Effectively Using Craigslist?

[Cedric Farris]

I am wondering if anyone has any success stories pertaining to using [size=18]Craigslist[/size] in the most effective manner. Craigslist will not let you do multiple postings for several cities however, this is what I would like to do! Has anyone been able to work around this? And which type of Marketing Campaign has worked best for you? Regular Text or HTML campaigns?

All comments are welcome!

[Igor Veden-Vukojevic]

Craigslist!

At one point 100% of my income was from Craigslist. 90% of it was Black Hat. Most people will say "why black hat", or why "spam"? It's simple: Because you are up against black hatters and spammers and unless CL is able to stop them, you are up against the guys who will run you over and leave you miles behind.

Here are some terms you should get familiar with:

PVA - "Phone Verified Account". Each account needs to have a verified phone, which can be bought for about $5-$10 per PVA depending on how many you are buying.

Proxy Services - You will need a different IP address and it will have to be tied to your are so you can't use public IPs, they will have to be private. They will also have to match the IP used to generate the PVA so you may have to purchase them from the same company.

GOCLAD - software used to re-post ads automatically. A few hundred's of dollars for the black hat software. If you want to purchase Black-hat version of the software, you can pay $30 per month to have access to a machine in Thailand that runs the software and you can share it with other people who pay $30 per month for access.

PowerLeadX Pro - This is a couple of hundred dollars and comes with different modules. This is not for posting, this is for contacting posters. Easy way to build a list of cash buyers, but you need to keep up with email addresses and buy them in bulks. Also you need to make sure you use URL shorteners and SPIN the text. This is very time consuming.

Ktaiyan from Phillipines and Mhanjur from Bangladesh that will sit there and virtually post ads for $.50 per ad for you and you don't have to worry about any of the above. At the end of the day they will send you a report like this one: http://prntscr.com/xvrbp (the links are cut off and outdated anyways, but this is what we were getting each night to verify the time of the posts and the section)

Here is what's happening. There are offices full of people overseas and all they collect is leads for rental properties and homes for sale. They collect the leads and pretend that they are a seller/landlord and tell people to fill out the little form for credit report. The form is from the Marketing Network that pays $5-$20 per lead who fills out the form. They will collect about 2000-10000 leads per day easy, pretending that they are someone they're not, only to re-sell the leads to the marketing networks.

So my questions is - if you have a house for sale or rent - why not use all these services to offer these people something they're actually looking for - A new home!

PS it's past midnight so I apologize for any spelling errors...