Online Marketplaces and Classifieds

You don't have to start a business using a traditional website. You can start one on Ebay, Amazon, or etsy. Read how.

Nowadays even Walmart, BestBuy and Sears are getting into the act by providing online marketplaces.

An even cheaper route is to use free classifieds like Craigslist and others like those listed below.

A smart choice could be to combine a website with posting items on multiple marketplaces.

Here are some businesses that found success using Etsy.

After reading Chapter 6 in your textbook and the information in the links above, take a look at the links below then follow the directions for this assignment:

• Free classifieds:
  
  • Marketing your business on Craigslist
    
• Other free online classifieds. Traditional newspapers have felt the Craigslist effect and many now offer free online classifieds such as:
  • San Diego Reader
  • The Pennysaver
  • Perform an online search for other classifieds, local, regional or national
    
  
  
• Recommendation sites: websites that recommend businesses that offer free listings such as Yelp, Kudzu.com, and Angie's List can help you increase e-commerce sales
  

Assignment Directions: After viewing the material above write 2 or 3 paragraphs telling us:

• Which online marketplaces, classifieds, and recommendation sites do you use?
• What has been your experience with them?
• How could you use online marketplaces, classifieds, and recommendation sites to market your business?
• If you were to use an online marketplace or online classified for your business which would you use? Why? Make sure you include quotes from one or more of the references above.
• Check your spelling and grammar
  
• Cut and paste your answers into a post in this week's discussion on Canvas.
• Respond to two other student's posts