Lancaster PA Marketing - Craigslist

Today I wanted to take the time to discuss Craigslist. It used to be a very good tool for free advertising but lately has become a cesspool of very slimy marketers trying to trick people into making them money, let me explain.

There are c0mpanies out there that will pay marketers to get folks to submit information online. They are called CPA offers, or Cost Per Action.

You can get paid (usually under a buck) for having someone submit their zip code or email address and you can also get paid (sometimes as high as $45) for someone signing up for a “free trial” of a product or service.

There so called internet marketers are using Craigslist to post bogus job listings and telling the prospects that they need to submit some information or sign up for a “free” credit report as part of the application process. Then the marketer gets paid by the CPA company.

The job listings are completely bogus. Most legitimate companies will ask you to respond to the ad with a copy of your resume, not send you to some 3rd party website (unless it’s the companies corporate website) to fill out any kind of “free” anything.

Job searcher beware… If you come across a bogus job listing make sure and flag it so that we can get all these knuckleheads off of Craigslist.