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Q: When is a Banner ad the Best Choice?
Q: What special features help me get the best results, in the Resource Directory?
Q: How do we benefit from pay per click (PPC) advertising?
Q: How does Think Local support my community?
Q: What features set Think Local advertising apart?
Q: How is Think Local the green advertising choice?
Q: When is a Banner ad the Best Choice?
A: Banner advertising the sit the best choice if you want to catch the view of all visitors, not just the visitors specifically looking for a specific product. For example, if you are selling Hybrid cars you are interested in reaching people who are visiting the site to find organic food, or a restaurant using local products, or looking for a local fashion designer as well as those who came to the site to look for a transportation solution. Therefore, a banner ad will help you reach more people. All banner ads are rotated through the site and appear randomly and are sold on a per 1000 views basis.
Banner ads are also a good choice when you want to reach a
broader geographical area. For instance, if you manufacture organic
ice cream, you want people throughout the region to purchase your
ice cream - making a banner ad a good choice. Whereas the coffee
shop targeting people within walking distance is unlikely to benefit
from a banner ad and would be more likely to benefit most from
Resource Directory listings.
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Q: What special features help me get the best results?
A: You can run duplicate ads paying for separate accounts: You get the best result by placing a listing under a number of categories, as appropriate to your business. We do reserve the right to remove any misclassified ads, but if you are a gift shop that sells organic skin care products, locally designed and manufactured fashion accessories, and local ceramics - it is a very good plan to place an ad under each category. This is one of the benefits of pay per click advertising. You do not have to pay for a separate ad for each category. You can duplicate your ad, select the category it should be placed under and then edit the ad to better sell to the person who is reading it.
The cost is directly proportional to your results. Your pay per click advertising credits are used up only by people who actually read your ad. Unlike print advertising, where the majority of your advertising goes in the garbage without even being viewed, your is like being able to selectively provide information only to those who want to know about your products or services....and it costs no more than the price of a single flyer or business card per view.
Attracts Search Engine and visitors already in the site. Each Resource Directory listing creates a separate page and is automatically optimized for search engines such as Google. This enables your ad to work both on search engines and on our site. Choosing your wording to attract readers is as easy as, choosing words that people would type into a search engine search.
Ad Details: The ad categories are designed to enable the users to quickly ascertain that you are offering what they are seeking. For instance, restaurants are asked to select tick boxes to identify if they use 80% or 50% or 30% organic, if they use 80% local, 50% local or 30% local and/or if they specialize in vegetarian or gluten free. This detail makes shopping easy and helps you promote your niche.
An opportunity to keep your regular customers informed: There are no extra fees involved with updating your ad. You can add weekly specials, list upcoming events and keep them informed. Using your listing to maximize your relationship with your customers, makes it a cost effective method of communication.
Q: How do we benefit from pay per click (PPC) advertisting?
A: Pay per click advertising levels the playing field making
advertising affordable for all sizes of businesses. If you are getting traffic
you pay per click credits are used up more quickly -- and if you are providing a
good product, and good service traffic should always convert into more business.
We bring you traffic - it is your job to convert traffic into sales.
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A: Think Local's goal is to build a community resource that helps build economic sustainability and environmental sustainable communities. Think Local is providing a green advertising solution and offering a way of many community businesses a way of collectively supporting the growth of their community. As the number of advertisers increases to achieve critical mass, we will be using other green methods of promoting the site. After all, we have a vested interest in your success. No traffic to the site, and over time we will be defeated -- if we do the work necessary to bring massive traffic, everyone will get traffic and we will have increased revenues as we are dependent on pay per click (for Resource Directory) and per 1000 impressions (for Banner ads) .
Think Local will set aside a percentage of profits to be
contributing to selected charitable based on compatibility of the
organization/cause and our goals. Availability of funds for the
purpose are directly proportional to our growth.
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A: It is a green advertising solution that is totally equitable. If
you are a large company attracting many customers, you will be attracting more
readers to your online ad (as long as you are using it appropriately - keeping
them informed). If you are a smaller company, you will likely get less visitors
reading your ad - but you will be only paying proportionally to your traffic. We
bring the traffic, it is your job to turn the traffic into a sale.
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A: We are green all the way. On line advertising is the
solution to replacing print advertising. We support businesses that are seeking
to serve people who want to buy green.
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