Crushing It on Craigslist, No Kidding

Sir, it seems as though that lately Craigslist
is no longer allowing the ability to hyperlink
out to a website. You can still use HTML
to bold, enlarge, or italicise text, but
as for leaving anchor text - no.

Please correct me if I'm wrong as this
discovery put a slight damper on my CL
marketing strategies.

As far as you making a killing...congrats!

This isn't an easy task, so I appreciate you
starting this thread. I don't use Craigslist
to sell products or services directly, but I
use it as a medium to generate leads.

At times I'll even direct traffic to my eBay
store from Craigslist...but not sell my items
directly.

There are a number of ways to make money on craigslist. You could even try something like this guy One red paperclip - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and trade something up to something much more valuable. Even if they turn off hyperlinks it is still a good source of leads and contacts.

How are you promoting sites on craigslist if craigslist does not allow html links?

Craigslist is not a level playing field, that's for sure. The number of 'tricks' and strategies that can be learned to gain selling advantage is quite surprising really.

I'd like to see a globally popular advertising platform that employs a standardised model of ad display. Even if only for the sake of presentation and visual uniformity.

Congratulations. You've probably run into this in your travels but there's a fortune to be made out there scrapping. People will literally give you their old appliances. I found this out last summer at a yard sale. A guy was selling a working refrigerator for $5. He said he was surprised no one had scooped it because it was worth $40 in scrap metal.

I don't have a truck but got to thinking that some enterprising guys with a decent truck could place ads offering to pick up old appliances. If you hustle you might be able to pull in $300+ per day in the right location. There are plenty of people doing it but I still see lot of ads where people are giving heaps of scrap away. Of course, you show up at the house and they often have other free stuff they want you to cart off.

Nice going, man. I'm happy for you.

Where would you go to sell the scraps?

cl is probably one of the most highest quality leads you can get on those type of sites. but they are too strict and its hard to make a solid longterm business from it.

Craigslist was where I started making money online back in 2005... simply placing little ads, to a squeeze page, building the list, and selling products through email...

I was at the point where I was placing 50 ads all by myself which got me probably between 10 to 50 subscribers a day... I remember it taking me about 2 hours to post all those ads, but it was well worth it. I now have a team that posts over 200 ads for me on cl daily.

It takes a strategy and being able to zig and zag when needed.

If you can master placing ads on craigslist, then you can make a good, full time income with the right monetization strategies.

Does anyone know what happened to Craigslist?
I used to run just a few ads for an administrative business (most of my living basically) and now my ads are being flagged down within a few seconds or minutes, instantaneously basically. I think it's robots, no one can find my ad like that.
I also posted some Kindle and e-book services, that was flagged within about 10 minutes. Has this happened to anyone else?
I've lost most of my income, where else can I advertise?

Regarding cars, depending on your mechanical ability, you can strip them down and sell used car parts. That works for any old mechanical items. Think of the Car/lawn mower/watch as a bulk item and then sell them by the piece. Also for free stuff, there's always the site freecycle. As long as you're willing to pick up the stuff, people give away a lot of stuff.

My best friend has been making a living for the past couple of years with Craigslist/Ebay arbitrage. He buys collections of items on Craigslist and negotiates down to the bone and then turns around and sells them on ebay. He's just getting by and really doesn't even want to upgrade in any way. He's actually doing this with only a Dial up connection.

if you guys were only around before november '13

You'd know what killing it on cl is
now it's dead

What is everyone using now that craigslist killed linking?

well done chap.

Even though you cannot hyperlink on CL anymore, I have found a good work around. It does involve the ability to be able to create a decent sized graphic image in which you use a red arrow to point to the "contact" or "reply" button in the top left corner of the ad.

Basically what I do is create a graphic advertising my squeeze page or whatever biz opp I am advertising. I then explain with text underneath the image how people can get information about the biz opp.

I will usually put at the bottom of the graphic something like "Here's how to get yours:"

Then, right underneath that I will just write in the text portion of the ad something like:

"1. Copy & paste the following link into your browser: my link here (easiest way)

2. Follow the red arrow above and click on the "reply" button above and send me an email requesting the information. I will get back to you within 2 hours."


I find that most people will pick option 1 and choose to copy & paste the link into their browser. However, I do get emails as well. I actually would rather get an email because that gives me a chance to personally respond pre-sell the biz opp a little bit better. It also lets them know there is a real person on the other end whom they can contact again if they need help with something.

I find it to be very effective. Sometimes the ads do get flagged, but not very often.

Just remember that no matter what happens Internet Marketing is here to stay and whatever they do to try and thwart us always leads to another technique that we can make work. In a way it's kind of good that these big sites try and challenge us because it keeps us thinking of new ways to sell!

I would have to agree that it is not dead, if anything alive and going strong, so I've heard from fellow online marketers

Craigslist is still one of the most visited sites on the internet but I also use the other ones Alexa - Top Sites by Category: Shopping/Classifieds/Free Classifieds

You can still get links to your website with image ads. Make part or all the ad a link. Easy. Which is what you should be using anyways - an image ad plus additional text. No HTML needed really.

Awesome to hear that people are using Craigslist.



There's an insane amount of traffic on Craigslist...

An *insane amount*...

Lots of proven buyers too... (People buy CARS on Craigslist... And lots of other stuff)...

(And you can basically post anything you want in the "Sm Biz Ads" section)...

I have tried Craigslist in the past and I have never had good success. I spend a lot of time and never make any sales. I am glad some people are making money over there on CL, but I was never able to.

i don't like Craigslist, as they ban people to often, even if they don't violate.

I was killing it on craigslist also in the beginning placing ads for payday loans and sending them to a CPA offer.

I made close to $15k in a few months doing this until the company I was using for the leads stopped the offer and I started getting blocked on CL.

I tried other offers but decided to give up after having to constantly change tactics to keep them live.

Tedk

My girlfriend and I actually supported ourselves, when we first moved to Hawaii, using craigslist to buy cheap used products and then resell them for higher prices on craigslist.

there's software available in the wso section that deals with posting to craigslist more than usual
50 each email address per day i think.

Chris

I sold a clothing line business on craiglist I was surprised!!

I have sold a ton of stuff on CL but never in the IM aspect.

Craigslist has a "moral and legal responsibility" in its commitments to the public's safety. This is why many peoples would like to work with Craigslist.