All Posts Tagged With: "craigslist"

Promotion + Personalization + Performance = More Leads on Classifieds

Guest blog post by David Cummins co-founder of Faceified
Frequently updated Twitter account? Check. Slick Facebook Page? Check. Dedicated YouTube channel? Check.
Here’s the thing: your potential customers don’t go to these respective social media sites looking to buy or rent property.
Let me repeat, buyers don’t shop on social media sites!
While having a strong social media presence [...]

Reputation Management: 5 Websites You Hope You Never Appear On

Guest Blogger, Geordie Romer is a real estate broker in the mountain town of Leavenworth Washington where he specializes in selling vacation homes to folks in the Seattle tech scene. Geordie has been blogging about Leavenworth Real Estate since 2005.
As tech savvy real estate pros we all spend an inordinate amount of time and energy [...]

Craigslist Not Responsible for Discriminatory Housing Ads

From Ars Technica, a judge rules in favor of Craigslist in discriminatory housing ads case, saying
It is not a “publisher” of housing ads, but merely a provider of online “interactive services,” and therefore is not liable for the content of users’ posts under the 1996 Communications Decency Act.
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Two Easy Steps Towards Mastering Craiglist

Craigslist is the undisputed king in the online classifieds market. Its marketplace has a depth and scope that very few other sites can even come close to matching. As amazing as the site is however, there are a few little roadblocks that the site throws up in front of you if you really want to [...]

vFlyer Posts Your Listings For You

vFlyer is a new startup that aims to help you create a virtual flyer and post it to online classifieds sites like Google Base, Oodle and Craigslist, as well as to a number of other paid sites too. It’s very similar to the service Postlets.com already provides, but adds a number of unique features.

Like Postlets, [...]

Where to Put Your Listings Online

Newspapers ad spending is still strong, but for how much longer?
According to the NAA’s print classified ads breakdown, real estate ads jumped 18.5 percent to $1.2 billion.
While print still has a stranglehold on most local advertising dollars – I suspect it won’t for very much longer. Traffic to online classifieds web sites is booming right [...]