The most important thing you can do after you have placed an ad on a Classified ads site is to keep your ad up to date. I don’t think we can stress that enough. You won’t get customers when your ad talks about your Christmas deals and it’s now July.

• So keep your ad interesting!
• Add new images, show your latest work.
• Show photographs of new products you have for Rent.
• Give new information about your business.
• Tell your potential customers what you can do for them to make their life easier.

The best classified ad sites, allow you update your ad as often as you want and updates are FREE. Unlike Newspaper classified ads where once it’s gone to print that’s it. No changing until the next time and then you have to pay to advertise each time you want to tell your customer something new. It’s worth advertising online. Even if you have invested in a website. You want that site to be found don’t you. Mentioning your website name as part of your classified ad is one of the best ways to grow your business and who doesn’t want to grow their business today?

Rentandhire.ie is a classified ads site for Irish businesses. 

Classified ads cost €3 for 3 months with FREE updates. Why not place one today here

Every year a lot of us set new goals for ourselves. How well did you do on last years goals? Now home fitness has become the new trend. Renting an exercise bike, using fancy dumbells, renting a treadmill and vibro plates rentals are on the up. I guess you can use them as and when you want and you haven’t signed up for the gym that you will never go into, not to mind use.

Giving up smoking is another one and of course the benefits of giving up smoking are well documented and there is plently of help if you decide to give it up. So good on you if you have decided to give up smoking this year.

Moira Geary from mind experts academy, says to use your eyes and ears positively. Make a decision to focus on all things that will bring you health, wealth and happiness and things that will give you solutions, become a solutions Magnet in Moira’s words. So acknowledge your problems, look at them realistically, find a solution in a positive way. If you are going to listen to the voice within your head make sure it’s a positive one and if its not, turn that negative into a positive to help you.

So with positive thoughts, possibly take up a past-time or if you are really good at something why not teach it in your spare time. Get fit and healthy in your mind and body. Or are you stressed from all the cleaning chores? Would this year be more enjoyable and fun if you just found someone to help you with the house cleaning, window cleaning or just carpet cleaning. Now that might just be the best New Years resolution there!

Happy New Year from rentandhire.ie

Here’s to a Healthy, Happy and Successful 2012 for all of us.

Thanks for all your support in 2011 and looking forward to having you back to visit rentandhire.ie and placing more ads in 2012 to promote your Business and Services.

 Take care from Mary, Fouad and the rentandhire.ie team

You are on a Christmas Countdown….

We can help you tick off the “to do” list and really get to enjoy the holiday season. Why do we always leave the organising to the last minute? Then when you have invited over the friends for a night, you start panicing about catering. What about a present for the in-laws? What will I get? Or even will I fit into that Little Black dress, I bought in the Summer Sales. 

Why not, Hire fitness equipment to get in shape for the season ahead.
Check out Trades & DIY to get your home in tip top shape.
Planning a Party? Hire a kids entertainer, caterer, taxi, photographer and much more.
Check out the Beauty section to look amazing.
There is a Special deals section to even cut down on the costs.

Why not check out http://www.rentandhire.ie/home and get yourself organised today!

So, in a moment of madness, you invited your friends over to your place and now you are wondering why?? Catering at home can be a tricky one. Eventhough there are enough celebrity chefs out there telling you how easy it is. Yah right! I guess it’s too late to do a catering course. Or maybe if I hang up balloons and play Christmas games on the night, they may not take too much notice of the food.

Planning the Party questions that will keep you up at night.

• How will I cater for my friends?
• Where will I get good food ideas?
• Will I give them canapes, finger food, hot food, buffet or maybe just cheat and serve chinese food?

Well what ever you decide, get planning now! Or maybe you will just have to call the caterers and if you really want to be devious, you can have the caterer deliver the food before your friends arrive and pretend it was all your own handy work!

Good Luck with your Catering at home Planning!

To help make your planning easier, why not check out our list of caterers on rentandhire.ie. Of course if you are a caterer and want to promote your business, why not place an ad here, so many people planning a party will be so glad you did.

