Step 5: Hit the GMass button and watch the magic happen. This also means that the Subject line I’ve typed in the Compose window will be ignored, since a reply will use the Subject of their original message to me. Setting the campaign to send as replies ensures that their original email will be at the bottom of my reply. If they forgot that they applied to this gig in the first place, they may be confused. If I don’t check this, each person will get a new email as a new conversation. This will force each email to each person in the To line to send as a reply to the email that person sent me. Step 4: Change the Settings to send as “replies” I can even personalize each email to each Craigslist user with their first name. Here I typed a simple email to let them know that I had now hired someone and to thank them for their time. Here I manually removed the ONE address of the person that I did hire, leaving me with a total of 119 addresses to which I’d send the rejection letter. Just click the GMass magnifying glass, and a Compose window opens containing the addresses of everyone who responded. Step 2: Click the “magnifying glass” to build a list of everyone who responded Everybody who had responded had put “Pequod’s” in the Subject line and was still sitting in my Inbox, so my Gmail search criteria was: in:inbox subject:"pequod's" Step 1: Search for everyone who responded Using my Gmail plugin, GMass, sending a message to everybody I was NOT hiring took about 90 seconds. As someone who responds to Craigslist ads, I can only imagine that being left to wonder - never getting a response to your response - feels awful. This is about doing what most Craigslist posters don’t do - emailing everyone back with the gig’s status, so they’re not left wondering.
This story isn’t about the pizza delivery, the delicious Pequod’s caramelized crust, or how much I love my wife.
I’m sure you could find someone to declare me dead, too. But then again, people declare email dead all the time too, and clearly that’s not the case.
Especially when over the years, many have declared Craigslist dead. It’s surprising just how powerful Craigslist is, 20-plus years after its launch, but it’s also exciting how much interest a “strange” gig can garner. Some thought I was insane for offering $400 for a couple pizzas:īut most responded with genuine interest: Within the first 12 hours of posting, I had more than 100 responses from interested parties. My years of experience posting on Craigslist has prepared me to sometimes get no responses and sometimes be overwhelmed with responses. For Christmas, I wanted someone to deliver my wife’s favorite pizza from Chicago to Dayton. Now that we live in Dayton, Ohio, our access to delicious Chicago-style deep dish pizza is limited. My wife and I used to live in Chicago, and Pequod’s was our favorite pizza restaurant. A few days ago, I posted this ad on Craigslist: