Change is in the Air!

What is New on the Site:

We are working on an upgrade to the current program. This will include the long awaited regions and improved search engine listings.

The regions mod will allow you to choose what geographic area you live in and will show only the businesses and free ads ads in your area. This is a crucial element that will be needed as we continue to expand outside of East Texas. It will allow advertisers to continue to focus their efforts on their local customer base and browsers wont have to get excited about that car of their dreams only to find it is 1000's of miles away. There will be search options that will let you look beyond your region if you choose for items that do not need to be geographically specific.

The upgrade will also improve our search engine friendliness. Admittedly, Nutrader has not done as well as we would have liked in the search engines, primarily because the program itself is not friendly to them. This upgrade has improved that immensely!

I have been working on installing the upgrade for a couple months now! It is now on the priority list and we are hoping it will debut before January 1.

What is New in Marketing the Site:

Everyone look for the first issue of Southern Life and Style to debut in November. Nutrader will have a full page feature story! We are excited about working with the folks down in Southeast Texas on their new venture and I'm sure there will be many more opportunities for us to work together in the future. We really appreciate and have enjoyed working with Tammy. She shares our philosophy of if you help others, you will be blessed in return. Thank you Tammy for helping NuTrader! We appreciate it!

Ralph's Back Porch is taking on a life of its own. We really enjoy doing the show and many of our users have asked that we do an evening live show as well. What do 'yall think? The only time that we can guarantee that Ralph and I can do an evening show is Monday or Friday evenings around 7 pm central time? Does anyone out there have a preference?

We are still looking for up and coming bands and music to play on the show so if you are a band that wants some air time, let us know. We just need an MP3! We also want everyone to call in and let us know what you are passionate about!

Who are the new or renewed advertisers:

Top Drawer Consignment Shop: This week I got to visit with Rebecca at Top Drawer and she is returning to advertising with NuTrader. I really like Rebecca's store because she carries a large selection of clothes in my size! (Yes, i am a full figure kinda gal) She also carries children's and men's clothes. Top Drawer always has good prices but it seems every time I visit she is running an incredible sale on top of that. She is located at 321 East Main Street in Nacogdoches, TX. Look for her ad soon on NuTrader.

Book Nook: What I love about the Book Nook, when you drive by you will almost always see Linda or her husband sitting out on the front porch reading a book. I tell you, if that's not good advertising I don't know what is! I always wish I could pull up a chair and a book and join them! For people like Ralph, the Book Nook is perfect. They have a great exchange program where he can take his old books and get new ones! The way Ralph tears through books it will really save on his pocketbook. Linda is also a returning advertiser to NuTrader, the store is located at 104 Church Street in Center Texas.

Smith and Barnhart: Trent has renewed his ad again and I think this makes 3 years running in NuTrader. Smith and Barnhart is a AT&T authorized store and you can get all of your cell phone needs taken care of! Has anyone been to one of those AT&T stores where you have to sign in or take a number? Oh that just irritates me. Trent and his team at Smith and Barnhart don't do that. They treat you like I feel they should! They feel honored to serve you, not bothered by you! So, if you live in the Jasper area and need anything to do with cell phones, take it to Smith and Barnhart! They also do Dish TV. You can find Smith and Barnhart in their new location in the Brookshire Brothers shopping plaza in Jasper, Texas.

NOTE: You will notice that NuTrader is running some ads that are not local right now. We are testing different ad networks which we will need when we set up the regions on our site. (right now we don't have local ads for wyoming!) Please bear with us on these. We would like to ask that if you see an ad that is inappropriate (by this we mean, we wouldn't want our children to see it) please, please let us know and we appologize. As I test the different networks we are having a problem with what we think is inappropriate the rest of the world doesn't have a problem with and I have to manually remove them! We have found a Christian ad server and I will be installing it and testing it next week. It is our hope that we will get more appropriate ads from this network!



That pretty much sums up whats going on at NuTrader this week. It has been an exciting week with the upgrade and new potential. Be sure to visit NuTrader: click here Ads are free to the public and we have great advertising opportunities for businesses.