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Nigel · 07-22-2008, 10:51 AM

Some years ago I ran a little website for holiday rentals that I built myself. It didn´t make me a fortune but it make some money for me.
I have become interested in doing something similar to this again do to some financial matter.
I thought this time I would do house sales, car sales and business sales. I have checked on the net some existing sites doing this but was dismayed to find that most of them offered to list your property, car or business for free. Yes FREE!
So, how do they make money out of these websites, because they would still have to pay for the webspace and all the work involved in running a website. By the way, their sites were not covered in adverts.
So how does it work, how can you make money by doing things for free?

Jcs · 07-22-2008, 12:03 PM

No advertising at all? Maybe they have a certain service that you have to pay for (e.g. craigslist where you have to pay for job listings in certain area's).

dave marshall · 07-22-2008, 04:19 PM

hi,

they must be getting paid for something or it is not a business. Maybe you should look at their links etc

dave

Brutha · 07-22-2008, 04:48 PM

It is a comman tactic to have your site completly free at the beginning and worry later when you actually have traffic about making money.
One way would be to put everyone in the list and charging people to put their ad at the beginning of the list where it gets more eyeballs.

Orange · 07-22-2008, 10:38 PM

Affiliate with the companys you want to work with.. thats how price conparason sites make money for example.

07-22-2008, 10:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
Nigel Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Almeria Spain Posts: 42	How do these websites make money? Some years ago I ran a little website for holiday rentals that I built myself. It didn´t make me a fortune but it make some money for me. I have become interested in doing something similar to this again do to some financial matter. I thought this time I would do house sales, car sales and business sales. I have checked on the net some existing sites doing this but was dismayed to find that most of them offered to list your property, car or business for free. Yes FREE! So, how do they make money out of these websites, because they would still have to pay for the webspace and all the work involved in running a website. By the way, their sites were not covered in adverts. So how does it work, how can you make money by doing things for free?

07-22-2008, 04:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
dave marshall Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: England Posts: 360	advertsing hi, they must be getting paid for something or it is not a business. Maybe you should look at their links etc dave

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07-22-2008, 12:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
Jcs Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Netherlands, The Posts: 185	No advertising at all? Maybe they have a certain service that you have to pay for (e.g. craigslist where you have to pay for job listings in certain area's).

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Brutha Family Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Berlin, Germany Posts: 8,749	It is a comman tactic to have your site completly free at the beginning and worry later when you actually have traffic about making money. One way would be to put everyone in the list and charging people to put their ad at the beginning of the list where it gets more eyeballs.

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Orange Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Cornwall, England Posts: 317	Affiliate with the companys you want to work with.. thats how price conparason sites make money for example.

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