It's Saturday and time to advertise your commercial business. Remember, you have four options here - plain text, HTML (display ads), audio links and video links. Feel free to use all four in a single post. If you need help with this, just ask for it on the network. While you do need to be a Ryze gold member to post HTML yourself, you can send the file to someone else who is a gold member and request that he post the HTML for you. In fact, I have done that myself for many folks. Remember also to post all ads to this one thread - beginning with the identifier "ADV" in your headline. I will begin by giving you an example.

Happy business networking.

Lamar Morgan
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Ever thought of creating a buzz for fundraising with OPD (Other People's Money)? Well, that is what happened on Father's Day Weekend in Middletown, CA for its annual festival, "Middletown Days." It was one of the most successful festivals in some time - thanks in part to creative advertising. A centerfold spread was created in a county-wide newspaper using an article that was actually written for a completely different publication. Display ads paid for and promoting local business that were not even involved in the festival were that centerfold spread.

What's amazing is that every vendor at the festival - and none even were among the advertisers in the centerfold spread - benefited. All the businesses placing display ads in the centerfold benefited - even the restaurant competing with the festival in the neighboring town did banner business that weekend.

What did it all this attention cost the nonprofit organization which put on the festival and stood to reap the largest benefit? Nothing.

If you are interested in ideas which can put OPM successfully to work for your nonprofit organization, contact CDMM at 707-709-8605. At CDMM, making marketing magic happen is something we enjoy doing.

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