What did Just Landed users get for Christmas?
No, this is not being published at the wrong time of year! We look at how people are using Just Landed to make sure we focus our efforts on making the site work as...
Author: Simon Lynch
SMS payments for premium ads
You can now send an SMS to make ads premium from some countries (if available you will see the option in the ‘make premium’ area). We hope this will be an alternative to credit...
International payments with CCBill
According to our statistics, we get visitors from 229 countries (probably more countries than actually exist as a few islands are being counted when they are not strictly speaking countries). This presents a particular...
Belgium tops rankings for bring up expat kids
The latest edition of HSBC’s Expat Explorer survey provides a snapshot of how expatriate parents think their kids are getting on abroad. Belgium came top overall, with the only downsides identified being that more...
So, who watches football anyway?
We spend a lot of time trying to understand our users and how changes and new features work (or not). One of the tools we use is Google Analytics which basically crunches a lot...
Introducing ‘Premium’ ads
We have over a million people a month visiting our sites for housing, jobs and classifieds. Common questions from users posting ads have been, “how do I get more visibility for my ads?” and...
Vodafone España tan malo como Telefónica / Vodafone Spain as bad as Telefónica?
One of the most common complaints that expats have is that getting day-to-day things done is more difficult than at home. This of course depends a lot on the country and nationality of the...
Expats rate best places to raise kids
HSBC International today released its Offshore Offspring report. This report compares 6 countries with large professional expatriate populations. Key findings were: Australia came out on top. UK ranked last. 77% of British-born expats say...
Merry Christmas! Best wishes for 2010
Thanks to all our users and customers for their support this year. We just launched a new feature today which means you can now share your adverts with your social networks on Facebook, Orkut...
Newspapers for expats
A surprising amount non-Spanish language newspapers are printed in Spain for expatriates living there. The British like their papers; The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Express all have editions printed in Spain. So does...
