What Little I Know…

Publishers have been trying for years to find easy ways to give classified posters easy to use templates  or tips to aid them in selling their classified item faster.  Well it appears that pure play web tool Pretty Posts was thinking the same.

Pretty Posts is a classified template site that renders fully on eBay, Craigslist and Backpages. They’ve also customized their ads to render extremely well on Facebook and provide easy links that can be shared on services such as Twitter.

The templates are designed to ensure the sellers classified ad will stand out amongst the rest and Pretty Posts offers two types of accounts to do so; one is a free service and the other comes at a charge of $5 per month.  In addition to providing templates for a users classified ad, they provide dashboard analytics that get further advanced and richer if you sign up for the fee based package.

The offerings, solutions and support structure for Pretty Posts is not at all finished in our minds.  For example, the pretty ad a user spends time creating, doesn’t render well on other classified sites, instead a classified seller would only be able to post a link to their ad created on Pretty Posts, which defeats the purpose of trying to have your ad stand out amongst the rest. With all that considered, the eight person company out of Los Angeles is on to something. Could this be the look of future online classifieds? As the sites tag line states “We are putting the ‘class’ back in classifieds”.