10 Tips For Making Money on Craigslist

By now you have probably heard of one of the nets’ most dominant classified ad websites; Craigslist. It makes no difference whether you are purchasing goods or selling goods, Craigslist is vital for any entrepreneur looking to make good money. First before you choose to surf the net and make money on Craigslist, you need to understand that there are a few critical guidelines to follow to help you become successful.

Why? If you don’t have the proper knowledge about Craigslist rules you might be blacklisted or banned. What am I going to share with you are the things you must know in order to learn how to make money on Craigslist and to use it in the right way.

Step 1 – Categories

You must advertise or sell items in the correct category. In case you don’t know, items posted on Craigslist are easily sorted by search engines and people surfing the net can view your listings when they are placed in the proper category.

Step 2 – Headlines

Create attractive headlines. This will be the main appeal of your ad and this will be the first thing that will attract the attention of your buyers. Write attention grabbing words and list a reasonable price for the items you are selling.

Step 3 – Use Photos

Post pictures. Listings that have pictures are easily getting noticed. Add as many pictures as possible to give the buyer a good understanding of what you have for sale. Pictures are worth 1000 words.

Step 4 – Respond Promptly

Don’t procrastinate your responses to inquiries. Respond to your inquiries as soon as possible. Remember that all inquiries are from potential buyers. Lastly be sure to follow up with your customers so that you can sell quickly.

Step 5 – Don’t Duplicate

Please don’t duplicate your ad. Craigslist can easily notice the same ad being posted multiple times and might consider it as a spam. You can be blacklisted permanently if you don’t stick with the guidelines.

Step 6 – Get Notified

Stay current with the new listing information you are interested in by using software such as AdNotifier.com. This program sends you automatic updates and messages every time a new ad is advertised in your category.

Step 7 – Resell Products

Purchase low cost items and resell them. This is so big since the resale industry is fast growing. If you have the skill for buying goods and reselling them at reasonable prices then Craigslist is a good match for your needs to start a business.

Step 8 – Use Links

You may create links in your ads. Like perhaps a link at eBay or your personal website easier to create access to your item. This will increase your chances for additional sales and possible upgrades.

Step 9 – Use HTML

Maximize the use of HTML in your ad to direct buyers to your link. This will help the buyer to get additional information about your products and services. Craigslist uses basic HTML which is not too difficult and can be learned at w3schools.com.

Step 10 – Use RSS Feeds

Use RSS feeds to stay current. When you find the search results that you are most interested in, scroll to the bottom of the page and in the right corner you will see the words RSS. Just click on that and you will get the link that you can bookmark to easily see what is current on that search. The nice thing about this is that you can see all of the ads in that category without opening up individual links.

Spend some time learning how Craigslist works. This means you’ll want to investigate what is selling in different parts of the world. Read other people’s ads and get some ideas of what you might want to do.

Of course nothing is easy at first. You need a lot of patience and hard work for your business you grow. I hope that these guidelines will help you with your money making endeavors.

Here are some good articles about Craigslist that you might enjoy.

• Interview with Craig Newmark, Founder Craigslist – Craig Newmark talks to us live at the Inman Real Estate Connect conference in NYC about what’s up with Craigslist these days. Craig discusses why they started charging for rental ads in New York, how he fights spam listings and what his …
• Craigslist Vs eBay | I’ve Paid For This Twice Already… – I had a comment last week on one of my older posts about selling items on Craigslist asking me what I thought about Craigslist and …
• How to use Postlets to Improve Your Craigslist Posts – There are quite a few features that Postlets offers, some fee-based and some free. com does most of the work for you. However, in relation to my previous post, I’ll also show you how you can create the illusion of an embeded YouTube property video.
• Save Money on the Web – I’ve mentioned before that I’m a software engineer living in Silicon Valley. Such an occupation forces you to stay alert with all the technology advantages in.
• Wired.com: Our Craigslist – The cover story for the September 2009 issue of Wired takes a look at the current state of Craigslist and the challenges it faces as it continues to evolve. In a sidebar, the magazine’s amazing art director Scott Dadich invited several …

Cash in a Flash Book Review

Cash In a Flash is a new book written by Mark Victor Hansen, coauthor of Chicken Soup For the Soul and Robert G. Allen, Author of Multiple Streams of Income. If you have ever wondered about what steps you need to take to make some incredible money, this is the book to read.

