Posted on 12/01/2005 4:24:24 PM PST by churchillbuff
With the free ads, I don't understand how craigslist generates income. Have I missed something obvious?
Revenue evidently comes mainly from the job ads.
http://www.craigslist.com/about/pr/factsheet.html
Tradeoffs are a bitch!
At one point last year the Marin IJ offered all motor dealers a deal of 15 adds, a day, 7 days a week, for $300 a month, after 2 months they were filling 4 pages of adds a day.
Then for some corporate reason they stopped, I assume it was taking advertisers from there other newspapers, now they are back to the normal 1 page maybe.
I do not cry for the newspapers, they were ripping off advertisers for years, now it has stopped.
GOOD.
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