Money Making Ideas

10 Tips For Making Money on Craigslist

September 26, 2009 By Sherry Tingley

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.

How to Make Money Online With Craigslist

September 23, 2009 By Sherry Tingley

Craigslist is the best marketplace for buying and selling of products in your local community. It is a good marketplace to find hot jobs, real estate, books, electronic items or anything you need in your daily life. But it requires lots of skills to make money online with Craigslist, one of most visited classified website on Internet. Here is how one can make some good amount of money using Craigslist:

Submit product or items that you want to see in the proper category. You will not get the benefit if you submit your items in the wrong category and even your entry will be rejected for submitting in the wrong category.
Create an eye catching heading for your listing and if possible include an attractive price in your heading section.
Include maximum pictures that you can add about the product you are listing on Craigslist. Listings with pictures perform better compared to only text listings on Craigslist.
Also you can include your e-mail id your listing if you want buyers to contact you about the listing you have added.
Follow-up immediately with the buyers who shows interest in your items. Buyers who show interest in your items are surely in the position to buy that item. So don't miss this money making opportunity whenever you get it.
You should read Craigslist rules and regulations before start submitting your stuff here. Submit a well formatted and error free ad copy on Craigslist. Because if you do something wrong against their policies, you can get blacklisted. Never try to submit the same ad copy frequently.
You can remain in touch with what other people are posting in your category with AdNotifier.
Use HTML code to direct people to the link from where they can buy the product you have listed on Craigslist.

So if you are really aiming at making some good amount of money on Craigslist, never do the following:

Never try submitting the same Ad copy over and over on Craigslist. This way you are just spamming Craigslist
Don't post too frequently. If you must do multiple postings, keep a gap of some minutes in your postings.
Don't submit your ad copy in the wrong category
Don't submit an ad copy with grammatical and formatting errors
Avoid including affiliate links in your ad copy

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Cash in a Flash Book Review

September 14, 2009 By Sherry Tingley

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.
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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.

Blog World Expo 2009 – John Chow Challenge

September 11, 2009 By Sherry Tingley

John Chow has challenged me to give him reasons why I should be chosen to receive a pass to attend Blog World Expo 2009. He probably doesn’t remember meeting me at the last Blog World Expo in 2008, so I have included my extremely unflattering photograph with him. Learn about this challenge at JohnChow.com

Last year at the Blog World Expo 2008, I was totally inspired by all the talks given by the Fab Five – four of whom are shown in the photograph below (Zac Johnson, Jim Kukral, Darren Rouse and John Chow). Notice that ShoeMoney is not in the photograph shown. He must have been off networking.

Anyway, I learned so many things at the conference that helped me with my business plans and I will always be grateful for that. I don’t really like to reveal numbers about my income levels, but since last year in September, my affiliate income has increased by 660%. My blog traffic is now getting 14,444 unique hits a month and I can live on my affiliate earnings. I owe a lot of this success to the great information that I received from the Fab Five at the Blog World Expo 08. expertbloggers

I was also recently invited to attend the Shareasale ThinkTank that is going to be held in Newport Beach, California. Without the training that I received at the conference, I never would have been successful enough to be invited to attend. So I thank you Fab Five again. Should you consider me to receive a pass to the conference I would be so grateful. I look forward to learning much more about being successful on the Internet.

Launching a new website – days 14-21

August 21, 2009 By Sherry Tingley

This article is a continuation of a 30 day plan to launch a new website offering bank checks. The goal of the plan was to do something every day to promote the site and see what kind of traffic we’d get. Unfortunately on August 8, the site went into the Google sandbox and none of the pages that were being listed with top positions in Google were being listed anymore. The site is still in the sandbox unfortunately. It’s not hard to tell when your site is in the sandbox because your pages won’t pull up for the search terms they were originally pulling up for.

As you can see from the graph the site is going through ups and downs in traffic. Most visible is the drastic decrease in traffic on August 8. There is a steady increase, but this is not due to getting out of the sandbox, it is due to some promotion efforts through a company I hired to help.

Originally, I planned not to spend any money during this first thirty day period, but I caved in after the drop in traffic. I hired a company that helped me with this website and asked them to do the same thing for my new site. If you are interested in knowing who they are and what they do, be sure to email me.

The goal is to get between 500 and 700 visitors per day. At that point, the site will be pulling in some decent income.

Sites can be in the sandbox for three to six months so the plan now is to build high authority back links which means getting the site listed in different directories.

The plan now is to:
1. Add quality content to the site through a blog.

2. Work on increasing the number of inbound links (quality links not just any old link).

3. Tweak and improve the SEO quality of your site.

4. Write articles.
So you should be seeing some changes coming soon to the site which will include a WordPress Blog.

Again, the biggest mistake made with this site was to wait until the entire site was done before submitting the site to Google. So if you are working on a new site, be sure and get at least a few pages presentable with a sitemap and submit it. Hopefully that will shorten your stay in the sandbox.