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Rational-Self-Interest Service Fees

Energize! The Great Persuasion

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Relevant Text Sections

• Con­sult The Great Per­sua­sion, Sec­tions 14–17, with­in The Page of Rea­son text.

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Service Fee Levels

• Bronze: Sim­ply spread the word (no fees involved).

• Cop­per: One Alexan­der Hamil­ton ($10.00), or more.

• Sil­ver: One Grover Cleve­land ($1000.00), or more. 
  • Option­al recog­ni­tion in the Sil­ver Able Lead­ers table on the gp Core Projects page.
  • To opt-in, include this fol­low­ing mes­sage with your payment: 
    • Sil­ver Opt-In: <dis­play name>
    • Option­al: <con­cise cre­den­tials, city, state, home zip/​postal code>.
    • We favor zips because they are key infor­ma­tion­al aspects of this project.
  • To opt-out is the default.

• Gold: The agent invoiced cost of a usa Sub-Project, with­out any cost mark-ups. 
  • Option­al recog­ni­tion in the Gold Able Lead­ers table on the gp Core Projects page. 
    • “Anony­mous” is the default value.
  • For usa Sub-Projects, we employ usps list­ed Online Direct Mail Experts
    • The gp Core team per­forms all agent inter­ac­tion work.
  • View the Esti­mat­ed Sub-Project Cost sec­tion below.
  • Con­tact Orrin via the Con­tact page. We will work out the details together.

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Payment Methods: Check, PayPal, or Credit Card

• By Check:
  • Pay to: Orrin Smith (Why? Con­sult the About Us page.)
  • Memo line: Great Per­sua­sion Insti­tute (and only on the memo line).
  • Mail to:
    • Orrin Smith
    • The Great Per­sua­sion Institute
    • PO Box 1189
    • Lean­der, TX 78646
  • For larg­er amounts, com­mon 2.9% bank trans­ac­tion fees can be avoided. 
    • A Sil­ver ser­vice fee marks a good cut-off amount. Your choice.

• By Pay­Pal or by Cred­it Card via PayPal:
  • A Pay­Pal account is not required.
  • Quick, easy, and secure. All pri­va­cy, pro­cess­ing, and secu­ri­ty func­tions are per­formed by PayPal. 
    • Pay­Pal’s pri­va­cy, secu­ri­ty, terms of ser­vice, etc. can be accessed from the Pay­Pal web­site page footers.
  • The ini­tial quan­ti­ty is one Alexan­der Hamil­ton ($10.00). That quan­ti­ty can be revised with­in the Pay­Pal forms.

Pay­Pal But­ton	Face Name	Face Val­ue
	Andrew Jack­son	$10.00

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usa Sub-Project Costs

• Esti­mat­ed Cost Ranges Table
  • This is a typ­i­cal EDDM price range table. 
    • As of 2020-02-16.
    • For all print­ing, postage, and services.
    • Black and white, or col­or, 6.5″ x 9″.
    • Specif­i­cal­ly, for our GP Pref­ace or gp Cov­er mailers.
  • Present­ly, six Offi­cial USPS® affil­i­ates are list­ed at USPS Print­er Directory.

From	To	Per Item	Low Cost	High Cost
1,000	2,499	$0.42	$420.00	$1,049.58
2,500	4,999	$0.40	$1,000.00	$1,999.60
5,000	9,999	$0.37	$1,850.00	$3,699.63
10,000	24,999	$0.35	$3,500.00	$8,749.62
25,000	49,999	$0.34	$8,500.00	$16,999.67

• How to Esti­mate a Spe­cif­ic Sub-Project Cost:
  • Look up a Zip Code here.
  • On the Every Door Direct Mail (eddm) page, per­form a Zip Code search, switch to Show Table, and Select All (routes).
  • Make these drop-down menu selections: 
    • Route: Select City and Rural/​HWY. Do not select po Box.
    • Res­i­den­tial: Select Res­i­den­tial Only. Do not select Busi­ness & Residential.
  • The eddm order summary: 
    • Will show the total address count, which is the point of this exercise.
    • Will show the retail postage cost, not the cost of a cor­re­spond­ing sub-project.
    • Will most usu­al­ly indi­cate, in red col­or, that the selec­tions have exceed­ed 5000 addresses. 
      • That 5000 address, per Zip Code, per day lim­it only applies to retail account mailings.
      • We will be mail­ing through our agents’ busi­ness accounts, so that lim­it does not apply to our work.

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