Monday, February 2, 2009

Classified Ads for Free

By Alex Wu

There are still somes place that you can post your ad for free. This service has been around for centuries People will buy and sell anything. Where can you post free ads?

The first written ad for a community was found on a stone in Pompe. In the 15th century hand written notes were posted in public areas. In the US, the first printed ad was in the first newspaper published. What about the cavemen? Maybe some of their etchings were advertisements to trade or sell.

Most communities have a weekly paper besides their town paper. In some communities it is called the shopper and you can place free classified ads there. Each paper covers a large district of towns close to one another. There are some odd postings sometimes.

The Internet explosion with web marketers changed how you can advertise things. There are some free advertisement sites on the Internet where you can post your ads. In your community you will still find written ads at schools, churches store windows and bars,

Radio advertisement to auction things off in a community has been around for long time. The seller or trader phones into the radio station to tell the radio announcer what he has for sell or what he or she is looking to buy. People advertise anything from coin collection to a horse. This is a very popular venue for sales and it is free to post ads.

The first commercial advertisements on the Internet were in 2000. To get on the Internet you had to be sponsored. It was difficult for the seller to advertise their product. Not long after that, the Internet became a big shopping store. There are thousands of web sites selling products. You may get some free advertising for a short amount of time after which you will have pay for it.

Craig Newmark developed Craig's list in 1995. People can advertise anything on it from jobs to dating services. It started in San Francisco for advertising local events and Industries. He was trying to develop a mailing list and ended up developing this huge free advertising web site.

Internet Marketers often partner up and will have their partner's ad on their web site thus gaining residual income when someone buys something from your partner's business. The first ad words sale was for "live mail order lobsters".

Google engineers developed Ad Words. Ad Words enables marketers to get people to their site. If you start with a business you can get some free ads in the beginning of your product launch; but after that you will have to pay for it. There are many free classified sites on the Internet to check out.

Another place people can get publicity and perhaps consumers is on Wikipedia. Wikipedia replaced Nu pedia. They can post the definition of what you are trying to sell. Wikipedia is a global resource and is written in many diffeent languages. You can still get some free classified ads. The Internet is a great place to place an ad but you have to pay for it in most cases.

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