Free Classified Ads: What You Should Know

The Internet is the new place for placing free classified ads. The local paper does not let you run ads for free. They are good for local sales, like a car or some large piece of furniture or equipment. You can also advertise locally on the internet. If you have smaller items you can reach a larger audience. Free classified ads target the people that are already interested in the product or item, and thus conversion rate is much higher most other advertising avenues.

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.

The best way to find a good classified service to advertise your product or service on is to run an internet search with a few keywords like classifieds, or local classifieds, to find out which ones come up first in an Internet search. This helps you to decide which one would give you more exposure for your advertising.

It wouldn't hurt to advertise on a few free classified ads sites. Keep your ads clear, and short, but keeping pertinent information in like what you are selling, price, and brief description of the item or service. People want to know what to expect. Remember that these are targeted advertisements; most people will not be in the area where you are selling a car, unless they are looking for one. Make sure that you can advertise locally for things such as that.

This website will be hit the most as it comes up the highest in the search engine. That means a better chance that your ad will get seen by more people. Classified advertising is also targeted. People only look at the sections if they are interested in the products in that section. 

Be precise in the method of payment that you require, and never send your item without payment first. PayPal and Money Orders are two methods that are good. If you accept checks make it clear that no item will be sent until the check clears. You have to protect yourself. There are people who are out to scam others just like anywhere else.

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.

When you decide on the website that you will place your classified ad on, look into the terms of service and use. Make sure you know of any costs that they charge, and for what they are charged. Know what restrictions they have as far as what you can advertise on the website. The ads usually run between seven and thirty days, know what yours will run for. Do your due diligence so you can profit from using free classified ads.

by Alex Wu

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Case Study: Does Hypnotic Writing Really Work?

f you've ever wondered if the words on a website were very important, then keep reading.

Brad Yates is a master at EFT, or Emotional Freedom Techniques. EFT is a method for tapping away psychological issues so you are free to have, do, or be what you want.

Some people call is "psychological acupuncture." You use a finger or two to "tap" on certain areas of your body, which releases stuck energy so you can move forward without any internal blocks.

Snicker if you like. EFT has been used for well over ten years and is now practiced by tens of thousands of people. They can't all be faking problems and then faking resolutions. EFT works.

Brad Yates was one of my guests when I did my "Attract a New Car" teleseminar a while back. I liked him and told him about an idea I had for a series on "Money Beyond Belief." It would be a course to help people remove their barriers to having money. Brad would teach people EFT so they could remove their blocks to receiving money.

Brad loved the idea, we conducted the seminars, and then quickly put up a website to sell the audios. Now, Brad knows EFT but he doesn't know marketing, so the site wasn't the strongest in the copy area. The words left something to be desired. I offered some advice but didn't have the time to rewrite the site. So we left it alone and opened it for business. You can see it at http://www.bradyates.net/page45.html

Take a moment and look at the site.

What do you think of it?

Is the copy strong?

Is it hypnotic?

What's missing?

And here's the million dollar question:

Does the copy make you want to buy the product?

Brad and I told our lists about our product. We stood back and waited for orders.

And waited.

And waited.

Orders trickled in.

Weeks later, we still didn't have enough orders to make either of us very happy. We ended up using EFT on our disappointment.

While I wanted to rewrite the site, I just couldn't get to it with my books, projects, media appearances, travels and more. Thank goodness a young copywriter by the name of Sam Rosen came to Brad and offered to help. Sam had studied all of my Hypnotic Writing materials and was game to prove his skills.

Sam completely rewrote our site. You can see the new copy at http://www.MoneyBeyondBelief.com

Take a moment and look it over.

Now here are the same questions as before:

What do you think of it?

Is the copy strong?

Is it hypnotic?

What's missing?

And here's the million dollar question:

Does the copy make you want to buy the product?

Here are the results:

The first website, which we'll call exhibit A, bombed. It barely made 100 sales in 100 days.

The second website, exhibit B, blew down all the doors and made $8,500 in sales in only one day.

So, does copy make a difference in selling?

Consider:

* The product was the same. * The price was the same. * The audience we promoted it to was the same.

The only change was the writing.

Please note: The only change was the copy.

The next time you scratch your head and wonder if hypnotic writing will help your sales, re-read this article.

And then expect money beyond belief.

Dr Joe Vitale

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Blog Marketing - Why Blog?

Blogging has become so popular that everyone seems to have a blog now for one reason or another. Maybe everyone knows something you don't know. There are many benefits to blogging. Of course, your blogs will be tailored to reap more results than the blogs created as a hobby.

Blogging has become so popular that everyone seems to have a blog now for one reason or another. Maybe everyone knows something. There are many benefits to blogging. Of course, your blogs will be tailored to get more results than the blogs created as a hobby.

