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1 An ebook By: Satrap BlogStash.com

2 Copyright 2012 BlogStash.com All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. All trademarks and logos displayed are are the property of the respective trademark owners. Disclaimer All the material contained in this book is provided for educational and informational purposes only. No responsibility can be taken for any results or outcomes resulting from the use of this material. While every attempt has been made to provide information that is both accurate and effective, the author does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy or use/misuse of this information. ii

3 Introduction Hello and thank you for purchasing Quick Cash On Craigslist. If you know me from my Internet marketing blog, BlogStash.com, then you know I am a straight shooter and that I don't like to hype things up. This ebook is written the same way I write my blog posts, without any fluff and straight to the point. This is a simple yet proven Craigslist money-making method that you can use today without any experience what so ever. This works if you are willing to put some effort into it. However, if you are looking for a push button method, or one of those make money while you sleep stuff, then I'm afraid this isn't for you. This method is about taking advantage of tow powerful websites, Craigslist, an old and trusted classified site used by millions of people around the world, and Fiverr, a new micro freelancing website that has taken the outsourcing world by storm. I am going to show you how to combine these two sites and what they have to offer, to make a living with just 5 bucks and with no prior knowledge or experience. iii

4 What Is Fiverr? Fiverr.com is a new micro-freelancing site where people sell all kinds of gigs for mere 5 bucks. And while the old saying "You get what you paid for" is usually true, there are lots of cases on Fiverr where you do get high quality services for just $5. These gigs are offered by starving artists, freelancers and regular folks with different talents who are looking to earn some extra cash online. What Is Craigslist? I am sure most of you know what Craigslist is. But for those who don't know, Craigslist is the biggest classified site on the planet where millions of people go each day to sell and buy everything from cars and houses to furniture, DVDs, books and anything in between. Craigslist is also used to find jobs and hire people in lots of different industries. How Are We Going To Make Money Using These Two Sites? The concept is very simple and one that lots of people use in different industries to make a living we are going to basically act as the middle man between service providers (Fiverr vendors) and local small business owners (on Craigslist) who need the services of these providers. The basic idea is that we are going to find gigs that offer some kind of gig that can cater to the needs of small businesses. We purchase these gigs for just $5 on Fiverr. We then will turn around and sell those services to local small businesses for $50,$75, $100, $200 or whatever amount that's appropriate for such services. iv

5 That's the basic idea behind this method. But there are some very important details (explained through out the ebook) that you need to get right in order to succeed. Ready to make some money? Let's get to it then!... v

6 Table of Contents > Chapter 1: Finding a Suitable Gig on Fiverr > Chapter 2: Learning How Relible The Seller Is > Chapter 3: Taking The Gig For A Test Drive > Chapter 4: (Optional) Building A Simple Free Portfolio Page > Chapter 5: Getting A High Quality Ad Created For You > Chapter 6: Creating A Captivating Ad > Chapter 7: Posting Your Ad On Craiglist > Chapter 8: Enjoy The Cash! > Chapter 9: Recap! > Chapter 10: Bonus Tip For Making Big Money vi

7 Chapter 1: Finding A Suitable Gig On Fiverr First things first! We need to visit to search for a gig that we can sell on Craigslist as our own. Craigslist is without a doubt the biggest classified sites in the world and so it has lots of different categories to cover the needs of all kinds of people. However, we need to pick a category that people spend money on it. Obviously, one of the best money spending groups of professionals who use Craigslist are business owners and especially those businesses that have an online presence. Hundreds and thousands of business owners use Craigslist to hire all kinds of experts from web designers and marketers to SEOs, virtual assistants and others to get things done professionally and inexpensively. So, as an online marketer, I always go for business owners, as I know they have the spending power and they do hire folks on Craigslist. Visit Fiverr and search for gigs that a business owner may be interested in. What kind of gigs a business owner may need and may be interested in, you ask?... Well, think of gigs like online promotion, social media campaigns, video testimonials, video ads and so on. Page 1

On the right side of the Fiverr homepage, you will see a list of catgeories. Lets click on Business. Now, to find the best service providers, click on the "rating" tab.

8 On the right side of the Fiverr homepage, you will see a list of catgeories. Lets click on Business. Now, to find the best service providers, click on the "rating" tab. That will show you the servcie provider based on their ratings. Obviously, highest ratings indicates more happy customers which means the seller is doing something right. So, based on the ratings, choose one of the sellers. As an example, I have picked this gig: This guy will make a HD video promo for businesses or websites which promotes their websites or business for only 5 bucks. Page 2

This gig is only $5, but to a small business owner, its worth way more than that as it gives the business a professional tool to market itself professionally just like the big boys.

