CraiGDaniel
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So i was brain storming the best way to get some free adverts for my company out to thousands of FB users in my area, when i stumbled across something.
My girlfriend frequently visited the facebook 'For Sale [Town/State]' pages. Basically if you search 'For Sale Clacton (for me)' in the facebook search bar, you will see a list of pages with people actively selling their items, that you can like and post in.
Now in my area there are about 5 pages with active posters. All have between 1-8000 likes. All these likes are active locals browsing these pages.
I targetted the page with the most activity and likes, this page had about 8000 likes and someone would post a personal item for sale every 10 minutes on average. Lots of local traffic, yum yum yum.
I started posting in the basic way everyone else was, a nice little paragraph and a picture. This would then be posted to the wall of this specific selling page. This was great. I generated about 15 replies over a week for the certain service i was offering of which 5 became customers.
The problem i had was the listing was quickly getting to the bottom of the pages... to the point you would have to scroll down and click 'more posts' etc. This wasnt a problem as i could just repost, great. Still generating leads and all for free.
This worked amazingly for me for 2 weeks until i had a thought.. perhaps i could contact the owner of the selling page, and see if he will post my service on his wall, for say 5% of the profit i earn per customer i get from him.
I had a reply and he said he's willing to do that. I gave him the add to post and some details. He posted the add for me on the first page you see when clicking on this for sale page. Right at the top, clearly visible to every visitor that came to this page, all 8000 locals.
Needless to say within 1 hour i had 18 replies and growing. Every 20 minutes i was getting new replies, i was dishing out quotes constantly. I eventually asked the owner to take the post down as i can't handle the volume and i'm not officially launched yet. WOW.
Now, i'm in the UK and i don't know if in the USA you have similar FB pages with 'For Sale Michigan' For example. But trust me, this is a business generator.
Hopefully this info will help some of you in your marketing/advertising ventures. It worked for me and i will 100% be deploying this method when i am officially active.
My girlfriend frequently visited the facebook 'For Sale [Town/State]' pages. Basically if you search 'For Sale Clacton (for me)' in the facebook search bar, you will see a list of pages with people actively selling their items, that you can like and post in.
Now in my area there are about 5 pages with active posters. All have between 1-8000 likes. All these likes are active locals browsing these pages.
I targetted the page with the most activity and likes, this page had about 8000 likes and someone would post a personal item for sale every 10 minutes on average. Lots of local traffic, yum yum yum.
I started posting in the basic way everyone else was, a nice little paragraph and a picture. This would then be posted to the wall of this specific selling page. This was great. I generated about 15 replies over a week for the certain service i was offering of which 5 became customers.
The problem i had was the listing was quickly getting to the bottom of the pages... to the point you would have to scroll down and click 'more posts' etc. This wasnt a problem as i could just repost, great. Still generating leads and all for free.
This worked amazingly for me for 2 weeks until i had a thought.. perhaps i could contact the owner of the selling page, and see if he will post my service on his wall, for say 5% of the profit i earn per customer i get from him.
I had a reply and he said he's willing to do that. I gave him the add to post and some details. He posted the add for me on the first page you see when clicking on this for sale page. Right at the top, clearly visible to every visitor that came to this page, all 8000 locals.
Needless to say within 1 hour i had 18 replies and growing. Every 20 minutes i was getting new replies, i was dishing out quotes constantly. I eventually asked the owner to take the post down as i can't handle the volume and i'm not officially launched yet. WOW.
Now, i'm in the UK and i don't know if in the USA you have similar FB pages with 'For Sale Michigan' For example. But trust me, this is a business generator.
Hopefully this info will help some of you in your marketing/advertising ventures. It worked for me and i will 100% be deploying this method when i am officially active.
