Hi, What is your pain associated with posting your products at classified ads systems like gumtree, vivastreet and adtrader? Especially I am interested in answers from ecommerce shop owners, who use classifieds to advertise their goods and to get more traffic. If you experience some problems with the above mentioned process, please describe it here. I am starting this thread as I am an owner of classified ads website http://www.outlived.co.uk and want to improve the whole process of advertising the products, especially for independent online shop owners. thank you in advance, Helmuts Meskonis Outlived Classifieds
Craigslist, Backpage, Ebay Classifieds all have a great source of traffic. Craigslist is the only one that will give you leads daily. Depending on your business it could be beneficial especially if you make sales daily already. It became extremely hard to post on Craigslist but people who run services usually buy multiple PVA's and IP solutions to help make it easier.
I would offer tons of features as you eventually grow such as featured listings. I mean, you should just take a look at all the other classified websites and see what is so special about each one, come up with a list and see which features you can beat.