Upillar.com Creates Family Values Crowd's Answer to E-Classifieds
Hello, there! I'm Trevor Milton, the founder of Upillar.com, the easiest, most effective, and most cost-effective place to buy and sell items online - and I'm writing this column to tell families seeking to buy and sell items on line that Upillar.com is uniquely committed to keeping things clean! How? Well, for a start, we've banned classified porn ads, sex meet-up requests - even foul language? Our goal? To provide families with an alternative to less-selecting listing sites.
We built Upillar.com with the goal of creating - and maintaining - a listing environment "clean," and safe enough for anybody and everybody to comfortably search our contents. Like many of you, our Upillar.com team is unsettled by the unsavory nature of headlines generated by bigger, longer-established sites, so we made ourselves - and now we're making you - a formal promise to create and maintain a safe place for working families to buy and sell items online, free from material inappropriate for viewing by the 18-and-under set. We've all seen the headlines about other sites, ranging from rape to assault to sex to murder. At Upillar.com, we're all strong family folks - so one of our core missions is keeping our site free from the less-than-savory listings that have offended users and sullied the reputations of other online listing services.
In addition to banning porn and sex meet-up listings, we're also scrutinizing freshly posted ads to identify and remove foul language, sexual references or other obviously inappropriate content. We're also smart enough to know that we may miss inappropriate content in some listings, so we're providing a forum for our users so they can help us out. In short, we've built Upillar.com around some of the industry's most up-to-date search capabilities, so we're able to control the categories on offer better than most sites and, then, to do standing searches for words and phrases that would be out of place in a site dedicated to assisting families buy and sell online. Having said that, it's unrealistic to believe that we'll catch everything all the time. That's why we're working to create a bond with our users, and allow them to help create the clean, safe site they've been craving.
This promise to you follows closely on the heels of our commitment to partner with working people and families to create a superior online classified experience that empowers all of our users to build better futures. Earlier this month, we issued a "working person's manifesto," urging wage-earners and budding entrepreneurs alike to "seize the day" and make their own economic stimulus plans. As the first online classified site to offer both completely free listings and extensive search-engine capabilities, the Upillar.com is underscored our dedication to helping Americans who've lost jobs, lost hours, lost ground or simply lost patience to take control of their own futures.
We built Upillar.com from the ground up to free people from the limits that other sites place on their earning power. We designed our new Jobs section to make it quicker and easier to find a job, and we built the rest of our site from scratch to cut the time and expense most people face when they use longer-standing auction and electronic-classified sites. Whether you want to sell a few items from around the house or build a thriving online business, there's unlimited potential at Upillar.com. Online, no one can lay you off, no one can cut your hours, and no one can tell you how or when to work. This really is a place that gives power to the people!
In line with this, many of the early adopters of our site, which launched in July 2009, include people eager to establish their own businesses in the wake of a job loss or a reduction in hours. We're getting email after email from folks who are so excited about being able to start their own business from scratch without the need to spend money. People are thrilled about how easy it is to search for jobs or list items for sale, all completely free of charge and, then use our extensive search capabilities to keep up with their listings. They really do feel empowered. It's a fantastic thing to be a part of!
Trevor Milton is CEO and founder of Upillar.com a free classified ad site that melds superior site search capabilities with superior site functionality in a porn-free environment.
