Craigslist anyone??

[gorman]

Trying out some new forms of advertising this season and I was wondering if anyone had any luck with craigslist? Huh? Huh? Got one hit after a day with firewood so I was thinking about posting tree care under skilled labor (which it is). Lemme know.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I have a few friends in the trades (and tree work) who actively solicit happy clients to post them on Angie's list.

Craigs list looks like bargain hunters to me.

 

[MNClimber]

I have a couple adds on craigslist and have gotten a few jobs off o it. The people on craigslist do seem to be price shopping a lot. I don't do estimates from there anymore that are more than 20 min from my place.

 

[M.D. Vaden]

Had very good success selling furniture, car parts and odd items - getting very near our asking price in most cases.

But never got any work when I experimented with the services category in Craigslist.

Just not worth the time.

 

[treemandan]

You have a better chance of seeing God than getting a decent customer that way. Firewood? Sure, its just a quick commodity. odds and ends? yup, that's what its for.
I did a stint for this guy who runs a little piss ass tree company. He was always preaching about how high he held himself for being such an educated tree man but was really just a dolt. I saw his ad on craiglist the other day and had to laugh.
If you want some work off of it you have to put something like- have saw will travel or Free tree work
don't advertise on there.

 

[targe14]

Clist

I live near Madison wis and get at least 5 calls a week off craigslist but the best thing aobut it is getting rid of the wood I dont want to deal with and I mean anything pine spruce etc people think its great. I let em pick it up for free and I dont have to deal with it

 

[ClimbinArbor]

5 or so calls a week. get rid of all my firewood there

 

[treesandsurf]

In California I was in school and working and doing small side jobs. I put an ad in Craigslist and got some really great small pruning jobs (fruit trees mostly). Fun clients and good overall experience. You never know...

jp

 

[beefspoon]

Ive gotten all kinds of work off of craigslist. We are in the construction business and one job was to go out and dig a test hole on a lot which led to over $1,000,000 worth of work. Other than that, we got a $95,000 retaining wall job and couple additions to houses around $75,000 and up. Craigslist is definetely worth the price.