Cash In a Flash is cleverly written as two books in one. The left side of all the pages in the book is an instructional theory type of writing and the right side of all the pages in the book is a well written story of a group of people who actually put their recipe of making money into practice. Complete with drama, real life experiences and WOW stories, this part of the book is able to hold your attention as well as any CSI television show or NCIS show.

While reading the book, I kept track of some of the best things that were said and some of the most inspirational quotes. I am listing them here for your benefit, but I would highly recommend that you read the book for yourself.

32 Inspiriational Quotes From Cash In a Flash

1. For you to achieve your dreams, your dreams must be more real than your fears.

2. Money comes and goes in life, but spiritual enlightenment and self awareness last forever.

3. If you really want something, you’ll find a way. If you really don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

4. Do you feel encouraged, empowered and uplifted? Or do you feel discouraged disabled and beaten down?

5. The mind works best when it is asked questions.

6. The universe expands at the level of the requests and questions that you ask.

7. Money is energy which is why they call it currency.

8. The faster you notice the good, the more pain free you’ll be.

9. Always look for the immediate benefit camouflaged inside of every experience of life.

10. Positive thinking gets positive results that pay positively.

11. What could I learn that would transform those challenging events into valuable lessons?

12. Why would God love me enough to give me this growth experience?

13. Start with the consciousness that there is always enough and you’ll find enough.

14. Ideas start as fiction, become theory, and are then melded into fact.

15. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

16. Focus on your blessings and your blessings will expand.

17. What has happened does not define what will happen.

18. Sometimes in life you need to get lost to find your way.

19. Why would anyone want to send you money?

20. If you had to create something in the next 90 minutes that could be generating cash in the next 90 days, what would it be?

21. You always want to think of new ways to monetize the popularity of your website traffic.

22. The universe is a friendly place and abundance is available for everyone no matter what you might think.

23. No one mind is complete until working in harmonic purposeful relationships with others.

24. To become a great person, entrepreneur, leader, artist speaker or author, you must have a dream team.

25. TEAM stands for together everyone achieves miracles.

26. How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. – Norman Vincent Peale

27. Our problems are the doorways to our solutions.

28. My problems make me stonger, wiser and more courageous.

29. The future of moneymaking is simplicity, outsourcing, innovation, diversifying and constantly building passive, recurring revenue so you are in control.

30. Of all the products you could sell, information is the ultimate product.

31. You can’t sell what you aren’t proud of. – Gary Halbert

32. Your ultimate want must be so burning, so important, of such a high priority that nothing distracts you from it.

These are just some of the inspirational quotes I liked, but you may be more attracted to the actual recipe of how to create fast cash. So many examples are given that your mind will be restless thinking about what your next money making strategy is going to be. You will find that one of the benefits of reading the book is that you will have a new outlook on life. One with renewed hope and confirmation that you are a capable person able to accomplish amazing things in life.

Internet Entrepreneurs Strategic Success Plan

Preparing for success is a process that may take longer than you think. It seems that with any worthwhile endeavor, there are things to accomplish that take you much longer than you had planned for. Some people would have you believe that being an Internet entrepreneur is a simple thing to do and that being successful at it is a cinch.

Let’s use Jay Leno as an example.  Although he is not an Internet entrepreneur, he is a successful business man. After watching his nightly current events monologue you probably felt better about life because you had a few good, perhaps great laughs. That ten-minute television dialogue is something people used to love to hear and would stay up late at night to tune in to.

It was recently revealed in a Wall Street Journal article about Jay Leno’s upcoming television show that the short segment of comedy actually takes quite a bit more preparation time than you or I might think. Apparently there are six hours of preparation time and discussion with twenty experienced writers to produce this short comedic dialogue. Even with all that effort put into the short segment, Jay Leno often runs his monologue by his high school and home town friends to see what they think.

So what does that teach Internet entrepreneurs about becoming successful?

A lot can be learned from this revelation about the preparation time it takes to be successful. Preparing for success can take more than the 30 minutes you might have planned. In fact even after you have had years of Internet training, successful projects may take a tremendous amount of time to arrive in the winner’s circle.

When you think you are prepared, ask yourself what kind of effort you put into your current entrepreneurial project. Did you converse with anyone else about the feasibility of your Internet entrepreneurial project?  What kind of expert advice did you receive and did you take that advice?  Will people benefit from what you have prepared and how will they benefit?

To be successful as an Internet entrepreneur, you are going to need a good plan and a realistic prediction of the time it will take to accomplish your plan, You are going to need to discuss it with other successful Internet entrepreneurs and perhaps your old friends from long ago. You will need to plan for your project to benefit others and the degree to which that will occur will be the degree to which you are successful.

