Since its launch in 1995 Craigslist has quietly become the largest online classifieds website in the world with a regional presence in 190 cities and across 35 countries. Each month over 10 million people log on to the 7th most popular website to buy and sell just about everything. From real estate to furniture, promoting services such as contracting, house cleaning and even babysitting, Craigslist is the one spot where anyone can connect regionally to fill a need.

As its popularity has continued to increase, so have the possibilities for vendors large and small to market their wares on Craigslist. What’s the big attraction? For the most part Craigslist is 100% free to post and search. Only do job postings in San Francisco, L.A and New York City cost a small fee to post. Otherwise, Craigslist is an open free source for new targeted customers, ripe for the picking, just waiting for your business to give them what they want.

Craigslist is a regionally-based website that truly promotes community involvement. However, you can post in any of the available metros and multiple metros as well. The trick is in designing an ad that gets people attention, getting on a regular posting schedule, following the rules (or at least not overtly breaking them) and searching for new customers daily.

Simplicity in ad design is paramount and it matches the vibe that Craigslist likes to attract—peer-to-peer, real human interaction. It lacks the commercial aspects that add fluff and confusion in exchange for simple ads, most posted by real folks. Design your ad to fit into that scheme is key to a successful campaign.

Get into the habit of posting often on Craigslist and hit multiple metros with different ads to get more reach (if you business can support it). It’s free to post so what do you have to lose!

Understanding Craigslist rules are fairly simple as they are openly published. They are super picky about what you can post, but there are exceptions like livestock and anything illegal (drugs, guns, etc.). One of the major rules that we see as a marketing rule more than a terms of service rule is to post in the category that best corresponds with your product type. This ensures your ad will reach the best target without adding to useless clutter.

Over 8 million people post monthly on Craigslist and that number grows every day. Don’t just sit back and post ads, answer ads seeking your products and services as well.

Craigslist is one of the best ways for every business, large and small to find a new voice online for little more than elbow grease.

It is only natural that Craigslist has to grow and protect its integrity and reputation over the years. Since it had begun to sniff out advertisers employing unauthorised black-hat tactics and simply non-mainstream ads, it has recently introduced new tools to wrangle loan scammers, prostitution peddlers, and just-plain greedy marketers.

The Craigslist staff are even working with the police to keep tabs on possible cyber-crimes and potential offenders in its ad network, so much so that “innocent bystanders” can get flagged in a situation not unlike that of getting your AdSense account suspended for the slightest reason.

Thus it becomes ever more important on the part of online marketers to assume responsiblity and best advertising practices without saying…which leads to the question, “What should I know and do to be a highly esteemed advertiser in Craigslist?” There are some well-known rules:

1) Do NOT post exact ad in multiple cities/categories. Make sure your ad fits that category you’re posting in.

2) Use different e-mail addresses if you’re going to post several ads.

3) Do NOT abuse Craigslist by over-posting. Post 2-3 ads (reword them a bit), then wait 3 days before posting again. If you can’t post, try again in a few days because you may be banned temporarily.

4) Don’t waste money on so-called Craigslist auto-posting software. You only take a larger step closer to getting banned.

Matt Alderton has published a useful article on the best actions you can take when posting on Craigslist.

With all that being said, we found some great selections on helping you to become a reputable and profitable Craigslist poster:

1) Shanon Lewis’s “The Unofficial Craigslist Book” includes dozens of tips for marketing via Craigslist, including ideas for hot products and services that sell big on the site. She has written it in a way that appeals to all businessmen and women of just about any industry, and anyone can use her strategies to get better exposure for their businesses, better sales conversion and build strong, powerful relationships regionally. Shanon can show you insider tricks beyond mere posting of ads.

2) The Craigslist Black Books Parts 1 and 2 teaches you the secrets to turn this free marketing resource into cash. This books are almost free itself. In fact, it is ridiculous how affordable it is.

