Advertising a Newly Started Business?

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I want to start a business touching up people's home photos.  For example, lightening the pictures, sharper contrasts, certain special effects (B&W, sepia, specific color, soft focus, blur, remove acne/birthmarks, etc.), and so on.  My business will be mostly run online - they email me the pictures, tell me what they want done, I do it and email it back to them.  Or, for an extra fee, I can print it out on high-quality photo paper and mail it to them.  I'm even offering the first few people who contact me everything free, just so I can show what I can do.  I've posted several ads on Craigslist, but no one's contacted me.  How else and where else should I advertise?

jpk973 · Accepted Answer

Sounds like a great business! Do you have a website? You might check out Premiere Ads Online. They will advertise your business on several different classified ad websites for you for only about $15 a month. They write up an ad for you and make some really cool webflyers to put on some of the ad sites. The more sites you choose the more it is but the $15 will get you on 5 sites which is pretty good.A lot cheaper than advertising in the paper and you would reach a lot more people.

Anonymous · Answer

I would think that someone starting a website design company wourl have some good ideas for websites

Anonymous · Answer

try learning online marketing there's some great free tips i found on my source. There's many ways articles, your own website, email marketing, classifieds, hubpages, video's like youtube, social networking such as myyearbook, facebook, myspace, tagged, pay per click, just educate yourself and don't get discouraged.. Good luck!

Anonymous · Answer

You definitely need more traffic to your website. This is the article I have found in the web describing the same situation as yours and how to drive traffic to a newly created website: 
http://hubpages.com/hub/how-to-drive-traffic

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