Owen Burns is the new business development director at the U.K.’s WhiteHotProperty.com real estate Web site. Burns comes to the site after a stint at Casa.it as its commercial director and from senior sales positions with the REA Group.
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Are you a Bing user yet? Want to know much money you should be earning at that new job? PayScale, Inc., has announced an exclusive partnership with Microsoft’s new search engine that will respond to any salary related queries from PayScale.com’s 17.5 million dataset.
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PropertyFinder’s CEO is leading a management attempt to buy out the site from joint owners News International and REA Group. The move comes after the current owners put their U.K. online operations under review.
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Global property portal Enormo.com continues to make inroads in the U.S. market. Its latest partnership is with Network Communications’ ApartmentFinder.com which will bring another 10,000 listings onto the Enormo site.
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Move.com’s SeniorHousingNet.com has redesigned its Web site. The main differences are much larger fonts, particularly on the home page, and larger advertising units.
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Dice Holdings, which builds vertical community Web sites, has purchased AllHealthcareJobs.com, which, as its name implies, serves healthcare professionals.
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Despite the general decline in recruitment advertising in the United States and globally, and despite the fact that Craigslist charges nominal rates for recruitment ads in just 18 cities (all of them in the U.S.), we expect the company to generate almost $60 million in help-wanted ads this year.
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In a lawsuit filed April 22, 2008, EBay accuses Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and CEO Jim Buckmaster of trying to manipulate Craigslist’s stock to cut out EBay’s interest after it launched a competing free-classified site in the United States.
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Is Craigslist a hotbed of crime? Not really. On balance, Craigslist is probably no more or less safe than any other classified advertising publication or Web site.
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A little bit of juggling on the Hitwise list of top U.S. real estate Web sites for May. Trulia jumped from 9th to 6th place. And RealEstate.msn.com leaped from 24th place to 14th.
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While Craigslist charges a fee for some recruitment and rental ads in specific cities, and all adult-services ads, it is primarily a free classified site. We have therefore narrowed down our list of Craigslist competitors to 12 sites that offer free classifieds for all or most private-party advertisements.
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If you’re unemployed and in the finance industry, chances are you’re feeling OK. a new survey found that 74 percent of job-seeking finance professionals are confident that they’ll be employed by end of 2009.
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The company is still not profitable, but traffic is up, there’s loads of money in the bank, and Spencer Rascoff of Zillow is feeling fine. That’s the takeaway from our recent interview with the online real estate portal’s COO.
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Despite challenging economic times, or perhaps because of them, two of the classified industry’s premier technology providers are successfully expanding their traditional customer bases and taking pitched battles for market share with them.
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Google’s Russ Cohn sat down with CIR at the recent International Classified Media Association conference in Estonia to discuss his view of the future of classifieds and how publishers can work with Google to drive traffic.
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First it was Craigslist introducing a real life monitoring on posted messages to its new Adult category. Now it’s Twitter’s turn. The micro-blogging company is planning to crack down on celebrity impersonators who post messages on the service.
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AIM Group services include consulting engagements, publishing and proprietary research: executive level strategy workshops; development of new products and marketing programs; market research; mystery shopping; sales training, and advertising trend analysis for the recruitment, automotive, real estate and merchandise categories.
Houston-based Jim is a consultant, principal and editorial director of the AIM Group and a veteran media executive. He is responsible for Classified Intelligence Report and our organization’s many other products and reports, and manages writers and analysts from across the globe. Jim’s background includes both traditional and new media.
Maine-based Shannon is Director of Business Development for the AIM Group and also serves as one of the company’s senior consultants. Her professional career includes a broad range of experience in print and online media, as well as specific classifieds experience in merchandise and auctions, auto, real estate and recruitment at internationally recognized firms.
