How to Make Money on Craigslist - Simple Steps to Promote a Product or Service on CL

Very simply if you have a product or you have a
service to promote you can make Ma Get Rich on Craigslist just
using your ingenuity, creativity Affiliate Marketing Opportunities the strength of your
offer.

If you Mail a skilled tradesman, a dentist, a landscaper or
any similar service oriented business you can use CL to
post your ad for service for Get Rich How to a potentially huge
demographic of potentially interested parties ( some CL
cities get dramatically larger pager views obviously the
bigger Pay Per Click are going to have a larger populace to draw
from but I've found that some medium sized cities on
the left coast performed far better than larger cities on
the East coast where I live for larger affiliate offers
I've worked with )

How successful you are will very simply be a function of how
often you post, how aggressively you mix and match
categories, and most importantly how well you Affiliate Marketing Small your
copy - ( and how you position your offer within the copy
ie are you offering a free white paper on the 7 mistakes
most homeowners make when installing hardwood flooring
the 4 deadly sins of teeth bleaching, etc )

My simple rule for Craigslist and in any other marketing
venture is when in doubt, be very aggressive..:-)

So if you are a service professional in Portland, Oregon
you want to post your ad in Adwords categories, re-write
the ad copy so that you ad can be positioned in as many
categories as possible (ie there is only a slender
shred of copy difference between making a business offering
in small business service vs repositioning that
offer as a financial services proposition or within the
creative category, etc. )Be creative and think outside the
box a little bit. You'll find most of your competition is
not only in the box they've got wall to wall carpet and
are Affiliate Marketing comfortable in there..:-) Re-post the ads every
two days - ( don't top post or post Profit times in
same category, same day as eventually you will be
deleted and draw attention to your copy, email
address/account and depending on how aggressive and who
you believe potentially even your ip address ) Reposting
your Ads is simple after 48 hours log back in to
your Craigslist account click on the ad you want to work
with ( it's green if live ) and click delete this ad. You
will get a confirmation screen that the ad has been deleted
go back to your account Affiliate Marketing the ad and hit
re-post..:-) One category and Captcha verification later
your ad is live and at the top of the heap once again. Spend
a lot of time on your copy using direct response
principles in your CL ads is equally as important as using
them in your squeeze pages, your postcards, direct mail,
etc.

My standard approach for doing Craigslist work for a
client who is in a service business is to make a time
sensitive offer write a great headline offer a free
report or white paper of some sort related to the topic
and send the person to an opt in form ( off CL obviously )
where you are collecting a name, fulfilling the free report
or promise and then bringing that new person into your
sales funnel for follow up relationship marketing. This
works as you would expect very, very well.

If you have an Need or Auto responder account rather
than using your own email address in the ad just plug in
your Aweber list name. Then in the ad copy very
simply state if you are one of the first 29 people to
email me/us before the clock strikes 12 on Labor Day Monday
you will get a * free copy of whatever *. This will
dramatically increase your response rate which as
you already know if you are using Aweber these people
will be automatically* opting in * to your list by
virtue of emailing the aweber address to receive Adwords free
gift.

Of course they will be required to confirm their opt
in as Aweber and other auto responders require confirmation
on this type of subscription but so what? Put it in the
copy right up at the top and bottom of ad let
them know that as soon as they email you they are going to
get a confirmation email for their protection ( because as
we all know you hate Spam as much as they do..;-) and
once that is done they will have their free gift
automagically. Very, very simple very, very effective.
Best way to build a list for free that I know of and
if you are doing national or even international Craigslist
campaigns for affiliate offers or even your own products, if
you aren't doing some variation of the above you
aren't optimizing your efforts.

Of course you could skip the above and just send any
prospective customer/client directly to your site where you
make the offer which is also effective. I'm a big
believer in collecting names and building a list as the
primary driver for any business building protocol so I'm
partial to that process. But for simplicity as long as
you are testing different headlines and offers on your
landing page nothing wrong with just sending them
directly to the offer page if you are more comfortable with
that.

For competitive industries with high PPC prices (
adwords/yahoo/msn etc ) Craiglist is an absolute gift
because, as it is as they say, it's ummmmmFREE? Rather
than Making a whole boatload of Money hard coin trying your
ad copy on a PPC campaign stick it up on Craigslist and
test it there.

Rotate your landing pages with different offers, different
copy and keep what works best, chuck what doesn't'. Simply
put on Google Analytics ( Free ) and measure everything that
you can control ( everything on your side of what happens
once they click through or follow up in any way on your
offer )

Another thing I love to do with service related
professionals is send your Craigslist visitors to a page
that is nothing but testimonials > If you are a Clown
and perform a kids Birthday parties and a parent is
searching CL for birthday party entertainment what could
possibly sell your services better than a landing page
on your site with video of a few 7 year old kids
chattering on about the great time they had at Bobbies B-day
thank to Cleo the Clown..:-) Or give incentives to the
parents to have the kids write nice testimonials in
their own handwriting on your landing page - and test that
as another alternative. Let them say it for you. No way you
can tell me that wont' work because it very simply just
does.

If you are willing to learn, and experiment a little bit -
Craigslist is easily one of the absolute best places to get
started with direct response marketing online and with a
pretty light learning curve, you can be making serious money,
very quickly which I think is really exciting for lots of people
just starting out.

Good Luck - and don't forget to ask me any questions if
you have any problems!

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