Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Home Business Classified Ads That Sell Like Hot Cakes

by Carael Knight
Different advertisements and even home business ads can have remarkably different results. It depends a lot on what they say and how they say it. Little wonder that many businesses have always preferred to hire ad experts to run their campaigns for them and to design and carefully word their ads.

Still there are some basics skills that anybody can learn about how to construct an advertisement for maximum impact.

After you have written your classified ad, you will need to ask yourself what nagging problem it addresses or what "headache" it offers a cure for. If your classified ad fails this basic initial test, then chances are that it will not be effective in getting you a good response or selling your product. Always remember that readers are selfish and will constantly be asking themselves the question; what is in it for me? Your home business classified ad needs to answer that question effectively and conclusively to be really successfully.

Another very important point to remember is that classified ads work best when they are used simply to establish contact or generate leads rather than to directly sell. The whole idea should be for you to gather a large amount of names which you can then use to creatively communicate your offers and the strengths of your product. The idea here is that very few people will buy from a business that they are not familiar with so the frequent contact after getting a name from a data base is very important to help you sell your home business product like hot cakes.
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