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What Should the YP Publishers Do?
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 3:33pmInspired in part by Chris Silver Smith’s post yesterday I’d like to invite any and all to make suggestions regarding what measures — general and specific — the yellow pages...
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Putting the Reviews Debate to Rest
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 3:23pmWhen reviews first started showing up in the local segment there was a debate about whether they would alienate advertisers and whether they were optional or mandatory from a consumer standpoint....
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Didn’t Get Your Fill of Predictions?
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 9:10amNever fear. Matt McGee has done the painstaking work of rounding up lots and lots of predictions and organizing them by category and posting them here on a Big List. Here’s the Local-Mobile...
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SEL Column: ‘Saving the Yellow Pages’
Mon, 01/05/2009 - 2:22pmChris Smith, who used to be with Idearc, writes today’s Locals Only column at SEL in which he makes a range of specific recommendations to directory publishers. Here’s his list: Come up...
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Here Come the ‘Internet Ready TVs’
Mon, 01/05/2009 - 12:56pmLast week I briefly blogged about the Internet coming to TV. Sling Catcher now goes “both ways,” streaming Internet video to TV as well as TV to PCs. Obviously Apple TV does a version of...
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New Local Search News Site
Mon, 01/05/2009 - 12:32pmeLocal Listing’s Steve Espinosa has launched Local Search News. It’s a mix of tactical/practical advice and general news. Most of Steve’s current contributors are SEO...
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Newspapers, YPs Sing the De-Listing Blues
Mon, 01/05/2009 - 11:59amFirst it happened to Idearc and now RH Donnelley: R.H. Donnelley Corporation, one of the nation’s leading Yellow Pages and online local commercial search companies, announced today that The New...
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2009: Newspaper Apocalypse?
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 2:13pmAs US consumers look for ways to save money, one of the things that will continue to suffer is newspaper subscription revenue. Paid newspaper circulation reached its peak in 1999 and has been on a...
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Now Feeding to Twitter
Wed, 12/31/2008 - 4:08pmI who formerly railed against Twitter am now using it. I’m feeding all my blog posts from Screenwerk, Search Engine Land and Local Mobile Search into it: ...
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Happy New Year Everyone
Wed, 12/31/2008 - 12:08pmLet’s hope 2009 brings a quick recovery and peace to the Middle East, India/Pakistan, Iraq and elsewhere. Have fun. Be safe.
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Top Posts of 2008
Tue, 12/30/2008 - 1:50pmDon’t ask me why but here are the posts — some of them are earlier than 2008 — that WordPress said were the most visited of the year from this blog: The Mobile Phone As Bar Code...
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Another Prediction: Internet on TV
Tue, 12/30/2008 - 1:38pmIt’s already there — here and there that is. The Internet is not yet mainstream on TV but it will be by 2010. AT&T is pushing a limited Internet through U-Verse; the Xbox allows...
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YP.com’s 10K Video Profiles (Ads)
Tue, 12/30/2008 - 12:56pmAs an aside, I’m happy to now be able to use “YP.com” instead of “Yellowpages.com” each time I write about AT&T’s directory. Just before Xmas, the company put...
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Making Money from This Blog
Tue, 12/30/2008 - 12:30pmI’d like to start making some money off this blog. I haven’t put up ads because I don’t like them in general. But I’d like to ask you folks how I should make some money off...
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Whither ‘E-Commerce’?
Tue, 12/30/2008 - 12:17pmThis holiday season was very bleak. From the AP yesterday: The most dramatic pullback in consumer spending in decades could transform the retail landscape, as thousands of stores and whole malls...
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Cool ‘24 Hour’ Search Engine
Mon, 12/29/2008 - 2:29pmMatt McGee does a nice roundup of some obscure search engines over at SEL. Many have a local element. One that I thought was cool is 2itch, which also offers a mobile site. The idea is simple:...
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Interesting Data: Work vs. Leisure
Mon, 12/29/2008 - 11:35amHere are some interesting data (10/08, n=1,010 US adults) from Harris on work vs. leisure and favorite leisure activities (comparing historical survey results): And reading is the favorite leisure...
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Prediction: Much More Mobile in ‘09
Mon, 12/29/2008 - 11:24amEveryone and their second cousin is pushing out their 2009 predictions (often with press releases). I have not because I’m bored with the whole affair. I also think there’s not that much...
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Happy Holidays and Thank You
Tue, 12/23/2008 - 11:29amI hope everyone has a great holiday — as much as can be expected under the circumstances. I also want to thank everyone I worked with this year and all the readers of this blog. I’m...
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Take My Mobile Marketing Poll
Tue, 12/23/2008 - 10:55amI’m testing out LinkedIn Polls. Take my mobile marketing poll:
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