what is going on everybody I wanted to
quickly touch base on a couple of
announcements I know I haven't published
any content on the channel
scootch is been working a lot and I have
been preoccupied with a couple different
projects so I wanted to do a quick
update so for everybody out there that's
been asking on social media we are
actually moving so we are moving from
our home here in San Mateo California to
Tampa Florida we're very excited to
relocate but that comes with a lot of
new and adventurous things so the first
update is that we are relocating
super-excited so thank you all for
asking all of your questions about that
over the past couple months and the next
bit that I wanted to cover here was
selling products on let go as well as
Craigslist and some quick tips that we
have learned through the process of
selling things as we're going through
the moving process of getting a moving
company along and loading the moving
company and whatnot so the first thing
that we quickly noticed was a lot of
people say that these new apps that have
come out are you know better than
Craigslist but ultimately Craigslist is
in my opinion the gold standard for
selling products hyper locally and the
first thing that we did with our
Craigslist listings was you go into your
account dashboard and you have you know
the option to add your location you have
the option to add the dimensions the the
products the brand that makes a product
as well as the model and the pictures so
first and foremost pictures are
definitely way way WAY important on
Craigslist like they are the night and
day difference between products getting
sold and not so we ran some tests on our
products as we were selling because we
have about a month left before we leave
and for Tampa and one of the most
important things was the quality of the
pictures so for example I took pictures
on my phone of the products we were
selling so we were selling the couch the
one that I'm actually sitting on right
now this Pottery Barn couch we're
selling a TV and ottoman table and
chairs a monitor an office chair like
just selling basic furniture and when
people are looking around on Craigslist
if they want to see an image right away
like a thumbnail on YouTube it's almost
like that's the reason that they're
there getting involved is because they
know that there's a picture and they
know that there's something there
there's some substance there to look at
as they're shopping on Craigslist so the
picture is number one that's the most
important piece to selling items on
Craigslist the number two piece is the
quality in the actual photo
so when Airbnb started a fun story is
that they were trying to figure out why
certain properties were getting booked
more than others and they found that it
was all about the quality of the photos
on the good properties that were being
booked more so they hired a bunch of
photographers sent them out to the all
their properties took higher-quality
pictures and then they had that hockey
stick growth that they have today where
they have high quality photos that you
go on and when you go on Airbnb you'll
see that they're mostly the most booked
products or their most booked properties
are the ones with the best photos so
that is the second component to really
really fast sales on Craigslist as a
high quality photo with good lighting
and if you don't have a lighting kit you
can just use basic natural lighting I'm
not using a lighting kit right now and
this is just natural light but this was
perfect for our items of getting things
sold so after you have your picture you
have your story like tell a quick story
say for example my wife and I are moving
from California to Florida
we need to lighten our load because
we're working with a moving
company that's gonna be coming to pick
up all of our all of our items from our
apartment and what you need to do is
just tell a quick story why you're
selling because everybody's gonna be
asking is it broken what's the deal here
so once you have your story down pat you
can just copy and paste that across your
different listings and once you have
your story make sure that you add in
only serious enquiries at the bottom
always add in the brand and the model
that helps dimensions help a lot
they help almost as much as the brand
and the model at least from what we've
found because people are going on there
with measurements in mind especially if
they've just moved into a new house or
apartment these measurements are gonna
be key so those are the first three most
important pieces to listing on
Craigslist and also if you don't sell
within the first let's say 48 hours of
the posting each one is 7 days and it's
live on Craigslist but if you don't sell
within the first 48 hours go in lower
the price and renew your posting because
on weekends you'll see a spike of a
pretty drastic amount of enquiries
compared to the weekdays so definitely
prepare for your weekends like for
example today is Friday and I'm renewed
the listings that did not sell
immediately and we've lowered the price
and with the renewal and the lowered
price it helps a lot because it boosts
up the the ranking on Craigslist as far
as the Let Go app Sarah she has been
managing that and that one was pretty
interesting we got a hit within 20
minutes of you know listing products on
there and it is a pretty new app and I
think that there is another one called
offer up and we have been experimenting
around with that to see how that works
but overall Craigslist is the the
supreme option
for selling furniture selling home goods
and just selling items to people in your
local area and we have had more success
on that probably five or six x what we
have had success on with the other
applications so when it comes to
Craigslist we have our photo making sure
that's on there we have the high quality
of the photos whether it's just regular
natural lighting or just a high quality
camera that you're using your iPhone and
whatnot and then we have the story so be
sure that you're telling a quick story
about what what you're doing why you're
selling it because everybody asks you
know why why are you selling your goods
are they broken what's the deal and you
know run tests on the different
platforms so you know run it on let go
London run it on offer up front on
facebook running on the different
websites you need and to get your items
out there so we've been really lucky and
and excited to get rid of a lot of
products that we had around the house
especially ones we've reviewed on the
channel that you've seen on videos here
and craigslist has has been the best for
that so overall it's been a pretty
successful sale usually 50% what you
purchased it for on Craigslist may be
even lower than that people are always
gonna be haggling and that's that's the
gist of it that's how to sell products
really quickly is follow those three
guidelines and you should be getting a
lot of enquiries pretty quickly
don't put your phone number on there
don't put your email address on there
you let Craigslist do their anonymous
messaging and don't allow people to you
know take your information on Craigslist
like don't don't publicly post any
information about yourself on the
Craigslist posting because people scrape
that all the time and you don't want to
do that and part of the reason that I
brought up Airbnb as a final note is
that they actually used Craigslist to
get off the ground when they were first
starting they scraped everything all of
the apartments for
off of Craigslist and all the people
associated with them and spammed
everyone and it was like this is urban
legend here in Silicon Valley and they
blamed it on a rogue intern and everyone
always kind of commented on how you can
manipulate broken systems but Craigslist
by no means is broken but they were
manipulating the fact that back then you
could get people's information much
easier scrape it and send out these
emails so that was how I was tying the
two together Craigslist and and Airbnb
so that's it that's how you guys can
quickly sell on Craigslist let me know
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