Hello everybody. Here I am going to tell you what I have recently learned about making money with Craigslist. This information is inspired by Moneymaking Craigslist Magic by Dwight Allen. I have not made any yet but I am learning about what it takes to make money. This is one way to make money online.
Advantages of Using Craigslist to Make Money
1. Craigslist is perfect for the little guy or gal to make money because it is free.
2. Millions of people are looking on Craigslist every day.
3.It works fast. In a matter of days you will know if your ad is going to work. Magazine advertising takes months to know if your ad will work or not.
4. Posting on Craiglist is really easy. You simply have to follow the instructions.
5. You don’t have to have your own website or an Amazon or Ebay account. You don’t need an information product of your own.
6. Anyone can do this anywhere. You can sell an information product of your own or simply act as an affiliate.
Free Email plus Free Craigslist ads help you sell moneymaking opportunities
Craigslist is one of the top job databases. People who are unemployed or underemployed look here.
This opens up an amazing profit opportunity for you.
How this works
You can post your ad in the job offered classification. You are not going to lie. You are not offering a job, but you are placing a “blind” ad. There are many of these blind ads in Craigslist’s job offered sections. They give just a few details but may not give the name or even the phone number. You are asked to respond by email with your contact information.
People looking for work on Craigslist are used to seeing these “blind” ads. People will not find it unusual when you post a “blind” ad on Craigslist. If they are really interested and they need to make some money, they will give you their email address. They will click for more information.
After they send you their email address it is ok to send them an offer for your moneymaking product by email.
Build your email list
Build up your email list. You can use it to offer other moneymaking products with a low price around 4 to $7 and certainly under $20. Your email list is like gold. People who get a free product first (ebook or pdf) will be more like to get something from you that they have pay for. They will trust you more.
Warning
Whenever you send an email you should offer the option to cancel or stop sending emails. This is just a courtesy. If they don’t say stop you can continue sending various moneymaking and other offers. You will get repeat business from some people. They are the real gold lof the list.
There are no rules against mailing to anyone over and over if they give you their postal mailing address.
Not everone orders but…
When you begin to get one order out of a hundred (that’s good by the way) and you get a hundred emails a day, you can make $10 to $25 or more every day. Now you really have a money maker.
How to choose an affiliate program to promote
Just Google “affiliate” and you will come up with programs to connect with in your niche. I found a list of top 10 affiliate programs for selling books. This is perfect for my niche. I also discovered shopify this way.
Popular ideas and how to get more
Some of the most popular ideas right now are information on paid surveys. affiliate marketing plans,,social media posting for pay, writing short articles and getting paiid.. And there are many other ideas you could come up with.
How to maximize results
To maximize your results you need two things. You need to keep the price in the right range. Your price needs to be around $7 and not over $20. People who are job seeking usually don’t have a lot of money to spend. If you are selling an ebook you ask for only $4.
Secondly you can use testimonials from past customers. You can put them in your ads or sales letters. If you can get reviews from recognized authorities that will make customers more likely to buy.
Don’t
There are two big don’ts. Don’t advertise anything that does not work. You do not want unhappy customers asking for a refund. You don’t want customers to flag your ad. Then it is removed with just a click There is no appeal process. .
Don’t offer mult-level marketing programs in the j”ob offe”r section. If you have ta program in hat you know works you can market it but do so in two steps. First offer an information report or an ebook.
Do not use hype or make wild claims about possible earnings.
Review other job offers
To get an idea how to make your offers, it is a good idea to look at other job offers. Try to pattern yousr after the best ones.
What to sell
Some othe popular ideas are “Make money sending emails”,”Make money writing short articles on your computer,” Make money posting on social media”,, “Make money filling out surveys.’
There are many other ideas you could use with a little imagination. Reviewing other job offers and combing two or more ideas will help you come up with new ideas.
How to sell
Place an ad for something like “Get paid to play on Facebook”.People contact you then you send them a free or low priced reort or pdf teaching them how to do it. You could do it another way and send them directly to the company. You then get a commission for everyone who joins the program.
Next go directly to Craigslist for your area. Click on the “jobs offered” section As your category you will check either “general labor” or “marketing.”
Don’t put your affiliate link directly into your ad. Also don’t tell them it will cost them anything or how much.
This is just the introduction to selling on Craiglist
Here I have just given you enough to get started. There will be some tesing to find out what works for you. This is the real fun and excitement of selling on Craigslist.
I wish you the best.
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P.S. I had a comment on this Craigslist article. It said something like “isn’t it dishonest to advertise in the “job offered” section when you are not offering a job?”
Here is my comment: It clearly is wrong to say that you are offering a job if you are not. But we are not advocating doing that. Part of the problem is that Craigslist does not have a “business opportunity” section to advertise in.
So we have to use what is available and be sure NOT to suggest that we ARE. However it is common to have ads on Craigslist that are not jobs. There ARE ways to make money ads , though, and could be of interest to someone who is looking for a job.
There is always the alternative to go to Ablewise or another website that does have business opportunity ads.
Also after receiving their email address there is an opportunity to explain more about what is involved in the money-making opportunity. Most will not respond but some will. If they do then it is o.k.
I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT ANYONE TO BE DISHONEST. Thanks for letting me explain.