Craigslist for Lawn Care Businesses
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http://www.lawncarebusinesstips.com - This presentation covers how to use Craigslist to create powerful ads for your lawn care business. In the presentation I show you how to add strong calls to action to your ad. I also show you how to add deadlines and free bonuses to attract even more lawn care (or lawn mowing) customers.
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Craigslist for Lawn Care Businesses
- 1. for your Lawn care Business
- 2. To Start You might be asking?
- 4. Craigslist is the largest free online classifieds site
- 5. Why should you use Craigslist?
- 6. 50,000,000 searches PER DAY
- 7. 40,000,000 new ads per month
- 9. Craigslist gets a LOT of eyeballs
- 10. Today we are going to learn
- 11. How to list your Lawn Care Business
- 12. on Craigslist for FREE
- 13. To send you New Lawn Care Customers
- 14. Without making all the common mistakes
- 16. First you need to set up a Craigslist account https://accounts.craigslist.org/signup
- 17. Then create your ad
- 19. Craigslist wants to categorize your ad
- 20. Choose
- 22. Then
- 23. "Farm and Garden Services"
- 24. Next Craigslist will want to know which area to show your ad
- 25. Pick the one you service
- 26. With the highest population density
- 27. Next Craigslist wants you to create your ad
- 28. Here are my Craigslist ad writing tips
- 29. First make your ad time sensitive
- 31. People need a reason to ACT now
- 32. Or they are less likely to do anything
- 33. You see this done ALL THE TIME
- 34. with car dealerships and furniture stores
- 35. You need to be doing the same thing
- 36. Next
- 37. Give them something for FREE as a bonus
- 39. Make it a Craigslist only special deal too
- 40. That gives you the perfect reason for listing your ad there
- 41. I will show you an example advertisement as we go along
- 42. Here is the Craigslist ad creation screen
- 44. Enter your ad title and ad copy
- 45. Do not check the box to show on a map
- 46. Make sure to pre-write your ad BEFORE you open Craigslist
- 47. That way you can just copy and paste it in
- 48. For your Zip code enter the one
- 49. With the highest population density that you service
- 50. On the maps screen select "do not show on maps"
- 51. Next you need to add pictures
- 52. Just like other services
- 53. Pictures matter big time on Craigslist
- 54. They will make you more sales
- 55. So use them
- 56. Craigslist uses the first picture you upload as the featured image
- 57. Make the first one your logo
- 58. Then add as many good photos of your work as possible
- 59. Pick the best homes you cut
- 60. Take the photo right after you cut their grass
- 61. Do it on a sunny day in the morning
- 62. Include amazing landscape projects you have done
- 63. You can just snap some pictures with your iPhone or Android phone
- 64. Craigslist lets you add up to 24 pictures
- 65. Add between 5 and 10 pictures
- 66. Let's look at our final ad
- 72. To Recap
- 73. Craigslist gets an enormous amount of eyeballs
- 74. Craigslist is absolutely free so you really have NOTHING to lose
- 75. Make your Craigslist ads time sensitive offers
- 76. Include Pictures
- 77. Remove your ad when your offer "expires"
- 78. Tweak and Re-list regularly
- 79. Use these Holidays as reasons for Special Offers:
- 80. Use these Holidays as reasons for Special Offers: Easter Mother's Day Memorial Day Father's Day 4th of July "Back to School" Specials Labor Day Halloween
- 81. If you want even more lawn care business tips
- 82. Check out my site http://www.lawncarebusinesstips.com