9 This gig is only $5, but to a small business owner, its worth way more than that as it gives the business a professional tool to market itself professionally just like the big boys. Let me be honest here. To a business owner, this service is easily worth hundreds of dollars. I mean, there are professional companies out there that charge thousands of dollars to create high quality promotional videos. Now, you can get them for mere 5 bucks. How easy it would be to turn around and sell the same service to a business owner for $100, $200 or even more?... Very easy, now that you are reading this guide! I personally flip them anywhere from $80 to up to $250 or so, depending on the type of business and the business owner I am dealing with. That's a sweet $75 to $245 profit for basically doing Page 3

10 nothing! Now, there are a few criteria that we need to keep in mind when looking for gigs to flip. 1. a Gig that would interest and benefit a business owner in some way or another. 2. The service should be a highly relevant service. 3. It has to cost lower than we can sell it for. As you can see, our example gig meets all 3 criteria. It is a perfect fit! I am an Internet junky myself and I know how easy it is to get lost on some of these websites. Fiverr is one of those sites that doesn't take much to get lost in it and get side tracked. There are hundreds and thousands of gigs being offered on Fiverr, good, bad and some very weird ones. But, we don't need all of them. We just need gigs that are beneficial to small to mid size businesses. We need gigs like the following: Video testimonial services Page 4

11 Video creation services Backlink building services Search Engine Optimization services Social media services (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) These are the kind of gigs that we can buy for $5 on Fiverr and turn around and sell on Craigslist to business owners for $80 to $250 or more, easily. Page 5

Chapter 2: Learning How Relible The Seller Is Now that we have chosen our gig, we have to ensure that the provider can deliver. We need someone reliable and trust worthy.

12 Chapter 2: Learning How Relible The Seller Is Now that we have chosen our gig, we have to ensure that the provider can deliver. We need someone reliable and trust worthy. You don't want to make promises to business owners, then not be able to deliver. After all, business owners know other business owners and they often recommend services providers to each other. So, you don't want to be one that they tell each other to stay away from because you can't deliver. The good thing about Fiverr is that finding out who is reliable and delivers quality work is as easy as pie. You can see a seller's reputation by looking at her or his feedback. Page 6

13 To make it easy for you to follow me here, lets just stick with our example gig that we chose above. Now that we have spotted a potential gig we can flip for a profit, and have found a potential seller who we can work with, its time to test him to see how relible he is. Simply click on the Contact Seller tab right under the Order Now tab. Ask the seller if he or she can handle more than just a few orders?... Here is a template you can use to contact sellers: Hi, I am very interested in your service. But I need somone who can deliver constent work. Would you be able to deliver quality work on a regular basis?... Thanks. Page 7

Remember, you are going to be offering this service on Craigslist, and you will get lots of orders depending on how many cities you post your CL ad to, and how you price your service.

14 Remember, you are going to be offering this service on Craigslist, and you will get lots of orders depending on how many cities you post your CL ad to, and how you price your service. So, you want to be sure that the Fiverr provider is able to handle all those orders. If the seller doesn't respond quick enough or responds with a negative answer, then move on to another seller. If the seller promptly replies and confirms he or she is able to deliver any amount of work, then you are in. Page 8

15 Chapter 3: Taking The Gig For A Test Drive Now, you want to make money and you want to make lots of it. For that reason you need to build a reputation with your clients. You want to deliver high quality work. I know we already narrowed down our search of quality sellers by rating, and we have contacted the seller to, but a good flipper always tests things for himself. So, if the seller responded positively, simply order one of his or her gigs to get a feel for the quality of the work. Now for our scenario I decided to go with this particular gig as the appropriate candidate: I Then go on to: 1. Get in touch with the seller and ask him or her if he or she is able to handle a lot of work. If the answer is YES, we proceed. 2. I then place an order with the seller to test the quality of the gig. 3. Evaluate the work to see if everything was spot on; quick delivery and quality of the work. Assuming we verified all of these things, then we are on our way to making good money as we have just found ourselves a reliable Fiverr seller who also delivers quality work on time. Page 9

16 Chapter 4: (Optional) Building A Simple Free Portfolio Page To be honest, this is what can make or break all of your efforts and hard work. You have to look professional, otherwise business owners will have a hard time trusting you. The best way to ensure you look like a professional service provider is to have a simple website where you have your contact information, a little about the service you provide and so on. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, in fact, you can even use free blog sites like blogger to create a nice looking site in a matter of minuets. Of course, if you know how and can afford it, I would suggest you buy a domain of your own, and set up your site that way. But either way is fine, as long as you have a site where business owners can see for themselves that you are in fact a professional and legit service provider, you are good to go. The most important thing you should ensure to add to your website is a small portfolio or examples of the service or product you are offering. We all like to see samples of people's work before we hire them, wouldn't you be more comfortable ordering something from someone after seeing a few samples of their work?... Exactly! Then make sure you provide a few samples of your work on your website. Page 10

