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Originally Posted by gideongallery
have you thought that maybe it was because they didn't have any free competition.
when your free it really easy to get real posting, just look at the online/paper classified and call those people up with a free ad offer
if someone paid 50 bucks for an ad in the paper and he gets as many responses from the free craigslist how likely do you think it will be that he wastes his money on another ad.
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i think that goes back to my thoughts that if they were the first / only free sites then the people who used it first must have thought, " ok why not, this site doesn't look like it has a lot of posts on it or a lot of people using it yet, but since it is free i will take a couple minutes to make a post and see what happens".
Sure free is better than paid, that is obvious. But if I made a free classified site today why would someone post on it for free if my site is new and doesn't look like it gets a lot of activity. That person would go post on craigslist and get 10 responses in an hour instead of posting on my site to see what happens.
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Originally Posted by CyberClaire
Agreed, 
I also think now is a great time to get huge traffic using viral marketing and social networking tools...its always good if you can think of a new spin/concept to make the word spread faster ...I have watched the site fiverr.com grow and grow and the word is spreading ..its now getting picked up by media outlets more and more from what was not so long ago a totally unknown gimmick type concept site. |
I've had a similar idea for a site like that for years but with an adult spin. I think it would do well. Anything you want for $5 (not prostitution) . Lots of potential from an adult side as well.