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  • by Steve Outing

    Thanks to Henry Pollson for his comment here pointing out an article of interest to anyone who has to compete against Craigslist in their local market:
    “Angie’s List: A better alternative to Craiglist for finding local contractors.”

    Writer Henry Grimes points out his experience with finding local contractors to do work around his house. When he used […]

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  • by Steve Outing

    With newspapers in deep trouble, it’s unlikely that they can climb out of their holes by themselves (especially as the holes keep getting deeper). If a solution or solutions are to be found, it will be in concert with other companies.

    Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt is worried about the state of investigative reporting.
    Text version of […]

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  • by Steve Outing

    Dan Pacheco’s Printcasting initiative, for which he and the Bakersfield Californian got a Knight Foundation grant to fund for a 2-year development cycle, is worth paying attention to if you’re in the classifieds business. While not a classifieds project, per se, Printcasting does have some implications for classifieds, which I learned when I asked Pacheco […]

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  • by Steve Outing

    To: Craig and Jim
    From: Steve (on behalf of the newspaper industry)
    (OK, no, I do not actually speak for the newspaper industry; nor does ReinventingClassifieds.com. But I write this letter to you with the newspaper industry’s, journalism’s, and consumers’ best interests at heart. If any of those folks don’t agree with me, I’m sure they’ll let […]

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  • by Steve Outing

    Craig Newmark (do I really need to explain that he’s the founder of Craigslist?) went before a group of editors at the Washington Post this week, and here’s a short video excerpt:

    Newmark has long been saying that his network of free-classifieds sites is not a significant reason that newspapers have lost billions of dollars in […]

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  • by Steve Outing

    If you think ReinventingClassifieds.com targets a narrow niche (newspaper classifieds), here’s a site that’s even narrower: VideoIsNow.com.
    Published by Alan Jacobson and Janet DeGeorge (who also run a video classifieds business, profiled here previously), the VideoIsNow blog features ongoing coverage of video advertising, with particular emphasis on video applications for classifieds.
    It’s worth bookmarking. Or subscribe to […]

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  • by Andre Hellmann

    JP Morgan published a report concerning the state of the newspaper. In this report the analyst Alexi Quadrani posts the classified issue as one of the central problem of today’s print newspapers:
    “The classified revenue plunge is one of the more worrisome aspects, since it represents about one-third of revenue and is the most profitable of […]

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  • by Steve Outing

    “Newspaper Classifieds: A franchise lost,” reads the headline of Bob Wyman’s latest blog post, which is an exceedingly pessimistic view of newspapers’ chances of recovering lost ground and lost revenues in the classifieds business.
    Writes the long-time media-technology innovator and current member of Google’s technical staff, “I argue that (newspapers) shouldn’t put much effort into online […]

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  • by Steve Outing

    New on the classifieds scene: Wal-mart! News surfaced in recent days that the giant retailer has added Wal-mart Classifieds to its website, which has an enviable 26 million unique visitors a month. It’s powered by Oodle, the Silicon Valley classifieds technology and aggregation company, and features classified ads — filtered locally — from the Oodle […]

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"We’ve found that even simple changes to improve usability are difficult or impossible to make at papers in the US."
Alan Jacobson

"Waiting for the next threat, and reacting with some wimpy promotion is NOT a plan! "
Tommy Wilson

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"Our inability to deliver small targeted audiences is a significant reason behind why newspaper Classifieds aren’t selling as well as they used to."
Dan Pacheco

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