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| Craigslist Makes it Big |
| Written by Skip Butner |
| Saturday, 12 September 2009 09:37 |
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Making a giant leap from the mere electronic mail newsletter in San Francisco, Craigslist has managed to be one of the web's most visited and largest earning sites with a network spanning four hundred cities worldwide. The main specialty of this website is for users to be able to post free advertisements or classifieds at the comfort of their homes through their internet connection with no hassle at all.
Making a giant leap from the mere electronic mail newsletter in San Francisco, Craigslist has managed to be one of the web's most visited and largest earning sites with a network spanning four hundred cities worldwide. The main specialty of this website is for users to be able to post free advertisements or classifieds at the comfort of their homes through their internet connection with no hassle at all. All that is takes is a valid email which must be verified first. This entitles one to access the site's full services given that they read the standard posting rules. Security is not an issue since transactions are purely between the person who placed the ad and the person who responded unless a complaint is submitted. Navigation is also a breeze for everyone since its website is composed of very organized and clear outline. This concept is made well kept by CEO Jim Buckmaster along with the business smarts of Craig Newmark, its founder. Craigslist's overall income comes from the paid advertisements posted by people seeking for jobs or apartment, rental and housing listings. This resulting money is enough to run the company and pay its internal twenty five employee count. An ongoing matter that this company constantly addresses is the misuse of its services for theft or revenge. Many claim that it even has the power to rob journalism of its prowess and has since transformed the future of the information industry. Keep in mind as any other business, this site is constantly on the move to eliminate many hoax advertisements posted by some users to lure innocent victims. Moreover, this ever expanding service of Craigslist somehow poses as a threat to local newspaper journalists who thrive in print media industry |