Posted on August 14th, 2008 by Mike Carter
According to a recent study by US-based ForSalebyOwner.com, consumers are increasingly using the internet to ‘find’ a suitable property rather than relying on suggestions from the agent. It you look at the data compiled it seems like the two methods of finding property (yourself or the agent) will cross-over in a couple years time. Interestingly [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Mike Carter
Most of the press surrounding the ‘newspapers demise’ has focused on it’s ever declining classifieds business. If I were running digital operations within a newspaper group I’d be having a close look at the Craigslist success story. Let’s look at what we know…
Craigslist is mostly a US phenomenon. In other words, the UK market is [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Mike Carter
Looks like one of the UK’s leading newspaper groups, Trinity Mirror, is starting to reap dividends from it’s digital strategies. With users up 90%, year on year and the launch of 12 mobile websites for it’s various local titles, Trinity Mirror is executing on it’s digital strategies.
Overall it looks like UK newspapers online are attracting [...]
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