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Craigslist Changes Phone Verification Again – October 24, 2009
Craigslist changes phone verification again October 24, 2009
I went to log into my Craigslist account on October 24, 2009 and went to place an ad and it asked me to phone verify my account. I know the account is already verified so why are they asking me to do it again? There can be only one answer to that question. These are tough new measures to crack down on people who buy and sell Craigslist phone verified accounts.
Craigslist knows that if you buy your phone verified accounts then you don’t know the phone number that was used to verify them. This basically renders the phone verified account useless but you will still be able to receive your e-mail through it and hopefully make a few more sales.
I hate to be the one to say it but if you make are living off of Craigslist then you are in for some tough times ahead. Last year when they first started asking people to phone verify their accounts I knew that this was just the beginning of a much larger spam control measure. I started a while back looking for other avenues to make money. I like affiliate marketing because you don’t need to own any products or spend any money on advertising. If you do it right it’s completely free, 100% pure profit!
If you’ve never heard about article marketing then this is a great way to make money. I look at article marketing as having my own sales force out there working for me 24/7, 365 days a year. Think of an article as a salesperson, if you’re new to writing articles then you are not going to be as convincing as someone who has been writing them for months or a year so. You won’t produce as much income for yourself, but once you start to get the hang of it, become confident and make those first few sales then you will realize what you did right to make those sales and then you’re on your way to the big $$$$.
It only takes one good niche to make money hand over fist. Don’t try to write articles about everything under the sun either, do your research and more research and more research and then begin.
Remember this, a general practitioner MD goes to school for the same amount of time as a brain surgeon, but because a brain surgeon is a specialist they earn much more money than any general practitioner ever could. Never forget this and you will make cash and lots of it. Become a specialist!
You might laugh in disbelief but many article marketers after less than a year can earn upwards of $1000 a day, 365 days a year. Can you live on $1000 a day?
When I first started writing articles my first ones really didn’t make any money because I wasn’t doing the research needed to find out what people really wanted. I was trying to give them what I thought they wanted. That’s the biggest mistake that anybody can make in article marketing. If there’s no audience for your product then you can’t make any sales.
The best way to find out what people are looking for is to pick a topic that you like( it is important to pick a topic you like because you are going to write about it like crazy) and then do a search on Google. At the top of the Google search page click on the link that says “show options” and then choose the forum link on the left. Forums are the gateway to your research. Once you find out what people want or need then you can go out on the Internet and try to find affiliate products that you can market to them. Make notes of everything you read in the forum and get to work.
Once you get good at article marketing then you will be amazed at the steady stream of cash that they will send to your bank account. Let’s say every article makes you one dollar a month and some make much more. If you write a hundred articles a month then you will make $100 the first month and the next month you write another hundred articles. Now you’re making $200 a month and so on. If you do this for a year then those dollars can really add up. Some articles may earn you thousands per month or better yet thousands per day! Each article is your salesperson and if you have 5000 articles online then you have 5000 salespeople working for you. Remember this, articles live online forever! Articles don’t cost anything, articles will keep selling for you if you choose a topic that is long term and is not a fad or something for the short haul. Think long term on 75% of your marketing and short term on 25% and you will be perfectly positioned to stuff your mattress with lots of cash.
One other thing about article marketing that is the most important of all. Your article should in no way sound like “sales pitch”. Many article websites will reject them right away if your articles sound too much like sales copy and the reader will know it’s a pitch also.
If you want to have someone write your articles for you then that is another avenue for you to explore. I have people who write for me on certain subjects and I only pay $4 per article. If you have some money to spare then this might be a good way to started.
If your grammar sucks and you are not a good writer then that is fine. Write an article the best you can and then for a couple of bucks have an article writer rewrite it for you. Article writers love rewrites because they don’t have to do research and the article will reflect what you are trying to say , not what they think you want them say or write in the articles.
A good article writer can take one article you wrote and spin it off into 5 or 6 similar articles in no time at all.
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Craigslist Phone Verification Changes October 2009 WordWide Crisis
Craigslist seems to have put some armor around itself and this is the toughest stance to date it has taken against and scammers. It’s just unfortunate that so many innocent people who use that website are being banned at the same time.
Craigslist could care less about the people who make a living on there. From what I have heard Craigslist pulls in a cool $1 million a day! The money is made on adult ads and help wanted ads.
If Craigslist was smart they would offer monthly subscriptions to post ads for businesses and people who make a living on there and offer it for free to the average Joe who only posts once in a while. I would gladly pay Craigslist $250 a month for a monthly subscription to post ads on Craigslist.
If Craig really wanted to help the world he could raise a Billion Dollars a year charging subscriptions to businesses to place ads and then give it to charity. I have heard Craig moves slow so maybe once he realizes how many innocent peoples lives he has devastated with these new changes he might come up with a compromise. I think a subscription is the way to go. Most spammers won’t pay to spam so they will leave Craigslist alone.
