Jobrate: A New Employment Portal

Jobrate is a new employment portal that while still in beta, totes its dynamic search as its competitive edge. Unlike traditional job portals that are driven heavily on static job seeker input to show results, Jobrate shows potential job matches with every key word typed. As the Jobrate site

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Metro France partners with AnnoncesJaunes.fr

Metro France is reporting a new partnership with AnnouncesJaunes.fr to provide housing listings into the Metro print publications.   The housing listings will be featured in a new section with a combination of editorial and classified listings.  The new section will feature 50 classified listings

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Mocca #1 in Singapore

Media corp is reporting, through its ChannelNewsAsia, that Mocca.com is now the most popular classified site in Singapore. The site received 7 million page views and 13,000 listings last month. This is a growth of over 700% in the last 2 months and Hitwise is reporting that Mocca.com receives a th

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Radio and TV looking at Classifieds

In the last year we've seen a steady increase of both Radio and TV companies developing classified business off of their websites.  The cost of setting up a classified site are so low now that its very practical to setup the site directly, or create a partnership to provide content.   Even if the

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IQZone Partners with Daily Jolt

IQZone, one the leading provide of classifieds to mobile phones, has partnered with Daily Jolt to provide mobile classified to all of its 200+ university and college focused sites. The IQZone process to ad classified ads looks like a very easy 3 step process: Take a video or photo with your p

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Using Events and Tradeshows

Jobloft.com latest blog entry about the National  Job Fair & Training Expo, reminded me that online classified sites often forget to use offline channels to increase their brand awareness.   Its great to see Jobloft, a relatively new online start-up, using events and trade shows to grow their

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SFGate.com Partners with Tulley Coffee

Editor & Publisher, a journal covering the Newspaper industry, is reporting that SFGate.com and Tulley's Coffee have engaged in a test program to provide LCDs in Tulley Coffee locations with free access to SFGate.com.   Access is currently limited to news updates but may include Classified Inf

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The Sun UK Focusing on Parking

In a response to increased driving and parking fees in the London core,  the Sun UK Newspaper has expanded its classified section to focus on parking services.  An excellent example of a classified provider seeing a market need and adapting quickly to provide service for the category.  The servic

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Finditt.com Adds Dating

Finditt.com has added Dating to its list of Classified Services.  Finditt.com has done reasonably well as a search engine/business directory but has recently been expanding into more of the classified markets.   The focus for Finditt.com seems to be on creating small micro-sites for different bus

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New Classified Launch for Rocky Mount Telegram

New Classified Launch for Rocky Mount Telegram

Rocky Mount Telegram has announced a new look to their classified section. The new layout is clean and clear featuring 4 distinct searches for Real Estate, Merchandise, Employment and Automotive. The search for each of these categories was quick and easy to navigate with an RSS/XML export option fo

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