A Good Record by A. J. S. BOURDEAU

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 22, 1909

A Good Record

By A. J. S. BOURDEAU

Georgia’s Monthly Report of Magazine Sales

THE following report is for the four weeks ending March 27:—

AGENT	HOURS	SOLD	VALUE
W. D. Hughes	3	2	$ .20
Mrs. Highsmith	4	25	2.50
Mrs. Rainwater	12	180	18.00
T. Henderson	43	333	33.30
Mrs. M. Gale	46	269	26.90
Maude Rainwater	13	375	37.50
Mariah Macmillan	16	254	25.40
Mrs. C. C. Hunt	63	606	60.60
Myrtle Maxwell	43	1002	100.20
Totals	243	3046	$304.60

Summary

Number of agents reporting . . . . . . 9 Average hours’ work a week . . . . . . 6¾ Average hours’ work a day, 5 working days a week, 1 hr., 24 min. or 1½ Average copies sold an hour . . . . . 12½ Value of sales an hour . . . . . . . . $1.25

The average profit to each agent was 75 cents, or 87½ cents an hour, according to the number of magazines ordered in each case.

We are, indeed, pleased at the efforts of Brother A. L. Manous, field missionary agent of Georgia, to place the periodical business of that State upon the same methodical basis as our regular book business, securing from the agents full reports of the number of hours worked, copies sold, and value of sales. We trust that many other conferences will adopt a regular system of reporting periodical sales in their territory. The sale of ten of our ten-cent magazines for one dollar will doubtless do as much to spread the third angel’s message as the sale of a dollar book. They may, in fact, do a greater work; for they introduce the truth to ten families instead of only one.

The above report, just as it came from Brother Manous, shows that our ten-cent periodicals are being sold with good success in the South. A glance at our department, “The Work and the Workers” (page 2), each week will reveal the fact that hundreds of our agents in all parts of the land are meeting with equal success in disposing of these attractive messengers of truth. And, the

best part of it all is that many who heretofore have not been considered good canvassers, are making some of our best records.

We trust that as far as possible our periodical agents will order their magazines through, and arrange for territory with, their State tract society, who are the legitimate purveyors of all our denominational literature in their territory.

A. J. S. BOURDEAU.