Craigslist Tactics Revealed

Filed Under (ebook) by Gandhi Prima Satya on 05-03-2010

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Introduction

Today, Craigslist is one of the most well known of all online urban communities

on the web.   It allows people to place free classified adverts relating to various subjects, as well as having forums where people can discuss various topics.

Craig  Newmark  from  the  San  Francisco  Bay  Area  founded  Craigslist  in  1995. Then  it  became  incorporated  in  1999.    Since  its  incorporation  as  of  November
2006, there were over 450 cities where a Craigslist has been established.

The  business  now  operates  with  a  team  of  24  people,  and  the  only  way  they make  any  revenue  today  is  through  the  job  adverts  paid  for  in  selected  cities around  the  States.    Ads  placed  by  companies  in  the  San  Francisco  Bay  Area cost  $75,  while  those  placed  by  companies  or  businesses  in  New  York,  Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston, Seattle and Washington DC will cost them $25 for each advert placed.  Also today, a real estate broker will need to pay $10 for any apartment listings they place on Craigslist for New York.

Today,  this  site  is  receiving  over 500,000 new job listings each month, and so makes it one of the top job boards in the world today.  The classified adverts that are placed on this site range from more traditional ones where people are able to buy  and  sell  goods,  to  community  announcements…even  personal  adverts  or erotic services are being provided through this site.

In its early years, most of the postings placed on the Craigslist were submitted by its founder, and were generally dealing with social events that were of interest to software  and  Internet  developers  who  lived  and  worked  in  the  San  Francisco area.

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However, as more and more people learned about this site, it began to grow at

an extremely high rate.   Certainly, as more and more subscribers began to use the site, so the number of postings to it also began to grow as well.

Certainly those people who were looking to fill technical positions found this list to

be  a  great  way  of  reaching  those  with  the  necessary  skills  that  they  were searching for.   Because of this, the demand for a section dedicated to jobs was created.   Plus, the demand by the lists’ users for more categories to be able to post and search under also began to grow as well.  It was at this time that more and more of the sites users asked for a web interface to be set up.

It was through the help of various volunteers and contractors that such a website user interface was created for each different mailing list category to be found on the  list.    As  the  domain  required  a  name,  Craig  Newman  first  registered
“craigslist.org” and then followed it up later on with “craigslist.com”, which helped

to prevent the name from being used for some other purpose.

Certainly  if  you  were  to  search  on  Craigslist  today,  the  most  popular  of  all  the forums is the one known as the “Erotic Forum”.  This forum is now often used by law  enforcement  agencies  for  decoy  operations,  and  Craigslist  co-operates  in any way it can to help prevent its users from selling drugs, sex or stolen property through its listings.

Through this book, we are going to look at the ways in which a person can legally profit from using Craigslist.   We will discuss the ways in which a person can set
up a business in their own home, and which will provide them with a chance to earn an additional income or their main form of income.

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