Comments on: Zvents Beefs Up Board With Former Yahoo Local Chief Paul Levine

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By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:48:24 +0000

Tomb waiting in wing?

By: jason

jason — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:10:36 +0000

Levine with Obrien, their marketing, should be unstoppable; both search media, ex-yahoo, advertising. comparison to eventful seems likes apples and oranges – zvents traffic can’t be accurate, they like to point out that they run the globe which is much larger and I wouldn’t think they are buying the traffic: seo is exceptional. website needs work though, poor user experience, I don’t use it – can Levine help with that? Yahoo Local is… well…

By: bdeek

bdeek — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:07:30 +0000

wow marc. Sounds like you know the inside scoop on both companies. Where do you get your info?

By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:52:28 +0000

Zvents Beefs Up Board With Former Yahoo Local Chief Paul Levine…

Zvents powers the event feature of our iPhone app. They announced the addition of Paul Levine, the former General Manager of Yahoo Local (and current VP Marketing at Adbrite) to their board of directors this morning….

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:27:22 +0000

Zevnts surpassed Eventful only by buying paid traffic through Adsense and other PPC engines. They run really low end CPM advertising because it’s all they can get. It’s a long slow bleed for them until they finally go belly up. They don’t have the traffic, traction or CPM rates to succeed. Just waiting for them to burn through the rest of their VC cash until they have to shut down shop. Eventful is on the same path by the way. There is no money in the niche. Investors would be well advised to liquidate these experiments and salvage what capital is left for more promising projects.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Zventsが取締役会を補強−Yahoo Localの前責任者 Paul Levineが参加へ

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Zventsが取締役会を補強−Yahoo Localの前責任者 Paul Levineが参加へ — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:24:45 +0000

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By: jay

jay — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:59:33 +0000

Paul is a joke. He interviewed for over a year everywhere and nobody would extend an offer.

By: Kelsey Group Blogs » Zvents Brings Paul Levine “On Board”

Kelsey Group Blogs » Zvents Brings Paul Levine “On Board” — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:24:59 +0000

[...] VP of Marketing (and Former Yahoo Local GM) Paul Levine has joined the board of Local events site Zvents. Zvents, since its launch in 2005, has raised about $7 [...]

By: Paul Levine Joins Zvents Board of Directors

Paul Levine Joins Zvents Board of Directors — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:37:19 +0000

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By: Mikey

Mikey — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:35:51 +0000

I like apples

By: Techlusive

Techlusive — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:26:52 +0000

@8, Photoshop and Fireworks already have image slicing capabilities in them. They plug right into dreamweaver.

By: Addy

Addy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:11:17 +0000

Congratulation Paul, good job!

By: FOUND3R TG

FOUND3R TG — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:25:21 +0000

I was with a Yahoo exec just last night on the move. Is the company really in trouble or are people just moving on….

By: Dany

Dany — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:59:49 +0000

Nice blog! Just added to my favourites.

By: spycrasher

spycrasher — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:58:12 +0000

Hi everybody

Just trapped on a little tool to slice website images.
Quick in preparing ready html from simple single-image site design.
Program is rather crappy and cheap (especially comparing to similar function in PhotoShop).
But there is a trick! Just look what books come as a bonus:

Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day
Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
Webmaster in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
etc…

I wonder how $270 priced books can be sold for just 20 dollars…
Anyway here’s link: http://www.sliceimage.com/

Hope these books will help you as well.

Regards,
Mark

By: Ironic Man

Ironic Man — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:50:32 +0000

More great irony is the fact that Paul led the acquisition of upcoming.org at Yahoo Local. I guess what he really wanted to buy was Zvents.

Talk about putting a fork in Yahoo and twisting it.

His old Yahoo Local team must love the fact that he is advising Zvents how to compete against them now.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:43:42 +0000

Also, don’t think that just because you cloned yellowbook or yellowpages.com that you will get pricey customers.

I have know employees at yellowpages, and they have a VAST sales teams that carpet area codes with sales spam, and they also have large receivables teams. And they do this across the entire country.

Without people to nag every dick, tom and harry on the phone and by email, you have no chance by starting a directory.

You would need at least 2M startup.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:28:48 +0000

The user profiles leave much to be desired

http://www.zven...er/show/Tharrah

blah….

Other business directories that are cloning yellowpages.com have done a much better job integrating social networking than these guys. The event aspect does little to help. Eventbrite and others do it way better.

By: jeremy wright

jeremy wright — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:20:58 +0000

I love that they whitelabel zvents for other websites (like boston.com) and enable smaller sites to have targetted event features (for $, of course). Very handy

By: V-Techo

V-Techo — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:41:49 +0000

Google is surely very funny….Check this if you don’t believe me!

http://vishtech...results_15.html

By: Nigel Eccles

Nigel Eccles — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:36:25 +0000

Looks like the Yahoo fall out is proving a benefit to start-ups as many predicted. Looks like a great addition to the Zvents team.

By: brianp

brianp — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:33:31 +0000

welcome paul !! zvents is a very good website, I use it everyday in nyc, very useful

Nath
http://www.them...rfulcompany.com