A few years ago, we started a group on Facebook called Tractors & Equipment For Sale USA. It wasn't really meant to take on a life of its own, but without any real promotional effort on our part, today it has more than 50,000 members and gets about 3,000 new items listed every month. I believe it's the most popular group on FB for tractor classifieds.
Personally I am not a fan of the format of the groups on FB as it's nearly impossible to find what you're looking for. There are no categories, no easy way to find all listings of a certain type, and the only way to navigate at all is either search or scroll endlessly through 100+ new listings per day.
Inspired by this frustration, and in order to try to get a handle on the organization, we created a separate database site that includes the listings from our FB group, in an organized and searchable site.
We've spent the past few months manually importing listings and today, we have almost 10,000 items in the database. Most of these items link back to our FB group if you want to contact the seller, but users can also register on the site and post directly.
This is very much a "beta version" and by no means is it perfect. But now with a bunch of listings, we hope to get some feedback (from you) on the site and maybe in time we can build some momentum in terms of people using the site and from there, have it stand on its own as a valuable resource for equipment classifieds.
Using the site, including posting ads, is completely free for everybody. You can browse without registering but if you want to post an ad, you will need to register.
Questions, comments, and suggestions are all welcome.
Here's the link: Equipment Page - Tractors & Equipment For Sale
Personally I am not a fan of the format of the groups on FB as it's nearly impossible to find what you're looking for. There are no categories, no easy way to find all listings of a certain type, and the only way to navigate at all is either search or scroll endlessly through 100+ new listings per day.
Inspired by this frustration, and in order to try to get a handle on the organization, we created a separate database site that includes the listings from our FB group, in an organized and searchable site.
We've spent the past few months manually importing listings and today, we have almost 10,000 items in the database. Most of these items link back to our FB group if you want to contact the seller, but users can also register on the site and post directly.
This is very much a "beta version" and by no means is it perfect. But now with a bunch of listings, we hope to get some feedback (from you) on the site and maybe in time we can build some momentum in terms of people using the site and from there, have it stand on its own as a valuable resource for equipment classifieds.
Using the site, including posting ads, is completely free for everybody. You can browse without registering but if you want to post an ad, you will need to register.
Questions, comments, and suggestions are all welcome.
Here's the link: Equipment Page - Tractors & Equipment For Sale
