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Leverage Free Online Classifieds like Craigslist

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How to Choose the Best Advertising for LawnCare and Landscape Contractors

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The speaker highly recommends Craigslist as a 'super effective' and free advertising platform for local service businesses. He shares an anecdote about receiving a comical yet serious email from a user on Craigslist looking for lawn mowing services in a highly damaged yard, which he responded to humorously. He highlights that despite the occasional unusual request, Craigslist consistently generates one to two calls per day. Because the service is free, any leads acquired represent an 'amazing' return on investment.

Goal: Utilize free online classifieds to generate local service leads with high ROI due to zero cost.

Tools and materials

  • Automation Tools/Scripts — Streamlining the process of posting multiple ads on Craigslist, Craigslist Craigslist

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next story might be a little spicy for some of you. I had some guy named Abdafa Latifah or something like that. Literally that was his name and he was sending me I think a joke email but it couldn't maybe it wasn't a joke email but after I put a ad up on Craigslist he sent me an email and it literally said needed lawn mow now and he had a picture of his yard and his yard didn't look like this yard. What his yard looked like was it looked like a dirt bike track. Like somebody had taken a car through his yard and just did Louis, spun out giant ruts and mud and it was just caked and there was little patches of grass all over. And so I sent him an email response to Abd Julaf Latifah, whatever his name was. He said, "Need lawn mower now." And I replied, "Haha, go get a goat." Cuz there was no way you were getting a lawnmower through that site whatsoever. So, I figured he was joking with me. I'm going to joke with him back. I hope he had a good sense of humor. Um, but how effective is Craigslist? Super effective. Cuz it's free and you get a call, two calls a day. It's free. Per dollar you spend on it is an amazing return. Even though it doesn't generate a ton, it's still you're not spending anything. And you need to automate the system. Keith Calfass has some amazing videos how to post 12 Craigslist ads a day. I think that's excessive personally, but I post one a day. I do in the morning. H maybe I don't post one a day, but I probably post three a week, four a week, but it still generates quite a response. So, it's a great form of advertising. Um, what else have we got? We've got a lot of other things I want to talk to you about. So, let me let me think about this and get right back to you here. How could I forget?

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