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Introduction ………………………………………………………………………….. 5

Introduction
  Today, Craigslist is one of the most well known of all online urban communities
on the web. It allows people to place free classified adverts relating to various
subjects, as well as having forums where people can discuss various topics.
Craigslist was founded by Craig Newmark from the San Francisco Bay Area in
1995. Then it became incorporated in 1999. Since its incorporation as of
November 2006, there were over 450 cities where a Craigslist has been
established.
  The business now operates with a team of 24 people, and the only way they
make any revenue today is through the job adverts paid for in selected cities
around the States. Ads placed by companies in the San Francisco Bay Area
cost $75, while those placed by companies or businesses in New York, Los
Angeles, San Diego, Boston, Seattle and Washington DC will cost them $25 for
each advert placed. Also today, a real estate broker will need to pay $10 for any
apartment listings they place on Craigslist for New York.
Today, this site is receiving over 500,000 new job listings each month, and so
makes it one of the top job boards in the world today. The classified adverts that
are placed on this site range from more traditional ones where people are able to
buy and sell goods, to community announcements…even personal adverts or
erotic services are being provided through this site.
In its early years, most of the postings placed on the Craigslist were submitted by
its founder, and were generally dealing with social events that were of interest to
software and internet developers who lived and worked in the San Francisco
area.
  However, as more and more people learned about this site, it began to grow at
an extremely high rate. Certainly, as more and more subscribers began to use
the site, so the number of postings to it also began to grow as well.
Certainly those people who were looking to fill technical positions found this list
to be a great way of reaching those with the necessary skills that they were
searching for. Because of this, the demand for a section dedicated to jobs was
created. Plus, the demand by the lists’ users for more categories to be able to
post and search under also began to grow as well. It was at this time that more
and more of the sites users asked for a web interface to be set up.
It was through the help of various volunteers and contractors that such a website
user interface was created for each different mailing list category to be found on
the list. As the domain required a name, Craig Newman first registered
craigslist and then followed it up later on with "craigslist, which helped
to prevent the name from being used for some other purpose.
Certainly if you were to search on Craigslist today, the most popular of all the
forums is the one known as the "Erotic Forum". This forum is now often used by
law enforcement agencies for decoy operations, and Craigslist co-operates in
any way it can to help prevent its users from selling drugs, sex or stolen property
through its listings.
  Through this book, we are going to look at the ways in which a person can legally
profit from using Craigslist. We will discuss the ways in which a person can set
up a business in their own home, and which will provide them with a chance to
earn an additional income or their main form of income.