Heya, guys Long story short: I am co-owner of company providing services like articles writing( our main source of income really), SEOservices, Web Design and Social media services, etc. My partner in the company is a friend of mine. So when we were starting, we started small, and we were counting on our own skills to market our services and bring in clients. We have decided to use Craigslist ads as one of the ways to make the things happen. At first it was hard to set-up the things, but we have finally found a way to post ads in a fast and effective manner. They still flag or ghost some of our ads, like 10% of them, but we have pretty nice system in our hands at this moment. And since we developed our system via trial and erros, it's quite different from some of the most used methods for bulk craigslist ads posting. So we think maybe now it's time to diversify our business a little bit and start profiting from our ads posting systems in two ways. The one is to continue to post ads for ourselves. The other would be to hire to some local people and teach them how to make the things happen. And of course we would try to find some long-term clients to make the whole thing worthwhile. We are not that much afraid of the posting itself, as I said we needed to master it in order to bring clients for ourselves. But we have little experience in the matters of pricing, when it comes to CL posting. So we have few basic question to people who may have ordered ads, or offered the posting of such, basically - the opinion of the people who are benefiting from this service, no matter from the leads it brings, or from the money it bring from doing the service itself. With our method, one man can easily post 6-10 live ads per hour. So this is about 48-60-80 ads per full working day. So the price of the ads posted by this person would need to justify his salary + our margins. So the most important question is - how much the service usually costs? How much are usually the clients prepared to pay and be happy about it. We are talking about realistic price, both for us and for the potential clients, since we are fans of the long-term relationships with clients. If we are about to start offering this service, we would like to offer it to people who are needing good volume of ads on daily/monthly basis, you know. The other question is - is the service popular? Are there clients for it? It's nice to be aware of those things before venturing into a market quite new to you. We are serious about providing this service if the possibilities are good. But we are after offering it to people who would like long-term results, not just 10 ads posted one time only, since this is not lucrative business, this is just losing time doing peanuts, etc. Thanks in advance for any useful info which you can provide us. You should be reassured we would greatly appreciate it. Best regards, Anorios
Make sure you set aside enough cash to purchase new laptops or desktops. Once you get your services up and running because of the volume of the ads you're going to post it will not go unnoticed by CL spam filters/staff. Sooner or later your computers' MAC addresses will be blocked. Happens to large CL ad posting companies all the time. As far as the prices, just name your own. Start low and if you're effective, raise 'em up slightly.
Maybe start off with a trial price? This allows you to raise the price in the future. Maybe you could take reference from forum postings.
Good luck. CL is a real challenge as anyone the has tried it knows. I have 4 good poster and the costs are $35 to $45 per 100 I pay $20 for renew with the $35 post and get the included with the $45 posters Would be happy to test any new system.