We've noticed from time to time that some of customers use Hourtown's Book Now button in a Craigslist posting to attract new clients. We have always considered a great combination between online appointment scheduling and online classifieds. It allows someone to act on your classified listing for your services, immediately from their computer while they have the listing in front of them. Since times are tight for many service businesses right now, we thought that it would be helpful to highlight such creative ways to generate some new clients.

If your not certain how to get started, Craigslist, and lesser known Kijiji (EBay's online classifieds) have listings for various cities around the world. Within each city you can list your services in a Services category.

When you post your listing, provide a description of your business, terms, conditions, and offer anyone acting on the "Ad" a discount. You can paste in the code for the Hourtown Book Now button, which you can find here.

You might want to save the text for the listing that you create to a file that is local to your computer so that the next time you create a listing on Craigslist or Kijiji, then it's a quick copy and paste task that takes only a couple of minutes.