Rise up before it’s too late! A Newspaper Classifieds Manifesto

By Steve Outing • March 12th, 2009 • E-mail this post E-mail this post

Attention! Classifieds are dead! Long live classifieds 2.0!!

Christopher Ryan and I have channeled our frustration as well as our optimism, and some concrete solutions, into the Classifieds Manifesto, an 11-point document that explains how newspapers can take the downward-sloping revenue line that represents their classifieds business, and turn it upward again.

We don’t believe that it’s too late for newspapers to rebuild a substantial classifieds business, in print, online, and on mobile devices. But it will take some revolutionary thinking, and action.

We not-so-humbly offer this Newspaper Classifieds Manifesto: READ ON…

"Rise up before it’s too late! A Newspaper Classifieds Manifesto" by Steve Outing was published on March 12th, 2009 and is listed in Business models, Ideas.

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