Thursday, October 1, 2009

Using Online Classifieds For Your Home Business

One method of driving traffic to your home business is by using free online classifieds. This method is mostly overlooked by marketers and can drive some real traffic to your website if done correctly.

You can create sales very quickly with Free Classifieds but placing classifieds can become very time consuming if you are not organized and do not have your ads pre-built for placement. Classifieds do require work, but the one thing you need to remember is this - THEY ARE FREE!

Take a little time and go to some of the many online classified ad sites and take a look at some of the ads that are placed there. Right away you will get the idea of what kind of short ads you should be running.

One very important thing to remember when placing free online classifieds is, you are not going to try to sell people on your opportunity. All you want your free classified to do is get them excited to click on your ad to get to your site.

That is why you see most of them are a little over the top and flashy. They are doing what they are suppose to do and that is get the visitor to their site.

There are two things that are a must for online classified ads, and they have to be done right otherwise you will not get the responses from your ads you are hoping for.

First: The Headline

This is very crucial. When people look through classifieds online, your headline has to grab their attention immediately. If your headline does not grab their attention, they will not click on it and never see your ad. Headlines for your classified ads are the key!

To use classifieds effectively you should create several different headlines so that your ad headlines are not duplicated when posting your ads to the classified sites.

Second: The Ad Body

Once a person opens your ad, your number one goal is to get them to respond to it – That is it! Do not try to sell them in the ad at all - PERIOD! Your ad should only build excitement to where they want to see more.

This is where we see many people make mistakes when using classifieds. If you give too much information in your classified ad, the person reading it will have no reason to click on your link and see more.

Always keep your classified ads short and build excitement. Get the person reading it to want more information.
For your classified ad bodies, you will always want several ads to avoid duplication when placing your ads on the classified sites.

Take some time and open a word document or your note pad and get enough ideas for classified ads and make up 10 to 20 of them.

Now that you have plenty of pre made ads ready to go, you can visit some of the most popular ad sites and just copy and paste them in and you are ready to start driving traffic to your home business.

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