Free Business Classifieds
A growing business needs to be advertised in order to be successful. The problem is that advertising takes money that small business cannot afford. Your budget is tight and you have to watch every penny you spend. After all, how many customers is the ad in the local paper going to get you? Well you are thinking in the right area but the wrong outlet. You are not going to be placing your ad in the local paper, you are going to take advantage of the internet and place a free business classified ad.
When you go looking on the web and type in 'free business classified' you are going to get a response in the tens of millions. This probably equates to tens of thousands of sites that will allow you to place a free business classified ad. How do you not take advantage of that? You get to reach a national audience at no cost.
Many small businesses forgo this outlet as they think they can only do business locally of that their product will not ship. What business is that? Just about every business you can think of has something that they can pack up and sell. You cannot afford to pass up the opportunity presented to you with free business classifieds.
You can also do much more with a free business classified then just a quick post. You are going to want to get as much information as you can in this listing, but most sites will put a line or character maximum on you. You are going to have to get your point across and do so with keywords. How much selling can you do? The idea in this case is to get them aimed somewhere so they can get the rest of the information.
The key to the whole thing is to give a quick, attention getting blurb about your business and then direct them to your website, social page or blog. Once you get them there, you can use as much space as you want to get your point across. Now you have generated hits for you website and you have not spent one penny. How great is that?
Don't get too excited yet though my friend, we still have to make sure that they actually get the chance to see our ad. We have to be at the top of both the internal and external search engines. What this means is that our keywords need to be precise and to the point. There is no shame is stealing from our enemy here. You know, 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. This is a perfect example of that. Steal what is working for them, improve on it and then use it to destroy them and take their business.
Now it is time to get creative with free business classified ads and you are going to do that by exploring sites and areas in the classifieds that are common to what you are selling but are completely different at the same time. Confused? The idea here is a type of cross contamination. You are selling fishing poles. You have posted everywhere you can think of, but now you are going to use keywords for rifles in your ad but when they click, low and behold, they are lead to your fishing pole site. You are going after rifle buyers here that probably also fish. If they don't who cares, they close out your site and go back to the search engine. If they do fish, you may have caught them in an impulse moment and they start exploring your site. Tell me you haven't had this happen to you. Doing this effectively just may make you the next Bill Gaites!
When you go looking on the web and type in 'free business classified' you are going to get a response in the tens of millions. This probably equates to tens of thousands of sites that will allow you to place a free business classified ad. How do you not take advantage of that? You get to reach a national audience at no cost.
Many small businesses forgo this outlet as they think they can only do business locally of that their product will not ship. What business is that? Just about every business you can think of has something that they can pack up and sell. You cannot afford to pass up the opportunity presented to you with free business classifieds.
You can also do much more with a free business classified then just a quick post. You are going to want to get as much information as you can in this listing, but most sites will put a line or character maximum on you. You are going to have to get your point across and do so with keywords. How much selling can you do? The idea in this case is to get them aimed somewhere so they can get the rest of the information.
The key to the whole thing is to give a quick, attention getting blurb about your business and then direct them to your website, social page or blog. Once you get them there, you can use as much space as you want to get your point across. Now you have generated hits for you website and you have not spent one penny. How great is that?
Don't get too excited yet though my friend, we still have to make sure that they actually get the chance to see our ad. We have to be at the top of both the internal and external search engines. What this means is that our keywords need to be precise and to the point. There is no shame is stealing from our enemy here. You know, 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. This is a perfect example of that. Steal what is working for them, improve on it and then use it to destroy them and take their business.
Now it is time to get creative with free business classified ads and you are going to do that by exploring sites and areas in the classifieds that are common to what you are selling but are completely different at the same time. Confused? The idea here is a type of cross contamination. You are selling fishing poles. You have posted everywhere you can think of, but now you are going to use keywords for rifles in your ad but when they click, low and behold, they are lead to your fishing pole site. You are going after rifle buyers here that probably also fish. If they don't who cares, they close out your site and go back to the search engine. If they do fish, you may have caught them in an impulse moment and they start exploring your site. Tell me you haven't had this happen to you. Doing this effectively just may make you the next Bill Gaites!
About the Author:
Alex Wu is fascinated by numbers and trading in marketplace. He wants to build a free business classifieds site that leverages the power of social network to facilitate business hiring in his free business classifieds website.