Thanks for the shout out and ideas..I would put the emphasis on two things:
1 - with free listings (both on the FB marketplace and on other classified sites) there is no limit to where a student would post to get exposure
2- there is plenty of distribution/technology opportunities outside of Facebook. Granted facebook is a huge platform that is impossible to compete with - we know that. But people use other sites and always will, and there is always room for innovation. For example, Facebook doesn't have a global marketplace search.
With adbrite, you can target specific keywords for them to target their ads towards, instead of having them spider...You should also be able to do the same with YPN...
I know I can set site-wide keywords, or section-targeted keywords on most ad sites, but that doesn't help when much of the content is user-generated AND non-spiderable...
1 - with free listings (both on the FB marketplace and on other classified sites) there is no limit to where a student would post to get exposure
2- there is plenty of distribution/technology opportunities outside of Facebook. Granted facebook is a huge platform that is impossible to compete with - we know that. But people use other sites and always will, and there is always room for innovation. For example, Facebook doesn't have a global marketplace search.
-Dan DormItem