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Thanks for the mention! Haystack has [cliche alert] changed the way I do business. I’m booking clients with bigger budgets who actually come to me. That’s a vast improvement on trolling Craigslist where hardly anyone replies to emails and when they do, they “have a limited budget” (read: spec).

I’m in the lowest budget tier on Haystack, but I’ve opted for the larger-sized listing. How are the higher budget agencies and freelancers panning out? What about the folks who are using the free listing size?

Anyway, last month was the most profitable since I went freelance eight months ago and I don’t think it’d be possible without this service. Keep up the good work!

That one’s easy; Mike Rohde.

Haystack is a super idea!

What’s up with all the sites I find failing to open. When I try opening their company websites they don’t load. I just tried :

www.makexhtml.com www.hire-a-designer.com www.getmefast.com

Maybe you could add a housekeeping routine on your site that removed dead entries?

Thanks Jesper

@Jesper seems like all those 3 sites belong to one company. Bad bad server ;)

I have had the opposite encounter. I have gotten 3 hits or so from the Web site. I wish I got more and I guess I can play with my listing.

Any techniques that anyone has had particular luck with?

I’d really like to see some kind of stats feature implemented in the future, though. It would be very useful to see how many folks check out my listing, but then don’t click on my site link. It might help me then run some experiments to what imagery works best.

Yea stats are killer.

think of how much better the site would be if i was allowed to make my listing better with actionable data?

It’d be come the best site on the net for finding jobs easily.

Maybe even allow us to link up our google analytics accounts?

Haystack is working out for us too. We’ve seen some significant traffic to our site.

In total agreement abut the stats/analytics. We would love to see a very simple dashboard of # visits and # clicks on the contact details. Nothing fancy, just the meat.

Thanks @JF, it was great seeing these listings. I just added a listing on Haystack and we put some fun annotations to our main client screenshot like a scribble on some cards and a little post-it with our contact number. It’s always good to get inspired by other designers and then enjoy adding your own twist to the mix.

I’m biased, but I reckon our listing stands out. It’s kinda facetious… see if you can spot the difference.