Monday, February 2, 2009

Paying For Online Advertising? Why?

By Lorette Thompson

There are numerous ways to get the word out there if you are looking to promote jobs available from your company, services offered or just looking to sell some items from around your house. A lot of people use to rely penny savers or newspapers to advertise, although good they were flawed. So welcomed in is the Internet and the webs online classifieds are a great way to promote your services or goods. Hopefully youll find this article useful in your quest to find a new way to advertise.

Some site that are very helpful are FlipDog.com, Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com, helpful yes, but costly too. A lot of sites do charge a fee to post the job offered or items sold. Fortunately there are some good ones that do not charge a fee to post the listing. Smarthunt.com and Jobertise.com are two that are helpful. As a small business or upstart business this free service is effective and cost effective.

Trying to sell a product? Recommended is the online classifieds especially when finding a site where the postings are free. Although very popular and a great tool for the seller eBay, they will have to pay a fee in order to post their product. This fee may cause the seller to have to raise the price of the item to compensate. The seller may be better off using a site such a Craigslist.com, as it is free to post in most categories, thus keeping the items price low. Recently Craigslist.org has become an even better site as they now allow the seller to post photographs to show off their respective items. Basically you can achieve the majority of benefits that eBay offers, minus the fees.

Perhaps you have a service to offer the Internet is great for that as well. It would definitely benefit you to post more than once using a free advertising site. If you really want to have your ad seen, post on multiple sites at no coast. It is a great way to reach a broad base of buyers. The frequent posting may also allow for your posting to show up more when searched by an interested party.

The web is quickly becoming the new way to increase sales or promote a business and is well worth the try. As newspapers and most print only allow a select group to find your ad the Internet will definitely increase your volume. So, for little to no money you can increase the growth of your business or increase the products leaving your shelves using classifieds.

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