RE: UKNM: Local Focus Sites

[Bunder, Leslie]

Oh,  what the heck and here's a self-interest! 


We've just re-vamped our local area guides here at InfoSpace over at

www.infospace.co.uk


Leslie

(my first and only plug for anyone I work for in 18 months of subscribing to

this mailing list)

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 > ----------

 > From: 	Steve Thompson[SMTP:sthompsn@nqo.com]

 > Sent: 	26 January 2000 12:54

 > To: 	uk-netmarketing@chinwag.com

 > Subject: 	Re: UKNM: Local Focus Sites

 > 

 > I suggest you look at http://www.fish4.co.uk

 > 

 > Steve

 > steve.thompson@nqo.com

 > 

 > 

 > ----------

 >  >From: James Bromley <James@the-nrg.co.uk>

 >  >To: "'uk-netmarketing@mail.chinwag.com'"

 > <uk-netmarketing@mail.chinwag.com>

 >  >Subject: UKNM: Local Focus Sites

 >  >Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2000, 10:14 am

 >  >

 > 

 >  > Can anyone give me opinions or examples of well executed sites that

 >  > focus on a local audience?

 >  >

 >  > I believe this area has been tainted by low budget advertising led

 >  > directories, newspapers that replicate part of the copy from their hard

 >  > offering(no interaction)and local ISP's who have assembled local

 >  > businesses around their non promoted, now traffic free(!)urls.

 >  >

 >  > "Local" on the Internet, it has to be said, is rarely credible, yet the

 >  > opportunities to link people who are within tangible travelling

 > distance

 >  > of each other is a gold mine waiting to be found (at least outside

 >  > London).

 >  >

 >  > Finally, as someone who has sat and earwigged for the past 12 months

 >  > since taking a "career adjustment" from new media, a warning; don't

 > even

 >  > think about the traditional stuff, if you are on this list you have

 > been

 >  > infected for life!  It pulls you back in.

 >  >

 >  > James Bromley

 >  > the-nrg.co.uk



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