Peoria’s Online Classified Website Launched
Some friends and family have been wondering how I could possibly be as busy as I seem to have been recently. Well, what follows gives a pretty good explanation. Debbie Adlof and I have been working on this for some time now.
Wanna hear about two minds thinking alike? She called me with this great idea for an online classified ad service for Peorians. At that exact moment, I was sitting at my computer working on a mockup for that very the same thing.
Debbie and I bring two different sets of skills to the table. I know how to make and maintain Web pages and she knows how to market and run a small business, and she has contacts in the business community I don’t have.
We finished things up last week and got a few advertisers to post some free ads. We think all the bugs are worked out (although I’m sure we’ll discover new ones).
Below, you’ll find the press release we’re drafted. As of right now, we’re live.
More and more, people are relying on the Internet to help them in their everyday lives. The Community MarketPlace offers an online Community for Buying, Selling, Trading and Hiring in Peoria and Central Illinois. Its so easy and its local too!
The Community Marketplace advantages: Cost, Convenience and Control. It’s inexpensive, easy to use and puts you in control. No wonder newspapers are selling fewer and fewer classified ads and more people are doing business in the Web.
Cost Using this online community is very reasonably priced. Dis you know a 30-day job posting at PeoriaHelpWanted.com starts at $278? But a single job posting on The Community Marketplace costs just $5. For only $30, you can post it 30 times or $300 to post as many postings as you want for an entire year.
A garage sale is a great way to raise extra case, but only if serious bargain hunters can find your sale. Did you know it costs $33.65 to advertise a garage sale in the Peoria Journal Star? For that, you get six lines. It would cost a mere $5 to list your garage sale at The Community Marketplace. And you wouldn’t have to hold it to six lines. You can list as many items as you want. Our integrated Mapquest search lets readers get directions to your sale!
You will never have to pay so little to sell your stuff!
Convenience And its never been so easy to sell your stuff! Its a fact that fewer people are using print and TV advertising is too expensive for most peoples budget. Using the net to conduct your commerce business is so easy. The fact that this is a Peoria-based classified ad directs your ad towards most peoples target area. You don’t have to wade through lots of online classified ads nor do you have to wade through several print newspapers to search out ads or to place ads. AND, you wont have to sift through a bunch of phoney baloney job ads!
Advertising on the net has other advantages. Readers can click our special “print this ad” button to get a fresh paper copy of YOUR ad. Advertising a home or apartment for rent or sale? Our integrated Mapquest search lets readers get directions!
Readers can use our integrated search and category links to zero in on YOUR ad. And unlike eBay or Craig’s List, readers won’t have to wade through hundreds of ads before they — MAYBE — find an advertiser in their home town.
Control You have total control over your ad. It will appear exactly the way you want it. You don’t have to use abbreviations or short cuts. Say want you want to say and use as many words as you need. You can even edit your ad at any time to reflect a price change or to include multiple pictures. This is comes at NO ADDITIONAL COST for our subscribers!
PLUS! As an added incentive/feature, any subscriber can get a free blog at BlogPeoria.com!
Check us out at www.thecommunitymarketplace.com!
For more information: Debbie Adlof, 309-692-0644
or Bill Dennis, webmaster@thecommunitymarketplace.com
Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
