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Facebook vs. Craigslist? NO magic formula in online classifieds

Facebook vs. Craigslist? NO magic formula in online classifiedscraigslistCraigslist in my opinion is the very worst service(?) on the Internet. The instructions to post an ad are extremely vague and lead to your ad being deleted out of hand. They are prejudiced against certain cities Las Vegas and will delete...

Tags: Craigslist, advertisement, magic formula, online classifieds, Facebook

Discussion threads 2008-05-26

32% of internet users use online classifieds

32% of internet users turn to cyberspace for ads for things they may want to buy or sell, they used online classified ad or sites such as CraigsList. The share of internet users saying they had gone to online classified sites has grown by 10% since September 2005, when 22%...

Tags: Craigslist, Advertisement, Internet User, Online Classifieds, Site, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Facebook vs. Craigslist? NO magic formula in online classifieds

Craigslist vs. Facebook? Why Craigslist wins, big time I analyzed one week ago, with an inside preview of the new Facebook Marketplace classifieds offering.Both Craig Newmark, Craigslist, and Chris Kelly, Facebook, participated in the Personal Democracy Forum yesterday in New York City and I chatted with them about the dynamic...

Tags: Local, Facebook, Craigslist, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-05-19

Online classifieds sites generated $217 mln in Q3 2004

Classified advertising represents a $28-30 bln business in the United States, including $16 bln in daily newspapers. It generates an estimated $100 bln business internationally, according to Classified Intelligence. Revenue growth at national online boards Careerbuilder, Monster and HotJobs was 47.4% in Q3 2004, compared with Q3 2003, versus 15.9%...

Tags: Q3 2004

Blog posts 2005-01-06

Online classifieds sites generated $217 mln in Q3 2004

Classified advertising represents a $28-30 bln business in the United States, including $16 bln in daily newspapers. It generates an estimated $100 bln business internationally, according to Classified Intelligence. Revenue growth at national online boards Careerbuilder, Monster and HotJobs was 47.4% in Q3 2004, compared with Q3 2003, versus 15.9%...

Tags: Q3 2004

Blog posts 2004-12-27

Additional Resources

How did Craigslist manage to become the king of classifieds?

Kijiji?Never really looked at it but isn't it's goal to unseat Craigslist.RE: How did Craigslist manage to become the king of classifieds?"Who in the heck made craigslist the king of all classified ads?"Anyone would doesn't want to pay a single cent for a classified - that's who.Simple: It's free and...

Tags: Craigslist, advertisement, classifieds

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

How did Craigslist manage to become the king of classifieds?

Pardon the off-topic rant - but I'm just blown away by how much power craigslist holds over classified advertising and how truly screwed up its system is. You see, for the past few weeks, I've been trying to sell a car. So I did what everyone else...

Tags: Car, Craigslist, Advertisement, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-17

Work at Home and Earn Riches 1.0 (Windows)

This book describes about : how to start a work at home business, about work at home classifieds, ideas, Moms working at home, Real work at home and home jobs, free work at home, legitimate work at home, home agents. Work at home business includes: data entry, typing or typists,...

Tags: Job, Microsoft Windows, Research Signpost, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-08-10

eBay's Q2: PayPal, Skype growth offset by declines at marketplace sites

eBay today reported solid second quarter financial results that were slightly better than Wall Street's expectations but revenue growth of PayPal and Skype was offset, in part, by declines in the Marketplaces business. For the quarter ending June 30 statement, the company reported net income of $479...

Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Quarter, PayPal, eBay Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Silicon Valley VCs proposed a plan to save newspapers in 1996

Silicon Valley VCs proposed a plan to save newspapers in 1996People were looking for ideas back in 1993I was working at the Apple Media Research Lab in Boulder in 1993. Steve Outing, also based in Boulder, started the Online News mailing list in 1994. Anyone who was involved with digital...

Tags: Operational accounting, Silicon Valley VC

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Schmidt: Google aims to avoid Microsoft's antitrust mistakes

Schmidt: Google aims to avoid Microsoft's antitrust mistakesSchmidt: Google aims to avoid Microsoft's antitrust mistakesInstead of making antitrust mistakes they will continue to make other mistakes? You know the ones like neglecting services after 6 months or not having their employees do any real work but instead play with office...

Tags: Corporate law, SEARCH, Google Inc., antitrust mistake, antitrust, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

The "erotic services" shell game: hypocrisy online

It is memorialized as the world's oldest profession. The movie Pretty Woman glamorized it. Congressmen and Governors get in trouble over it. But what it isn't, is on craigslist anymore. A group of state attorneys general's have browbeat craigslist into closing the "erotic services" section. ...

Tags: Service, Adult Service, Hair, Internet, Web 2.0, Games, Storage, Personal Technology, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Craigslist becomes political pinata

Craigslist becomes political pinataCraigs List Last time I checked The Washington Post and the Yellow Book in this area the ads there were nothing like what is posted in the Wash DC Erotic Services section of Craigs. A photo of a naked woman on her knees giving a blow...

Tags: Craigslist, Craigs List, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-05-06

State AGs to meet with Craiglist over sex ads

Attorneys general from three states - Missouri, Illinois and Connecticut - are expected to meet today with executives from Craigslist in an effort to bring an end to the solicitation for illegal sexual activities being advertised on the classifieds site. "It is blatant. It is irresponsible. It...

Tags: Craigslist, Advertisement, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Hottest Ad Medium in a Down Economy? Cable, Not The Net.

The trumpets are out, from the Interactive Advertising Bureau. For the fifth year in a row, Internet advertising hit record highs. The growth rate for 2008 was 10.6%. This was the sole ad medium (out of 17 tracked) to record a double-digit gain for the year....

Tags: Advertisement, Performance, Branding, Interactive Advertising Bureau, Internet Advertising, Internet, Cable, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-03-30

US category upstream traffic from search engines and Google in February 2009

Category Percentage of category traffic from search engines - February 2009 Percent change in share of traffic from search engines - February2009- February 2008 Percentage of category traffic from Google - February2009 Percent change in share of traffic from Google - February2009- February2008 Health and Medical 46.52% 4%...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Traffic, Search, NB

Blog posts 2009-03-25

Fastest-growing Web categories in December 2008

Dec-07 Dec-08 % Change Total Audience 183,619 190,650 4 Job Search 12,445 18,826 51 Women 69,854 102,146 46 Coupons 21,624 31,574 46 Politics 8,384 11,992 43 Gay/Lesbian 2,367 3,340 41 Online Gambling...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Personal Technology, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2009-03-25

Upstream traffic from search engines and Google in December 2008

Category Percentage of category traffic from search engines - December2008 Percent change in share of traffic from search engines - December2007- December2008 Percentage of category traffic from Google - December2008 Percent change in share of traffic from Google - December2007- December2008 Health and Medical 44.45% 1% 31.91% 11%...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Traffic, Search, NB

Blog posts 2009-02-22

Newspapers face first mover disadvanatge in online pay-for-news

Newspapers face first mover disadvanatge in online pay-for-newsDang tootin right!I WILL NOT read the NY Times web site because I have to "log in" to do it. Imagine if I HAD TO PAY to "log in"? Now if paying got rid of the ad clutter ENTIRELY ....Nah! ...

Tags: Strategy, advertisement, first mover, mover

Discussion threads 2009-02-16

Using social media to find a job in a down economy

Using social media to find a job in a down economyGreat Article!These are all good suggestions. Back before the Internet, conventional wisdom was that networking was your best bet for finding a good job, with classified ads less likely to be fruitful, though not to be ignored. Now, we have...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Web 2.0, social media, job

Discussion threads 2008-12-30