Archive for the 'Craigslist' Category

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 [...]

They started a home based business thanks to the free advertising at Craigslist… until they got busted. It should go without saying that these types of ads for illegal services go against Craigslist’s terms of service, but nothing much really goes without saying anymore.
From NBC News
Kimberly Petersen, 17, was arrested after detectives doing a routine [...]

The problem with selling on Ebay is that you can really be taken for a ride and not make the money you hoped by buying from a reseller instead of the actualy product source (or as close as you can get).
For $2.99 Skip McGrath helps you learn where eBay power sellers buy the merchandise to [...]

By the time you read this, Craigslist will probably have deleted this post offering what sounds like a great work at home opportunity. These people seem to keep coming back again and again, so you may see it on other boards.
What made me very suspicious was that the text is an image, not actual text. [...]

Can Zigire create a social networking site from scratch in just 4 days?
Zigire is one of many people wanting to sponsor a post on this blog to get exposure for their website. Most of the time you see these requests like this and you yawn.
But this caught my eye… the challenge of creating a social [...]

Will “Voice Recognition” Software eliminate the need for medical transcriptionists? Not if this is to be believed. Even with the software … they need trained medical transcriptionists to work as editors.
I saw it on Craigslist.
Tired of pounding the keyboard? Want to give your wrists and hands a rest? Focus Infomatics, Inc. is hiring US MT-Editors [...]

I am fascinated by the auto industry and it’s potential for entrepreneurs. So when I hear about sites like LemonFree.com I routinely check them out. Anyone, even dealers, can use the site to post used car and truck listings for free.
Basically, you go to the site, type in what you’re looking for (LemonFree.com serves the [...]

This is from Craigslist. When I got information back and informed the staff that indeed it was a scam, they removed it. But you will see it again!
If you see this ad, please realize it’s about sending them $10 by PayPal and they tell you how to post these ads to get $10 from other [...]