It reveals traffic methods not seen in any other Craigslist book. Part 1 is short, sweet and to the point, no fluff and more interestingly, tells real-life stories about:

* How a fitness trainer used Craigslist to make $1000 profit

* How Craigslist helped a Mary Kay consultant to constantly fill weekly home parties with prospects for free facial gathering

* How to get people to show up for your classes

* How to sell REAL ESTATE on Craigslist + a lot more stuff

Part 2 goes further with:

* How to sell more with your eBay store by combining Craigslist and eBay

* How to conduct your dropshipping business in tandem with Craigslist

* How to get top Google rankings

* How to increase your AdSense income too

If you’re serious about profiting from Craigslist, you will get both reports right now for $7 each!

Scot Standke and Jim Morris are getting way productive with delivering one new and unique web template each and every day in your inbox. But one thing’s for sure: the graphics are beautiful. Your account also contains 10 videos (+2 coming soon) that takes you from the beginning to the end on customizing and optimizing your website to rank well in the search engines.

Did we say your TAD access is completely free? For such a service, ‘FREE’ won’t last for long…

It is only a few years ago that Tim Knox began his 7-figure online business by selling a simple, little, 27-page ebook on eBay. That’s right, he started his mega-profitable business with a single e-book he sold on eBay, and since that time he has made more money from it than he could count.

Would you like to learn about a little-known way Tim uses to legally use eBay to funnel tons of traffic and prospective customers to his websites, eventually building an opt-in list over 65,000 strong?

How did he do it?

Dr. Mike Woo-Ming got Tim on the line last Friday to discuss how he build his million-dollar empire selling information products on eBay, and there were still not enough phone lines to go around for hundreds of people listening in to the call. Lines are dropped and people struggled to get engaged. Listen to the following replay but forgive the ‘ding’ sound (you’ll understand why it happened):

In fact, Tim is finally ready to share every secret he knows about harnessing the power of eBay. Wouldn’t you love to tap into his knowledge and experience to help you build your own profitable business?

Auction Traffic Mastery is a humongous 8-hour audio course on CD-ROM delivered right to your doorstep that will teach you step-by-step:

o How to conduct market research to identify best-selling info-product niches.

o How to create your own information products even if you can’t type a lick.

o How to post your products on eBay for maximum results.

o The proven strategies that virtually guarantee that customers will find your product in the crowded eBay marketplace.

o How to use eBay to drive traffic and customers to your other websites and products.

o How to use eBay to build a large opt-in list of customers.

o How to turn a one-time customer into a lifetime customer.

o A whole lot more!

You even get a bonus CD with Camtasia videos and transcripts of all 8 hours of audio.

As an eBay fanatic, no doubt even if you’re not his no. 1 fan, you sure know who he is. The first 100 people to take advantage of this offer will be invited to a private teleseminar in which Tim and Dr. Mike take your questions and really give you a deeper behind-the-curtain look at the inner workings of their highly successful businesses. Step right up to the plate today!

We want to tell you about a UNIQUE and really interesting business this guy, Terrance, does…

It has to do with creating specialized, easy-to-do, home-made manuals and videos to sell on eBay.

The guy who does this creates and sells only 4 types of products on Ebay:

1) home-made books,
2) home-made DVDs and CDs,
3) home-made videos and
4) home-made mini-kits.

Yes, you heard us right…

All he sells is books, videos, CDs and mini-kits, all home-made. Not only is it just as easy as making a cup of coffee but its a whole lot more profitable and a lot more fun to do.

And the best part is, he’s making up to $8,175.55 a month on eBay selling these simple info-products!

And he tells you exactly how you can do it too! Just click here to learn more.

Lester Seah wrote a neat article with 4 tips to help you raise your profile in MySpace.

Marketers are not silly when they know where to find people over 18 years of age and have money to spend. Obviously they have been using MySpace to profit since it first started getting big.

If you aren’t generating people and customers, you are missing one big business fundamental: getting to where the people ARE. That’s what Web 2.0 Marketing is all about.

After some research we found our top 3 MySpace-related products to help you squeeze more visitors and profits out of 160 million unique users!

1) MySpace Cash Machine: Gobala Krishnan interviewed Matthew Sherbone on why he choose to market his business on MySpace, and exactly how he goes about doing it. They have covered quite a lot of great stuff that you can take away for free. Just listen:

Download transcript and “MySpace Cash Machine” sneak preview!

