Advertising on craigslist is one of the simplest and fastest ways to yield prospects for your business. Not to mention it’s FREE. Craigslist has a bunch of traffic and there are a lot of people hoping to see what your program has to offer them. In this column I’m going to show you precisly how you can begin advertising on Craigslist and begin to bring about at least one sign up per day.
Before I go into the particulars of advertising on Craigslist, here’s 2 caveats if you are going to do this. 1.) What you market on Craigslist has to be a legal money opportunity and 2.) Your program has to be fairly priced. Listen, you cannot anticipate to sell a $500 or $1,000 services to craigslist referrals (without pulling teeth) and assume to get one sale per day. While it is achievable, it’s not very likely. So be certain that you have a low cost front end offer where prospects will be able to effortlessly buy it avoiding too much heartache. I would suggest that the price point be around twenty-five dollars.
How To Begin Advertising On Craigslist
To begin advertising on craigslist, select the categories you’d like to put your ad in. I recommend that you stick to no more than 5 headings to keep it simple when you are placing ads. The categories I ordinarily place ads in are classes, sales jobs, marketing jobs, and business jobs. The meaning behind posting here is that you’re seeking to aim at people who are not just seeking for another job.
Prospects in these sections will ordinarily have an ambitious attitude and have past exposure to the workings of running a company, earning commissions or independently marketing. I post in classes because the service I present is a training system and tool that shows leads how to create a company online. So it is pretty much equal to compensated training classes. You can also post in the business for sale section and list your program, service or product. Be sure to list your purchase price as the buy in price of your first level bundle.
When advertising on craigslist in this way, your sole target is to be businesslike while at the same time “selling the click” so the person will go to your squeeze page. You need to make sure you create an inviting image ad that entices the click while at the same time providing some details of the position. Leave enough to the imagination so that they have to click through to follow what you offer. Also you should put a clear and evident call to action in the image ad as well.
The most critical part of advertising on craigslist is tracking. You have to track your results, this is not an option, it is imperative. This is essential because you need to identify where your traffic is streaming from, what ads are gathering the most clicks, which one is gathering the opt-ins, sign ups etc. You need to continuously track and note this information and continue to improve upon the ads to grow sign ups.
If you begin this and continue advertising on craigslist in this way you will certainly make leads for your business daily. You must be consistent in your posting, tracking, and tweaking to improve your results and get the best performance out of your ads.
Advertising on Craigslist is a great free way to start generating daily leads for any business you choose. If done consistently you can effortlessly perfect the skill to where you’re generating at least one sign per day leveraging this free advertising method. However, in order for this to work properly, it’s extremely critical that you’re offering your leads something that is both valuable and low cost. Visit the following link to view a video of how Ti Roberts specifically does her advertising on Craigslist.