Craigslist Classifieds??
What exactly is Craigslist? Wikipedia defines it as: "a centralized network of online communities, featuring free classified advertisements (with jobs, internships, housing, personals, for sale/barter/wanted, services, community, gigs, resume, and pets categories) and forums on various topics."
This, I feel is a pretty accurate description. Craigslist is essentially a giant classifieds section. It is unique in that it is broken up into cities and that you cannot view more than one city at a time. This can be good and bad for buyers and sellers. I go over more on that later. (I'll also go over some tools that will allow you to view multiple cities on one screen.)
What we are going to focus on mainly in this book however is the "for sale" section of Craigslist classifieds. This is essentially a giant online marketplace where you can make some big money if you know what you are doing.
A Little Craigslist History
Craigslist is a truly amazing thing. Started in 1995 by Craig Newmark in the San Fransisco Bay area, Craigslist is growing at an explosive rate, getting over 5 billion page views a month, at the time of this writing.
Referencing Wikipedia, Craig had originally started this list feeling isolated as a relative newcomer to San Francisco. Having observed people helping one another in a friendly, social and trusting community way on the Net, and in groups and forums that Craig was a part of, he decided to create something similar for local events.
The early Craigslist classifieds postings were notices of social events of interest to software and internet developers living and working in San Francisco. But word of mouth spread and the list became more and more used, even for purposes and subjects other than what Craig had originally intended. Because of it's ease of use, free nature, and good community, users from all quarters started posting on the list, and it exploded into what Craigslist is today.
Posting a Craigslist “for sale” ad is completely free. I believe this is one of the main factors which has caused the list such rapid expansion. Craigslist is now worldwide and as long as they stick to their guns and keep Craigslist a mostly free, community based website, I believe it will continue to grow and be around for quite a while.
Because Craigslist classifieds are mainly free (only job postings cost money), it also opens the door for massive intrusion of scammers, spammers, and criminals. It is mainly up to the Craigslist community to alert the moderators to such things and get them taken care of and removed. I'll teach you how to find these scams before they actually waste your time, or even worse take money from you.
Overall, the goal here is pretty simple: use Craigslist to make more money. And if you apply what you learn in this book, you will do that. We are also not going to break any Craigslist rules here. Everything discussed here is legit and good business. I have no intention of finding loopholes in the posting rules of Craigslist and exploiting them. I want Craigslist to stay around for a while. In fact I hope this book helps expand the Craigslist community and strengthen it.
The book is broken up into chapters, all of roughly equal importance for what we are trying to achieve. Each chapter will give you info, techniques and tips to increase your profits. As you read through, you will see that implementing the information in each chapter will increase your profits in it's own right. Therefore, if you absorb all the information in the entire book and put it into action, you can expect to see some pretty huge increases in your sales and profit margins.
As with all my books, I like to give it to you straight. I'll also try to keep it interesting for you and back up what I'm saying with hard facts.
Short Blurb About Me
I'm Steve Cherubino from Drexel Hill, PA. (right outside of Philly) I love the Internet and the potential it holds to make money. It is such an amazing tool for business, and if you learn to use it right, you can be made wealthy from it.
I've written 2 other Ebooks about Internet business: How To Make $400/day Or More Designing Logos Online, and How I Made $16,452.47 In One Month With The XBOX 360. In both of these books I reveal how I used the Internet to make some pretty large profits and instruct the reader on how to do the same.
I like to share my discoveries with others after I have done something myself and can see that it makes money. I feel everyone who is willing to learn and reaching should get a piece of the pie.
I've been buying and selling heavily on Craigslist for about 2 years now, being an avid Ebay buyer and seller for 5 years before that. I've made a lot of money doing this and learned a lot of tricks and tips. I've had a lot of time to test my techniques, keeping what works and throwing out what doesn't. And now it's time to share the winning techniques with you.
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