Advertising on Craigslist is a no-brainer. Craigslist is one of the top visited sites on the web, and opens your business up to millions of potential customers, every day. Posting is not difficult, and best of all, Craigslist advertising is free!
No matter what your business is, you can benefit from advertising on Craigslist. To put a simple ad up on the site takes only a few minutes, and in my experience, Craigslist advertising gets results. With a few simple tips, you can drive good, targeted traffic to your website with your Craigslist advertising.
Recently, Craigslist made a change in posting requirements. Now, if you are interested in advertising on Craigslist in the “services” category, you must sign up with a Craigslist account and verify a phone number. This is an extra step, but well worth it, and it only takes a few minutes. I suggest signing up for an account today if you have not already. If you want to use the free Craigslist advertising, it is very likely you will want to be posting your ads in the “services” category.
If you look around Craigs list, you will notice a wide variety of advertising there. From simple one line advertising, to professional looking images that link to websites, the ads are as varied as the people using the site. If you are truly interested in advertising your business on Craigslist, I suggest putting together a professional looking ad, linking it to your website and using Craigslist to advertise both your business and your website.
There are a number of ways to put together such an ad. You can do it yourself in a photo shop type of program, or even Microsoft’s Powerpoint program. Once you create the image for your ad, you can upload it to a file sharing type of service (Photo bucket is a pretty good one), put together a few lines of html and have a great looking ad that links to your website.
If you are truly looking to use Craigslist for advertising, I suggest investing in a step by step guide to show you the proper way to get the best return on your time. You could spend the time learning everything, but for the amount of trial and error it would take, a small investment is a pretty good way to go. After all, the advertising is free, you only need to know how to tap into the resources offered.
Take a look at a compilation of guides I have put together. Craigslist Marketing is a compilation of five of the best step by step guides that I have come across. You will learn how to use Craigslist for advertising your business, how to post ads that will drive traffic to your website, how to use Craigslist as an optimization tool with the search engines and much more to help with your Craigslist advertising. Additionally, these guides will expose you to some additional streams of income you can tap into using Craigslist. They are all well put together, easy to read, and cover just about everything you need to know in order to make your advertising on Craigslist as effective as possible. Check it out, Craigslist Marketing, well worth looking into.
Check back in, I will be writing more posts covering various aspects of advertising your business on Craigslist in detail, going over some of the strategies I use that work very well. Good luck in your edneavors!