17 Chapter 5: Creating A High Quality Graphical Ad If you want to take this one step further and make your ad look even more professional, do what I do. I would go to Fiverr and find somebody to design me a nice looking graphical ad. Remember to tell the Fiverr guy to make the graphic somehow that it can be click-able. People are more likely to click on image ads. It costs just 5 bucks to get a nice looking graphic ad designed, but it can have a huge effect on your conversion. Think about it, when you go on Craigslist looking for something, if you see 2 similar ads, but one has a nice looking graphic and looks like a professional company stands behind it, wouldn't you click that ad?... Believe it or not, having a graphical ad can really change the whole game for you. It can easily double and even triple the amount of traffic you may get from the ad. So, if you can afford that $5, don't hesitate to do it. To find a good designer on Fiverr who can create graphical ads, simply go to Fiverr and search for "Ad Design". You will get 3x as much traffic this way and more sales in turn. Once you get the code for the ad, all you have to do is to simply paste it in the body section of your ad (either above or below the text) and watch the traffic roll in! Page 11

18 Chapter 6: Writing A Captivating Ad Your ad on Craigslist is what the small business owners will see first and that is when they decide on whether or not to contact you and buy from you. So, it is important to look and sound like a professional service provider. Ad Title: Of course, the title of your ad is the very first thing that they will see and if your title is not attractive enough, they wont even click on it and so they will never even see your ad no matter how great it may be and how professional it looks and sounds. Content Of Your Ad: Now, in the actual body of your ad, be sure to give as much details as you can while keeping it professional. Here is an example of a good ad: Stunning HD Promotional Video Creation Service Promote your Business with quality while saving money on advertising! Promote your Business, Brand or Product with our High Quality, HD Video! This 30 second Video is ideal for your website and can be easily uploaded to YouTube and other social media outlets like Facebook, twitter,etc. Our high quality videos will keep your customers and clients interested in your business and will keep them coming back to you for years to come. Page 12

19 You get 10 Sentences to talk about your business. You also can add 3 Images, your company Logo and Company Info. Now, this alone can bring you lots of leads and some of those leads will convert into sales. But if you want to really make money, you need to post your ad in as many cities as you can. Of course, you can manually do that yourself, but to speed things up, you can hire someone from Fiverr to post your ads in multiple cities on Craigslist. The more cities you have ads on, the more leads you are likely to get. And what better place to find people to outsource to than our very own dear Fiverr!! Page 13

20 Chapter 7: Posting Your Ad On Craiglist Before we go any further, CL requires you to have an account in order to post ads. So, if you don't already have one, register an account for free by going to Don't worry, its %100 free to register. Ok, now that we now have identified a fitting Gig that we can sell as a middle man for a higher price, we now have to actually work on reselling it. The best thing about posting ads on Craigslist is that you can post to hundred and thousands of cities and tat means you can literally target the whole country! Can you imagine how much sales you can get if you did that! We will simply visit Craigslist.org and choose a major city or perhaps state to post our ads to. The important thing to remember is that you can post your ad in any city or state you like, but if you want to make real money, you have to go where the real money is and when it comes to Craigslist, the real money is in big cities since thousands upon thousands of business owners in major cities use Craigslist to hire people for variety of services. Now that we have our graphic and the ad all ready to go, we need to start posting the ad in as many cities as we can. Page 14

21 You have 2 choices here: 1. Post the ad manually to as many cities as you can. 2. Pay someone to do it for you. 1- Post the ad manually to as many cities as you can. All you have to do is copy and paste the same ad in different cities in Craigslist. It takes a bit of time, but it's not that bad. Lets say we go with Chicago... Simply click on POST TO CLASSIFIEDS on the upper left hand side of the page. Click on the POST TO CLASSIFIEDS tab and continue on. The next step would be choosing the type of ad you are going to place. Obviously, in our scenario, we would choose SERVICE OFFERED. In the next page you are going to choose the actual category for your ad. With our example (video creation service) we will choose Creative Services. On the next page we will be filling out the details of our ad, title, description, etc. Needless to say, make sure your ad describes exactly what you are offering. Use attention grabbing titles for your ads to draw in more potential clients. Page 15

