Free Classified Sites Help You Work From Home
Being a former marketing executive in service for a classified ad website that was popular, the question that came the most to my mind was "how do free classified sites make money?" and every time I could answer them with one word, and that was "traffic".
Free services or products are generators of traffic and this makes money, period.
Money comes where the traffic goes, and this is the only parameter used by analysts who ultimately pay the money for the traffic.
Craigslist.
com as an example has an average viewership of more than 100 million per month, and that comes even when the site does not allow advertisements and the like that flood the site.
As a prime example, in 2011 this site generated about $96 million in job recruiter category, $13 million in the category of real estate, and $6 million in the category of therapeutic massage.
And let's not forget the money that they made in the erotic category in the times gone by.
There were even wild guesses of about 50 million before they eventually shut down that category.
Isisclassifieds.
com is yet another example of sites that make money by sheer traffic alone.
The site is unique in that it charges the visitors a minuscule fee for using its services and this effectively means that the amount of spam that enters the site is minimized to a whole lot of degrees.
The site explains that the users have a more quality experience as a result of this, the reduction of ads.
Besides this, there is also an adult category which generates an extra influx of cash for the company if not for today, then definitely in the near future.
Besides, the site also has its arms stretched out in the automotive, job section and real estate markets.
The most basic idea here is that once the number of visitors increases to a sufficiently high degree, then the money making process becomes a whole lot easier and it is easy to segregate products after that, but the actual beginning is never an easy task.
Marketing companies take years to build their initial flow of traffic.
But once the stronghold has been set in, it becomes very easy to set the momentum and get the influx of cash going in by the day, and that's not all, you can always create new sub categories because the visitors are already there, and the newer categories mean that you always have better sources of money than before.
Free services or products are generators of traffic and this makes money, period.
Money comes where the traffic goes, and this is the only parameter used by analysts who ultimately pay the money for the traffic.
Craigslist.
com as an example has an average viewership of more than 100 million per month, and that comes even when the site does not allow advertisements and the like that flood the site.
As a prime example, in 2011 this site generated about $96 million in job recruiter category, $13 million in the category of real estate, and $6 million in the category of therapeutic massage.
And let's not forget the money that they made in the erotic category in the times gone by.
There were even wild guesses of about 50 million before they eventually shut down that category.
Isisclassifieds.
com is yet another example of sites that make money by sheer traffic alone.
The site is unique in that it charges the visitors a minuscule fee for using its services and this effectively means that the amount of spam that enters the site is minimized to a whole lot of degrees.
The site explains that the users have a more quality experience as a result of this, the reduction of ads.
Besides this, there is also an adult category which generates an extra influx of cash for the company if not for today, then definitely in the near future.
Besides, the site also has its arms stretched out in the automotive, job section and real estate markets.
The most basic idea here is that once the number of visitors increases to a sufficiently high degree, then the money making process becomes a whole lot easier and it is easy to segregate products after that, but the actual beginning is never an easy task.
Marketing companies take years to build their initial flow of traffic.
But once the stronghold has been set in, it becomes very easy to set the momentum and get the influx of cash going in by the day, and that's not all, you can always create new sub categories because the visitors are already there, and the newer categories mean that you always have better sources of money than before.