Tips for listing Services

Research your service offering to uncover a basic local need:

• Do a local Google search to find out who is offering a service similar to your proposed service.
• What is missing from their service offering?
• Design your service to satisfy an unmet need…solve the problem!

Include both pictures and video in your listing(s):

• Pictures and video can help describe your listing much more effectively than just text. Images have a huge impact on the desirability of your listing.
• People are more likely to open your page when the picture they see is clear.
• Since people are naturally drawn to video, use this to your advantage to show them what you have to offer.
• Video makes your listing more persuasive and more likely to be shared on Social Media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter).

Write a brief and compelling Listing Description:

• Your service description should focus on what your service(s) can do for your customers.
• You can make a very appealing and professional looking page by using the editing tools provided.
• Choose from many choices of font and text sizes, color choices and highlighting capabilities.
• Use the bullet point functions to organize and describe all of your Listing's important attributes.

Actively share your listing with others:

• InTownAuction makes it simple to share your listing on the most popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and email.
• Take advantage of sharing your local services with others.
• The Share button is extremely powerful at getting your message out in the fastest way to the most people.
• It is our experience that those who share their listings have much quicker results.

Monitor your success and continue to improve:

• Consider your listing to be a work-in-progress. Update and edit your listing to capitalize on what you learn.
• When you complete a job, be sure to remind your customer to issue a rating and review. This will be very effective in getting you more future business.
• New perspective clients will see your favorable rating and reviews. This will instill confidence to purchase your service offering.
• Continue to build on early successes and your efforts will pay off in the long run.