In several ways.. You will receive a Unique & Professionally Written, Rich-In-Detail Advertisement at a fraction of the cost, than if you ran the same ad in the yellow pages, or in any other marketing medium such as newspapers, radio, television, etc.
The 16,000 + Consumers A Month who visit The Smart Start Guide do so more often than they would use the online yellow pages, because we're more than just another business directory.. We're an online magazine, a daily news and weather source, and much more...
Increase Traffic To Your Business Website with Free Links from your Smart Start Ad to your website and/or e-mail address. When potential customers, whose interest was piqued already after reading your well-written ad, want to learn more about your business, they can contact the source directly - YOU or YOUR WEBSITE!
And the best benefit is that you will pay only $70 (a less than $6 a month investment) for a quality advertisement for 1 ENTIRE YEAR! Also, for just $119.95, you can bring your advertisement to life by adding a 30 second Smart Sound Byte Commercial. A Smart Sound Byte Commercial is a clean, crisp, smooth-sounding audio recording (mp3 file) performed by a professional Voice Over Artist, accompanied with background music, and sounds, highlighting the things you or your business does best! An audio file that is yours to keep to use on your website, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter pages, Answering Machines and more..
We want The Smart Start Guide to be known as a quick and easy online source for people to find the quality products and services they seek when they need them. So, we designed it to be as simple as possible. All of our city Smart Start Guides operate the same way as described below..
From our Home page, you would click on the nearest City Link to where you live or to where you are visiting --- This will bring up your chosen city Smart Start Guide on the computer screen. When you enter a city's Smart Start Guide, you will see a Box (top middle of page) with a scroll bar on the right of it titled "Quick Biz Links", which lists the different business categories available for that particular city directory. You can use the scroll bar to find the type of products/services you are looking for, or you can use the scroll bar to the far right of the page to view the various business advertisements listed. All "Quick Biz Link" categories are listed in alphabetical order. When you find the type of service you are looking for, just click on that particular Quick Biz Link and it will take you to all of the business ads listed under that type of service.
When you sign up for an advertisement with us, you tell us what category you would like your business to be listed under, and/or we will suggest a category(s). If your type of business fits more than one category, we will be happy to list it under more than one category within a city Smart Start Guide.
Coming soon... As we grow and for added functionality, we are working on creating a Search Box to for each of our city Smart Start Guides, so that users can type in a particular service or business category to find the type of products/services they need.
Most (but not all) of our marketing efforts are Internet resources such as through the Use of Search Engines such as Yahoo, Google, MSN, etc..to name a few. We utilize paid search engine optimization services provided by an outside company to get the best available placement on the popular search engines for our website - SmartStartGuide.com. Also, we send out Monthly E-Mail Campaigns to our current advertisers, perspective advertisers and web audience. We request/accept Website Link Exchanges from other websites. In addition, we publish a hard-copy Newsletter sent to our current and perspective advertisers nationwide. And, we try to attend Local and National Networking Events throughout the year in efforts to further promote our services and online magazine.
For a Text Only Advertisement, it costs $70 to place an ad with us for 1 Year. That's a less than $6 a month investment with us for us to promote your business for an entire year! Call us Toll Free @ (866) 880-2373 and pay us using our Check-By-Phone or you can Pay Online from our website during sign up.
If you would like to add a Smart Sound Byte Commercial to your text Smart Start Ad, your cost will be a One-Time Payment of $119.95. And then, every year after, you will only pay $70 to keep your listing with us.
Yes! It costs $70 for each additional ad placement. For example, if you want to list your Ad inside The Cleveland Smart Start Guide and The Los Angeles Smart Start Guide.. You will pay $140. Also, you can list your Smart Start Ad inside All 30 of our city Smart Start Guides available for a One-Time Payment of $339.95! Just call us toll free @ (866) 880-2373 to get started and to pay using our check-by phone services. Again, this is a One-Time Payment and you will not be billed yearly. Also, it includes a Smart Sound Byte Commercial, if you do not already have one for your business.
One, we do all of the work! We will create an Unique & Professionally Written, Rich-In-Detail Advertisement based on the information you provide us about your business and/or services. We guarantee you'll like it because if you there's something you want changed, or written differently, we will write it the way you want it to read - FOR FREE! All changes during the time you advertise with us are FREE. Two, we can bring "life" to your advertisement by including your very own Smart Sound Byte Commercial. A professionally recorded 30 second audio commercial (Radio Quality - TV Ready - MP3 File) that is yours to keep! By far, the Smart Sound Byte Commercial is the most ground-breaking advancement with online text advertising so far! Something that is not offered with Google Adwords, Yahoo or Craig's List text advertising! Three, with The Smart Start Guide, there is NO pay-per-click pricing to set up like you have for Google and Yahoo. No matter if you receive 1 or 1 million inquiries from your Smart Start Ad, you only pay one-time for the year! Four, We understand how much work is involved with running a small business. We've made it much easier for you to start advertising with us. Just tell us a little information about your business and we handle the rest. We write it. We post it. You're listed!
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