Free marketing other than Craigslist?

[ChrisF79]

Greetings,

I've been doing quite a bit of posting on Craigslist.com lately to get some buyers to see my listings and it has had some great results. It made me start to think though, what other websites are out there that I can post freely on? If not a website, what other ways have you been getting your listings in front of buyers for free, or at a minimal cost?

Hopefully we can start a thread to help a bunch of us out there.

Thank you,
Chris

[smanuella]

Greetings,

I've been doing quite a bit of posting on Craigslist.com lately to get some buyers to see my listings and it has had some great results. It made me start to think though, what other websites are out there that I can post freely on? If not a website, what other ways have you been getting your listings in front of buyers for free, or at a minimal cost?

Hopefully we can start a thread to help a bunch of us out there.

Thank you,
Chris

you can try mflisting dotcom if you have multifamily or investment properties

[qasamm]

My site offers free postings and has high traffic within the real estate interest. I can't post the address because I don't have enough postings under my belt yet but it should show in my signature.

Sam Mancuso
President. RuzzMan LLC
realtorclassified dot com

[vanbao]

How are the quality of the leads from Craig's list? What percentage of the response become clients.

[ChrisF79]

I have yet to get results. I've been posting for about 3 weeks now and not one phone call nor email. It has however given me some decent traffic to my website. What I did was write a script to generate a Craigslist post from the database on my website. That way, I click one button and just copy/paste the ad it generates into Craigslist. http://fortmyers.craigslist.org/rfs/266115112.html There's an example of one. I don't know why, but I don't get calls though.

The way I see it is that it takes me about 20 seconds per listing to post an ad. If I do enough of them, one will eventually sell :) THen it will be worthwhile.

Patience is key I think.

Chris Farrugia

[qasamm]

You can try USfreeads dot com also.

Sam Mancuso
President, RuzzMan LLC

[vanbao]

Is there anyone interested in trying out a webbase customer relationship management software for free to connect with your clients.

If you are interested, let me know.

This is a very useful software and it is all webbase.

[assistedescape]

If you have any type of financing available with the prorperty, you can post it on my site. See signature.

Dave

[Thesa]

My site offers free postings and has high traffic within the real estate interest. I can't post the address because I don't have enough postings under my belt yet but it should show in my signature.

Sam Mancuso
President. RuzzMan LLC
realtorclassified dot com

I am a little shocked that NAR has not nailed you with this site using the word "Realtor"

[gUrLaLiEn]

Greetings,

I've been doing quite a bit of posting on Craigslist.com lately to get some buyers to see my listings and it has had some great results. It made me start to think though, what other websites are out there that I can post freely on? If not a website, what other ways have you been getting your listings in front of buyers for free, or at a minimal cost?

Hopefully we can start a thread to help a bunch of us out there.

Thank you,
Chris

try realestate.ozfreeonline.com it lets people and agents post their properties for free :)

[Codythebest]

I have yet to get results. I've been posting for about 3 weeks now and not one phone call nor email. It has however given me some decent traffic to my website. What I did was write a script to generate a Craigslist post from the database on my website. That way, I click one button and just copy/paste the ad it generates into Craigslist. http://fortmyers.craigslist.org/rfs/266115112.html There's an example of one. I don't know why, but I don't get calls though.

The way I see it is that it takes me about 20 seconds per listing to post an ad. If I do enough of them, one will eventually sell :) THen it will be worthwhile.

Patience is key I think.

Chris Farrugia

Very strange that the copy/paste works for you on Craigslist.
If I post 2 times with ALMOST similar content, I get stuck and it says my ad as already a similar one at ... and cannot be posted...
I need to make a unique text for each post...
And, my ads, all and every of them, get flagged and removed after 2-3 minutes..every times, whatever the ad is...photos or not...real estate or not...

[FlaGal]

I don't have a listing to call my own (geez, I'm very new, 5 weeks). Could I just advertise my website on Craigslist without having a listing or do I actually need to have something to sell???

[ReelDawg]

Try Oodle & backpage - since they're not used as much, listings tend to stick for longer time periods. If its commercial put it on CIMLS.com

[nclady]

I had the same experieince with craigslist. Removal that is. Why is that?

[builderscut.com]

You can post New construction,Land or international properties on my site free..Go to http://www.builderscut.com or PM Me

[Traume]

What you need is to find an online source that not only offers to list your properties for free but one that can list your business for free with links to your URL, phone #, address, etc. Something like:
AdHotShot.com

[tarheit]

Do any of these sites allow you to upload a feed of your listings (similar to base.google.com). Entering multiple listings on many sites could get old really fast. But if you could setup a script to simply upload a google base like text file, it would be worth setting up.

-Tim

[Chief Tutor]

Point2agent.com is a free website, and once you set up your free account with them, you can upload your listings and they are then uploaded to a number of real estate listings aggregation websites. See the link below for more information.

http://nls.point2.com/Content/Partners/Syndication.asp

They also allow you to share your listings with all the other agents on their network. (I think that is an extra cost however. See the link below:

http://nls.point2.com/Content/FeaturesServices/SyndicationAdvertising.asp

Good Luck

[ChristianOC]

RE: FlaGal's question about Criagslist

You can post whatever your heart desires. There is no monitoring of WHO you are; only what you post. You can't post duplicate content mainly, and other people can 'report' your post if they don't like it.

Other than that, post whatever you like.

[hollahovito]

is good depending on where you live. in some areas theres so many internet users that it is over saturated with bad posts in others where people are poor there are no opportunities via craigslist.

[Magill]

Does Realtor.com offer advertisements when you do open houses and such? I was telling my broker that I wanted to do an open house and he said we can set up something on Realtor.com to advertise it.

[kytine8888]

GUm tree? Msn postings. I think this are cool free sites.

[erobbins]

hey there, i have a great suggestion for free marketing and i'd be glad to tell you about it in a pm!

[vanbao]

Greetings,

I've been doing quite a bit of posting on Craigslist.com lately to get some buyers to see my listings and it has had some great results. It made me start to think though, what other websites are out there that I can post freely on? If not a website, what other ways have you been getting your listings in front of buyers for free, or at a minimal cost?

Hopefully we can start a thread to help a bunch of us out there.

Thank you,
Chris

Visit Gomaika.com. You can create free lising of the properties like this one. http://www.gomaika.com/Tai-Phams-Two-Story-Home.html for free. You can link to it from Craigslist if you want so you don't have to continually posting.

[stacy99]

You can try a web site called Kijiji, which is a classifieds site that is fairly similar to craigslist.

[philippine_real_estate]

You can try Olx or other Free classified ad post. There are also Free advertising forums where in you can also post your product.

[gman]

you can post your ads for free on zurpit [dot] com
There is a housing section.

[MundoLuxe.com]

My favorites other than CL (these are all dot coms): Kijiji (owned by e-bay, it's the most popular classifieds in Europe and growing quickly here); backpage; locanto; usfreeads; and recycler (but that's for LA, so it depends on where you are....).

The best thing you can do is google "free classified ads Boston" (or wherever you are), and see where people are posting- if they're posting, they're reading too.

[Adier]

Postlets

You build your ad just once, then postlets automatically submit your listing to several classifieds search engines (listed below) to maximize your reach across the web and yes it's FREE!


backpage.com
craigslist
DotHomes
Google Base
HotPads
Oodle
Properazzi
Trulia
Vast
Zillow
and more...

[abhelle15]

Try Sandicor.com:)