World sites directly.
and...
Unlike your SHOWROOM and CLONEME sites, which are cgi-based, this INTRO page is HTML-based. This means that the full INTRO PAGE address (including "index.html") can be submitted directly to search engines.
If your Vanity URL name were "bob", the full INTRO PAGE URL address would look like this: future-world.com/ bob/index.html
You could use the following URL address in your advertising:
future-world.com/bob
And, you would submit the following address to search engines:
future-world.com/bob/index.html
Since you may have up to five different Vanity URL addresses, you can have one address point to your CLONE site, a different Vanity URL Address might point to your SHOWROOM site, and still another address might point to an INTRO PAGE that can access both sites. Or, you can use a single URL and INTRO PAGE to do everything. NOTE: If a visitor fails to select an option from your Home Page within 15 seconds, it automatically transports visitors to your SHOWROOM page.
Q: What does the Vanity URL INTRO PAGE look like?
A: To view a sample INTRO PAGE, just to see what it might look like...Click Here.
Q: What do I do if I make a mistake while creating or registering my Vanity URL Address?
A: The automated Vanity URL Address cloning engine that actually creates your new URL site is automated and monitored by programmers. It was designed to make the creation and use of Vanity URL Addresses as easy as possible. However, making changes to Vanity URL Addresses, once made is complicated and will require programmer intervention.
Because of this, be sure that your Vanity URL Address looks exactly the way you want it to and points to your correct Future World site before actually RESERVING the Address and creating the LINK to your site.
If you make a mistake or need to change your Vanity URL Address, just send an email to the Web Master with detailed instructions of what you want to change. The cost of reprogramming or removing a Vanity URL Address is just $9.00. If you enter everything correctly, no modification will be required. Use the following email address for any correspondence:
Q: Will my old URL address continue to work after I register my new Vanity Address?
A: Yes. All old site will continue to be fully operational. So, in case you have some advertising that is still running with the old address, ad respondents will continue to be able to find your site. The original URL address will remain operational for as long as your Future world subscription continues.
Click the link below to enter the Vanity URL Registration site
and set-up your new Vanity URL Addresses.