• dreamstimefree 473684 199x300 Are You On A Tight Budget? How To Get Free Leads Using CraigslistFeel like raising your hand? You wanna get more leads but you’re short on cash to generate them?

    Or… Maybe, you do have money, but why pay for something you can actually get for free! It’s great to get leads from a PPC campaign, but there is also lots of ways to generate leads without having to spend lots of money. And I’ll be showing you a little strategy that you can use now, to get free leads for your MLM business.

    I personally love this section and you will too icon wink Are You On A Tight Budget? How To Get Free Leads Using Craigslist These strategies are free or have very low cost compared to a PPC campaign on Google Adwords. And we are going to get started with that now.

    Ok, first I’ll show you how to get traffic and free leads using CraigsList


    CraigsList is the world’s largest website where you can post free ads in different cities in the United States or other important cities in the world.

    The goal is to send people to your capture page and capture their info. In other words, get them as leads.

    When you are at CraigsList select the city where you are going to advertise. Then you’ll need to pick a category where you’d like to advertise under.

    When you are done with these steps, just click on “Post” link in the upper right hand corner of the page.

    Ok, it’s now time to start writing your ad. I suggest that you check other ads in the same category, and check what other people are writing, how they stucture their ads. Really study them. Then you’ll get various ideas on what you can write. Read not 10 or 20 ads, read at least 50 or more.

    Oh yeah, here are some tips that you’ll want to consider. You’ll also want to use Attraction Marketing for this.

    • Whatever you say on your headline, be sure that it has relevancy with the content of it. Don’t promise something and then don’t deliver whatever it is you promised.
    • Also, have a clear image of what kind of people you want to attract with your ad, and talk directly to them. Saying things like: “Make easy money, no effort” will attract lazy and opportunistic people. Ask yourself: Is THAT what I want? (Hope not!)
    • Give valuable information, give them a taste of what you have to offer and make them want more when they are done reading. But keep the ad short and simple.
    • Call to action: Tell them to go to a specific place. Your capture page; your website, so that you get their information.

    Ok then, let’s continue because we are not done yet.

    Once you are done with your ad hit the Publish button at the top so your ad goes live.

    Ok, here is the secret to CraigsList. To get big traffic you’ll want to advertise under a lot of cities. If you’re advertising within the United States, you’ll want to do it under 30 major cities or so.

    But the thing is that, you can’t simply copy/paste your ads. You have to change them and come up with new headlines and content. Otherwise it’s considered SPAM.

    It’s very time consuming and the good news is that there is a way around it. You can download a software called CL Auto Posting Tool. It’s not free, but you’ll want to invest in it if you don’t want to be posting all day on CraigsList. There is a demo version if you wanna try it first though.

    The key to getting free leads from CraigsList is to post ads daily. If you want to know more secrets and strategies on how to make this process easier, you can check this ebook for more on this subject and even more ways to get more free leads: Building On A Budget from Mike Dillard.

    Now, getting back to the point. Craigslist is ranked the 60th most visited website by www.Alexa.com. Very powerful! But as I said before, the key to getting leads is by posting ads daily.

    Ok then, we’re done with this part on how to get free leads for your MLM if you are low on budget.

    There are tons of ways to get leads to your website. Read some of my other posts, and that is just the start. I’ll be posting a lot more, so you’ll want to subscribe to the RSS. If you want the whole list of things I do, and you can do too, be sure to check www.TheBestBusiness4u.com. You’ll get incredible training videos to get leads for your MLM.

    Oh yeah, and for more strategies and tips on how to get free leads for your MLM on a low budget, get your copy of Building on a Budget.

    Be ready for more strategies to get free leads for your MLM business. I’m not done here and more will be posted on this topic! Oh yeah, and leave a comment please! =) It’s always good to know what you think and what you need!


     

    Related posts:

    This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at 6:10 pm and is filed under Attraction Marketing, Free Classifieds, Free Leads, Tight Budget. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
  • Facebook comments:

  • 2 Comments

    Take a look at some of the responses we have had to this article.

    1. Jamie Robe
      Mar 30th

      Hi Mel,
      I stumbled upon your posts here. Very well done. CL marketing has worked for me. I even did a demographic analysis of the cities that Craigslist site serve, and I ended up selling it on my website – using Craigslist to market it. Very viral in nature, the biggest problem with CL is what you described – having to alter the postings. There is so much flagging of posts now, mostly by competitors. I have not used a program, but that might help. They can still follow your advice and just work systematically, city by city and rotate postings gradually,to fly under the radar.
      Good luck, Jamie

    2. Dave Puckett
      Jul 30th

      Hi Mel,
      I really like your site and blog, you’ve really put a lot of effort and time into it, that is evident just from reading all your posts and updates. Have you noticed the saturation that “branding” has caused not just on facebook, twitter,but on the free lists like craigslist and angies list too?
      I have used craigslist before only leads that responded were people pitching me their business, so they were not even leads in the first place. I do network marketing and internet marketing all the time, there are just certain realities out there that challenge us from time to time.
      There is another way to get leads from craigslist using “scrapers” replying to other ad posters with a general pitch of your own. This is a form of spam and an unethical way of doing business but this is something that is being done by people.
      I first read about branding from Mike Dillard, I have many of his books and tapes. I’m not sure, he may have started this “branding” or not but in any case it has kinda backfired and went viral. Some people brand themselves as experts and they only just started a month or two ago :-)
      I think it would be more correct to call responses to ads on craigslist as “Shark marketers” This is not the end and we shouldn’t give up, it’s just a hurdle to overcome. Let’s do it. take care Dave

  • Leave a Reply

    Let us know what you thought.

  • Name(required):

    Email(required):

    Website:

    Message:

    CommentLuv badge
    Security Code:

Subscribe To The FREE Newsletter Today To Recieve New Strategies Delivered To Your Mail