EBay Inc. Sells Equity Interest in Craigslist

Re:EBay Inc. Sells Equity Interest in Craigslist by hayksaakian on Saturday June 20, 2015 @12:59AM (#9749049)

This is coming from personal experience so take it with a grain of salt:

Craigslist is an insanely valuable source for lead generation in recruiting, and car sales.

I run a recruiting company and craigslist is the best source of applicants by volume and return on investment (cost ($) per applicant).

Having observed them closely, they are not ignorant to this fact.

When specific cities or sections grow more popular they begin charging fees.

Their biggest boon has been a recent change to charge car dealerships 5$ per post. Car dealers pay because only months earlier they were paying for black hat solutions to post for 1-2$ per post.

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Re:EBay Inc. Sells Equity Interest in Craigslist by yeukhon on Saturday June 20, 2015 @02:03AM (#9749176)

FWIW, if you ever watched hot girls wanted (a documentary film) you will learn that a lot of "porn stars" were recruited via craiglist. It was a very interesting documentary to see how many people would actually use craiglist to find opportunity.

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Re:EBay Inc. Sells Equity Interest in Craigslist by karterk on Saturday June 20, 2015 @01:12AM (#9749082)

Interesting - what candidates do you recruit using Craigslist?

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Re:EBay Inc. Sells Equity Interest in Craigslist by cft on Saturday June 20, 2015 @01:33AM (#9749126)

We recruted an MIT graduate for a programming position via CL.

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Re:EBay Inc. Sells Equity Interest in Craigslist by NDizzle on Saturday June 20, 2015 @02:05AM (#9749177)

Honestly, I'm not interested in working for a place that doesn't use craigslist.

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Re:EBay Inc. Sells Equity Interest in Craigslist by mikedb on Saturday June 20, 2015 @02:43AM (#9749227)

There was analysis recently of the 'on demand' players craigslist lead gen spend.

https://tryzen99.com/blog_posts/on-demand-is-in-demand

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Re:EBay Inc. Sells Equity Interest in Craigslist by colechristensen on Saturday June 20, 2015 @01:26AM (#9749107)

I was recruited to my first sysadmin/devops/etc. position through craigslist; similarly I encouraged a family member who quickly found a construction engineering position.

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Re:EBay Inc. Sells Equity Interest in Craigslist by hayksaakian on Saturday June 20, 2015 @01:19AM (#9749096)

Sales positions. car sales, insurance sales, real estate sales.

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Re:EBay Inc. Sells Equity Interest in Craigslist by elcct on Saturday June 20, 2015 @03:04AM (#9749258)

chemists, sales persons, security, pilots... ;)

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