Everyone is always asking me how I use Craig's List to promote Yuwie, so here is a blog to explain the process! This blog is a bit long to cover a lot of area!!
I am only using Craig's List right now to gain referrals. I really like it for several reasons. We all know how much work it can be to get referrals, and I find Craig's List to be easy to use and the most direct way to tell people exactly what Yuwie is all about. It also allows people to contact you, rather than pushing it on them. And, you can create a contact before they actually sign up to keep in touch with.
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The first thing to do is bookmark this link....
http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites.html
Now, create an account. Use a valid email address, one that you will be checking every day. You can create an account solely for use with Craig's List if you plan on posting a lot of ads and expect lots of replies.
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I post ads in the following areas, each city, each category, on the same day.
Jobs
Etc Jobs
Marketing Jobs
(I am sure there are others you could twist Yuwie to fit into, but those are the two I use.)
The trick to posting in multiple Jobs Offered and multiple cities is this:
You MUST change the heading of each ad you post. You can cut and paste the body, but if your ad title is the same or even close to the same, you will not be able to post it. Make the titles something that will catch readers eyes and make them want to click your ad.
For example:
AD 1
Title: Social Networking That Pays!
Body: Do you enjoy blogging, browsing social sites, making new friends, sending messages and other networking tasks? This is is for you! You can get paid to do all the daily social tasks you enjoy while making new friends and exploring other online opportunities.
Email me for more information! A bit of hard work and effort now can pay off in the near future!
AD 2
Title: Market This Social Network!
Body: Do you enjoy blogging, browsing social sites, making new
friends, sending messages and other networking tasks? This is is for
you! You can get paid to do all the daily social tasks you enjoy while
making new friends and exploring other online opportunities.
Email me for more information! A bit of hard work and effort now can pay off in the near future!
AD 3
Title: Earn to Browse and Socialize Online
Body: Do you enjoy blogging, browsing social sites, making new
friends, sending messages and other networking tasks? This is is for
you! You can get paid to do all the daily social tasks you enjoy while
making new friends and exploring other online opportunities.
Email me for more information! A bit of hard work and effort now can pay off in the near future!
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To post an ad, pick a state.
( If the state has multiple cities, this is where you use
Linky to open all the cities. It will just make going to the different
cities easier. If you don't have Linky, visit my blog "Yuwie Helps
Here" and see the information on Linky. This is a very useful tool and
won't take long to download if you don't have it)
~Choose a city.
~Click on any Job Catagory under Jobs.
~At the top of the next screen, click the "post" link.
~Scroll down and click "I agree" and then you choose the area to post in, such as etc jobs or marketing.
~After you post, fill out the verification code, then click "post another listing" on the bottom of the thank you for posting screen. This will bring to you a screen of categories you can post in.
~You can go back into the Jobs to post under another category, or choose another type of posting, such as Communities>groups or Services>computers. I recommend doing all the posting you want in Jobs, then moving on to another category.
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Other areas to post in:
Community
Groups- this is where I solely advertise Yuwie for it's social networking and not as a paid site. Every ad you place here has to be completely different- title and body.
Services Offered
Computers
Anywhere else you can make Yuwie fit into!!!
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Tips:
~When you are posting Jobs, make sure to click telecommuting ok.
~When you are posting Jobs, also click the 3 tabs under the telecommuting ok... and if anyone contacts you with other services, email them back information on Yuwie. I have recently started doing this and have not received a lot of spam email, but you may have to unsubscribe from some of the emails.
~If you get flagged, don't worry about it. That is why multiple listings in multiple cities is suggested. That way if a couple of your ads get deleted you aren't loosing all the ads.
~Don't use your referral link in the ad. It brings undue attention of the site monitors and you will be more likely to be flagged. Also, they may not delete your ad and just redirect the link, which you will not be notified about.
~Do not advertise as an MLM... these are not allowed on Craigs List.
~AOL blocks the Yuwie referral link. I have not really found a way around this yet, but I do sometimes get it to go through by putting spaces in the referral link.
~When you use Linky to open a bunch of cities, unclick the forum link, the wikipeadia link, and any city that showed up in the list bold. Bold cities are a $25 fee to post in, some more.
~Keep a word document with ads already written out. That way, you can rotate through a couple of ads, and not posting the same ones all the time.
~Be as honest and straightforward about Yuwie as you can be. That is what will bring you ACTIVE referrals!! If you lie and they sign up under false pretense, they will not be active and you have done all this work for nothing!
~You can also keep a word document to paste into an email response that is more detailed about Yuwie when your ads are answered. Right now I am using the one that is posted in my blog titled "New Yuwie Help to GIVE to NEW REFERRALS!!" Use it if you would like!!
~Promote your referral
links if you need to get more levels to your tree rather than your own
in the email back to the ad response. Let them know you are doing it
though, so they know you are commited to helping your referrals and
they don't think they have been randomly assigned to someone they don't
know. Have them add you as a friend so you can keep in touch.
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Here are some ads I have posted.
For etc jobs:
Get paid for blogging, browsing, messaging and other social
networking tasks! This site is a lot of
fun and you can meet some really great people!
There is work involved in getting paid here. You must like to be on the computer
posting/reading/looking at pictures, blogs, profiles, messages, posting ads and
promoting.
Email me for more information. Hard work and effort now will pay off in the future!
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Introducing the
Social Network that PAYS its users! Use
your account to blog, post pictures, browse other’s pages, send messages and
other daily networking tasks to earn money! Make new friends and build yourself
a paycheck!
Email me for more information and how to sign up. A little time and effort now can pay off in
the near future!
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For Marketing:
Currently I am looking for Marketers to help promote a
Social Networking Site. The site has
been around since July of 2007 and has a goal to hit one million users by July
of 2008. You will get paid by using the
site and getting others to use the site as well.
A bit of hard work and effort now will pay off in the future
with little maintenance. Email me for more details. ____________________________________________________
Also: use the upcoming birthday of Yuwie in July as a tool to market! I have been placing ads in the group section that say "Celebrate Yuwie's one year birthday by helping us reach one million members by July of 2008!"
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