Craigslistemailer, the detailed report. $150/day

[SpyBoy]

his is my detailed report on www.craigslistemailer.com (aff-link). I‘m currently making $150/day with this method on average. I started with this in the beginning of January and since my first test already made me some money, i decided to go for it. This was my first post back then.

It seems Craigslistemailer is not very well known yet and it should stay this way. If this gets too saturated, it won‘t work anymore. I would not tell you about this, if i wasn‘t sure that i can trust you guys on this.
So use it but don‘t tell everyone.

What is Craigslistemailer

I guess, everybody knows CL. If not, check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist

Craigslist has lots and lots of users and ads - there are hundreds of thousands ads posted everyday. And most of them either want to give away something or are looking to get something. Now if you can fulfill the desire of the adposter with one of your affiliate offers, you gonna make money.

With Craigslistemailer you can super-target your audience, because you can filter ads that match a certain keyword or are in a certain category and then write all those people an email which fulfills their desire. The cool thing: Craigslistemailer does both the searching for ads and the sending of emails. You don‘t have to bother about mass sending of mails, because Craigslistemailer will do that for you.

Craigslistemailer will you give 200 credits free when you sign up, that means you can send 200 e-mails for free. After that you have to buy Credits, prices ranging between $0.007 and $0.049 per credit. If you sign up under my aff-link at www.craigslistemailer.com, you‘ll get an extra 100 credits after the signup process.

Real life example

I‘ll give you an real-life example, actually this is one is making me around 30$/day. It‘s the classic „Free baby stuff“.
I target every ad in the category „wanted“ that contains the word „baby“. Most of them are looking for baby stuff. You could geo-target your users if you wanted to, but in this case I just target all US-users.
Now Craigslistemailer automatically browses CL and picks out all the ads that match my specifications. Then, it will send an email to each and everyone who posted one of these ads. In this case, there are about 250 mails going out every day (250 ads matching my criteria).

This is the mail they get from me:

Code:

Hello,

I just saw your ad on craigslist and wanted to send you a link where i got free stuff for our baby, shes just a few weeks old
At www.free-thing.com i got diapers and a baby care package for free - i guess you know how expensive these things can get...

I wish you all the best for your little one!

Now some curious ones click the link, go to my site, fill out the offer and make me some money. The offer they get comes from Hydra Network. I had an ad rotator at first to test different offers and the current one seemed to perform best, so i killed all the other ones.

I did recommend P202 countless times on BHU already, but i do it again: Prosper202 is a free tracking solution and it has an built-in ad rotator. Get it at http://prosper202.com/apps/
I use it for all tracking purposes and of course also with this CL-method.

Craigslistemailer gives you the option of HTML-emails. I did not use this yet, because i think HTML mails with banners and images are really looking spammy. But who knows, maybe they like this too.

Build an e-mail list

Now comes another cool part: if you look at www.free-thing.com you‘ll see an opt-in form on the top (this site has 2 frames, the opt-in on top and the actual offer on the bottom). You won‘t believe it, but i get around 20-40 subscribers to this list everyday! So after they fill in the first offer, i can send them even more offers via my e-mail list. For my e-mail list i use www.aweber.com as autoresponder ($19/month).

Don‘t understimate this part! A list lasts much longer than a single offer and you can make money many times on one e-mail address. If you think: yeah, I'm gonna do this list-thingy someday, i only can tell you: do it now!

Getting your Mails through to the user

The most important thing is this: you must make that sure your e-mails get through to the recipient. Sooner or later, somebody will flag your e-mail as spam, then CL will check this mail and put some keywords on their blacklist, meaning that future mails containing these keywords will be blocked and not be delivered. Most of the time, CL will ban URLs in your mails.

In the above „Free baby stuff“ example, my domain free-thing.com got banned after two days or so. I did not know that at this time but only regocnized a certain drop down of income. It took me some time to figure out, what was causing this - i hope these instructions will save you some time.

So CL blacklisted my domain free-thing.com. This was a big problem for me, because i didn‘t want to buy new domains all the time. My current solution is to use URL-shorteners. I personally use www.tiny.cc. You can make your custom alias, e.g. www.tiny.cc/babystuff. CL still will ban this keyword at some point, but they only will ban your custom alias (in this case „ babystuff “) and not the domain. So you just have to change your URLs from www.tiny.cc/babystuff to www.tiny.cc/freebabystuff or www.tiny.cc/yourbabystuff . I don‘t know why they just don‘t ban the whole domain „tiny.cc“, they just don‘t do it. Good for us.

Okay, but how do you know if your keyword got banned? That‘s easy: you just post an ad on CL yourself. Then you get a specific e-mail alias like xyz-123456301@craigslist.org and you just send yourself the exact message including your URL. If this mail gets through - cool. If not, you have to change your URLs. I use www.note2email.com/write to send these e-mails because it‘s anonymous and i don‘t have to use one of my own addresses for this purpose.

To be able to post on CL you need an PVA (phone verified account). If you don‘t have one, you can make one or, far more comfortable, just buy one. I always buy mine at BHW from Realign02, i can recommend his service. One PVC costs $5, you can use this as long as you want. Your ad will be on CL for about one week, i just trash my PVA after that and get a new one, just to be safe.

E-Mail Accounts

You will need a decent amount of different e-Mail Accounts to use with Craigslistemailer. One account can send around 250 Mails per day, but you should have as many as you can get. I have around 100 accounts. I personally only use GMail, because it‘s easy to get them. There are 3 options:
You make them yourself using GMaker, you can get it a few sites google it.
You can buy them. I recommend http://accountsuperstore.weebly.com/ 1000 GMail Accounts for $45
You can buy them directly at Craigslistemailer. That‘s the most convenient option. One Accounts costs 10 Credits, that means between $0,07 and 0,49$, depending on how many Credits you buy.

Campaigns and E-Mail Templates

In Craigslistemailer you have Campaigns, e-mail accounts and e-mail templates. A Campaign is the filter, which finds your targeted users. The e-mail accounts are the accounts that send out your mails. The e-mail templates are the text copies. You can assign more than one templates to a campaign, this will rotate them evenly. Same goes for e-mail accounts.

Regarding the e-mail Accounts: You should make sure that you always have an „real“ name, not just „sdfz234@gmail.com“, names are much better. If creating Gmail-Accounts with Craigslistemailer you can choose to make a random name, that‘s fine.

Affiliate Networks and offers

At first i just went for lower price offers, like email-submits for $1 or $1.5. My current cash cow is making me $22 and this converts at around 5%. My best converting offer is $9 at a conversion rate of 30%. That‘s true: 30%! The problem is, i can‘t scale this up, because there are not enough ads on CL. Too bad.

You just have to test and test. Throw and stick, whatever you call it. Test until you find a converting offer. And try to think outside the box. The „baby stuff“ example is an obvious one, try to think of something more creative.

Regarding the networks, I had good success with Hydra and affiliate.com and already received payment from both. I had no (and i mean absolutely no) success with Clickbank, i tried 4 different offers, they just did not convert.

[MoonshineMethHead]

i almost backpaged out of this posting because i thought it was spam. Honestly this method seems pretty solid, without buying the software.

the diapers thing hit me direct, especially with having a 6 month old i know the pain

i probably would filled out the survey, esp to get coupons or free diapers or formula.

nicely explained post

[epiks]

Is this the same as using like an autoresponder? Except you can make a different response for every ad?