Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2010
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In part of our goal to bring you up-to-date Craigslist information, we’ve added a new feature to our site. If you visit the Craigslist-help.com home page or the Craigslist tutorial videos page, you will see a box with an assortment of videos from various news sources from around the world. These news stories are about things such as watching out for Craigslist scams, tutorials about how to use Craigslist and other assorted news stories.
Take the time to view a few. There could be some valuable information you need or have missed on your journey to understand Craigslist.
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Tags: Craigslist news, News, videos
Posted on Saturday, May 1, 2010
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The Advanced Interactive Media (AIM) Group is out with their annual report on Craigslist and estimates that the classified listing site will generate $122 million in revenue in 2010.
More than half of that revenue comes from recruitment advertising, but 30% of it comes from Craigslist’s (
) adult services ads. By the AIM Group’s estimation, Craigslist’s adult services — formerly known as “erotic services” — will funnel in more than $36 million in revenue for 2010.
The Classified Intelligence Report also finds that Craigslist stands to take home anywhere from $88 to $99 million in profit, which means the company could see nearly 80% of revenue as profits. Plus, AIM Group founder Peter M. Zollman purports that, “Per employee, it generates more than $4 million in revenue and profits of $2.9 million to $3.2 million.” (more…)
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Tags: adult services, Advanced Interactive Media (AIM) Group
Posted on Saturday, April 17, 2010
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The constant battle between online auction giant eBay and Craigslist has been in the news for over a couple of years now. First, eBay acquired shares of Craigslist and then a year later they launched Kijiji. Kijiji, if you weren’t aware, is a classified site very similar to Craigslist. In 2007, eBay launched Kijiji in the United States and then filed laawsuits against Craigslist for pushing them out of shares. Subsequtenly, Craigslist filed a case against eBay and their attmept at a hostile take over of Craigslist itself. (more…)
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Tags: classifieds, Craigslist, eBay