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I did a similar process when house-shopping. Setup ads for a particular location, specifically targeting people who owned in the area, but who lived out of state. 1. Personal FB ad copy 2. Landing page w/ more information about what we were looking for. 3. Contact form I received ~5 leads from people willing to sell their house with about $100 in ad spend.
https://solomon.io/how-to-get-a-job-interview-tomorrow-using...
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> I guess the lack of incentive is what made his trial fail... He should have offered a cash bribe. That would surely have worked.
HN wonders about whether our industry truly is unwelcoming to women, meanwhile people openly joke about soliciting prostitution. “Riff culture” and “it’s just a joke” don’t make it acceptable.
So I posted an ad on Craigslist in "housing wanted" saying our approximate credit score (750+ each), employment history, what we were looking for, and our income plus a little intro about us personally to give it a little flair.
Since we were pretty much ideal renters I was hoping landlords of the nicer properties would look there first to avoid the sketchy unqualified riff raff that may reply to public ads and waste their time. The other thing is we have/had cats, so the pool of apartments was smaller for us so it made sense to "target" landlords who were open to pets.
To my surprise, got a bunch of really great hits! Way better places at better prices than the public ads. Apparently landlords actually DO browse Craigslist for qualified candidates. Some even congratulated us on being responsible and "ahead of the curve."
Ended up renting from someone found that way. Total cost was $0.
I imagine Facebook groups would work just as well or better. Facebook groups weren't really a thing last time I was apartment hunting and I've owned for a while now so I won't ever get to personally try it out. Facebook groups work way better than Craigslist for both buying and selling stuff and, in general, a local Facebook group I belong to has been insanely useful for a lot of different things.
Well, that is a rather clever use of Facebook Ads. I knew a guy who tried to use them as a dating service, I guess the lack of incentive is what made his trial fail...
What a quagmire, I know.
Good video summarizing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9_6UCkxu_U
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I guess the lack of incentive is what made his trial fail... He should have offered a cash bribe. That would surely have worked.
HN wonders about whether our industry truly is unwelcoming to women, meanwhile people openly joke about soliciting prostitution. “Riff culture” and “it’s just a joke” don’t make it acceptable.
Somebody should build a service for this. My wife and I recently moved and, while we ended up somewhere we like, there was one particular street right next to our old house that we always wished we would be able to get a home on. When we talked to other neighbors that were thinking about moving, we found out that we were far from the only ones eyeing that street. Unfortunately, people there rarely sold and, when they…
Noooooo.... please don’t ruin this... Let’s keep it for us nerds, okay?
I did a similar process when house-shopping. Setup ads for a particular location, specifically targeting people who owned in the area, but who lived out of state. 1. Personal FB ad copy 2. Landing page w/ more information about what we were looking for. 3. Contact form I received ~5 leads from people willing to sell their house with about $100 in ad spend.
How do you target owners in FB (A bit time since I don't use it, but don't remember any particular filter allowing this)
Somebody should build a service for this. My wife and I recently moved and, while we ended up somewhere we like, there was one particular street right next to our old house that we always wished we would be able to get a home on. When we talked to other neighbors that were thinking about moving, we found out that we were far from the only ones eyeing that street. Unfortunately, people there rarely sold and, when they…
“Somebody should build a service for this.“ Noooooo.... please don’t ruin this... Let’s keep it for us nerds, okay?