How To Make Money Online? Classifieds

from the what-a-surprise dept

Mon, Feb 4th 2002 3:56pm — Mike Masnick

This isn't much of a surprise at all, but it seems that the way to make money online is to copy how many newspapers made money offline for so many years: classifieds. Here are two articles showing this. First, a Washington Post article about how the big job boards online are fighting it out and killing off the little guys, though even the big players have hurdles to face. Then, the NY Times shows up with an article about how personals are making money online. So after all that internet craze we're left with classifieds as the way to make money?

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