for your Lawn care Business

To Start You might be asking?

What is Craigslist?

Craigslist is the largest free online classifieds site

Why should you use Craigslist?

50,000,000 searches PER DAY

40,000,000 new ads per month

Needless to say

Craigslist gets a LOT of eyeballs

Today we are going to learn

How to list your Lawn Care Business

on Craigslist for FREE

To send you New Lawn Care Customers

Without making all the common mistakes

Let's get started

First you need to set up a Craigslist account

https://accounts.craigslist.org/signup

Then create your ad

Craigslist wants to categorize your ad

Choose

"Services Offered"

Then

"Farm and Garden Services"

Next Craigslist will want to know which area to show your ad

Pick the one you service

With the highest population density

Next Craigslist wants you to create your ad

Here are my Craigslist ad writing tips

First make your ad time sensitive

Include a deadline

People need a reason to ACT now

Or they are less likely to do anything

You see this done ALL THE TIME

with car dealerships and furniture stores

You need to be doing the same thing

Next

Give them something for FREE as a bonus

Instead of discounts

Make it a Craigslist only special deal too

That gives you the perfect reason for listing your ad there

I will show you an example advertisement as we go along

Here is the Craigslist ad creation screen

Enter your ad title and ad copy

Do not check the box to show on a map

Make sure to pre-write your ad BEFORE you open Craigslist

That way you can just copy and paste it in

For your Zip code enter the one

With the highest population density that you service

On the maps screen select "do not show on maps"

Next you need to add pictures

Just like other services

Pictures matter big time on Craigslist

They will make you more sales

So use them

Craigslist uses the first picture you upload as the featured image

Make the first one your logo

Then add as many good photos of your work as possible

Pick the best homes you cut

Take the photo right after you cut their grass

Do it on a sunny day in the morning

Include amazing landscape projects you have done

You can just snap some pictures with your iPhone or Android phone

Craigslist lets you add up to 24 pictures

Add between 5 and 10 pictures

Let's look at our final ad

To Recap

Craigslist gets an enormous amount of eyeballs

Craigslist is absolutely free so you really have NOTHING to lose

Make your Craigslist ads time sensitive offers

Include Pictures

Remove your ad when your offer "expires"

Tweak and Re-list regularly

Use these Holidays as reasons for Special Offers:

Use these Holidays as reasons for Special Offers:

EasterMother's DayMemorial DayFather's Day4th of July"Back to School" SpecialsLabor DayHalloween

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