Super, Simple Posting to Craigslist
I can't believe how easy this is! And Free!
I've always wanted to post my flyers on Craigslist. I know there are websites, such as postlets.com and vflyer.com, which host flyers on the web that you can then upload to Craigslist. I am the first to admit that I am "computer and internet challenged" and these sites may allow me to upload my own flyers, but I could not figure out how to do it. A mortgage broker offered to do this for me, so I have been letting him.
So after the baseball game last night, I set out on figuring how to do it myself. Naturally I started by Googling it. This led me to a helpful video on Utube by deriktutt. (I think there is a Utube video for everything.) In a nut-shell, he said in a Word document write your text, imbed your photos, save in Paint as a jpeg, upload to Photobucket.com, take the HTML that Photobucket.com generates for you and imbed it in the Craigslist ad.
I tried to paste a flyer I had created with Publisher in Paint, but it would not work. Nuts. So after fumbling around for a hour or so, I had that Eureka moment. (I love it when a plan comes together.) I use Publisher 2007 and it allows you to save your flyer as a JPEG File Interchange Format. Bingo! Works like a charm.
So the steps are:
•1. Create your flyer in Publisher and save it as a JPEG File Interchange Format document.
•2. Open a free Photobucket.com account and upload your flyer.
•3. Copy the HTML that is generated.
•4. Create a Craigslist ad and paste the HTML in the body.
So easy even a caveman can do it!
Update 12/12/2009: I discovered that when you post an image as described above, that search inquiries cannot search the image. Example: When you search for "Tigard real estate agents", your ad does not display. To fix this, after the image add
search terms: Tigard Realtor, Tigard real estate agent, Tigard homes for sale, etc., etc., etc.
This puts the search terms outside the image and makes them searchable.
Wayne B. Pruner is a Realtor® at Oregon First, who works in the Portland and Tigard, Oregon area. He is ready to help you with all your real estate needs and he is also a licensed contractor. His phone number is 503-891-0795. Here are links to his real estate website and his real estate blog
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