I was wondering if anyone uses the awesome power of free classified ads to directly advertise to millions of people. I recently started to use craigslist again and am looking to start a thread here to get some ideas and thoughts going about craigslist and different techniques and successes advertising on the massive free classifieds site. I will post back with updates on my campaign, feel free to post your ideas here and see what we can come up with.

I recently posted free ad on a website called Oodle advertising that I am a stand up comedian for hire in the Phoenix area. About a month after that, I was contacted by a manager of a golf/country club in my area. He asked me if I wanted to perform stand up comedy at an event he was organizing. There's supposed to be around 1,000 people in the audience. To give you an idea of how huge this is, the biggest comedy club in my area is the Tempe Improv which holds a maximum of about 350 people.

I'm not sure if the country club manager found my website through the search engines or through my classified ad. I may ask him the next time I speak with him. Regardless, posting classified ads on sites like Craigslist is a great way to tell your potential audience about your product/service. I'm definitely going to continue to post ads on these type of sites.