Its Not a Joke...

I went to see
Batman last night. I recommend it if only for the extraordinary performance by the late Heath Ledger as The Joker. But if you want to be really scared read
this reportage of the results presentation from Johnston Press. I know its about regional newspapers not b2b, but aren't there some similarities - communities, the decline of print, the vulnerability of recruitment, the collapse of the paid sale model, online growing too slowly to compensate for the print malaise?
Try reading
Peter Kirwans piece but replace all the names of people with names of your own execs, and the every time the company is mentioned, use your company name.
Done that? Feel a little chilly? Thinking that maybe you are not doing enough? What is happening now in regional newsapers is a lens on the future to B2B - and Batman isn't real - you are on your own.
Labels: B2b strategy, batman, johnston press
Downturn starts to hurt Job Boards
The Guardian reports that Johnston Press is making eight redundancies as it closes the London sales office of its jobs board business.
It is hardly news that regional newspaper groups are having a tough time. but surprising that recruitment - and online recruitment at that, is in the firing line. In the pre online world, it used to be said that when GDP growth falls below 2%, there is a recruitment ad recession. It looks like that may be true in the on line world too.
We might pay particular attention to this news and whether it might mean that RBI's TotalJobs is also feeling the pinch and how that might affect the sale process.
Labels: johnston press, RBI, recruitment advertising, totaljobs