In the greater Pittsburgh PA area.
Where is a good and cheap place to advertise a commercial cleaning franchise opportunity? We've used employment guide but are looking for other avenues to help get people from the surrounding areas like Greensburg, Butler, and Washington PA. Any ideas?

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Originally Posted by clubtwo0

In the greater Pittsburgh PA area.
Where is a good and cheap place to advertise a commercial cleaning franchise opportunity? We've used employment guide but are looking for other avenues to help get people from the surrounding areas like Greensburg, Butler, and Washington PA. Any ideas?

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Hmmmm internet??

How about free advertising?

There are many places that you can advertise on the Internet without paying a dime! I have been doing it for over three years, now.

I just did the following search. You might want to click on it to see the results that there are there.

Pennsylvania Free Classified Ads - Google Search

There are many places where you can have a free website or blog where you could advertise your business or anything else for that matter. Some of them can be found by clicking on the following searches.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Free+Website

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Free+Blog

Although I am in the Yellow Pages of the local phone book, most of my new business comes from the free ads that I have placed on the Internet in some way. It does take some time to set things up. But, once you have done it, you are set. You just need to keep track of when you might need to renew your ads. Some of them will let you know when it's time to renew, and most of them won't On some free advertising sites, your ads might not need to be renewed for years. For others, it ranges from maybe 14 days to 90 days.

I copy and paste what I have advertised into a message in my Drafts folder in the email program that is my primary one, and that would be Outlook Express. I also have a file in my email program that is titled "Passwords." It includes all passwords used as well as user names. Not all sites are going to let you use the same password, and the user name that you select might not be available on a particular site.

A really important thing to remember when doing online advertising is that it's not necessarily your name or the name of your business that people are going to be looking for, but what you do and where you are located. So, how you word your ad and the additional keywords that you use in it are very important. Google doesn't look for repeated words in a site. However, some other search engines do.

There are a host of free advertising sites available. Most of the best ones that get the most exposure are on the following list. I have been doing online advertising for over three years now. It has paid off...

One time, someone found me looking for goats in Iowa. They are an animal rescue. They saw my ad on a site where one of my piano tuning ads was located and decided that they wanted to have there piano tuned!

I love it when people find me by accident! It could happen for you too with what you are trying to promote as a business!

I do also frequently drive around and post my small advertising "shingle" with the pull-off tabs anyplace where I can find a free, public bulletin board where I can post them. These can be places like grocery stores, restaurants, bars, Laundromats, bowling alleys, public libraries, etc.

Here is the list of free advertising websites that seem to get the best exposure when people are doing searches for what they want on the Internet. Some of them are even international as far as where the ads reach, in case there is someone who might read what I have posted who wants to advertise on an international level.

There are sites that don't get good exposure and, I don't use them. A person would have to be a member of and frequent those particular sites in order to know what is listed on them. I even post on sites that are located in other countries because the exposure is so good!

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(To use Craigslist, you just find and post on the one that is near you.)

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http://quadcities.kijiji.com/ You can change the country and city when you list there.

http://www.evelez.net/ Although it might appear to be connected with the one above, it is different. You can also change country and city.

http://www.livetray.com/

http://www.vvnvv.com/index.asp

http://www.alibaba.com/

http://www.alibaba.com/

http://www.hotfrog.com.au/

http://www.kellysearch.com/

http://www.kbclassifieds.com/

http://www.oodle.com/

http://www.olx.com/

http://www.topix.com/

http://www.isell.com/

http://www.kutvclassifieds.com/Main.do

http://www.gumtree.com/

http://www.flugpo.com/

I would recommend trying a service that posts your ad to multiple websites rather than just a single one.

We have used:

Post1ad.com
POST1AD | Use 1 form to post and list your ad on 100's of sites. Syndication for rental, real estate, classified, auto, car, jobs, resume listings and ads.

They are a paid site but they get a huge response and worked great for rental properties.


John

Content from the websites that I listed are also listed for free automatically on a number of other websites.

The pricing on POST1AD | Use 1 form to post and list your ad on 100's of sites. Syndication for rental, real estate, classified, auto, car, jobs, resume listings and ads. is also quite high, especially considering that other sites that are free might get even better results when people do searches for things.

I've been doing research about advertising sites and also advertising on the Internet for free for about four years now. In all of my research, this is the first time that I have heard about POST1AD | Use 1 form to post and list your ad on 100's of sites. Syndication for rental, real estate, classified, auto, car, jobs, resume listings and ads.

Thanks!