Rewards from Top Affiliate Companies

Custom Direct Wins the Gold Award at the 24th Annual Maryland Performance Excellence Awards

If you are like me, an affiliate marketer, you may not know much about the companies that you are doing affiliate marekting for. I have been an affiliate mareketer for 4checks.com for the past several years and never realized that they actually market for a company called Custom Direct.

Half of the checks that are on www.coolchecks.net are printed by Custom Direct. This company has an outstanding reputation and owns at least 10 different check printing companies.

The CEO of the company, Dale A. Dabbs, has been in the check printing business a long time and he say:

Since 1993, we’ve committed ourselves to making positive strides to continually enhance our people, products and processes to provide satisfaction and value. We put our customers first, and we seek to exceed their expectations. Thatrsquo;s the Custom Direct Difference.

Custom Direct is committed to providing our customers with high-quality, dynamic products, outstanding service, and great support from our talented team. Irsquo;m extremely proud of the people who work for CD and their dedication to helping our Company remain a leader in the industry.quot; – Dale A. Dabbs, CEO

I was happy to hear that they have a good track record and have satisfied customers all over the country.

I think that success as an affiliate marketer comes as a result of associating yourselves with a high quality, reputable company. Custom Direct fits the bill for 4checks.com and therefore…for me at www.coolchecks.net.

What is Market Leverage all about?

Market Leverage

Why join Market Leverage?

Perhaps you have never heard of the affiliate marketing company called Market Leverage? No one has mentioned it to you before. Now, you are wondering what is is and how it can benefit you. Why is Market Leverage always recommended by the top bloggers?

John Chow  and Zac Johnson, two highly respected affiliate marketers are always recommending Market Leverage to their audiences. Why? Because it can make you some incredible money.

Zac Johnson says, “Market Leverage has been one of the fastest growing networks lately as a result of their aggressive ad campaigns and success with making affiliates money. Not only does Market Leverage have a nice amount of offers to choose from, but they are also one of the nicest groups of people around.”

John Chow has a good April Fool’s spoof on getting a job offer from Market Leverage. I know I fell for it hook line and sinker!

Market Leverage is the place where leading online and offline companies place incredible offers for getting customers to listen to their pitches. Hundreds of companies hire Market Leverage to have them send traffic to their advertising offers. 

If you run a website or own one and are you are wondering how to take it to the next level, think about monetizing it with offers from Market Leverage.

Signing up for Market Leverage is free.  Not only is it free, but the people that you refer to Market Leverage can benefit you.

Market Leverage is giving away a lifetime referral bonus for each Publisher you refer to their network!

Earn (5%) five percent of the commission for each and every Publisher you refer that signs up as a MarketLeverage Publisher.

Sign up now by clicking on the banner above.

How do you use Market Leverage to make money?

Market Leverage has hundreds of offers that you can choose from to publish. All of the advertising material is ready to go. You just send people to the offer and if the customer fills out a form or makes a purchase, you make commissions.

For example, if you have a site about finding money for start up businesses, then you might want to direct people to your government grant offer.  This particular government grant offer has over 5 beautiful advertising photographs and pre-written email letters just waiting for you to send to your audience.  You don’t have to come up with any clever gimmicks or advertising letters to get people interested in these offers. That has all been done for you.  One of the advertising photos for a government grant is listed below. 

Market Leverage pays you when people sign up for the offers that you send them to.

Warning: Payouts can be generous and addicting.

Local Ad Link Reviews

Local Ad Link Review -

In reviewing the Local Ad Link program, there are so many benefits to both local businesses and to the person looking for a way to make money, that Local Ad Link has been given a great score.  Local Ad Link reviews indicate that this low cost internet advertising provider is a leader in supplying local businesses with geo-targeted ad campaigns.

What is Local Ad Link?

Local Ad Link offers local businesses a way to economically advertise their business on the internet, with or without a website. Through geo-targeted ad placement (ads served to people in specific areas based upon the users IP address), local customers are enticed to shop locally.

What are the benefits for the Local Business?

People in your community are online, socializing, gaming, shopping, surfing and more. Not only does local ad link feature your business on a social network, through their sponsored links, your business is shown on hundreds of the most utilized sites in the world, providing your business the highest degree of professional branding and repeated exposure to your local community.

Other consumer benefits are that the customer has zero set up fees and no hosting or design fees when ordering geo-targeted internet advertising through you and they receive 100 percent trackable results. If their business is already online, then they already know that if they have no traffic, their website value is diminished.

