New marketing head at Tamedia Online Classifieds
CareerBuilder exec joins corporate boards
Brent Rasmussen of CareerBuilder is going to be one busy guy. In addition to his responsibilities as president for North America at the recruitment site, he’s joined two corporate boards in the past month.
Rasmussen is now on the board of Central Desktop, a collaboration and file-sharing site, and Balihoo, “the premier provider of local marketing automation technology and services.”
“Central Desktop has made amazing strides in collaboration. The company’s SocialBridge online collaboration platform squarely addresses the challenges that creative agencies and marketing teams face daily in their operations by providing solutions to project collaboration needs that have not been effectively met by other offerings in the marketplace,” he said.
As for Balihoo, he said it’s “changing the way companies go to market and connect with consumers. … It’s exciting to serve on the board of a fast-growing company that is redefining local marketing for national brands.”
Both companies are privately held. Balihoo has received more than $17.5 in venture, angel and seed funding.
Rasmussen has been with CareerBuilder for more than 10 years, and has served as SVP of sales and COO before becoming president for North America. He’s considered an expert on employment who speaks regularly at conferences and appears frequently on television business programs. He’s also president of CB Cares, an internal group at CareerBuilder that supports educational mentoring and charitable fundraising.
Before joining CareerBuilder, he spent nine years at Xerox Corp. He’s got an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Xing in textbook switch of CEOs
By Christo Volschenk
When the 4-year contract of Xing CEO Stefan Groß-Selbeck (44) runs out in January 2013, he will not be available for a second 4-year term. The listed company announced today that Groß-Selbeck elected not to renew his contract and will leave the company in January 2013 “to accept new challenges”. Xing is the leading business network and biggest social recruitment medium in the German-speaking region. Continue reading
Schibsted Classifieds seeks business analyst
This will be a terrific new job for someone: international business controller for Schibsted Classified Media.
We think Schibsted is the smartest media company in the world these days, and it’s planning to invest heavily in its classifieds businesses during the next few years. What could be better?
The job’s posted on Finn.no, the company’s first classifieds site. Reporting to the CFO at Schibsted Classified Media, it requires “a highly analytical mind, strong communication skills and a collaborative attitude.”
“The role provides a unique opportunity to ‘learn the ropes’ of the classified business, preparing the right candidate for other tasks within our group,” the ad says.
And you’d get to travel. And, Finn.no was honored as “Norway’s best workplace” in a contest earlier this year. (Technically, Finn.no is the only classified business at Schibsted that isn’t part of SCM, but that’s a quibble. SCM’s probably a pretty good place to work, too, from what we hear.)
A few months back Schibsted CEO Rolv Erik Ryssdal said the company, which is already represented in more than 20 countries will invest heavily in its classified businesses. “We are ambitious and plan to be No. 1 within three to five years” in the global classified market, Ryssdal said.
Sounds like a terrific job for an analyst. Application details are in the posting. It’s based in Oslo. Very, very tempting.
Naspers poaches Schibsted manager
By Christo Volschenk
Journalists have a new pastime. It’s called “trawling LinkedIn for unannounced senior management moves”. I was at it again today and uncovered a gem: Naspers lured a senior manager away from competitor Schibsted. Continue reading
Prostitution ads: Record visits, $3.2 million sold
Traffic to U.S. websites that publish escort and body-rub ads hit a record in March, while five of those sites sold at least $3.2 million in online prostitution ads during the month.
March revenue from online prostitution ads increased 2 percent from the previous month and 8.6 percent from March 2011, according to estimates by the AIM Group, and it was just $60,000 short of the record set in January.
There were 6.1 million unique visits to 22 tracked sites, according to Compete.com. That’s a 6.3 percent increase compared to February and a 23.1 percent increase from March 2011. That’s the highest total since AIM Group began tracking prostitution-advertising statistics in August 2010. For comparison, Craigslist, the world’s largest classified advertising site, had 62 million unique visits in March. Continue reading
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