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The Western Weekender is proud to announce that they have teamed up with online business directory provider Productpro Australia, to provide its advertising customers with a much needed online presents.
Local business can take advantage by reaching thousands of potential customers from the local area and from all around Australia, assisting in focusing on reaching a much larger targeted audience.
The aim is to connect local trade and general service providers with local people thus creating great exposure for all sized businesses. The search styled directory has been specially designed to help people find all types of services and local industry find business. This will provide the evolving community using the internet with more local people to get the job done.
The joint venture will see Productpro partner up with The Western Weekender team and become the major sponsor of the trades and service directory section of the paper.
Advertisers will save more money on promoting their business by bundling their news paper and online marketing as one. All advertising going to print with The Western Weekender will receive a 25% discount off online advertising, just by choosing to package there print and online marketing efforts.
The Western Weekender online directory will fly under the Productpro flag which can be found at www.productpro.com.au . The website will feature a simple search tool application so local businesses are easily found.
Local advertises will get account access to make unlimited changes to their ads all year round and will allow businesses to explain the services they provide more effectively. This site will also allow businesses to manage the uploading of content, logos and images. There is even room to advertise multiple products or services at the same time, all at a touch of a button.
Chris Laurent the spokesmen for the venture said “It is very important that businesses of today try new marketing methods to find out what is most effective, especially during difficult economic times. Making sure you cover all avenues gives your business an enormous advantage. This online system takes the guess work out and is highly recommended for any viable business.”
The online project will give local business total control and will provide the community with an easy and fun way of finding what ever it is they are looking for.
The Western Weekender and Productpro are confident this new partnership will benefit the local business and community.
Please contact Lilli for enquires or email classifieds@mediaview.com.au
Online trades
24/06/2009 12:00:00 AM
A Penrith-based businessman has decided it was high time that local tradesmen and building related businesses got a fair go with online advertising.
Chris Laurent, a tradesman from Penrith, has developed a website which allows businesses to showcase their products or workmanship in the premium section of the site for nothing.
This gives tradesmen and related businesses the chance to promote themselves with more text and images.
``Times are tough at the moment for businesses and therefore need the maximum exposure,'' Mr Laurent said.
Consequently Mr Laurent has developed Productpro Australia productpro.com.au a service designed with two targets in mind.
The site will help people find tradesmen and products for free and without fuss;
The site will give businesses premium style advertising without having to worry about their advertising dollar.
``Millions of Aussies are searching for tradesmen online these days and if businesses are not advertising online they are missing out on a large number of potential customers,'' Mr Laurent said. ``The Productpro Australia website will hopefully attract businesses which may have considered advertising before
Details: Visit productpro.com.au or call 47338333 for more information.
Time for online: Chris Laurent has launched a free website specifically to help businesses and tradespeople promote their workmanship, service and products.
