Okay, so you have uploaded your high quality digital photos, you have decided to broaden your marketing past friends and family…what now?
MARKETING! MARKETING! and still more FREE MARKETING!!
This is the beginning of the marketing learning curve (more like a marketing Tsunami, really. Learning to ride & drive the wave)
You have poked around or posted on Craigslist, Ebay, or Etsy for starters. Now you have some research to do. Did you know there are more than 20 other sites like Craigslist that are free advertising for your newly created product?
First, you might look at http://siteslikecraigslist.com.
Or just take a look at a few below, these are the biggest. Now, remember you have to post & re-post since most listings expire after a while.
If you are detail oriented, you can compare website traffic through Alexa.com before you pick your marketing destination(s).
Here’s your first 20 to check out:
- Google Base (attached to Google Product Search, formerly known as Froogle)
- Kijiji (eBay’s free listings, big internationally, recently launched in USA)
- MySpace Classifieds
- Facebook Marketplace (becoming bigger than MySpace, and attracts an older audience)
- Yahoo! Classifieds
- Windows Live Expo (Microsoft)
- Village Voice, powered by Backpage
- OLX.com (big internationally)
- Lycos classifieds
- Local.com
- PennySaver USA
- Trulia (for real estate only)
- Vast
- vFlyer (auto-posting to Google Base, Craigslist, and sharing widgets)
- Oodle, iqZone, Edgeio (are also multi-classifieds blasters, aggregators, and search engines)
- MyStore (Very social sharing “2.0″ oriented-free and easy store set up-they take the payments for you)
- Yample.com is also social/2.0
- RealpeopleRealstuff.com (video-based classifieds)
- Safarri.com It is free, does user powered stores with custom URLs, is the first ever to do real time Google Earth integration, can do registered or anonymous listings (and more for more advanced marketing)
- www.listasaurus.com where they actually PAY you to list your ads…interesting new concept! They also do zip code based search, and the site has a really fun feel to it as well.
So, best of luck with this free list-I hope it is helpful! Please keep in mind that you need to have some sort of cash/accounting method in place, a best practice to protect yourself-there are a lot of scoundrels out there. I highly recommend getting a paypal account. If you must stay with cash accounting, please do not ship out any of your goods until the check clears (that goes for a cashier’s check as well, money orders are good as cash).
Any questions or comments…feel free to send me a note! It’s all about getting yourself out there! Thanks for visiting this blog…and in a while, I will begin to touch on SEO, Content, meta tags and other ways to boost your ranking on the search engines.
Til then…happy marketing trails,
Kerry
www.kerrycoleart.com
