And I’m all for it!
I guess I could say I wish I had seen this from its inception but that isn’t true. Since posts about Walmart’s Classifieds have part of my current interest, I saw Erick’s at TC and read through the comments, coming across one by Bob Wyman. He mentioned the “no-coincidence” thought that Walmart’s new classifieds are being publicized at about the same time the newspaper industry is attempting to “recapture” the classified ad business.
Hence ReinventingClassifieds.com.
From their very first post;
“We’re especially looking for ideas that will help the newspaper industry figure out how to recover some of its …read more

Online Revenue Growth Slows For Newspapers
“Newspaper publishers are seeing a significant slowdown in the growth rate of online revenue.”
That’s not all either – Print revenue has also plummeted in double digits for the first three months of 2008. Online classifieds have slowed while online display advertising is booming.
“Newspapers’ online classifieds are particularly vulnerable because most newspaper publishers still get the bulk of their online classified revenues from “up-sells” on the print side, offering online ad placement to people placing print classifieds.”
Very telling to one specific area might be “classified advertising was down 15.4% as lower newspaper advertising volumes, especially help-wanted, …read more