What is the best way of creating leads to sell second hand cars?

Hi, Leslie,

Here are some ideas that I've seen work well. I hope they work for you.

1) Develop a relationship with repair shops. Find out which of their customers have cars that are about to die.

2) Get to know the tow truck drivers in your area. Pay them a few dollars for the names of people whose cars they have towed because the cars have serious mechanical problems.

3) Prowl Craigslist.org. Enter listings indicating your ability to find cars. Or if you have a car that matches a buyer's want ad, push it toward them. Or when a car like one you have is offered for sale on craigslist, email the seller and ask him or her to give you any leftover inquiries. Often there are tons of those.

4) Take one of your better cars to the parking lot of a busy shopping center and put up well-done signs offering people to take it for a test drive.

5) Get the list of graduating seniors at the local college and at the local high school and write to each of their parents talking about the "special offers" you have for recent graduates.

6) Buy a mailing list of people who in your area who are driving older cars. That type of sifting is easy for a good mailing list company such as USA Lists.

Good luck.

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I think it all depends to the audience you are trying to reach. This might not be totally true but I think individuals > 45 years of age might go to their local paper more than online. Sites like cars.com carry ads that are from the local paper as well as online only. Other sites can be more specialized like autotrader. Craigslist is also another good one and it is free.

take some pictures of yourself almost naked, sitting on the hood of the car, then put them online.. you'll get people to look at the car... :-)