5 ways to manage and share your favorite classified ads

So you're an avid user of classifieds portals, and you routinely visit several of them.

Now, what do you do when you find an interesting ad? How do you keep track of it? How do you share it with friends or family? Let's see a few possibilities:

Keep track of your preferred videos

Did you know that instead of classifying your classifieds, you can also use Logbee to store, share and comment your preferred videos?

Regardless of whether they're on YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion or other video portals, it's super-easy to store them into your Logbee account: title, description and intro image are retrieved automatically.

Make your multi-portal playlists or "watch later" lists, and share and comment them with your buddies. Or not.

Here an example with our collection of bees-related videos:

Logbee module for 68 Classifieds

Tadaaa!

Following the success of our plugin for Osclass (over 1'300 downloads so far), we've developed a module for 68 Classifieds, another system that makes it super-easy and quick to setup a professional classifieds website.

If you don't know 68C, here's what it is about:
"68 Classifieds is a professionally developed PHP Classifieds script that was built with you - the site owner - in mind and to assist you in generating income from your website. Whether you are running classifieds for autos, motorcycles, bicycles, rv's, guns, horses, or general merchandise, our product is the right package for you."

Your favorites on Craigslist, Backpage & co

Craigslist and Backpage, the two biggest classifieds portals in the USA, are also probably the most successful websites with no design. At all. And don't ask for fancy functionality either. They're basic. Very basic.

Obviously, these two major flaws aren't flaws but could be seen as features. No bloaty javascript stuff, no endless css, no ajax magic, no tricky graphical fanciness, no nothing. Simple, straight, lightweight, quick.

And it works!

But what do you do if you want to keep track of your favorite ads? Backpage won't help you. Craigslist has a way of marking their ads as favorites, but it's based on cookies, which means you'll lose them if you switch computers or if you just use another browser.

As for sharing favorites with friends, this is what Craigslist's FAQ says:

Q. How do I share my favorites with friends?
A. Send them the web address (URL) for your favorites page. They can click the gray stars to add them to their own favorites page if they like.

Don't ask about Backpage. They've consequently and rightly stuck to the KISS principle.

And that's exactly where Logbee comes to the rescue!

Some myths about classifieds portals

Kinan Hamwi from OpenClassifieds recently wrote an article about the "Top 5 Myths About Starting a Classifieds website".

Some very good points indeed.

I'd just like to add myth #6: Your visitors don't go to other classifieds portals.

Logbee - The Wall

Logbee is invading the city!

See how Logbee works with some detailed examples.

And create your free account now on www.logbee.com

Ready for Christmas? Get help from SantaBee!

I know, I know... It's not even December yet. But I guess many of you are already making lists for your Christmas presents.Who will get what? What to get for whom? etc...

Am I right or am I right?

Don't worry, SantaBee is here to help!

Share your Christmas logbooks with SantaBee, and he will make sure to give you his opinion by rating and commenting your items. And who knows?... Maybe SantaBee will even have a surprise for you!