Step into the future by using Online Classifieds to advertise your wares! Before you write off Online Classifieds, think about the last time you accidentally happened upon something on the internet. I recently saw an article about the five best travel herbs to keep you from getting ill on your voyage. I happen to be going on a string of trips soon, and because of this article, I went on down to my local health food store and stocked up on wellness vitamins and minerals. All because of an article I randomly found online!

Anyone can connect to the internet at any place in the world, unlike hard copies of information which can only travel so far and so fast. That’s what makes online classifieds the enduring advertising vehicle of the future.

Perhaps you make molds for candy making, or you make candy for eating. Why wouldn’t you want to get your business information as widespread as humanly possible? That’s what online classifieds provide for you. We can show someone in China the brilliant ideas and services you create, connect the two of you and hence broaden your business horizons!

Go on over to the Thrifty Nickel website at OurThriftyNickel.com where you can place an ad in just six easy steps! It could not be easier to advertise online with the Thrifty Nickel. Just head toOurThrifyNickel.com and click the tab on the top of the page that reads Place An Ad! $5.75 for the first ten words, .40 cents per each additional word. One picture free with each ad!  And because we love you and appreciate your business, we offer you a second week free when you place your ad online at OurThriftyNickel.com!

One of the most important things to remember in online advertising is the visual. Your customer cannot come touch, see, try on or generally work up and appetite for your wares in the flesh. If you’re selling an item, or even a service, a good visual will intrigue your audience enough to hook them. Anyone can take an amazing photo, though it may take a few tries.

If you’re curious about home photography techniques to improve your online advertising game, please check out this article, brought to you by etsy.com, a beautiful website helping crafters get connected throughout the country.

Another important thing is to make sure you answer all of your potential customers questions about your goods or services in a timely manner. Professionalism is key in all business, but particularly in internet business where you and your customer have no real interpersonal interactions.

Remember, the next time you’re in the market to advertise, the internet reaches more people than any other form of advertising. Come on down to American Classifieds, or visit us on our website to place an online classified!

Nickel, like penicillin and a myriad of other technological and sociological advances made by the human race, was discovered on accident.

Miners in Germany discovered what they believed to be copper ore. Once they began the copper extraction process, they only yielded slag, a wholly useless mess of metal dregs. The miners believed the copper to be a fake copper ore put in the mines by Old Nick (an impish, or more sinister than impish in some cases, entity of myth who wears many masks in many cultures. Also known as Bacchus, The Horned God, Satan, Santa Claus and, in my favorite instance, a group of water sprites a la Posiedon). All of these manifestations of Nick are tricksters who utilize all width and breath of transformation for deceit. The German name for nickel, Kupfernickel, translates into “Old Nick’s Copper.”

Interestingly enough, miners in cobalt mines also mistook nickel for cobalt ore. The cobalt miners defamed these patches of cobalt that evaded extraction as “cobalt which has lost its soul.” Quite apt considering the German name.

A sample of nickel from a cobalt mine eventually fell into the hands of Swedish mineralogist Axel Fredrik Cronstedt. After running a plethora of tests on something he believed to be a hybrid of cobalt and copper, he became the first person to recognize nickel as its own element.

In 1866 America introduced the nickel in the form we still know and use today. Prior to the nickel, America used the half dime. However, during the Civil War, America, short on silver, needed a new metal for their five cent coinage.

The Buffalo Nickel, The American Classifieds logo showcases this fancy coin, arose during a coinage beautification effort perpetrated by the Taft administration. Sculptor James Earle Fraser submitted his design, one side with a proud Native American, the other the noble American Bison. Fraser grew up a first hand witness to the plight of Native Americans. The portrait on the Buffalo Nickel is a composite of three different Native American chiefs. Which three chiefs Fraser specifically used remains widely contested. After a fairly involved, highly uninteresting, factory hold up in production, the coin emerged from its first pressing in 1913.

Today not much can be bought with a nickel. Newspapers, movie tickets, loaves of bread, candy bars, subway fare, even public toilet entrance and pay phones all require the heartier twenty-five cent older sister of the nickel, and usually more than just one.

However, like the five and dime stores of old, the Thrifty Nickel provides its customers with the best deals possible. $5.75 for the first ten words, .40 cents per each additional word. One picture free with each ad!  And because we love you and appreciate your business, we offer you a second week free when you place your ad online at OurThriftyNickel.com!

Thrifty Nickel, taking the tricky out of Old Nick’s Copper daily.

*title image from http://charlesfarrell.blogspot.com/