Comments on: Are CAMs too sensitive to hear radical change ideas? http://www.reinventingclassifieds.com/2008/09/24/are-cams-too-sensitive-to-hear-radical-change-ideas/ Traditional classifieds are broken. Help us reinvent them. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:43:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: ChangeAgent http://www.reinventingclassifieds.com/2008/09/24/are-cams-too-sensitive-to-hear-radical-change-ideas/#comment-2591 ChangeAgent Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:12:15 +0000 http://www.reinventingclassifieds.com/?p=153#comment-2591 I don't think most CAMs are too sensitive, just not yet motivated by the ideas they have seen. I haven't seen anything yet that is truly innovative, and I think we've tried it all in order to try and make revenue goals. I've been saying it for years, but my favorite model is "pay for results." My only fear is that the only recruitment model that tried it (flipdog.com) has abandoned this as a revenue model. I don’t think most CAMs are too sensitive, just not yet motivated by the ideas they have seen. I haven’t seen anything yet that is truly innovative, and I think we’ve tried it all in order to try and make revenue goals. I’ve been saying it for years, but my favorite model is “pay for results.” My only fear is that the only recruitment model that tried it (flipdog.com) has abandoned this as a revenue model.

]]> By: metaprinter http://www.reinventingclassifieds.com/2008/09/24/are-cams-too-sensitive-to-hear-radical-change-ideas/#comment-1747 metaprinter Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:19:25 +0000 http://www.reinventingclassifieds.com/?p=153#comment-1747 I hear a lot of this in the industry my self. It will take massive newspapers failing before they try something new. Newspaper owners think they are just overstaffed and stuck in a tough economic time. They don't get it that no one under the age of 30 has a print newspaper subscription. They just keep plowing ahead putting out birdcage liners. At America East this year I asked a panel of publishers why they didn't give away their classifieds just to drive up readership and they scoffed. "we still need to make money"... right and how will that happen? http://metaprinter.com/?p=52 I hear a lot of this in the industry my self. It will take massive newspapers failing before they try something new. Newspaper owners think they are just overstaffed and stuck in a tough economic time. They don’t get it that no one under the age of 30 has a print newspaper subscription. They just keep plowing ahead putting out birdcage liners. At America East this year I asked a panel of publishers why they didn’t give away their classifieds just to drive up readership and they scoffed. “we still need to make money”… right and how will that happen?

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