Comments on: Newspapers: please remove head from ass (yours)

By: Jim Stroud 2.0 » Blog Archive » The Week In Recruiting (Reading the blogs, so you won’t have to)

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:53:07 +0000

[...] 11. Steve Levy is a poet. 12. How did you get your head up there? 13. Getting paid to breathe. 14. Resumes? We don’t need no steenkin’ resumes. 15. Finally, the nominations are in. [...]

By: Daily Newspaper Rate Hikes in 2007 » Diggings

Daily Newspaper Rate Hikes in 2007 » Diggings — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:53:49 +0000

[...] Here’s a post from Exceler8ion about the rate hikes that daily newspapers have and will continue to make as we move into the new year. How the dailies can justify raising their advertising rates is beyond me given the consistent weakening of their value proposition, the deteriorating quality of their content, and the steadily declining readership stats. [...]

By: Recruiting Bloggers.com: Newspapers: please remove head from ass (yours) part II

Recruiting Bloggers.com: Newspapers: please remove head from ass (yours) part II — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:54:49 +0000

[...] Part II (read part I here if you haven’t already). [...]

By: EXCELER8ion - Online recruitment marketing, social media optimization, and interactive advertising

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:22:15 +0000

[...] Part II (read part I here if you haven’t already). [...]

By: Barry Hurd

Barry Hurd — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:42:58 +0000

I think that newspapers may be slow in turning to more profitable models, but it is strange that this is coming from the recruiting industry that could unfortunately be even farther behind the cue ball than their newspaper comparisons.

The nature of the news beast is to profit from things in secret as long as possible. Some big newspaper chains are embracing social media and profiting wildly from it, but I doubt any of them are going to come out and produce numbers outside of the executive room and tell competitors how they are up 10% from last year because of X, Y, and Z.

The same holds true for the idea that yellow page advertisers are dying off, several of the big producers are still very strong and doing well. I can’t blame them for not putting a spotlight on the “secret recipe” for making a print advertising company do well.

By: Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com

Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:17:13 +0000

Chris should charge $23,995 for his unlimited posting packages. Not only will his clients save themselves some money, they’ll definitely be dealing with someone who cares and does a great job.

By: Chris Russell

Chris Russell — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:49:03 +0000

Your view of this is dead on. I have to tell you a story about a newspaper job board. One of my competitors in the job space in Connecticut (ctjobs.com) was recently bought by a consortium of newspapers. They proceeded to gouge the old customers with new rates that were outrageous. They asked companies who were paying about $1,000 per year for unlimited postings to pay $24,000 for the same thing! Are they F@%*king kidding?

Just goes to show their mentality when it comes to online revenue. They truly do have their head up their ass.

By: JimStroud 2.0 - BlogCharm

JimStroud 2.0 - BlogCharm — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

then again, maybe not. 8. Recruiters seek geeks for cyber crime. 9. Something Job Central has been saying for a long time. 10. Her cheeks are nice and rosy. 11. Steve Levy is a poet. 12. How did you get your head up there? 13. Getting paid to breathe. 14. Resumes? We don’t need no steenkin’ resumes. 15. Finally, the nominations are in.

By: Copywrite, Ink.

Copywrite, Ink. — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

anyone who does not agree with them. (My apologies to good reporters who might take exception to seeing radio talk show hosts lumped in with them.) As I said, the landscape has changed and Julian Seery over at Exceler8ion presents some good points for newspapers to consider. More to the point: in today’s world, there seems to be an underlying movement by bloggers to take over the media’s job of “setting the agenda,” with the net result being that any biased reporting and reckless shaming the devil will