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How to submit London, Brighton or other city UK Classified ad with image

July 27th, 2009

To ad image to your ad is very simple. However we see that some people are having troubles with that.

When you are filling in classified ad submission form you can see “Browse” button. If you click it you can select file from your computer. Note that file should be JPG format. It is common format for all images and most photo cameras save images exactly using this format.

If you have PNG, BMP or GIF image you can easily resave or convert it using Microsoft Windows program “Paint”. You can find it in Start menu -> Programs -> Accessories -> Paint. Click File -> Open to open file and then click File -> Save as. You can see Save as type there. Click JPEG/JPG.

JPEG images are ideal for submission to classified ad websites because they use special compression algorithm and use less space and as a result your classified ad loads faster via internet.

By the way – do not forget to make smaller size of the image itself. When you have your image opened in “Paint” be for you do “Save as” go to Image -> Resize/Skew. Input horizontal and vertical sizes (for example 50% or 20%) and click OK. Do not forget to save it and that’s it – you are ready to attach photo to your classified ad.

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How to submit free classified Ad to Bath, Bristol, Plymouth or other city of the UK

July 26th, 2009

Open Royal market website. Permanent address is royalmarket.co.uk. Then select city. You can find it on your right. If it is not convenient for you to use this select then just click “list of regions and cities” and you can click on the city there.

Then click on section and use “Submit Ad” button on add your free ad to royal market classified ads.

The other possibility is to select your city region and then click “Submit your Free Ad” in the main menu. You will have to select section up to submenu using drop downs.

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How to create a classified ad

July 25th, 2009

Don’t underestimate the power of classified ads, they can give your business access to new and wider market. Classified ads are generally not expensive, some are even offered free. One of the options is to submit them online through the online classified ad directories or sites. Online submission of classified ads has many advantages related to the big market and flexibility. But one point, you need to make an effective ad to work. Here is the list you should consider in preparing ad to be submitted online.

Title of your classified ad

The most important point is that your title should have keywords, the only things that make your ad arrives in front of prospective audience. It should be simple, but includes as many keywords as possible. If you sell a digital camera, then put the words “digital camera” in the title, that simple. It makes distinct boundary between ads that turn out in the top list and ads that get buried nowhere in the list. Putting an interesting advertising word near the keywords such as “excellent”, “guarantee”, “best”, and their kinds is also a good option. Otherwise, put emotional words such as “feel” and “enjoy”. Your ad should look different.

Description of your products or services

You should make clear, short, and interesting description about your products or services. Place the same keywords as those in the title, they will get indexed well by search engines. Do not let it be too long, unless you write about the benefits, features, or product characteristics. They are the most important selling points you should include in the item description, and even these shouldn’t be too detailed. The audiences are online, they can get to other ads as soon as making a click. If they can not find valuable content in the description at a glance, they will leave the ad.

Contact information

Put your contact information such as name, phone number, website, and email is important to assure your credibility to audience. If you have a business name, put it on top. Make it easy for audience to contact you when any further information is needed. It is also your chance to provide more detailed information about the products or services.

Price of your products or services

It is god to state your price to attract serious audience. It is a strength point that many buyers look for before making decision, especially if you offer a competitive price. Otherwise, give some clues such as price range, discounts, and special offer. Some other marketing words will also work, such as “best deal” and “cheap”. In most cases, it is always best to provide price information or clues. If your price is higher than the market average, put more strength on your product’s advantages.

Additional link or information

This includes whatever information or link that make your audience know where they can buy or get more information about the product. You can link to neutral sites that give reviews, your collection of testimonials from previous buyers, sites or videos that show simulation of product usage, or something like that. Imagine how you can collect all of these marketing supports freely by using online classified ads. This will help to assure and encourage audience to make purchase.

Photo of your product

Always use a photo whenever you are allowed to, it will give more idea to your audience. Upload a quality photo that is eye catching. Consider combining dark and bright color for object and background. You an also add some text if it is not too crowded.

Submit your free classified ad to royalmarket.co.uk

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How to sell your car in Bristol, Brighton or any other city of the UK

July 24th, 2009

Most popular solution is to put a print ad to the local newspaper. But what if you are selling exclusive rare car that could be interesting for buyers from other cities? Imagine you are selling Dodge Viper or Chevrolet Corvette that is very exclusive for UK and possible that in your city there will be no buyers that can afford or want buy such car. Using internet nowadays help to solve this problem. You can submit a classified ad and it will be seen from any place not only of the United Kingdom but also the world. It is possible that a guy from Ireland is looking for exactly such car. It is possible that people from London are ok to go for exclusive car all over UK. If you submit print ad only to local newspaper you will just miss your chance.