Secrets to successful MySpace marketing campaigns:

* Targetted profiles
* Keyword targetting
* Profile linking
* Using pictures
* Using opt-in forms

They also discussed the common newbie mistakes when marketing on MySpace:

* How many friends to add
* What type of businesses you should not promote
* One profile or many profiles?

Matthew Sherbone is the author of “MySpace Cash Machine” which you can learn the proper ways to:

1. Create a profile on a niche topic
2. Add as many friends as you can
3. Set up your MySpace blog on your topic
4. Link to your online store on a different domain
5. Use affiliate links within your blog

This is only the beginning, because the END is something that’s miles away and beyond what an average Myspace user knows about. Do you know that people are already selling advertising space on their MySpace profiles? That people are already paying fellow MySpace users monthly to put one small link on their profile pages? That’s when you realize the whole MySpace thing has become a complete industry:

1. You can hire others to build a profile for you
2. You can have automated software add friends for you
3. Inter-linking between profiles and blogs
4. Your MySpace profile can be sold to others (for a lot)
5. You can get so big, that large corporations want to sponsor you

It’s not easy to discover a potential like this, unless you spend hours trying to figure it out. Wouldn’t you prefer to take a shortcut and get to the information that really matters? Matthew’s MySpace Cash Machine is packed with these precise insider information on using MySpace to market your online or offline business. Don’t miss out what other achievers have known…

2) “Hog Up MySpace Profits” is set up as community-based membership site where members can exchange ideas and be updated on the latest and best practices in MySpace Marketing.

By itself, your membership access not only gives you a great read of an e-book to help you understand some quick-and-easy solutions but also gives you step-by-step videos on how the methods work in real ‘live’ practice!

Videos are now one of the most used marketing methods of teaching people now and it’s really worth the money too; seeing the process in real-time helps to capture your attention so much better than having to scroll down a 100-page e-book (nonetheless, download this free report “Profiles For Profits On MySpace“).

You’re going to learn secrets like:

* How to customize the heck out of your MySpace profiles to make them look 100% unique.

* How to get thousands of friends added to your profiles in no time.

* How to use under-the-radar MySpace marketing tactics to earn fat cash from any affiliate program.

* How to get more exposure for your music, art, modelling/acting career, or website.

* How to market virally so that other MySpacers will unknowingly promote FOR you!

And of course, A WHOLE LOT MORE!

3) 19-year-old college student Ryan makes up to $754 a day from his dorm room using only ethical MySpace strategies, and even gets dorm mate Joel to do the same! The latest news is MySpace has pulled the plug on friend-adding softwares, rendering them USELESS overnight! But with over 160 million MySpace profiles online, not tapping on MySpace as a cash cow in any possible way is really missing a lot.

Ryan is trying to make ends meet to clear his education fees and since he embarked on MySpace marketing, he learned that anything is possible if “you put your mind to it”. He NEVER thought he would have created a system that makes hundreds of dollars a day almost fully on auto-pilot…and now this! Download your SpaceBankers preview.

* SPOILERS *

I had a discussion with a friend, “The One Who Looks Intelligent”, and somehow we came to talk about “The One Who Sells Templates” and sort of laughed over why “so many people are rushing to buy templates”.

(We are not pinpointing particularly anyone and you can replace the word ‘templates’ with any products.)

Then the friend said something that jolted me for weeks. I quote him, “Remember the time during the Gold Rush, when everyone was rushing to pan for gold. They were not the ones who got rich. The real guys who made it rich are those who sold jeans and shovels.“

Mike Filsaime interviewed Jim Edwards to open up a whole new Pandora’s Box of mini-site design and lead generation tactics for 2007 in this special video recorded on January 30th.

Have you heard of the video landing page?
What type of landing page is the ONLY one that Google APPROVES on AdWords?
How to combine minisites and blogs for the 1-2 marketing punch?

You will get your answers and more in this video that reaps nothing but tremendous benefits for you. You got nothing to lose. Enjoy the show for the next 109 minutes and 18 seconds!

Bonus: Matt Coddington wrote a 2-part article on how to setup a niche mini-site. Follow this step-by-step walkthrough to learn how to create a simple niche mini-site and turn it into an easy-to-manage, passive cashflow.