DirectoryM - Blog

Announcing: Project Lighthouse

2008-07-09T11:46:00.001-04:00

DirectoryM launched a program providing local businesses with free online advertising beginning with free phone leads for 90 days. The program is Phase one of Project Lighthouse, an initiative to educate local businesses and enable them to experience firsthand the benefits of promoting themselves online. “Most local or small business owners don’t realize that online advertising is not reserved

Inc.com: Panos Bethanis Went $4.5 million in the Hole to Buy Back His Company

2008-05-30T10:17:00.000-04:00

By: Hannah Clark Steiman Panos Bethanis closed the front door of his house in Boston's South End at 2 o'clock on a bitterly cold January morning in 2007. Eleven friends and colleagues, exhausted after a marathon meeting, had just filed out the door. Bethanis had invited his buddies over that evening to pitch them his strategy for buying an online directory business called DirectoryM. He had

A Case Study on DirectoryM in Inc magazine

2008-05-27T15:30:00.002-04:00

Inc magazine has just published case study about DirectoryM. It is available on the news stand, but not yet online. Run out and buy the magazine or hold out a few days and we will post a link to it...

Canada & Mexico

2008-04-29T14:52:00.002-04:00

Earlier this month we very quietly launched our first international sites. We now have directories and articles serving all of the United States, Canada & Mexico. In addition, we also have Spanish language support for our articles the United States. Our new sites are listed below: - Canadian Directory: www.DirectoryM.ca - Mexican Directory: www.directoryM.com.mx - Canadian Articles:

Real Estate Listings

2008-02-20T15:48:00.002-05:00

Through a new partnership, we are now able to bring you residential real estate listings from across the US. The information is pretty basic, but it is organized nicely and a great way to get a clean simple overview of what is available in a given ZipCode. Start here: http://articles.directorym.com/Real_Estate_Listings-s53.html Then select your state, city and zip or just type your ZipCode of

PRESS: Employee-owners push DirectoryM forward

2008-02-08T11:49:00.000-05:00

From: Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology - by Christopher Calnan Mass High Tech Nine months after its employees bought out investors, DirectoryM Inc. is reporting its second relaunch in four years and 15 percent year-over-year growth. Cambridge-based DirectoryM, an online advertising firm, shifted its marketing approach from selling advertising alone to selling advertising

PRESS: Employees purchase DirectoryM, re-launch company

2008-02-05T17:04:00.000-05:00

Coverage of our press in the Boston Business Journal.

PRESS: Employees Purchase DirectoryM and Launch One of the Fastest Growing Local Online Advertising Platforms to Monetize Traffic and Content

2008-02-05T17:02:00.000-05:00

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Having purchased the company back from its previous investors, the employees of DirectoryM today re-launched the company and its flagship local advertising network. With a new executive team in place, the employee-owned company offers publishers the first online advertising solution to unite and monetize their two key

PRESS: DirectoryM Relaunches Local Ad Platform After Company Buyback

2008-01-31T13:27:00.001-05:00

LESS THAN A YEAR AFTER an employee buyback, DirectoryM is relaunching its ad platform, bridging the gap between local businesses, news and radio outlets, and content publishers like the New York Times, and AutoByTel. Through a hosted platform, the Cambridge, Mass.-based tech and service provider allows publishers to populate their sites with local business directories and contextually-relevant

Got something to say?

2007-10-10T11:52:00.000-04:00

Can you write better than us? Is there a topic that you know well and that we haven't written about? You can now submit content for publication on Articles. Simply register for My.Articles and then post your content. Our editors will review your submission and if it meets our guidelines we will publish it on our site with a full byline and information about you, the author.

Content & Directory Modules on Blogger

2007-09-05T13:26:00.000-04:00

Do you want to display a Content Module or a Directory module on your Blogger blog? It is pretty simple, just follow these steps: 1.) In Blogger, go to Template > Page Elements > Add a Page Element > Select " HTML/JavaScript" 2.) Leave "Title" blank 3.) Paste the code from the DirectoryM Module Creation page into "Content" 4.) Delete "//" from the code that you pasted into

Free Content for your Site!

2007-09-04T11:34:00.001-04:00

Are you looking for free content for your site? Would you like to syndicate content from our articles? Now you can! Simply register with us. Then you can use our content creation wizard to select the topics of interest for your users. Format the style to fit your site and then paste some JavaScript and you are done. Free, relevant and fresh content and buying guides for your users.