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How to choose best title for your classified ad?

July 21st, 2009

The best way to attract potential customer’s attention is to give maximum information.

For example if you sell car bad title is “Car for sale” but good title is “TVR Sagaris, 4.0L, 2005, 30k miles, orange”.

It is not necessary to mention that item is for sale. It is most common classified ad type. Better specify if it is for rent: “Car rent: Ford Focus 2007, only 30 gbp/day”.

If you are looking for something also specify it: “Want to buy: Lancer 2003-2005, up to 2.0, >10k gbp”.

Try to include maximum information in your classified ad title. Avoid general.

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Online classified ads to start a small business

July 15th, 2009

Small businesses tend to have limited resources. The capital (cash) and labor (employee) are utilized as efficient as possible to make the best benefits of them. Many also find it hard to introduce and market their products or services. Getting the market to know and be interested in what you are selling needs a good marketing strategy. And you know, online classified ad is a great marketing media to start. Here are some conditions of normal entrepreneurs who start a small business.

  1. Limited resources. Small entrepreneurs do not have abundance of resources to introduce their products to the market heavily. Hence, using classified ads is the first marketing step they can take. Online classified ads are usually not expensive or many are even free. Entrepreneurs can post their ads with low cost.
  2. Research. Maybe this never comes to your mind before, but you can impose on classified ads as a research center. Before you start running the small business, you can try to post some ads and see how the market will respond. This strategy is particularly useful for those who sell service, for you usually will not lose a lot if the business doesn’t work. Prepare your ads well as if your business has open. When calls coming in, explain that your business will have the “grand opening” in a date in the future. Explain that you have some special programs or discounts to offer for purchase after the grand opening. Note that you should have anticipated this before. This way, you know that you can gain some first buyers. That will give you more confidence to run the business.

In fact, small businesses have great flexibility to do things with online classified ads. You can write as you like, be creative with the words and special programs, and try any other inexpensive marketing effort to introduce your products or services. There is no big risk of money in online classified ads. Instead, you are opening your business to the world.

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Job posting at classified ads

July 13th, 2009

Classified ad sites have many categories to post on, one that has raised pros and contras is the ads in the category of “Job Search” or “Position Wanted”. Whether the ad is free or not, posting job opportunity and job search at classified ads have left different impression to different people. Some say there is nothing wrong with the ads since they can help job seekers to find job. While the others regard job seekers who post his/her availability at classified ad sites as less credible.

Here are the pros and contras.

  1. Pros.

-          Classified ads enable you to write freely. You can write anything to market your potency.

-          You can easily edit your ad when it is necessary. There is no additional fee for this.

-          In most sites, your personal identity is not shared to the others. All contacts are usually received and sent through the site.

-          There is nothing wrong with making effort. Those who post availability at classified ad sites may have posted the same material in other kinds of media as well. Who knows?

  1. Contras.

-          Classified ad sites are not the place to find qualified employees for many recruiters. The sites are much less competitive as compared to sites that focus on job placement.

-          Recruiters will regard those who post their availability in classified sites as not professional and qualified, and thus not suitable for the job. The point is classified ads are not good for your image.

-          Classified ad sites are not as searchable as job placement sites in term of keywords. This will make the posted ads invisible.

-          Some people will think that if a job seeker really wants to find a job, he/she should have given more effort instead of just posting in a classified ad.

After all, they are individual’s perception. Maybe there is nothing wrong with marketing yourself at classified ad sites, you can say there is nothing to lose. Or maybe it will make you look desperate and incompetent.

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Online classified tips to sell used car

July 11th, 2009

You want to move to a new car and consider putting the old one for sale. If your car is not really old, you can get good money from the selling to be used at a new one. But if your car is a bit too old, it may not worth much. Thus, paying expensive advertisement for the car will not worth the car value. Free classified ads are option to consider then. You do not have to pay for the ads, but what about the audience? How many readers are likely to look for a used car in free classified ads they find in bulletin, tourism guide, and business catalog? Well, you have another better option–to choose online classified ads.

Sounds new or you do not have any clue about the advantages? Read below.

