Archive for the 'Craigslist' Category

Saturday, the Senate approved a bail out for stockholders who got rich from the subprime mortgage industry. Nobody is bailing out the tax payers who have to pay for this silk stocking welfare. It remains to be seen if any actual homeowners will be helped, but we know every taxpayer is getting hosed to bail […]

I posted about the Craigslist hoax that cost a man most of his possessions. Police have now busted the perpetrators.
Amber Herbert, 28, of Medford, and her husband, Brandon Herbert, 29, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to commit a computer crime.
Police searched a computer that they owned and found […]

The kind, loving people who make Craigslist such a friendly place to visit online (NOT!) have now ransacked a man’s house in Oregon.
Oregon man’s property ransacked after Craigslist hoax
The ads popped up Saturday afternoon, saying the owner of a Jacksonville home was forced to leave the area suddenly and his belongings, including a horse, […]

This is a victory for all websites with user generated content!
From Online Media Daily 

In a ruling that has implications for all companies that publish consumer-generated content, a federal appeals court found Craigslist not responsible for discriminatory ads that were placed by users of the online classifieds site, and stated that the federal Communications Decency Act […]

It is easy to get overwhelmed with all of the rapidly changing marketing strategies and online advertising schemes that seem to bounce around the Internet news sites these days and are also found in every $40 Internet business book at Borders. The typical online entrepreneur, such as an e-book author, small business owner, independent […]

This isn’t an affiliate link, I just wanted to help my pal Skip Rosell.
He’s got a new product out called Craigslist Cash and it’s worth investigating if you’re looking for a home based business and want to tap into one of the hottest — and free — ad media’s in the US as I […]

I guess it’s not only uneducated people who get taken in by scams.  This fellow was a law student at a major Ivy League Law School! Again, the scam was posted on Craigslist! It’s worth reading the whole article.
From the Washington City Paper
An intriguing Craigslist job ad turned up on June 21 of […]

Here’s another phony “Work At Home Job” posting at Craiglist.
You wonder how these companies get to leave their URL when legitimate ads for products and services for sales are axed because Craigslist calls them an affiliate link when this is nothing more than an affiliate link and the whole thing about a job and base […]

What’s the future of newspaper advertising? Here are some news items from the Newspaper Association of America.
Depending on your business - whether it’s local or not - it CAN drive traffic. Maybe.
But folks from the Advertising Director at Macy’s and the founder of Craiglist were offering some straight talk to an industry that’s been fat […]

I received this communication from Jamie and wanted to pass it along to you. It should be ideal for locally based businesses trying to identify the best Craigslist sites for their ads. 
I have developed a research report useful to anyone wanting to study the demographic characteristics of all the 289 areas served by a Craigslist Website […]