Your recommendations in RSS

2007-08-22T17:10:00.001-04:00

I forgot to mention in the last post, but you can also get your recommendations via RSS. Simply log in to My Articles and then click on the RSS icon next to the recommendations or subscribe via your browser's option.

Ratings & Bookmarks!

2007-08-22T15:39:00.000-04:00

If you are a regular reader of Articles.DirectoryM you will have noticed that we recently added the ability for registered users to Rate articles and to Bookmark / Save articles. This is actually pretty neat, because if you rate a few articles (about 10) we can provide some recommended reading material for you. Our recommendation engine is still pretty early in its life but so far it seems to

DirectoryM's now available on TV web sites

2007-08-02T14:25:00.001-04:00

We've done pretty well penetrating the major publishing sites with our Directory over the years...Newsweek, Inc, Business Journals in 42 cities...etc. We're getting to the blogs, and on Technorati now too. But we've had our eye on moving into a new channels too...web sites of local television stations. These sites seem to be getting a lot of traction as they are now being heavily promoted by

DirectoryM reaches the blogosphere

2007-07-18T18:22:00.000-04:00

DirectoryM is now in the blogoshere! Check it out.. http://www.employmentblawg.com/2007/check-out-new-business-directory-from-directorym/

Local Vendors

2007-07-05T14:34:00.000-04:00

Thanks to the relentless efforts of our team of interns you can now find local vendors on each of our local articles. This project is long overdue and was only started in the first place due to feedback that we received from our readers.

New Url and New Site

2007-07-05T14:21:00.000-04:00

Snap9.com is sadly no more... Articles.DirectoryM.com lives! After much internal and external discussion we have decided to move the content from Snap9.com under the DirectoryM.com domain. We have also simplified our url and navigation structure and updated our look and feel. I hope people like it.

New Site Coming Soon!

2007-07-02T22:29:00.001-04:00

As you might have noticed, the blog has gone quite over the past few days. We are happy to announce that we have a brand new site launching soon. It will feature a whole new linking / navigation structure, a cleaner look and feel and more useful local articles / information. It also preps us for the next phase of what you are going to see from us, but that is a secret...

Akamai!

2007-05-22T11:14:00.000-04:00

In a previous post, I talked about the fact that we were testing Akamai out for serving our site and that we were in the process of testing a couple of sections. We have since completed testing those sections and have now rolled Akamai throughout our entire site. This should mean a huge improvement in performance and download time for everyone. It should also help us as we scale. I would like

More Speed!

2007-05-16T17:23:00.000-04:00

In our never ending quest to improve site performance we have been working with Akamai to cache and accelerate our pages. So far things have been progressing quite nicely and Akamai has responded quite helpfully as all the bugs are getting sorted. We are currently testing on Educational Content and Miscellaneous Guides and once we have all the kinks worked out we will expand to the rest of the

Help us reach 1000 Snaps

2007-04-25T09:28:00.000-04:00

Right now we have approximately 650 Snaps live on Snap9.com It has taken us about 7 months to get to this point and we hope to reach 1000 Snaps by the end of the summer. To help us reach our goal we would like to hear from you as to what subjects you want to read about. There are millions of things that we can write about but we rather write stuff that you want to read! Also, let me know if you

Talk Product To Me

2007-04-24T17:50:00.000-04:00

We are thrilled that up to 50,000 daily site visitors have flocked Snap9's way to gain insight on a broad range of topics in 9 concise points. But clearly there is so much more we can do. Please share your thoughts on how best to grow our site... Talk to Me. What's your product pleasure? What's broke? Have a topic suggestion? Share them here with Hans our content Czar.

New Home Page Feature

2007-04-23T16:20:00.000-04:00

While we have several thousand people subscribing to our RSS feed (according to FeedBurner) we have gotten some comments from our returning visitors about getting a quick view of our newest content. So, we now have a new block on the homepage of Snap9.com that will always feature our 4 newest Snap's. If you are looking for something new to read, check out that section. If something catches

Welcome to the Snap9.com blog

2007-04-23T16:11:00.000-04:00

Welcome to the new Snap9.com blog. While we write about everything else on Snap9.com here you will find us writing about what is going on at Snap9.com. We will let you know about new product features and new content as it comes out. Make sure to subscribe to our RSS feed for the latest content. Snap9 is one of the leading sources of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand Special Interest