Starting a Classified Ads site.

Never heard of flynax myself, so can't say. Obviously with a classified site your competing with the grand daddy craigslist. Might be tough to get a piece. Though people have said they've done okay when they narrow it down and even localize it.

Sure some one will chime in with better knowledge on the subject than me

A quick Google search for classified ad sites will revel TONS of poorly designed and empty classified ad sites.

I personally believe you just lit $595 on fire.

I tried that myself about a year ago. Personally, I believe that what I did wrong was that I didn't apply myself. It would have taken a bigger commitment than I was prepared to make at the time.

I hope you have more success than I did.

What will be the difference between your classified ads site versus:

- Craigslist
- Ebay Classifieds
- Usfreeads

...?

Long term investment, but have a good chance to grab the market of Real Estate and Cars.
Wish you best of luck.

I think you forgot about Auto Trader. No way to wrestle any market share away from them.

Yes, Flynax is one of the best script provider for classified site. I think you should start with your classified site. Wish you Good Luck

Thank you for that.
Will do.

And to the guys that ask on how i can compete with large classified ads site.

Simple. By getting targeted prospect buyers first before sellers thinking of providing an event per or per month.
Example events that revolve around the same as you see on car deals such as free accessories | registration insurance and what not. That are just some events. Of course that even is applicable for owned and brand new cars.

You can check my other classified site. It's zalora.com i am partnered up with guy from malaysia and we put this up. and we marketed it through local stations and social networks and as you can see it's pretty good set up.

More on protection from buyers and sellers and what not. Contract agreements to ensure everything is exact and both clients are satisfied and a middleman system. That is some things i'm going to implement on the site

Starting a classified ads site is not the problem.

The problem for the most part is because you have so many competitors.

You have to remember that Craig’s List and BackPages are the huge players in that space.

The good news is that there are still a lot of geographic spaces that the big players can’t touch or won’t touch.

This is where the opportunity is.

You need to use your classified ad software to target neglected geographic regions.

Thankfully, this information is readily available.

The US Census Bureau has information on population distributions throughout all areas of the United States.

You might want to start there.

Keep in mind that Craig’s List services most metropolitan areas.

But there are lots of suburbs and outlying regions that they don’t touch.

The same goes with BackPage.

You might want to start with low-hanging fruit and then scale up to more competitive territories.

Forget about people telling you that there is no room for competition.

There will always be room for better competition and no room for worthless competition.

I hope you can tell the difference.

Worthless competitors are copycats.

They don’t bring anything new to the table and they’re not willing to work.

However, if you’re willing to roll-up your sleeves and look for those neglected regions and seek to cater to them directly, you can gain a
competitive base from which you could scale out and make serious money.

Such wise words.
Yes i am currently targeting them. Going out with small people then diving it into the business hoping the word of mouth and good reviews and experience will be my ticket for advertising

There is absolutely nothing to worry about. All you have to do is to find and use the correct traffic source. Never worry about the competition, since it will always be there in the in-demand niches.
A classified ads website can be a gold mine (there are many ways to monetize such sites). Just as an example if you run a pets classified ads website, you could promote pets related offers. Since majority of people who will sing-up on your classified ads website will be in one way or another interested in pets related offers/affiliate products. e.g. Pet insurance offers etc.etc. This is just one example. There are many lucrative niches.

You may want to think about hitting up the college communities, easy to market to and would catch on quick in my opinion. Good luck!

Tough gig as others have mentioned.

Unless...

The project you mentioned is a niche that may benefit from classifieds with less competition. I'm curious to know what it is.

Big general classifieds are hard to build and maintain. There are some WordPress plugins/themes that can handle it but if it gets big performance may be a problem.

Great idea I hope it goes will for you.

Target classified type and areas may help you rise above the Internet noise and get your site used..