How much does it cost to become a member of the SALESinAMERICA.COM business community?
The use of the SALESinAMERICA.COM website is FREE!
What computer file formats may we upload to SALESinAMERICA.COM?At present, SALESinAMERICA.COM accepts uploads in a jpeg, jpg and gif formats. These formats limit file space and are quickly uploaded to the site as well as quickly viewed by your customer. These formats are simply the way you or your advertising company's way of saving the document. If you prepare your own content, you'll simply choose one of these formats (depending on what computer and program you're using) when you come to the "Save As" step during creation.
What about YouTube.com video? Vendors who have YouTube ads are welcome to link their YouTube ad to your SALESinAMERICA.COM ad space.
Once we begin using SALESinAMERICA.COM can we stop our regular advertising?
No. Initially, one of the most effective ways to direct customers to the SALESinAMERICA.COM site is though the placement of the web address in local print, radio, and television media. It is our goal at SALESinAMERICA.COM for businesses to begin to reduce ad costs in the future. You should be able to reduce some of your advertising costs in the future, in terms of size and frequency of advertising, as more and more businesses in your market place also begin to use SALESinAMERICA.COM and begin to advertise it for you as well as themselves. SALESinAMERICA.COM encourages you to ask other businesses to join and since it's a FREE service, why not? THE MORE THE BETTER FOR ALL!
Why should I promote SALESinAMERICA.COM in my advertising?
Consumers use the Internet as an information source, a tool to find what they need. In the case of SALESinAMERICA.COM, shoppers in a local area have the opportunity to see more information about a product category or service they’re interested in and how they can save money on it at a particular business. Plus, each business is contributing to the number or shoppers who visit the site with every mention of SALESinAMERICA.COM in their advertising.
How will consumers in my area locate the SALESinAMERICA.com web site?
At first, it will be the responsibilty of each member to begin advertising the web site in their own advertsing. Also, members will be encouraged to begin a "word-of-mouth" campaign utilizing the family, freinds and loyal customers of the business. Simply talk about it and spread the word in your local community, if one person tells two and those two tell two more, it takes little time for a good website to gain popularity. As participation in the community grows SALESinAMERICA.com will GROW ON IT'S OWN. AGAIN WE ENCORURAGE EVERYONE TO TELL EVERYONE THEY KNOW TO SIGN UP and begin to advertise in that market.
Can we post any sales message or offer we want?
Yes, with certain obvious exceptions. All content posted by SALESinAMERICA.COM members will be reviewed. No advertiser member shall be allowed to use SALESinAMERICA.COM for postings for illegal, profane, or inappropriate materials.
How often can we change our posted sales message or offer?
You may change your content as often as you want. And, members are encouraged to make new entries often. This should be done in order to keep the SALESinAMERICA.COM site fresh with new sales messages, keeping consumers coming back regularly to see who is having a sale, offering a special, and/or giving a discount in the local market area.
What is so important about the issue of "local market area" when it comes to SALESinAMERICA.COM?
The Internet is global, yet you sell locally. Search the Web for a few items, and you’ll soon see that the most frequent sellers on the Web are national chains with local stores. SALESinAMERICA.COM creates a level "local" playing field while it creates a community of advertisers working for each other in the local market and it's FREE!
Why don’t we just promote our own website?
If you operate a website, you shouldn’t stop promoting your own. However, in our research, we found that most websites offer only Web “presence.” They are seldom updated and most don’t include current sale information, therefore, they are more like a directory than anything else. SALESinAMERICA.COM offers you the ability to frequently update your content and change your offers. Also, for most stores a daily, weekly, or even monthly change on their website is costly. Changing your message on SALESinAMERICA.COM, is simple, and costs you nothing other than a few minutes of your time.
What good does it do for us to "link" our website to SALESinAMERICA.COM?
The more links a website has to other viable websites, the more apt the big Web search engines will locate SALESinAMERICA.COM.
What brought about the idea of SALESinAMERICA.COM?
SALESinAMERICA.COM is the creation of Cosec International, Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Cosec has been in the advertising business creating sales events for retail stores across North America for almost three decades. The cost of all advertising is going up. Cosec's own clients began the search for answers in efforts to reduce ad costs while still getting their name in front of the public. This new advertising media is Cosec's answer to help with this challenge. As SALESinAMERICA.COM becomes a top-of-the-mind venue for consumers to find the products and services they need, Cosec believes SALESinAMERICA.COM will become an important media to help reduce those rising costs by allowing our clients to reduce the size and frequency of their advertising. SALESinAMERICA.COM will free business owners to direct a portion of the dollars they traditionally spent on newspaper, radio, and TV presence to other areas.
Is the “brick and mortar” store dying or dead?
On the contrary, a past study showed that 45% of Internet shoppers went to a retail store to make their purchase and only 17% of retail shoppers went to the Internet to make their purchase. 24% of catalog shoppers went to a retail store to make a purchase while 15% of catalog shoppers went to the Internet to purchase. Clearly brick and mortar retail stores maintain the lead. (Source: Multi-Channel Holiday Shopping Study, Double Click) At SALESinAMERICA.COM, we maintain that, for the most part, consumers still like to go and shop, and they like to go "someplace," a real and tangible place, to do that shopping.
Do you have a question not answered here?
Please contact us at info@SALESinAMERICA.COM, and we’ll get back to you with an answer just as quickly as possible. If there’s a question that’s keeping you from becoming a SALESinAMERICA.COM member, it may cost you a sale tomorrow. Let’s get those questions answered so that we may join with you in growing your business.