Earning money from Craigslist
(by a guest writer)
There is more than one way to make money with
Craigslist.org.
Craigslist may not even be a Social
Network, but it has a strong social community so, what the heck, let's include
it. The most obvious route to profiting from Craigslist is by selling your
products through this classified giant, it's as simple as listing an item for
sale to people in your area and waiting to hear back from someone. Below are
some methods you may not be familiar with.
Being the broker
Sell other people's merchandise for a percentage of the sale price. We all
are familiar with selling our old stuff from around the house, but there
are a lot of people out there that have junk piling up. Many people may
not be as computer savvy as you are, and would be intimidated by listing
their stuff, while at the same time they just don't have room in their
schedule for a garage sale. They represent an opportunity. Start by talking to neighbors, family and friends to see
if they have any unwanted stuff they'd like you to get rid of for them. Once you have dried up your resources,
post an ad on Craigslist itself offering to sell people's unwanted items for a
small percentage. By the way, selling on Craigslist
is a lot easier than a marketplace like
eBay , because there is no
shipping hassles, you just take twenty minutes to deliver it, or let the
buyer come pick it up.
Or becoming an affiliate
Selling your affiliate products on Craigslist: You are allowed to sell
services as long as you place them in the proper category. Craigslist
gets a lot of traffic and a lot of affiliates are harnessing that
exposure. The most important factor with this
method is your sales copy. Your sales copy needs to be good or nobody
will ever click through to the product page. Get started with this method
by visiting Clickbank
and Commission Junction to
find a great affiliate product to promote. There are several good
resources on finding great affiliate merchants and profiting from
affiliate programs and a discussion of that is outside the scope of this
article. Or creating a tool
Setup an online tool that allows marketers to easily post to multiple
cities or categories. One of the biggest drags to selling on Craigslist is that you can only manually post to one location at a time,
which is fine if you are selling garage sale type items. On the other
hand, affiliate marketers want to scattergun Craigslist with
ads across multiple cities; you can make this easy for them.
Craygo is
 a good
example of an auto posting software developed for use with Craigslist.
Not only does this service allow you to post to multiple categories
automatically, it also rotates headlines so that all of the ads don't
look the same. Opportunities exist for tools like this, selling advertising
space, charging people to download or use your software, helping
employers find the right staff or students find roommates. Ideas
for further tools? You'd need to get involved in the community, get very
familiar with how it works, test some of the existing tools yourself...
and wait for inspiration.
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