April 26th, 2010
Annandale, Virginia – April 12th, 2010 – James Chubb is scheduled to speak on the local directories panel about strategies to capitalize on Local Search at the GeoDomain Expo April 28th – April 30th, 2010.
Associated Cities, who hosts the show, has selected New Orleans as its location after the show’s success in San Diego last year. GEODOMAIN EXPO 2010 will coincide with the 40th Annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. eDirectory, the market’s leading solution for developing local search sites, will also be exhibiting its latest software release and new iPhone application.
“The Associated Cities show is a great place to get the pulse of the industry.” said James Chubb, “With so many new ideas emerging, I expect this show to be a focal point for companies seeking to capitalize on local search for many years to come.” he added.
The show provides the opportunity for industry leaders to share best practices, learn about new trends, meet vendors in the business and network with those who have a stake in local and geo search. The two day show will include speakers and panels related to the business of operating sites, as well as social and networking events, a trade show and opportunities to purchase and invest in geodomain properties.
eDirectory is a division of Arca Solutions, Inc, a digital media company headquartered in the Washington, DC metro area.
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April 23rd, 2010
A few days ago, I was reading a pretty interesting article about the circulation, and ad revenue for the New York Times. Granted, the article was a few years old, but what it showed was that those who read The New York Times print issue only comprises 10% of their total audience. Not a huge surprise considering the drastic shift of media from print to online, but things get more interesting …
While 90% of their audience is reading the New York Times online, NYtimes.com advertisers only contributes to 10% of their total revenue.
Wait…what?
Nearly perfectly inverse economics. So the medium in which only 10% of their audience is using to access their content generates 90% of their revenue? So Print isn’t dying?!?!?!? Well… not so fast.
While the preferred method of accessing the content is clearly online, the advertising dollars are slow to follow. This means that there’s a gaping hole of opportunity to hop on all of the advertising revenue that will trickle from print to online. If the shift in ad dollars is anything as drastic as it was for the shift in media itself, it will be more like a flood, not so much a trickle.
One more thing to note: According to Forbes Magazine — 65 Billion Dollars will be shifting from print to online this year. 65 Billion dollars…
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March 25th, 2010
Annandale, Virginia - March 25rd, 2010 - In one of the most anticipated released in past years, Arca Solutions, the developers of eDirectory ,will unleash version 7.4 this Wednesday, March 24th, and will provide its’ users a slew of rich features based on feedback from our clients over the past several months.
eDirectory version 7.4 will provider its’ iPhone app users with a multi-language platform, as well as the ability to handle ratings. Perhaps one of the most notable additions will be a graphical library of 14 new graphical themes to better suit the theme of your online directory including those designed for online magazine publications, medical, law and hotel directories as well as online buyers’ guides. With a new Site Manager (SiteMGR) interface, users will also be able to choose payment gateways, search by promotional code on transaction searches, and much more.
Other features to note are the ability to maintenance mode, as well as new search query options on both the eDirectory results’ page and transaction searches and newly integrated username real time validation on add account forms.
eDirectory is a division of Arca Solutions, Inc, a digital media company headquartered in the Washington, DC metro area
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