We want to look at how blogging will work as your marketing and traffic strategy. Blogging is a great way for you to present and manage content on your site and set up content so that it is organized, fresh, and easy to follow. It is important to create a blog if you want to get ahead in your market. The blog structure allows you more flexibility than a static site and can be one of the primary tools in your marketing and traffic strategy.
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Plus have you noticed Fortune 500 Companies using blogs? There's a reason for it. Anyway let's look at some of the benefits of blogging for the serious business minded person:

1. Blogs are an easy way to stay in touch with other people and let them know what's new. Even a new mother or father can benefit from the ease of reaching multiple people with one posting. Take that benefit and look at exponential values that could be achieved if used on a larger scale and you will see how you can tap into this benefit to reach a multitude of people. You can save time and money using blogging as a method of communication.

2. Blogs give you a place to show off your ability and expertise in your field. You have a lot to offer whether you believe it or not. You can reach a much larger audience this way than through other traditional methods. You can gain a reputation as an expert in your arena by blogging and showing how well you manage your own business and displaying your knowledge.

3. Blogging is an easy way to post fresh content. Not only does this lend legitimacy and interest to your website and pull in more visitors, but it will attract the search engines. Fresh content equates to more web crawling from the search engine spiders.

4. This is one of the main points about blogging! Search engine marketing relies on many synchronized methods working together. One of the cheapest and easiest ways to create a web presence is to blog. You can develop top search engine rankings based on the popularity of your blog. Catch people's attention with great content and links will aid you in your trip to the top of the search engine rankings.

5. A blog with RSS feeds will increase your visibility with blog and RSS search engines. You can build link popularity through RSS feeds when you are cited by other blogs or websites. Your links within your blog will also send you traffic if your content is of interest.

6. The cost/benefits are huge with blogging. With easy to use and cheap blogging tools, you can get started without a huge investment of time and money.

SEO in a blog is definitely the way to go. Blogs not only get your words out there, but allow for comments and RSS. You can optimize your blog to get attention with relevant keywords.

Just like any other marketing method, it can be indexed and therefore translate to rankings with the search engines. Thanks to the structure of blog softwares, it is relatively easy for search engine crawlers to detect and categorize the content, resulting in a better shot at high rankings.

You can use blog software to easily add active and attractive elements to your website to keep it fresh and inviting. The software can help you to post current events and news in your field, newsletters, updated FAQ's, updated media, interesting correspondence, and relevant data.

Instead of just relying on a static web site that deters people from frequent visits, you can encourage regular visitors with constantly updated content, comment posting, cutting edge news, and a sense that your site is on the cutting edge of your field or industry. This translates to a site that attracts the search engines and produces high rankings.

Mark Fry

The Author is the owner of "Traffic and Lead Strategies and Solutions". Information is provided regarding the most cost effective methods to building traffic and a mailing list.

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Finding the great Home Business

If you are like me you have spent countless hours on the internet looking for that next great opportunity so you can spend more time at home. 

Down Falls:

It all reads fantastic, make six figure income only work 4 to 5 hours per week, then you start filling in forms then you are overwhealmed with emails asking for your credit card. You then decide go give one a go and nothing happens, why it seems you missed the boat.

Okay how can we find the next Great Business Idea

* Find something that is in Pre Launch * Something that you can register for Free * Make sure there is no money down * Have the feel you are getting in at the ground level

Okay how can we find this opportunity

We can start to search the internet, looking for these ideas, they can take hours, aren't we back to square on. My advice is sign up for couple and see what comes of them. See that there is a bit of buzz about it. Look at past ideas that have worked and see if you can see this working. You must feel comfortable with the idea after all this could be your new job, your new passion. Your Income. If you are passionate about it your have a much greater chance of success. 

I have spent countless hours researching into the next big idea- making sure I can get in on the ground floor, doesn't cost anything or a fortune. 

This maybe the opportunity, feel free to check it out here. 

THE NEXT BIG THING.

Finding the Risks:

Life I guess is a risk, sometimes without a step in the unknown we will stay in the circle we know. If your in the circle you know and don't like take a step. 

Without that step we may not of walked on the moon.

This could be the business opportunity that helps make 2009 the year of the dollar.

Alex

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Cheap SEO Optimization

A good friend recently showed me a great new tool for SEO. It is called Unique Article Wizard.

I am under a clause of confidentiality so I can't tell exactly how it works. But I can tell you what it does for you and why it's beneficial. In a nut shell it creates unique articles from the articles you write and then submits them to thousands of directories. It leaves anchor texted links on the submitted pages pointing back to your site.

It took less than an hours to write 3 posts, and the Wizard turned it into over 2,200 unique articles. And a really cool part is that they can send some of the articles in categories you choose to your email or to your blog! It is a sweet deal at only $67 per month.

BMD is probably the most popular automated linking program and it is $120 per month. But it only gets you cheap bookmark links that have no relevancy to your site's niche. Yet many SEO experts claim it as a must have SEO tool. 

By creating the content your self, you are able to generate posts that are 100% relevant to your niche and since the links are placed in articles instead of bookmarking pages the links are really valuable.

The best part of all is that you get a 30 day no questions asked, money back guarantee! If you don't like the program you can get a full refund within the 30 day period. 

follow the link in my signature to the Unique Article Wizard and try it out. If you writ esome articles, and you don't like it, you don't loose a dime. It's simple to use.

Herbert Castillo 

Alex

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