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Print ads and flyers… lost art?

August 21, 2013 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

tell your consignment storyAmongst the small, medium, and large consignment, resale and thrift shops, I see an alarming lack of knowledge on how to truly communicate via print, whether it’s a newspaper ad or a simple flyer for your shop.

If you understand that spending all your marketing energy on Facebook and the like is missing a vast number of potential customers and want to sharpen your ad-writing and ad-designing skills, here’s a good beginner’s guide to ad creation.

And best of all… assuming you have a word-processing program… making an ad costs nothing! Putting out a flyer costs very little… and using well-circulated, community-involved local papers for advertising is surprisingly affordable. Not so the big city-papers, but hey, who reads those anyway?

Read the simple pointers on creating an effective small-business ad.

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