How many responses does a woman get to her CL post?
How many responses do you get to a typical ad?
I'm pretty sure I've talked about this in passing in some other post, but I haven't made it the primary topic of a post before. So! How many responses does a woman get when she posts in the CE section of Craig's List?
A lot. Typically, I can count on about 100. I have, on one occasion, managed to write an ad that garnered only 25 or so responses, and they all sucked, which was appropriate, because the ad sucked. But most of my ads get between 90 and 150 responses, most of those in the first 24 hours. Once, on a whim, I posted the trolliest ad I could come up with while still being honest about who I am and what I'm looking for, and I got almost 300, and nearly all of them blew.
I find that I'm happiest with my responses when I write a long-ish ad with a lot of (usually nonexplicit) detail, which seems to signal that a) I'm for real and b) I care about guys taking the time to write good responses. In these cases, I've tended to get 80-120 responses, about half of them good (where good means that it's not obviously generic and the guy seems at least moderately clueful), and roughly 10-15 of them are promising enough for me to get my hopes up.
