When you want to advertise you want to go the cheapest route. In the local paper there are some things that can be put in for free like lost animal listings. Most everything else you have to pay for. Online however there is a wealth of websites that you can advertise your business or services for free.
You can place many types of ads on the Internet free classified ads sites. They are open to all, and they usually have great results. This is often a better way to sell items for people who want to avoid fees as you would get from the local classifieds or on e-bay.
Personal ads can be listed, autos for sale, pets for sale, or anything else that you want to advertise. Many of the newspapers have online classifieds so you do get more exposure, but, for free exposure you cannot beat that. The profit is all yours. That is unless they let you advertise for free and then want a percentage of what you sell, but most do not work like that. They earn their money from the advertisers that place ads on the classified pages, like click ads.
When you decide to place a free classified ad on the Internet, do your homework and find out which ones rank highest on the search engines. You can use Alexa toolbar for this, or just do web searches as if you were looking for something on the Internet classifieds. Once you get the results make a note of the top ten results as these will be your most looked at classified ad websites. You should advertise on more than one.
If you have smaller items you may want to hit a larger audience. So advertise in local and global. The choice is yours just make sure you add shipping into your price. Read other ads to get a feeling for how they should read. See how fast the ads move, that is to say how quickly items sell. This is important for you to know what to expect.
Make sure that you read the terms of service on each website so that you know what is expected of you and how long your ad might run, and if there are any restrictions as to what you can advertise. Also read the fine print to catch any hidden costs.
The ads can run anywhere from 7 to 30 days depending on the website, so it is worth checking into it. If they have any stats as far as how fast people are able to sell on their read them, if here are testimonials read them as well.
Make sure you make your method of payment expected clear in your ad Give an e-mail address rather than a phone number. I would suggest signing up for a free account just for this purpose. Then you will not get any junk mail. Keep it simple, and let the ad work for you. - 16732
You can place many types of ads on the Internet free classified ads sites. They are open to all, and they usually have great results. This is often a better way to sell items for people who want to avoid fees as you would get from the local classifieds or on e-bay.
Personal ads can be listed, autos for sale, pets for sale, or anything else that you want to advertise. Many of the newspapers have online classifieds so you do get more exposure, but, for free exposure you cannot beat that. The profit is all yours. That is unless they let you advertise for free and then want a percentage of what you sell, but most do not work like that. They earn their money from the advertisers that place ads on the classified pages, like click ads.
When you decide to place a free classified ad on the Internet, do your homework and find out which ones rank highest on the search engines. You can use Alexa toolbar for this, or just do web searches as if you were looking for something on the Internet classifieds. Once you get the results make a note of the top ten results as these will be your most looked at classified ad websites. You should advertise on more than one.
If you have smaller items you may want to hit a larger audience. So advertise in local and global. The choice is yours just make sure you add shipping into your price. Read other ads to get a feeling for how they should read. See how fast the ads move, that is to say how quickly items sell. This is important for you to know what to expect.
Make sure that you read the terms of service on each website so that you know what is expected of you and how long your ad might run, and if there are any restrictions as to what you can advertise. Also read the fine print to catch any hidden costs.
The ads can run anywhere from 7 to 30 days depending on the website, so it is worth checking into it. If they have any stats as far as how fast people are able to sell on their read them, if here are testimonials read them as well.
Make sure you make your method of payment expected clear in your ad Give an e-mail address rather than a phone number. I would suggest signing up for a free account just for this purpose. Then you will not get any junk mail. Keep it simple, and let the ad work for you. - 16732
About the Author:
Alex Wu is fascinated by numbers and trading in marketplace. He wants to build a free classified ads site that leverages the power of social network to facilitate business hiring in his free classified ads website.
