Craigslist.com

PlayPure · 05-26-2006, 02:05 PM

I've been advertising on craigslist for about a week now, and we've gotten some pretty good traffic out of it (about 800 referals over the past 8 days), but no sales.

Has anyone had much luck with craigslist for advertising websites or services?
How about any other classified ads?

Thanks!

websiteideas · 05-26-2006, 04:32 PM

not tried it myself, but there sure are a lot of ads on there so it must be working for some people.

ablaye · 05-26-2006, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by PlayPure

I've been advertising on craigslist for about a week now, and we've gotten some pretty good traffic out of it (about 800 referals over the past 8 days), but no sales.

Has anyone had much luck with craigslist for advertising websites or services?
How about any other classified ads?

Thanks!

How have you been advertising on craigslist??? It did not know that craigslist supported advertising on their website.
Do you mean rather that you've been spamming them?

Janet · 05-26-2006, 08:53 PM

They do have a 'services' section where I believe you can 'advertise' your services. Maybe that is where the OP is posting on craigslist.

**John Scott** · 05-26-2006, 11:15 PM

http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/ele/162568956.html

PlayPure · 05-26-2006, 11:34 PM

Oh yeah, sorry for the delay, I missed the email notification for this, yeah that's one of my listings, I guess I didn't really see it as spamming, just a economical way of putting up our items for sale. I didn't really think it fit as a service, since we're selling products. Maybe that'd be better for our development services.

So-far we've got about 20 listings up, we can't put up any particular one more than once ofcourse, so each posting is for a different product. And we only put up 3 or 4 max in each city (LA, Seatle, Houston, NY, and SF and a couple others) so I didn't think it was spamming, just more of an anouncement. Just like you could do in the clasifieds of a newspaper.

This was suggested to me as a good way to promote in the first week or two of launching.

caffeine_kitty · 05-30-2006, 01:18 AM

have any of you seen http://adoos.co.uk

its more like craigslist.....have you noticed?

PlayPure · 05-30-2006, 01:25 AM

Pretty interesting, looks like they will be launching a US version in the near future as well

vaserv · 05-30-2006, 01:33 AM

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Originally Posted by caffeine_kitty

have any of you seen http://adoos.co.uk

its more like craigslist.....have you noticed?

Looks like its growing but a little bit quite atm but its the old catch 22 I suppose

rus

pukenerampa · 05-30-2006, 02:03 AM

try myspace. that would be a great help

vangogh · 05-30-2006, 11:02 AM

I've never had much luck with craigslist in regards to listing my site in the services section or responding to other people's ads. I've found far too many people on craigslist only looking for something for free or at a very low cost (at least as far as web design and development services go).

petertdavis · 05-30-2006, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnScott

http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/ele/162568956.html

Isn't that spam?

**John Scott** · 05-30-2006, 12:36 PM

Dunno. Haven't looked at CraigsList much to see if it's allowed.

Julie · 05-30-2006, 12:46 PM

I bought a used car off a craigslist ad once. Cool stuff.

PlayPure · 05-30-2006, 01:02 PM

Yeah, Craigslist is great, I got some furnature for my apartment from there too, washer and dryer turned out to be a lot smaller than it was advertised to be, but it was good price so I can't complain

If the consensus here is that our for-sale items are spam, I'll remove them. There have been a couple that were flagged as spam, and automatically removed by Craigslist, but I all in all, we've gotten decent feedback from it so I thought I'd share incase anyone needed some ideas for shoe-string marketing.

ablaye · 05-30-2006, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by PlayPure

If the consensus here is that our for-sale items are spam, I'll remove them.

Yeah, do us all a favor and remove them. NOW!

PlayPure · 05-30-2006, 01:59 PM

haha ok, well, we don't want to be spammers, they're all coming down.

Jon@FluxAds · 05-30-2006, 02:44 PM

I use CL quite frequently as far as selling personal items or looking for furniture/cars, etc. And notice that anything that may be constrewed as spam gets flagged rather quickly. With such a large user base, the 'flag' system in place at CL really helps limit the amount of "spam" that gets placed on there, so it makes it rather dificult to really promote anything on there. There are a lot of 'flag happy' people who tend to flag anything and everything with a url in it. I know CL takes steps of blocking repeat offenders, such as IP blocking, email blocking, link blocking, etc.

I do feel, if you offer a legitimate service, CL is a great place to get it known under the relevant category. CL has over 8 million users.

MySpace, is also another great resource to attempt to market your service/product for free.

PlayPure · 05-30-2006, 02:56 PM

Has anyone had any success with MySpace marketing? I've heard good things about it, but nobody with solid experience/results.

Jon@FluxAds · 05-30-2006, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by PlayPure

Has anyone had any success with MySpace marketing? I've heard good things about it, but nobody with solid experience/results.

We have a couple affiliates who have profiles on myspace, that post bulletins, and promote some CPL offers around MySpace. Depending on what results you are looking for (traffic, leads, sales, etc.), it seems that they are finding success. I've heard of a couple guys who market their gaming sites and get a ton of traffic through myspace.