22 2- Pay someone to do it for you. Now, if you want to speed things up and outsource even this part of the process (like me). This allows for us to scale our method by simply copying our ads and posting them in the next big city and watch the sales come in. I usually post 10 ads per day or more depending on the day. Certain days such as Thursday I post more ads because I seem to get more sales this way. But let me make it clear that I NEVER post the ads myself I outsource this part as well. What I usually do is the following: Simply go to a freelancing job site like The thing I like about Odesk is that you can hire people by the hour and not by the job. You can find lots of workers who will work for $3,$4 an hour. In one hour one can easily post ads in different cities. Also, I myself haven't tried it yet, but I am sure there are people on Fiverr who may do that as well. the only difference is that on Fiverrr, people probably charge for posting a number of ads, say $5 to post 10 ads or what have you. Either way, when hiring someone to post ads for you, keep the Page 16

23 following in mind: You are going to get lots of replies from potential workers. To ensure you hire the right one, make sure you contact them and see how quick they reply to you. Always, always ask for a few samples. Ask them to post one ad for you as a sample to see if they do it right and on time. Page 17

24 Chapter 8: Enjoy The Cash! Now all you have to do is to keep up with the sales coming in, and enjoy seeing money rolling in. There you go guys, a truly easy way to make a lot of money without spending hardly any money and without doing much of the work yourself. If you read my blog BlogStash.com, you know that I am a straight shooter. I don't below things out of proportion. I don't like to hype things up, I don't like to promise people they can make thousands of dollars over night, when in fact, I know it's not possible. But you can do this and make money, if you take action. I guranty you can make it happen. Page 18

25 Chapter 9: Recap! OK lets do a quick recap of the whole thing: 1. Search Fiverr.com and find a gig that you can resell to businesses or people on Craigslist. 2. Buy the gig so you can see if the product is quality enough and the provider delivers on time. 3. Find out if the gig seller can actually deliver work on regular basis. 4. Build a simple yet professional looking site where people can see your portfolio and order your service. (Of course, this is optional. You don't have to have a website if you don't want to.) 5. Get a nice high quality graphic ad created for you on Fiverr. 6. Write an attention grabbing ad to place on Craigslist. 7. Post your ad on Craigslist in the appropriate category where you know businesses who your service caters to are likely to visit. 8. Repeat step 7, posting your ad on as many cities as you can. 9. Enjoy quick and profitable sales coming your way, thanks to the whopping 80 million people who visit Craigslist each and every month. Page 19

26 Chapter 10: Bonus Tip For Making Big Money I have done this once already and so can you. Implement this guide set by step, build a small yet stable and reliable site/business catering to the needs of businesses If you really do this the right way, after a few months or so, you will end up with a reliable income producing site that you can easily sell for a huge profit, if you ever decide to. Usually an average site sells on Flippa for 10 to 15 times its monthly earnings. For example, lets say you make around $70 a day with this site. 70 dollar x 30 Days is $2100. Now 2100 x 10 and you get $21,000. Yes, your site can go from being worth nothing to $21,000 in just a few months. How do you think people who make money flipping websites make hundreds of thousands of dollars with every site they sell?... They more or less do what I explained in this guide. They build a site and get to where it earns a set amount every month. Then they sell it for times that amount. Keep in mind that you don't have to sell your site. It's just an option for those who may want to move on or are just tired of doing this. You can keep the site and keep making money with the service you are offering. You could even scale it up and offer more than just one or two services. Just repeat the steps outlined above to add more and more services to your site. Page 20

27 Last Word I hope you guys enjoyed reading this guide, and moreover, I truly hope you guys will take action and implement this method. I am certain if you do your part, you will make money with no problem at all. But remember, most people fail to make money online because they never take any action. They just read, buy ebooks, guides, tools and softwares, thinking they are going to make money, but they never actually implement or use what they have learned from those resources. I sincerely hope you take action and make money with this method. Page 21

28 Thank you again for pucrchasing my ebook. I truly am certain if you implemnet what I have shown you in this ebook, you will make money with this method. Please remember, if you have any problem, need more explanation or just want to run things by me, you are welcome to shoot me an through the contact page at my blog, For more step by step online money making guides and toutorials, please visit my blog: Here are links to some of my (FREE) best and easiest step by step guides for making money online in a variety of ways: 53 Ways To Make Money Online 101 Ways to Make Money Online 60 Ways To Make Money Without A Job How to Make Money on YouTube An Easy Way To Make Money Online With Only A Few Articles Regards, Satrap Page 22

Fiverr Cash Secrets The Proven Formula To Cashing In With Fiverr

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