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There was a very interesting article about Craiglist and how it has more traffic than Monster, CareerBuilder, Yahoo's HotJobs combined. Thus, despite Craigslist now having stricter posting policies, it still seems like a good place to help grow your online community, or not? What do you think?
My clients, based on their product offerings, are not good candidates to use facebook beyond it being another avenue for them to advertise openings for staff. Having said that, I could definitely see it as being a valuable alternative for some companies.
We just put our second ad on Craigslist today. It makes sense for a writing business because that's where people advertise for freelancers. Not everyone's target audience would be visitors there though, of course. Whether or not it is going to pull in orders remains to be seen. The first ad didn't produce many results.
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Originally Posted by ProWriter 
We just put our second ad on Craigslist today. It makes sense for a writing business because that's where people advertise for freelancers. Not everyone's target audience would be visitors there though, of course. Whether or not it is going to pull in orders remains to be seen. The first ad didn't produce many results.
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Originally Posted by MktgRob
You might want to check out elance.com if you haven't already. For Freelancers of all types, it is ideal.
Thanks for the tip, though.
Last edited by ProWriter; Sep 4th, 2009 at 11:13 am.
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I do use craiglist if I was trying to clean out my garage I would probably place items on Craigslist. However, when it comes to my business I want to make the maximum amount of income and bargain shoppers are not the ideal clientele.
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I personally have placed several ads on different categories of Craigslist to find business related clientele. Has it helped? Though I have not received a single valuable lead, I have been entertained with a few offers from Nigeria.
I have seen a couple of interesting opportunities on Craigslist but usually I have been able to track down the same job listings in the more traditional job boards. It seems that some companies post on Craigslist simply to cover all bases.
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I totally agree. I also have seen the same job posted on Craigslist but on CL - the job may not state the potential employer while on other boards it does. I used CL to cross reference.
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Originally Posted by InsightsDigital
I totally agree. I also have seen the same job posted on Craigslist but on CL - the job may not state the potential employer while on other boards it does. I used CL to cross reference.
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