What is the first thing you do when you think of purchasing a commodity for personal use at a reduced price? What if you want to get rid of that laptop, phone, car or any item you no longer want? If you are like most internet savvy people looking for great deal or price comparison, you either visit an online retail store, or a free online classified ad platform.
Free online classified sites are online platforms for free advertisement used by mostly private individuals and small businesses to post single items they wish to sell, for potential buyers to view and contact them.To sell your items, all you have to do is visit an online classified platform, post free ads here, and wait for sellers to contact you.
Most classified ads offers options to buy and sell a wide range of services, from education, fashion, home, vehicles, computer gadgets art and jobs, as well as all type of products. Because these online platforms offer free services, anyone can post their item and sell it at a reasonable price to buyers.
The market for online classified ads was 14.1billion in US as at 2003, according to market researcher Classified Intelligence. As at 2009, on any given day about a tenth of internet users (9%) visit online classified sites, up from 4% in 2005. According to an infographics by Go Gulf, 8% online advertising is attributed to classified ads.
As more and more people become aware of the use of online classified to get better deal on products and services, there has been a surge in free online classified platforms. You don’t have to look far to find a free platform to advertise what you have to sell.
This offers students and small business owners a cost effective alternative to advertise their product online, reach a wide audience and earn extra money. You can sell just about anything from books, computers, mobile phones, furniture, to cars.
Free Online classified ads offer the following advantage:
Get rid of what you don’t need: what may be lying dormant in your room may just be what someone else is look for. By listing you old items on free classified platform at a reasonable price, you are giving someone somewhere the opportunity to find and buy your item.
Get great deal: As a buyer, free online classified offers you a platform to find items at cheap prices from individual or business sellers. You just have to be willing to search for a fair deal, contact the seller, negotiate price and fix an appointment to meet in person.
Make extra income: If you need liquid cash fast and have an item you are willing to let go, you can list it and get a buyer faster than you would if you go about it the traditional way of word of mouth.
Test a product marketability: If you are planning to go into selling a particular line of product, free online classified offers you the opportunity to test if people are really interested in your product or not. By posting your item for free, you can measure your response rate, how much people are willing to pay and how much they want the product.
Online classified is like an open market for just about anyone to come along and start selling. It offers a consortium that brings buyers and selling to one place.
Of course you will get faster result with other online marketing methods like content marketing, paid advertising and social media marketing, but online classified offer free option for people without an advertising budget. And in most cases, you are not willing to spend advertising money to sell off a laptop you want to get rid of.
This post was last modified on January 28, 2014 1:37 pm
