Most of us have placed a classified ad at one time or another, sometimes with quick results or none at all. In 2003 the market for classifieds in the US was $15.9 billion (newspapers), $ 14.1 billion (online) and $100 billion (both print & online) worldwide (Source: Kelsey Research Group). Out of all these billions of dollars of classifieds, how many actually get the results the sellers intended? Possibly before the internet when most households would get the local morning paper, this was a great way to place your ad with a relatively high success rate because the classifieds were reaching the people in the community you lived in and even easier for the buyer and seller to meet up to make a deal. Not so anymore as print classifieds have dropped by 35% in 2009 and internet classifieds have jumped up 42%. If you’re looking to buy or sell you need to be online!

In the past it was easy as most towns or cities only had one or two newspapers to choose from, making it simple to place your classified or possibly find what you wanted. Now with hundreds of sites, some dedicated only to classifieds and others offering a classified section as part of their website, buyers and sellers need to put a little more thought into where to place their classifieds to get results. For instance, some classified websites are only dedicated to advertising cars and nothing else.

The good news is most of the legwork in finding the best sites to sell or buy is done by search engines if you know the right key words to punch into the search box. Google is the most popular by far but other do exist, Yahoo, Dogpile, Ask Jeeves to name a few.

Here is an example of how you may get more results if you are trying to sell some furniture after living in a foreign country for a few years and are getting ready to move on. On our website, www.huahinfinder.com we have a classified section. So let’s say you have a few beds, a dining table, etc.., placing your classifieds on our site may get you quicker results as new clients who will be moving to Hua Hin browse our site for rental properties and may also need an extra bed, they are likely to check out our classified ads as it is right there on the site making it convenient to have a quick browse..It just makes sense.

Other popular classified sites in Thailand are www.bahtsold.com , http://bangkok.craigslist.co.th , www.bkkok.com & http://www.thaivisa.com to name a few.