Jul 20 2008
How to Have a Successful Garage Sale Tip #3
How To Have A Successful Garage Sale Tip #3
Tip #3: Advertise before the sale
Once you’ve decided on the date, you need to advertise your sale. Here is a list of some of the different ways you can advertise.
Take out a newspaper ad. Your ad should contain all the pertinent information such as location, date(s), and the time you will open. If you’ve got large or one-of-a-kind items that will attract buyers, be sure to include those items in your ad. If there will be multiple sales in your area, or multiple families having one sale, pool your resources and take out one big ad rather than several smaller ones. If you don’t want to put your address in the ad, you can say something like “in the 1500 block of Locust” rather than giving your exact address. Also, unless you want people camped out in your driveway or parked in front of your house hours before your sale starts, you should include the words, “No Early Birds” in your ad. Place your ad so that it appears the day before your sale, if your town has a daily paper; the weekend before if it’s a weekly paper.
Advertise on Craigslist. You can place a free ad on Craigslist. This ad should contain all the same information as a newspaper ad. You will probably want to use the more generic directions to your sale rather than post your address on the internet. Besides being free, another advantage to Craigslist is that you can post pictures of individual items or a group of items that you’d like to highlight.
If it’s permitted, you can also post fliers at your work place or community bulletin boards at your neighborhood grocery store or Laundromat.
