To make a lot of money.

That was the reason I bought a laptop a little less than a year ago. The plan was to start out selling on EBay, that’s how everyone was doing it, right?

SO I got the laptop and a book about selling anything on EBay. I got about half way through it and haven't seen the book since. A few months went by and I still wasn't making any cash, so I started hanging around Craigslist browsing through all of the "work at home" jobs. The first thing I realized was the incredible amount of scams out there. The first one I bought into was a Data Entry/Home Typist position. I was told I would bring in 300-500 dollars a week following there system. All I had to do was buy a ten dollar training manual. Yeah Right!

What I received was a detailed file instructing me to post the exact same ad that I had found and then just resell the file. So I was a little angry and decided to post the ads anyway. I know, I know I shouldn't have done that but hey I'm sorry! So I start posting these ads and receiving tons of responses, seriously over a thousand people replied. I quickly realized that there was no way I could respond to all of those people in a timely fashion so I set up a website and started directing all of the inquires that way. Now when I created the website I basically just posted the instructions from the file on the web page and then threw up some adsense blocks, not thinking much of it. What I didn't realize was that the wording in the post was so perfect for generating specific data entry adsense ads that I started to get an obscene amount of clicks. I think my CTR was well over 20%.

SO I just kept on posting ads on craigslist everyday and watched as my adsense account grew bigger and bigger! At one point I was earning over one hundred dollars a day! The party didn't last too long though, I had earned about six hundred dollars within a two week period when suddenly my little empire came crashing down with one swift press of a delete button from some guy working at craigslist. What I was not aware of was that you’re not allowed to post the same ad to multiple cities. I should have seen that rule because it is right in front of you every time you go to submit a post but hey I was excited. So they deleted all of my ads at once and traffic to my site came to a grinding halt. I messed around with it a little more and generated another hundred bucks or so but the big payday had come and gone. It was nice to make seven hundred bucks just from posting some ads on a free message board but nowadays people are too quick to flag anything that resembles a scam or even worse spam. So that my friends was how I made seven hundred dollars in one month using craigslist.