Local Ad Link, recently in the news, specializes in putting websites in front of major online traffic, then driving these consumers to your local business through a robust online account with proven interactive features. Your listing with Local Ad Link also provides you with the ability to upload videos, photos and printable coupons. Consumers  print your discount coupon offers and bring them in to spend money with your business!

The majority of individuals in your community are now exclusively searching for local companies via the internet. Yellow pages are a thing of the past. Business success equates to repeated exposure to high levels of online traffic in your local community. This is the power of local ad link.

How are ads served?

All Local Ad Link advertising space, logs where the consumer is accessing the internet through their computers IP address. Just as your home or office has a physical address, so does your computer when accessing the internet. Local Ad Link identifies the consumers address and then displays only the advertisements applicable to their respective community. The results are far more effective as people today have become immune to standard brand advertising.

 

Turn Local Ad Link into a Money Making System

For those who are searching for a money making idea, Local Ad Link provides you with the ability to sign up as an account executive, capable of earning 50% of all advertising orders. Numerous other perks, such as stock options and community cash are available to you as well. Personal mentoring is also offered to anyone who would like to get started. Don’t wait another minute!

As a result of this Local Ad Link review, you can be assured that the numerous benefits of Local Ad Link to the consumer, make this the perfect advertising platform and the perfect money making opportunity for you.

Ten Empowering Thoughts for Your Internet Business

Last week, I listened to Brian Campbell, a successful Internet marketer, give a webinar on social media marketing. During that talk he had people think about the belief system they had and whether or not their beliefs where empowering them or limiting them. He pointed out that every action we take begins with a thought.

The audience was asked to identify thoughts that were either empowering or limiting in nature. Here are ten empowering thoughts that were selected.

1. There is an abundance of money.
2. People deserve to be compensated generously for the value they produce.
3. I can spend money freely to enjoy life.
4. I can make money very easily with very little effort.
5. Money flows to me easily.
6. I would like to compensate people for their value because I appreciate them.
7. Money is to be enjoyed.
8. You are priceless.
9. The past is not my future.
10. I can get many people to act on something.

It seems to be human nature to dwell on some very limiting beliefs, which guide our course of action. How often have you told yourself that there is scarcity in your life? Or lately, the economy is so bad, no one is making any money. Recognizing and replacing our limiting beliefs is crucial to our success in any field of business or any area of our lives.

Would you picture yourself as someone who could influence others to take action? And don’t think of the times you’ve asked your children to clean up their rooms.  Think of the times that you’ve recommended a great movie to your friends.

Could you become a person that could influence 100 people to take the action you want them to take?  A 100,000 or 100,000,000?  How would you do it?  What would you say? What could you write?

Mark Zuckerberg influenced over 100 million people to use his website application at www.facebook.com. He is now enjoying the billionaire status as noted in Forbes magazine, The 400 Richest People in America, 2008 edition.

Create your website business plan to get as many people as you can to take the action you would like them to take. There are approximately 6,732,600,000 people in this world to influence!  Keep empowering beliefs in the forefront of your mind as you create a successful website business plan that can move people to take action!

Offline Advertising Helps 83-year-old To Sell Pearl Jewelry

Entrepreneurs can blossom at any age, even at 83. Wearing what you have to offer is one way that Marian Flake, 83 years young sold her jewelry to her friends at the doctor’s office.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yhXUab_4zA  With so much focus targeted with online marketing, sometimes we forget that offline advertising works well too. Here are some tips to help you advertise your website domain name offline.

1. Go to www.cafepress.com  and have some wearable artwork put on a tee shirt, sweatshirt, baseball cap, coffee cup, clock or many other items.
2. If you don’t have any artistic skills in making up logos for your website, go to www.elance.com and hire a professional graphic designer to make you a logo. Then you can upload it to www.cafepress.com  and order all you want.
3. License plate frames are a great way to advertise to all those people who are sitting in traffic behind you.
4. Put a cool graphic on your car window. Go to to find out what they look like.
5. If you are fortunate enough to have one, put your domain name on your boat.
6. Put a yard sign in your yard, if your neighborhood allows it.
7. Order pens that have your domain name on them.
8. Talk to people you see when you are out doing errands. Word of mouth is wonderful.
9. Make an unusual business card  stand out from the normal cards.   

Enhance your entrepreneurial skills by talking about your website offline and by using offline advertising such as the ten offline advertising ideas mentioned here.

Add your unique ideas here in the comments section!

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