Online classified ads open wider opportunity for you to reach buyer candidates. They are posted online, open for Internet users all around the world. Though both you and the buyer candidate will prefer to be in one area to buy the used car, it still offers wider market. So, you might now be curious about what will make your used-car advertisements work. Here are things to prepare.

  1. Prepare a list to establish your used-car value. A car values book may help you to determine. You need this to be able to set a good and reasonable price for your car.
  2. Set the targeted or range of selling price. After knowing the marketable values, you can determine better numbers for the price. You can also take your car to dealers around to see how much they want to pay.
  3. Make a list about your used-car’s description, the model, manufacturing year, engine, color, and mileage of usage. Any remark is better to be listed as well, but add more positive attributes for trade-off.
  4. Finishing words. The function is not less important in used-car ads. Write short phrase about your car’s benefits such as maintained well, no overhand, and fuel economy. They are big factors that help buyer candidates to decide.

Prepare for the sale and presentation once your online classified ads are posted. Just like selling a home, a good presentation will help a lot. Clean every detail of the body. You can not spend much anymore to repair the major damage since it is just not worth of the price, so let it be. This is why you should be honest with the condition.

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Make your free classified ad work

July 9th, 2009

Free classified ad is a good choice for small and home-based business, especially if your budget is tight. However, there are numerous online classified sites and advertisers on Internet. You should make an outstanding one to get audiences. There need more efforts since your free classifieds can be submerged by those paid ones and many people are just like your condition. Here are some useful tips.

  1. Focus on a few good classified sites only and keep posting there. Just search from search engines, the first ones that appear on the list are the best choices. When audiences click at search engines, they will see the sites in order. There is much higher probability for your free ads to be seen then.
  2. Do not write too many words, some like a hundred will be too many. But not too short that they leave no impression to audience. Just focus on the benefits, features, and action. Short, simple, and different are the best combination.
  3. Provide link to your site or source of information. If you are selling a mobile phone, for instance, add links that direct to your main selling site (if any), review site, or price comparison information site. Audience will be more interested in buying or at least considering your product after then.
  4. Make it easy for interested audience to contact you, whether through your website, email, business phone number, or web messenger.
  5. If possible, choose classified sites that do not require you to register and put personal information that are not related to marketing directly such as credit card information, bank account, and so on.
  6. Make new post every few days so that you ads keep being visible. You know, many people post new free classified ads at the same sites. If you do not renew, yours will go nowhere under the surface.
  7. Place your ads only at the relevant categories, so you are getting the right target audiences to read.
  8. If you add a banner of picture, keep it at comfortable size and make sure it is displayed properly.

You can also make multiple posts for every renewal. Try to put different keywords to make it more searchable and you get more chance of being found. However, do not post too many. When audiences click the link and find that all are directing to the same site, they will probably get annoyed and stop the search there.

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Why online classified ads?

July 7th, 2009

Online classified ads are known as a cheap marketing media. It is said to be a great marketing tool. But why should you consider the online ads an effective choice? Many offline classifieds are also offered free. Well, let me say this, trying online classifieds is nothing to lose. The only thing you should really pay attention to is your business image, nothing else. However the gain can be big, interesting right?

Here are some points about why you should consider online classified ads.

  1. Internet is the biggest market. You can find anyone from anywhere through the Internet. Something you can’t do with offline ads since they are normally published at your area only.
  2. Internet is a major source of information for those who are looking for information to buy products. So what can be wrong with putting information in a place where people are looking for it? And you know, according to some surveys classified ads sites are among the most visited sites by Internet users.
  3. Internet is a way to get direct response, especially when you have a website. Put your website, email, or messenger id, interested audience can contact you from just a click. Imagine doing that on offline ads, they will have to write down your contact information and there’s big probability that the list will be forgotten.
  4. Internet is a bundle of choices. You can take the free online classified or the cheap one, there won’t be significant difference in cost. However, you would be better to advertise at paid online classified. There are usually some differences that make your ads more visible to audience. It is also good for your business’s image.
  5. Internet is flexible. There are usually options to edit or update your posted ads, a thing you can’t do at offline ones. Some online classified sites will even let your ads be there forever, whether it is free from the beginning, pay just for the first submit, or pay regularly. This is a big advantage as compared to offline ads.
  6. Internet is technology. You can find software that will help you with automatic submissions to classified sites. They can be free or not, but certainly save your time.

Now you have more reasons to try the online classified. Just remember to prepare good content for the ads and be ready to attract new customers.

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