First, let us tell you what really Craigslist is and what it is about?
Craigslist is an American popular advertisement website with the availability of different classifications in sections that is dedicated to jobs, housing, items you wish to sell or buy, services, discussion forums, societal services, and curriculum vitae’s. This advertisement website is serving over more than 50 countries and more than 700 mall and large cities in the United States which allows you to post an ad.
Who owns Craigslist and how it became a thing?
The founder of the king of the Craigslist, Mr. Craig Newmark started his free advertisement website with the initial idea of sending an advertisement email to the list of his friends which featured interesting things going on in San Francisco.
In an interview with a marketing magazine Craig revealed that what was in his first email that led him to such immensely successful business.
“The first ones had to do with two events: Joe’s Digital Diner, where people would show the use of multimedia technology. It was just emerging then. Around a dozen of us would come and have dinner, always spaghetti and meatballs around a big table. And a party called the Anon Salon, which was very theatrical but also technology focused.”
Later on the next year in 1996, the email started to become a thing which led to expansion into the classification of categories. In 1997, Craig was still on its own, yet he hit about a million page views per month, which was big then and the Microsoft Sidewalk, which was an ill-fated network of that time wanted to run ad banners. People were already paying good amount of money for less-effective ads, so Craig’s idea was to provide a simple platform where the ads would be more effective and yet people would pay less. That made sense at the time and has worked out pretty well.
By the end of 1998, Craig started to get more serious about the website and thought that he should stop volunteering and make his website into something more reliable and profitable. After 2 years of doubts, denials, process and working hard on his site to make it more reliable, the site eventually started to expand rapidly from United States to Canada.
Presently, Craigslist brags over 50 billion page views per month with millions of its users who complete their transactions with the site as their starting point. With keeping the interface of the side simple and clean, it has seen very few visual upgrades.
How to Post your item on Craigslist?
If you are looking for a way to post your item on Craigslist then here’s the easiest guide,
- First all you have to do is, open the official website of Craigslist which is craigslist.org.
- Then make sure you have named your desired location.
- Click on the top of the home page “post to classified”.
- Select a category for your item to post your ad.
- Add all the details for you advertisement post and write down the information about the item you want to sell such as it price, measurements, weight.
- Add you contact number for potential customers to contact you, click on ‘continue’ button.
- Then you will receive a conformation link through your email from Craigslist.
- Click on the link to continue
- And you are done. Your ad will be expected to go live within 15 minutes right after the confirmation.
How to sell on Craigslist?
Who doesn’t love some extra money? If you want to earn some extra money which also helps you to declutter some stuff from you house then Craigslist is the best place to make some extra money for yourself. So if you want to sell something on Craigslist here is step by step guide on how you can easily sell anything on Craigslist with safety with no fees unless you are selling a house, service or a car.
- First step to sell anything on Craigslist is to do your research on your items at competitive prices. Have an idea how much someone will pay for your item, search for the same item on other websites to see for how much it is sold recently.
- Take good pictures of your item you are willing to sell. Craigslist allows you to upload maximum 12 pictures per product. The main photo should be more attractive.
- Then write a thoroughly description with a specific category about the item. Write down all important information about the item. Like why you are selling it, its price, its flaws, measurements, weight, color, the name of the model.
- Choose your contacting method for the potential buyers. Phone number is safer than the email to communicate with some willing to purchase your product.
- Always Avoid Scams, you can easily avoid scams by meeting the potential buyer in person. Accept only cash as a payment, that would be more reliable because you can check the money if it real or not also the buyer can also thoroughly look the item.
- Never meet the buyer by inviting him in your house. Always go for meeting outside the Bank or ATM also Police Stations or meet at the parking lots with bright light when the item is too heavy.
Do you know what replaced the famous Craigslist personals in 2020?
The journey of Craigslist has been wild. In today’s world the internet seem to be unlimited. You can easily find anything according to your desires within minutes. With the evolution of many online apps and website have come competing with the kings of websites, Craigslist. The top of them in 2020 are,
- Classified
- Doubleist.com
- Oodle.com
- Switter.at
- Bedpage.com
How to search Craigslist nationwide?
The process of searching with lack of nationwide searching can be tricky and frustrating to learn about the item that could be available in any city. Here are few steps for you to search easily,
- Use the Web service of Craigslist. Look out for the websites that allow you to search nationwide. Some of the popular nationwide searching websites are Search Tempest, ad hunt’r, Search All Junk, DailyLister
- Enter your search term defining categories such as products or job and regions.
- Go for your search words with craigslist.org.