Online Classified Ads are the ideal place to sell unwanted items, promote your business specials, loss-leaders, bargains, packages and other incentives.

Whichever way you look at it, the traditional method of advertising, marketing and promotion by putting an ad in the paper (or the Yellow Pages) is changing.

If you are selling or listing a trade or service

• Cost: our prices are fair and reasonable (3 ads for free!);

• Editing: edit your ad and take full control over the content for the duration of the ad. And if it's true that "the more you tell, the more you sell" we can help by offering virtually unlimited options to describe (and show pictures) what you're offering;

• Web links: strengthen your Google page rank with a link to your web site; (See ⁽¹⁾ below);

• MetaTags: increase your chances of being found on the web by composing your own keywords and meta-description. (These are 2 fields you can fill in when writing your ad which will help search engines find your listing);

• Multimedia: have got a YouTube ad or your own video? Load it into your ad. If you haven't got one, talk to the people at Site Rescue;

• One cost: why pay commissions to EBay or Trading Post? You sell it, it's yours.

If you're looking for a product or service

• Share your discovery with a friend;

• Enjoy a simple but extremely effective search function;

• Ads are never "stale" - owners' ads are always "fresh";

• No commissions means that prices are never "padded" to cover the cost;

• Because the listings are local, you won't have a big freight bill;

• If you're buying a "thing", you can see it before you buy;

• You're dealing directly with the supplier.

Why bother?

• An increasingly 'informed' society is adopting an internet model at the speed of light. Over 80% of households in Australia are connected to the internet and of these, 80% "shop" online. Growth is at the rate of 120% p.a.

• The old model of the newspaper and Yellow Pages coming over the fence, whether you want it or not, is unsustainable. Traditional costs for print ads reflect the massive infrastructure required to land the paper and business directory in your lap. Costs can only rise as resources become scarce and carbon trading takes effect. All over the world, newspapers and paper-related business directories are folding.

• If you haven't got a web site (only 42% of small businesses have a web site and of those, only 18% allow people to buy online. Source: Nielsen 2008) talk to the people at Site Rescue. They're local and they're building brilliant web sites at a good price.

⁽¹⁾ According to Google, each additional web site your content appears on increases your own page ranking by a factor of 1.  In other words, if you have content on 15 web sites that link back to your web site, your Page Rank is enhanced by a factor of 15.  This is what Google says:

Site translations? Youtube videos? All standard for every new account.