Friday, January 30, 2009

Paying for Free Classified Ads?

By Jackson Greene

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.

Monster.com, FlipDog and CareerBuild.com are great websites for those who are looking to post available jobs, but may end up costly when posting multiple job offerings. Many job sites do charge a fee to post the job opening. There are a slew of sites on the Internet that offer free job postings. Jobertise.com and Smarthunt.com are two sites that offer free job postings and allow multiple posting as well. This is a great benefit for the small business owner looking to strengthen their staff.

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.

Offering a service? Well the online classifieds is perhaps your best bet. Posting multiple times and on multiple free sites is a great way to take advantage of the free sites. Having your ad posted more than once will assure it is seen by more people then a newspapers classifieds. A multiple post will also allow your ad to pop up at the top of most searches. For example if you are advertising a Joes lawn service, just input Joes lawn service into your search and it will come up on top of the list.

The Internet is constantly offering new ways to better your business or find a job. If you select carefully you can have great success without having to spend extra cash. Try classifieds.

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