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Future of classified ads: no paper ads – just talking to your PC and cell phone

October 5th, 2009

Just ten-fifteen years ago you could not even imagine that you could sell your car, find new house for rent, and search for a job, order pizza and many other stuff through the internet. Now we do.

I love benefits of the internet shopping. I like that before I buy digital camera through the internet shop or on classified ads website I can view samples of its video quality, search for feedbacks and even if there are no feedbacks I can ask for some. I can compare prices just be making several clicks sitting and drinking coffee.
If you needed to sell something a while ago you had to come to newspaper / post office and make order to place your add in the local newspaper. At best you had to call them. It’s gone – all this is past century. All you have to do now is to find classified ad website that matches your needs. If you are located in London – you can search for London local classified ad website. If you are selling puppy – it is better use classified ad website related to dogs and puppies or general one.

I believe that all this will be transformed a little in the nearest future. Computer will be learned to understand voice commands – it does a little already by the way. Your notebook or Apple iPhone will listen to you and place classified ad in the best category for you. You just will tell “Place my BMW to London classified ad website London database” or something like that. Possible that it will be robot that will listen to you and that will place classified ad for you. You think it won’t happen? I believe it has already begun.

By John Weirth specially for royalmarket.co.uk

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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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