The Newbie's Guide to Marketing Using Free Classifieds
Free classifieds are a fast and easy way for you to start marketing, especially if you're new to internet marketing.
The main advantage of using free classifieds is that you are posting your offers to places where people want to buy. It's also a great way to build backlinks to your website.
If you don't have your own website that's OK because you can promote your affiliate links on most of the high traffic classified ad sites.
You can use an ad tracker like Track That Ad. It's free.
Before you start your marketing campaign though, there's a few things you need to do. Then when you're ready to do your marketing campaign, posting your ads will be a breeze. Here are a few tips for starting your marketing campaign using free classifieds:
1. Create a worksheet of your product's benefits and features. This will help you in writing your ad.
The features of a product are the things it does. A lawn mower, for example, cuts grass. This is a feature.
The benefit could be that it gives you a manicured lawn like you would see on a movie star's estate.
To create your worksheet, draw a line down the middle of the page. Draw a line across the top. Label the top left of the page "Features". The top right should be "Benefits".
Under each heading, write down as much as you can about both the benefits and features of your product.
Then you need to choose one benefit for writing your ad. Because ads are short, you will only have enough room to include one benefit.
2. Write your headline. You want to give most of your attention to your headline. This is what will get others to read your ad.
3. Write your ad. Keep it as short and concise as possible. Focus on the main benefit of your product. Try to see your product the way your customer will see it. Ask yourself what need you are trying to fill for your customer. This will help you further focus your benefit.
I would suggest that you use a text file to keep all of your information. Incude the headline, ad, email address and any other information you may need to post your ad. This way, you can simply copy and paste your information into the form boxes.
4. Track your ad. Although you are posting on free classified sites, there's no reason to waste your time doing marketing that's ineffective. Your time is money.
Sites like Track That Ad will give you a free account you can use to track your ads and see how they are performing. Some sites, like US Free Ads, will offer some tracking for you so that you can see how your ads are performing.
Tweak your ads as necessary to get them to perform better. However, when you do, make sure you only change one element at a time. If you change your headline, don't change anything else. If changing your headline makes the ad perform better, then you can try changing other elements to see what happens.
The best advice I can give you is this: before you ever write your ads, study good ads. See how they perform. The best place to find ads you can study are in magazines and newspapers. Copy what you learn from this and use it in your own ads.
If you're writing ads for Google Adwords, then study ads in your topic. You can also study ads in other topics. The higher an ad ranks on Google, the better it is performing.
The key is to learn how to write a good ad before posting your ads.
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Free Resources for Marketing with Free Classifieds
- Free Ad Report
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Top 20 Free Classifieds Sites
Where to post your ads for free.
I'll update those periodically, as well as add new sites when I find them.
Sites with the country listed do accept ads from other countries. One thing you definitely want to do is check the ranking by country. It will be a lot higher for that country. Rankings listed here are global.
- My Space
- Ranking: 7
- Craig's List
- Ranking: 38
- AdlandPro
- Ranking: 34,097
- US Free Ads
- Ranking: 10,659
One of my personal favorites because the search engines love this site, and I can submit my articles and product reviews here. I actually get more traffic and sales from submitting here than I do a lot of the article directories. Easy to automate, it's an excellent solution for bum marketers. Free for personal use. Cheap if you're a business, and you can post unlimited ads. - Oodle
- Ranking: 3,554
Another site that allows you to syndicate your ads to over 100 top free classified ad sites. What I really don't like about this site though is that your links aren't clickable. This will reduce your conversion rate. - Live Deal
- Ranking: 23,441
- Adpost
- Ranking: 11,621
- Online Xchange
- Ranking: 10,867
- Loot (UK)
- Ranking: 39,062
- Cracker - Australia
- Ranking: 20,447
- Backpage
- Ranking: 1,644
- Classified Flyer Ads
- Ranking: 88,784
This is one of my personal favorites. The reason is that this site will syndicate two HTML ads for you for free. They will syndicate your ads to the top high traffic sites like Craig's List, Backpage, and others. This will save you tons of time submitting ads, and it's platform independent. - Inetgiant
- Ranking: 27,793
- Domestic Sale
- Ranking: 19,998
- Kijij (Ebay's Free Classifieds)
- Ranking: 2,357
- Classifieds for Free
- Ranking: 28,572
- Buy Sell Community
- Ranking: 58,110
- Ablewise
- Ranking: 41,050
- Ad Flyer
- Ranking: 272,727
- Stumblehere.com
- Rank: 78,490
Although this site is fairly new, it's been climbing fast. It's a combination of community, like MySpace, and an ad syndication service like the ones I mentioned above. Allows you to post unlimited ads for free. Will syndicate your ads to top sites for a very low cost.
Books About Classified Advertising
The Online Advertising Playbook: Proven Strategies and Tested Tactics from the Advertising Research Foundation
Amazon Price: $23.07 (as of 11/12/2009) 
Write Great Ads: A Step-by-Step Approach
Amazon Price: $24.95 (as of 11/12/2009)
Internet Marketing For Free: The Guide: Internet Marketing To Go!
Amazon Price: $24.95 (as of 11/12/2009)
Classified Ad Submission Software
- Classified Connection
- Submit your ads to over 50,000 free classified ad submission sites. Free trial. Windows.
- Cyberfetch Website Submitter
- Allows you to submit to a large database of free classified ad sites, as well as search engines. Windows. Free Trial.
- My Free Classifieds
- Submit your ads to hundreds of free classified ad sites by geographical location. Windows. Free Trial.
- Submit Equalizer
- 2050+ Search Engines, Directories, and Classified Sites. You can also use this software to automate your submissions, and it will submit your classifieds according to the schedule you set.
- Free Internet Marketing Toolbar
- Free toolbar contains over 100 high traffic sites where you can market your business for free. This toolbar will help you cut your marketing time in half and increase traffic to your website.
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Posted July 23, 2009
spendalot wrote...
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Posted July 14, 2009
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