For those of you who've been posting your profiles on Craigslist (for the contest or not) have you actually gotten clients from there? I imagine it totally depends on your area, but I'm curious. I've been reposting every other day for a month or so and nothing. Granted, my area doesn't seem to use Craigslist too often but I figured it would've yielded at least one client by now.
I'd been boarding for 10 years, but after I started posting on Craigslist last year, I saw a huge increase in bookings. I also offer training and between the two services, I've gotten quite a few leads from my CL ads. They don't always work out past the initial inquiry, and I have had a few scams come through, but I'm happy with it overall. I've gotten nine to eleven clients, and most of them are repeat bookers.
Do you post through the rover fill-in page or do you post without mentioning or having them go through rover right away?
When I started offering services, I posted everywhere and it took a while for business to build. I did get a couple repeat clients from Craigslist, but as demand for my services grew, I gave that CL business to another local sitter. In other words, dogs from CL weren't my/my dog's favorite canines.
Ah, interesting. Did the CL dogs tend to be super high energy and untrained?
Yes. Loud bark untrained high energy puppies. I gave friendly feedback to 1 owner & it was received well. Fast forward 6+ months later that dog is age 2ish, still has same /maybe more issues, and referred sitter consulted w/me before again delivering feedback, which took well but no action to fix.
Just to be clear, these came through CL. Not via CL to Rover.
Ohhh gotcha. Yeah, I was only planning on taking dogs from CL through Rover