How do I get business to post on my new classified ads website?

[Cave Springs]

I am working for a new company called buylocalnationwide.com. My job is to find people to sign up and post ads about their business/art/classes etc. on there. It's a dollar a month for each ad. I am having the hardest time getting people to sign up and I don't know why. Even my friends are reluctant to sign up and it's very frustrating. Can someone please help me figure out what I can do to get people to sign up and post their ads?

[Carlos]

I went to your site, it looks fairly new. Yes, any website owner gets frustrated with little to no traffic. It is diffcult in finding customers when they can easily go to Craigslist and post for free!
I would suggest getting a Facebook page and start promoting it there.
As there are hundreds of classified ad sites, you may have to distinguish your site from the rest of the bunch. But, again, alot of these are for free! Good luck.