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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 15, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 11.

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"29,400"

By Editor

"29,400," answered the shipping clerk in reply to the question, "How many copies of the February 'Signs Monthly' were sold?"

FROM THE MAGAZINE PRIMER

Q. What is meant by Signs Monthly? A. It is a magazine of 48 pages and colored cover, issued monthly and known as the Signs of the Times Monthly.
Q. What is its character? A. It is religious; its Bible, Religious Liberty, Temperance, Home, and Current Topics departments give it variety and make it of very great interest.
Q. How is it circulated? A. Largely through devoted Christian agents who believe its teachings, and desiring to spread them engage in its sale. They sell from house to house and in business districts.
Q. Being religious, does it sell readily? A. One might think not; but quite the contrary is true. The fact is ever so many new agents say they are surprised to find it sell so easily.
Q. But don't they find it tiresome work? A. No; most of them exercise good judgment and work but a few hours a day and thus save their strength. One nice thing about this work is that agents earn as much in these few hours as they would in a greater length of time at most any other occupation.
Q. Do I understand that some even earn a living at the work? A. Yes, many of them do.
Q. What do they pay for their magazines; and what do they sell for? A. They pay four cents a copy for 50 or more and five cents a copy for five to fifty copies. They sell at ten cents per copy. It is a cash transaction and a profit of five or six cents is realized on each and every copy sold.
Q. Is experience necessary? A. Experienced persons do best, of course. But the publishers furnish beginners with such good helps they have no difficulty in starting out and meeting with success from the beginning.
Q. Do the publishers want more agents? A. Yes.
Q. How should a person arrange for an agency? A. Merely send, say $2.00 for 50 copies, to your tract society, or the publishers, and tell of your wishes. Be sure to ask for the helps.
Q. Is the March number ready? A. Yes.

—SIGNS OF THE TIMES—

Mountain View, California