Steven Fies

Whenever I’ve looked at Craigslist in the past, it has always seemed to be disorganized and filled with junk offerings. Steven Fies treats it in a different way in his book “The Key to Making Money on Craigslist: How I Make Thousands in My Spare Time”. He sees Craigslist as a source for inventory procurement and the sale of musical instruments. Fies recommends that anyone interested in making money on Craigslist establish a niche. By establishing a niche, you become highly knowledgeable about a certain type of product.

Once a niche is determined, Fies warns the reader that he may never be successful unless he also adopts a certain mental attitude about buying and selling. Indeed, this is important as a good part of the beginning and end of the book address mental attitude. Thinking and treating your Craigslist activities as a business goes a long way toward ensuring your success and mental well-being when dealing with rejection.

There are several chapters in the middle of the book that give you tips and techniques for making deals. Those chapters are filled with examples from Fies’s own experiences that illustrate the point being made. Fies also includes web links to resource sites that may prove useful in starting a Craigslist business. At the end of the book are several appendixes. Some have resource links and others explain simple accounting principles that are beneficial to the business initiate who should be keeping track of their buying and selling activity. According to Fies, it’s important to know how you’re doing numerically as well as instinctively.

This book is a great resource book for anyone thinking about starting a business, whether on Craigslist, eBay, or elsewhere appropriate to their niche. It’s also a book that the reader will come back to from time to time when he or she hit the inevitable stumbling blocks in their businesses. The appendixes were probably included in the book with that thought in mind.… (más)