Archive for July, 2005

micropayments survey

July 21st, 2005

I hate it when curiosity gets the best of me, but what am I to do?
Below is a link to a 3 question survey about micropayments. I want to get a sense for how open you are to paying for blog content.
It’s very unscientific, but I predict will be interesting nonetheless. It’s totally anonymous […]

mano a blogo

July 21st, 2005

I think I first heard the saying, "Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel" as a journalism student in college.
In short, it meant don’t mess with the media ’cause they can broadcast really nasty things about you to a lot of people - oh yeah, and you’re powerless against it.
The […]

my take on the whole jobster, workzoo thing

July 20th, 2005

Online recruitment’s brightest minds and opinion leaders have recently given their take on the Jobster acquisition of WorkZoo. Attitudes have been all over the map. As always, John Sumser gave one of my favorite assessments.
Personally, the more I think about it, the more I think we’re all maybe looking too hard at this deal. Maybe […]

search advertising propels yahoo! earnings

July 20th, 2005

As with most things in business, if you just follow the money you’ll see why things are done: Why has HotJobs gotten into the vertical job search game? Well, follow the money.
AdWeek reports that Yahoo! "attributed
its sharp increase in second-quarter earnings to the demand for
Internet brand and search advertising. The California-based company
reported $192 million in […]

yahoo!’s promo e-mail

July 19th, 2005

In case  you missed Yahoo! HotJobs’ recent promotional e-mail regarding their new vertical search solution for finding jobs:

Now you can find jobs that aren’t listed on any other major job board!
Wouldn’t your job search be a lot easier if you could search through jobs from across the Web on one easy-to-use web site? Well, now […]

employment branding, front and center thanks to dot-jobs

July 16th, 2005

The image in this post is fictional. OK, so Apple isn’t fake, but the logo was created to represent any employer, and what could-be.
What does working at Apple mean to you?
Most impressions of them as an employer come from their all-encompassing corporate brand: Cutting-edge, high-tech, a touch of Birkenstock culture, artsy, entrepreneurial. These are […]

amazon’s monster insert

July 15th, 2005

I received an Amazon package today. Usually, there’s a Monster insert inside with all the other ads. Not today.
And has anyone seen the Monster blimp lately?

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