Ron - - You have the same size community as I. I place ads in two local throwaway shopper type weekly newspagers. Costs about 60$month. I also have yellow pages ad. I think I get more business from the throwaways. If you only get one call per month from your ad you are breaking even. Try it you'll like it! Best Dick Day Marshall MIIn a message dated 98-07-27 01:58:23 EDT, you write: << Hello all... I'm considering placing an ad in the newspaper to help boost business a little. As a university tech I've spent most of the past year catching up on a mountain of a mess I inherited when I took the job. Now that I've gotten things more or less in order I would like the outside work to pick up a bit. I do get work via referrals and recommendations from the university but not as much as I would like. I am in the process of making friends with the local music stores but I was thinking maybe a small ad in the paper may be something to look into. Nothing fancy just a plain business card sized thing somewhere. I haven't yet called the paper to check the price on this but I'm guessing a couple or three hundred dollars at least to run it for a week. So, what have you folks discovered about doing this? Is it worth it? Does anyone actually read it and call? Or am I better off looking into other worth while methods? I should also add that this is a rather small tourist-oriented community, population around 60K. >>
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