Perhaps all the people who lost their living with the recent changes should pack up and head over to Craigs house and pitch a tent city on his lawn. That might show him how much devastation he has caused us.
I would like to offer up Backpage as an alternative. I know that for right now it doesn’t get the traffic that Craigslist does but the more people who use it the higher rating it gets on Google. I have found that Backpage ads when SEO’d properly can get first and second page organic search results on Google. Choose your title carefully when placing your Backpage ads so you can get some good natural organic click traffic.
I am very fortunate enough to have found better ways to market my products online, most of the are free.
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Craigslist Posting New Rules for Housing, Craigslist Housing Changes October 2009
Craigslist posting new rules — housing, craigslist changes October 2009
On or about October 24, 2009 Craigslist made changes to their login and phone verification system. This new change is causing people who already have Craigslist verified accounts to re-verify them. It is not just the housing section of Craigslist that is affected, it is all sections.
The housing section of Craigslist is loaded with scammers and many of them are making thousands of dollars a day scamming people who are unaware that they’re being scammed. Although Craigslist makes great effort to post warnings on just about every page on the site including emails from potential scammers, people are still getting taken advantage.
For instance, right here where I live on the news recently there was a story about three families who were scammed out of almost $10,000 on one rental property. What the scammers do is find a listing on Craigslist that is a genuine listing w/ photo and they copy it, then they place a new ad with a lower price a price that seems too good to be true. This causes people to act fast and they take the scammers bait. In this case that’s exactly what the scammer did. He was so good that he convinced these three families that he was out of the country on business. He asked that they wire the money to him and all three families did.
And then come move-in day, three families show up with their moving trucks and belongings. Some of these families had traveled halfway across the country to relocate to this residence. What they were in for next shocked them. The house was already rented by the owner and the new tenant who was living there went to answer the door just to hear, what are you doing living in my house? By the end of the day three families were out over $10000, they had no place to stay, they had movers and moving trucks that had all of their belongings. Talk about pain!
I didn’t hear exactly how the remainder of the story went because the TV news only has so much time to tell a story, but I can only imagine the grief these families went through after that.
This is one of the many reasons why Craigslist has revamped their entire system. They did it for security reasons but at the same time locked out millions of people worldwide who actually make a living on there. I don’t think Craigslist realizes how many legitimate people were making a living on Craigslist, but all I can say is there’s a lot of people stressing out about this according to my blog traffic. I am experiencing heavy international traffic to my website so this is definitely a worldwide issue.
There are other places where you can make money online including housing, and one of them is to consider writing articles about the rentals or sales of housing in your area or the values of living in the area where you are renting or selling. In those articles you use specific keywords that you would actually use if you were searching on Google for the housing that you’re actually trying to rent or sell.
Using specific keywords to target Google search is called SEO, also known as search engine optimization.
One of the beauties about writing articles and then placing them on free article websites is that you are able to place a link from you, the author, to your website or blog. If you are a good writer and are writing on a genuine topic that informs the reader you build trust in them . If they like what they read they will click that link and visit your blog or website. Then they can see if you are a valuable source of information and have more to offer them..
Before they even arrive at your website you have already shown them your credibility so making a sale or scheduling an appointment is easy. Housing video’s are very popular and if you can drag someone from your article to your website or blog so they view your videos then you have a great chance of making a sale, rental or lease.
And don’t forget this, articles live online forever so if you did a good job, it will keep sending you customers over and over again. If one article that you wrote in under 45 minutes rented or sold one or two properties a year would you consider 45 minutes a good investment for the return that an article can give you? Imagine what 500 articles online could do for business! Remember that in housing people are always moving in and out of areas and 90% don’t use Craigslist for information. They want credible information from a local source. Tell a nice story about the history of a neighborhood and its strong points, schools, historic places and make a believer out of them. Include your photo in the article and they will think you’re their best friend and they can’t wait to meet you. An article is a salesperson that works 24/7 and costs you absolutely nothing.
Don’t have time to write an article? I have article writers who will write full time on any subject and will do all the research. All I do is post the article to the internet and insert my business link into it. How much do I pay per article? $4 each, YES $4 EACH! I outsource to a guy in the Philippines. He is a member of Wealthy Affiliate where I also belong. Wealthy Affiliate is the only place on the internet with an International community of internet marketers who freely share the ways they make money. The job bank there can help anyone out from building a website, writing articles, logo work, and much more. Many Wealthy Affiliate members actually produce their own member tutorials for members to learn from.
I don’t know about you but when someone that earns $375,000.00 a year as an article marketer produces free videos for Wealthy Affiliate members to watch and learn from, you bet your sweet Fort Knox that I will watch each one of those video’s a dozen times or more over and over again.
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