Posted by Ingrid Riley on February 16th, 2010
So like the Jamaica Observer, the Jamaica Gleaner has pretty much tweaked a premium WordPress template to relaunch a new look website that’s more social and ad friendly. The Jamaica Gleaner launched their new look website this evening. Funny when The Observer launched theirs we said wow, to the Gleaner website we managed… ahmm oookkk.
But my fellow tech entrepreneur Colin Scott puts his own candid spin on it in an email discussion this evening and I had to share it. In essence, who needs the “pretty” when you’re making money. “Ok, Ok So we don’t like it but we are still forgetting the #1 rule…. “They DONT CARE IF YOU LIKE IT” ..its a revenue decision.So lets critique it from a revenue perspective.
Popularity: 7% [?]
Posted by Robyn-Dale Y. Samuda on January 27th, 2010
As we continue to study the world wide web and focus on how we can take advantage of this limitless resource and marketplace, we must pay keen attention to the players who are winning the game and do so consistently. Also, we must learn as much as we can from them to avoid re-inventing the wheel and rediscovering fire.
Therefore, I chose to do a quick case study on the top 5 websites in Jamaica and also do a rough listing of 9 more based on their user traffic. Since high user traffic indicates that there must be something attractive or useful on that site. This is key if we want to retain regular viewers, increase advertising opportunities and thus create and maintain website profitability.
Most persons do not clearly have a plan to directly monetize their websites. Too many individuals create websites without setting targets to achieve specific landmarks. So, let us begin to look at some sites in Jamaica that are consistently attracting traffic and see what we can learn.
Popularity: 7% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on June 24th, 2009
We wrote a post on the Jamaica Gleaner last week with the headline- “ Jamaica Gleaner,Caribbean’s oldest newspaper profits plummets, vows to focus on increased market share online” which became the hot post for the week. It had a just under 20 comments amongst all of that was a continuous banter between two regular bog readers that was a Gleaner vs Observer war of words of sort.
The debate raged as to which site is really number one. So we decided to dig up some stats and see what comes out of it. We used both Alexa.com(owned by Amazon.com) and Compete.com as references. Here are the results.
Popularity: 13% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on November 19th, 2008
With people minds on their money and how to make more and save more money on their minds, the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper has launched a micro site called iconsumer. The site gives how to advice on saving money, smarter shopping and budget advice covering topics ranging from technology, entertaining and house and home. The content is right now kinda thin and some of the top of the site links lead nowhere. So we’ll see where they take this one. They had previously launched sportscaribe.com for Olympics this year.It’s interesting to see the company repurposing and decentralising their content to these microsites.
Popularity: 1% [?]
