Here is a quick run-down on what you will find in this bulletin: Merry Christmas…
Update News for January 2018
Here is a quick run-down on what you will find in this bulletin:
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January 8, 2018, 12pm EST
The Postal Code “Land Rush” Begins
Don’t Miss The Opportunity!
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Happy New Year
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The Starting Time is 12pm EST
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Do Some Preparation In Advance
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These topics will be dealt with in more detail throughout this bulletin.
The Postal Code “Land Rush” Begins
Don’t Miss The Opportunity!
Subscribers who purchase additional postal codes from Compulife, over and above the LOCAL postal codes purchased as part of a subscription to the Windows PC software, are invoiced for those postal codes on a calendar year basis. Each year a certain number of postal codes, which were previously purchased by subscribers, become available. Here are some of the typical reasons postal codes come back into the market:
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- 1. Subscribers die
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- 2. Subscribers retire
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- 3. Subscribers quit the business
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- 4. Subscribers stop subscribing
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- 5. Subscribers cut back on the postal codes they are buying
The 2018 renewal invoices for additional postal codes were sent mid-November. Subscribers have until Friday, January 5, 2018, to pay those renewals. If the renewal is not paid on or before that date, the un-paid postal codes are taken out of the new postal code listings which are then published the morning of January 8, 2018.
Leaving the ability to pay until the first week of January permits subscribers to decide in which tax year they will expense the advertising cost.
If postal codes are not paid by January 5th, the unpaid invoice will be automatically credited from our books and the postal codes will become available to other subscribers.
NOT A MINUTE EARLIER
IMPORTANT: Do not call or email postal code purchase instructions before 12pm EST on January 8th. If you do, your email will be ignored. We will likely be too busy to even respond and tell you that you jumped the gun. If you call early, and you get through, you will be told to call later.
Because the phone lines will likely be busy that day, and a lot of the early part of that week, it is BEST to do your homework in advance and email your instructions for new purchases or changes. Use this emai:
You have two basic options for acquiring new postal codes. You can either ADD postal codes to your current list, or you can trade/exchange postal codes you already have, for postal codes you think are better.
Available postal codes (ANY Postal Code with less than 3 agents listed) will be available on a first come, first serve basis. The new list will be published here on January 8th:
If you are switching postal codes for better postal codes we will need specific instructions. Tell us what postal code you want to add, and which postal code you are giving up. If you don’t know what postal codes you have, email and ask for a list of those postal codes ASAP.
TIP: You can use the column titles to sort the list of postal codes.
Typically, when I am assisting subscribers in finding great postal codes, I will sort by the 4th column: Uou will need to click that column heading twice. The first time you click it sorts from smallest number to largest. The second time you click it sorts from largest to smallest.
TIP: In densely populated, urban areas, increase the “Number of Listed Postal Codes” from the default number of 100. This will enlarge the area of the state that you are looking at.
Once you have the list that you want, print that list. I would then highlight the postal codes that you would really like to get. Once again, make sure that list is done in advance of the 8th.
On the morning of the 8th you will want to replicate the list again, doing the same search and sort. Check your old list with the new list to see if postal codes that previously had 3 subscribers Listed, now have 2 or less. If that happens, and it’s one of the postal codes that you want, fire off your email to:
Make sure we have your name and phone number in the email. Once we get to you in time order, we will call you and ask for your credit card information.
IMPORTANT: Compulife keeps no credit card records for subscribers. If we don’t have your credit card number, they can’t be stolen from us. Every purchase by credit card requires that you give us the credit card information again.