Beautiful Posts on Craigslist

I have written several posts about how to write “For Rent” ads in Craigslist.  Although I was previously the Director of Information services at Caribou Coffee, sometimes technology improvements can sneak by me.  This might be such old news that you are going to send me hate mail telling me I need to get rid of my Pentium 1 computer!

Here goes…As most of you know, Craigslist ads are quite dry and simply text in a white background.  You can add HTML to the ad, but that is time consuming and not for the average non-geek.  A customer of mine recently posted a “For Rent” ad on Craigslist.  He wasn’t getting many calls so I told him to send over the ad.

What he sent over floored me.  It was a colorful, well-formatted web page inside of Craigslist.  This customer happens to be a geek so I figured he wrote the entire thing in HTML and posted it.  When I mentioned it, he said he found a website called Postlets.com.  This free service allows you to create a beautiful page for your rental ad or your “home for sale” ad and then simply cut and paste the HTML into Craigslist.  You can add up to 18 pictures and even a virtual tour!  If you upgrade to the paid service you can have a single property website.

See a sample here:  http://www.postlets.com/rem/2172858

Now, no more boring Craiglist ads.  Start using this today!

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