It amazes me how many people still don't know what www.Craigslist.com even is? Usually, as soon as I hear about any website, product, or service a number of times, I am on a mission to see what all the talk is about and that was the case with Craigslist a while back.
We have been using Craigslist for our business now for about a year. We post ads for our business on the buying and selling side. We post ads that say "We Buy Houses" and post ads for specific properties that we have for sale or lease. We have purchased one property and filled several from these FREE ads that we post. We have around $45K in equity in the house we bought and have saved thousands more by filling some vacant houses.
If you have an idea for a business you want to start, do some test marketing and see if there is a market. Ready or not, see what comes out of it. People sell products before they manufacture them all time...why not try out the same concept.
Do this: check out craigslist, post some ads and see what happens. The only cost is a little time...what do you have to lose?
P. S. Oh yeah, check out http://www.backpage.com/ and http://www.postaroo.com/. They also provide a free online classified ad service. Not as popular but they are good enough for us.
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- Patrick Riddle
- Charleston, SC, United States
- I am an entrepreneur at heart. I started my first business at the age of 22 while a student at Clemson University and have been a full time real estate investor for 5 years. I love the challenge of building a business. I am an avid reader having read over 200 books over the past few years in areas such as management, marketing, real estate investing, psychology, sales, entrepreneurship, etc. I just moved into a house on the water in Charleston, SC and would say that I am living the dream.
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