{"id":325,"date":"2006-06-29T04:45:48","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T07:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/29\/scott-rosenberg-craigslists-money-left-on-the-table\/"},"modified":"2006-06-29T04:45:48","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T07:45:48","slug":"scott-rosenberg-craigslists-money-left-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/29\/scott-rosenberg-craigslists-money-left-on-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Rosenberg:  Craigslist&apos;s money left on the table?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"Scott Rosenberg's Links &amp; Comment\"><p><i>The absence of ads is one of the key factors behind Craigslist&#8217;s phenomenal success.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><cite cite=\"http:\/\/blogs.salon.com\/0000014\/2006\/06\/28.html#a1061\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.salon.com\/0000014\/2006\/06\/28.html#a1061\">Scott Rosenberg&#8217;s Links &amp; Comment<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;\n<\/p>\n<p>I would disagree with Scott on this one.\u00c2\u00a0 Craigslist is successful because its simple and gives great results.\u00c2\u00a0 Here in Buenos Aires, its simple but gives no results which is why it isn&#8217;t popular here yet.\u00c2\u00a0 Text ads from google or a similar service would not detract from this and would not turn me off to their site, as long as they were kept simple and limited to 2-3 per page.<\/p>\n<p>\nThere is no reason for them not to cash in on this revenue stream, unless they just aren&#8217;t interested earning extra money.\u00c2\u00a0 \n <\/p>\n<p>Again nobody is suggesting heavy graphical ads or flashbased ads.\u00c2\u00a0 Just a few simple text ads per page.\u00c2\u00a0 If this done right, it could generate a large revenue stream and\u00c2\u00a0 have limited to no effect on\u00c2\u00a0 user experience or site functionality. \n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.salon.com\/0000014\/2006\/06\/28.html#a1061\" \/><\/p>\n<p \/><!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:right;\">technorati tags:<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/craigslist\" rel=\"tag\">craigslist<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/adsense\" rel=\"tag\">adsense<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 8px\">Blogged with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\" title=\"Flock\" target=\"_new\">Flock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The absence of ads is one of the key factors behind Craigslist&#8217;s phenomenal success. Scott Rosenberg&#8217;s Links &amp; Comment &#8212; I would disagree with Scott on this one.\u00c2\u00a0 Craigslist is successful because its simple and gives great results.\u00c2\u00a0 Here in Buenos Aires, its simple but gives no results which is why it isn&#8217;t popular here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}