These videos will walk you through getting your Troopal poster up and running if you still have questions please visit the forums or email support@troopal.com
Setting Up Campaign:
Setting Up ITT Account:
Setting Up Scheduled Tasks
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Archive for the ‘Software’ CategoryTroopal Training VideosFriday, March 13th, 2009These videos will walk you through getting your Troopal poster up and running if you still have questions please visit the forums or email support@troopal.com Setting Up Campaign: Setting Up ITT Account: Setting Up Scheduled Tasks How to Sell Your Spouse On CraigslistWednesday, February 4th, 2009The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that a woman is selling her spouse on Craigslist. Let’s analyze this post, you can see the full Craigslist post here.
This is a valiant attempt and the woman is obviously emotional. So, we’ll cut her some slack. However, even under stressful conditions the marketing side of me wants to write this ad with some compelling copy. The best place to start with compelling copy is in the title. Current Title: Free Husband (Central Florida) Improved Title: >>> Good-For-Nothing Lout of a Husband – FREE! <<< ({Location}) The arrows bring attention to the ad title and increase the click through rate, getting more people to read the ad. Also, the descriptive language in the title entices people to find out why the husband is described in such glowing terms. The more unbelievable, the more clicks… Ie, Superhumanly BAD Husband would likely have an even better click through rate. The {Location} token when used with Troopal’s Craigslist auto poster will replace the token variable with the city or country you are posting the ad in. This allows you to make each ad local and relevant. Imagine how many husbands this woman could have sold if she had used a little preparation with a Craigslist auto posting tool.  The next area that needs help would be the body of the ad, itself. She should have included a picture (like the one here) and should have used some quick bullet points for the Attention Deficit Disorder effect. In case you’re not aware, when writing ad copy you have to plan for the lowest possible attention span. If you can’t get your point across in 5 seconds to generate motivation to continue reading the ad, the reader will click the back button and move on. In any case, the ad was flagged and removed from Craigslist. Looks like her husband is a Craigslister as well! If she had used Troopal’s auto poster she would have been able to immediately repost it. Automated spousal-humiliation for the win! Craigslist for iPhoneWednesday, February 4th, 2009iPhone + Craigslist = Quicky Ads. In more than one way… You heard it right! Just walk into the garage, take a picture of that old weight set and upload the pic and an iphone auto complete post is up on Craigslist. Your rusty, weight bench is as good as sold. The ingenuity of the iPhone never ceases to amuse me. It’s like having a little computer at the tips of your fingers. Once you get over the annoying typing and learn how to deal with the autocomplete demons that give the thing it’s evil powers, you’re a minor tech god with this silicon and plastic boom stick. Now that it can post to Craigslist, it’s the bomb, in my knowledgable and not-so-influential opinion. Now if there was just some way we could get this app to auto post a few unique ads… Nice Features: Unwanted spouse? No problem! You’ve got Craigsphone and you know how to use it!
As I scroll through the various pages and menus, there are many things that I’d change about the app. For one, there is lots of scrolling involved to setup the app with your location, and other peronalized settings. However, it’s very handy if you’re as obsessed with Craigslist as I am. If you’re auto posting from home, you can also use this to check up on yours ads to make sure they are not being ghosted, while you’re out for a cup of coffee, church, getting married, etc. You can download it directly to your iPhone from the Apple App Store or here. TCUP – Troopal’s Craigslist Unlimited PosterSunday, January 18th, 2009TCUP Development Status: BETA AVAILABLE The software is now available for purchase and download once you have purchased a Troopal community membership. [UPDATE: 9:24 pm, Jan 26, 2009 - Exciting news... One beta tester has successfully posted a campaign with the latest build of TCUP. We have one of our staff trying it out on a system with EAP installed and other without EAP installed. If everything checks out, we'll post TCUP as ready for purchase tonight.] [UPDATE: 11:30 am, Jan 21, 2009 - We worked late into the night again, last night. We fixed all known bugs and created a few more in the process. We're developing a nice "features desired" list along the way. The programmers are saying that it will be ready tonight, but that is the same thing they have told me each day since Sunday. We're not going to give out specific release days, anymore. We'll get it out ASAP. ] [UPDATE: 12:36 pm, Jan 20, 2009 - America has a historic new president and the Troopal team is very, very tired. We fixed a bug in the software related to the install process last night and it opened up a can of new ones. We've fixed most of those, but we're taking a break to sleep for a few hours and get our wits back. We understand that many of you are posting manually, right now. Thank you for your patience. We are doing everything we can to get this out as quickly as possible while keeping the long term reputation of the solution in mind.] [UPDATE: 1:19 am, Jan 19, 2009 - Databases are evil! The good news - The registration database server is now working after having to break out the bubble gum and duck tape. The bad news - The application is working, but not ready for prime time and we're too sleepy to think straight. We're gonna catch a few z's and we'll have it ready for download Monday. Stay tuned!]
For those of you not waiting with bated breath, TCUP is our name for an automated software solution to posting to Craigslist. No more posting manually! We’re on course to release TCUP today…tonight. The software is complete, we’re testing it and packing it up in a pretty installer for you. Here are a couple items we know you’ll want to know… FEATURES & SERVICES
Troopal’s Craigslist Software CommunitySunday, January 18th, 2009Troopal is an online community built to serve your online business. From A to Z, we’ll cover what you need to know to grow your business as well as developing useful software and training courses. You’ll be learning from the community while you help others in their fields as well. MEMBERSHIP Craigslist software features will be determined by a group of professional, veteran Craigslist posting veterans. This elite core is made up of premium members ($79/mo) who contribute to the community. |
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- Clean Craigslist style format of most of the Craigslist pages