• Gas Boiler Maintenance
• Oil Boilers and having enough oil in your oil tank
• Your heating systems being Winter Ready
• Your back boiler serviced
• Chimney Cleaning

You can plan to have your gas boiler, oil boiler or back boiler serviced in time for the Winter. Central Heating has to be a prority for all of us. If we are snowed in, well at least we can keep warm. Having a cosy fire can help us to cope with being house bound. So then of course general maintenance work should be on our “to do” list also, including chimney cleaning. Finding a good chimney cleaner is a great find.

Check out our list here at rentandhire.ie of services available for you to hire to get yourself Winter Ready. It’s always a good and safe idea to call in the experts.

Also have a look at a great Irish website, launched by the Irish Government called http://www.winterready.ie/ where they give practical advice on Road Safety, your Health, Farming Community, Business Sector, Transport and of course your Home for the coming cold months ahead.

Keep warm and safe this Winter!

Every wednesday for the next 5 weeks, we are going to randomly pick 3 ads to be promoted to premium advertising. 

We will announce the winners on our rentandhire facebook page, every week.

Classified advertising in Ireland is the new affordable way for small businesses to get their business known and attract more customers. So to help promote these businesses we are going to upgrade 3 to premium every week for FREE.

As a premium advertiser, the business has a direct link to their website and to their business facebook and twitter pages. By linking all three of these to the premium ad, it helps customers to know what the business is up to, what new products or services they are offering and get to know about their latest deals and offers.

Customers can even ask questions, like the business and give feedback if they have hired the business or rented something from them in the past.

Standard classified ads on rentandhire.ie have 6 images, 1 video, text and contact details for €3 for 3 months (have a look at a sample here). The business can choose to be contacted by email and/or phone and can even let their customers know when is the best time to call them.

Premium classified ads  on rentandhire.ie have all the same features as standard classified ads, but have an extra 4 images, more text, website, facebook and twitter direct links and a premium position on the site. Not bad fo €20 a month!

Here are some of the ways I have found useful, but of course the list is endless.

• Business networking groups
• Business forums
• Referrals and recommendations
• Enterprise Boards and other Government agencies

So you have started on the road to having your business known. It’s time to consider which are good Business advertising tools for you, do you have business cards printed, t-shirts printed, flyers printed, sign printing on your van? Sponsor an event. Then it’s time to advertise online and to consider newspaper classified advertising. Trends are going away from newspaper advertising, as more and more people are searching online for a business to hire. New businesses have limited budgets, so use free classified ads online to help get your business known. Using social media as a free advertising tool is something you can’t ignore. Facebook and twitter are great ways to let potential customers know about your business. You can of course invest in Facebook advertising.

rentandhire.ie offers an affordable, effective way to get your business known online. By placing an ad in a category that suits your services, customers find you easily, faster and can contact you immediately. Now you have some business tips to get your business advertising plan up and running. If you have any tips you would like to add to this list, let us know.

So reasons, why people search?

• Most people are searching online for what a business does and not for the business themselves. Really if they already knew you existed, why would they be online searching.
• If they know you already, then the online directory is just exactly what they need, they are searching to find your telephone number and address. Perfect.
• people search to find out information, what do I need, what service will provide it, where are they, and so on…

So, you as a business need to answer all of these questions and make sure YOU are found for the right reasons. If you have clever your existing customers already know your number, so you are placing classifed ads for new ones. Right. So that’s where we come in, rentandhire.ie gives you that solution to help find new customers. Your new customers want to know what you do. You can give them what they want right here and it won’t cost you alot to do it.

The sole purpose of any business advertising is to make sure they get customers from it, why else would you do it? Why would you use free ads, if not to get some new customers from spending nothing but your time. We at rentandhire.ie try to give more than most classified ads sites in Ireland, we work to make sure that our advertisers get more customers, get more recognition and just get more than they get from their free ads on other free classified ads sites.

To find out about us at rentandhire.ie why not have a look at our video here