Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Write Effective Free Advertising for Your Online Business Branding

Free advertisement branding requires some marketing skill. A lot of creativity and knowledge goes into designing an effective free advertisement. In order to write effective free advertising for your online business and increase sales, you need to gain some essential knowledge.

Good online advertisements are designed in a simple, yet attractive way to catch a customer’s eye and attention. The first step towards writing an effective free classified advertisement is to read it from a customer's point of view. Look at what catches your eye, what are the subject lines that attract you. These are very important. Now look for the subject line that repeat over and over again, for example works like opportunity, home based business, MLM, make money, the best thing since slice bread. Do not use these. Focus on making sense and attracting the targeted audience for your free advertisement to generate the attraction factor.

The attraction factor is very important in free advertising. What is going to make someone click on your subject to read more? Remember these possible prospective customers are looking for something that sticks out and grabs them. I like to call it eye candy. See a person looking at a free classified ad is a captive audience and they are looking for a specific item. I equate this difference between using Google & Yahoo. People who use Google are a captive audience searching for something specific and people who are using Yahoo are catalog shoppers.

I not knocking Yahoo here but what do you see first when you search Yahoo. Sales, Sale, News, Music, and if you take into consideration the eye can only send the brain a certain amount of information at on time. So a person eyes tend to move all around the Yahoo page and does not stay focused.

Now lets really think about Google. When some goes to Google to search they are searching for specific, they know what they are looking for. Now when you open a browser and type www.Google.com do you see any sales, news, and music? No, you see Google logo or a special logo for that day.

When it comes to writing free classifieds you have to put your minds eye to attract Google users. Not a Yahoo catalog shopper. So your subject line has to be attractive and grab the attention of the people who are searching. So think about it. Which subject line would attract you?

  1. Best Home Based Business Advertising
  2. If This Doesn’t Work For You, NOTHING WILL!

Take a look at number 2 what draws you attention. Look at number 1 is just a bland, burned out subject line. I see this subject line at least 100 plus, a day in one form or another. Let go back to number 1, when a person reads this what are they thinking. This may, could, will or work for me and then the punch line NOTHING WILL! These two words have a powerful attraction. Because when someone reads this it tell there brain that this very important for them to read more.

So when writing effective free adverting for your business, be bold, be different, be POWERFUL. In my next post I will take you step by step in constructing your advertisement body.

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