How to Create Attention-Grabbing Classified AdsBy Jennifer Bosworth http://www.internetwriters.com
Whether you own a business that sells information, services, or products, a classified ad can be just thing to generate sales and new leads.
A classified ad has two purposes: to grab interest quickly and to convince people to take next step, whether that means buying, calling, emailing, subscribing, visiting or ordering. A classified ad should call reader to action.
But before your potential customer will actually take action, you have to get their interest and make them want what your offer. Not only that, but you have to do it in 75 words or less.
Here are a few helpful hints for creating classified ads that grab reader's attention and spurn them on to action:
1. Offer something free, and put word free in caps or bold. It doesn't matter what free thing is. It could be a free string of dental floss and people are still going to read ad because it says magic word.
2. Make benefits larger than life. The benefits of your product or service should make reader think, "Wow, this is exactly what I need!" Everyone wants to find that revolutionary, phenomenal solution to even measliest problem, and you are going to provide it. Whether or not your product or service is actually revolutionary or phenomenal, you have to make it seem that way to build excitement.