Some sites go under the radar in our industry but sites like Geebo.com, a classifieds competitor to Craigslist, has been around for nearly 18 years and still remains a profitable, lean team. I asked their Founder, Greg Collier a few questions about his company via email. Describe Geebo and its history. Geebo was launched in 2000 in order…
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Use Desktop Push Notifications for Instant Traffic
If you read my last post about being good at internet marketing you will love today’s topic. PUSH notifications. A desktop push notification is typically a web browser notification that pops up for users even if they are not on your site. To get them the user must opt-in in order to receive future ones. If…
To Run a Job Board Today You Need…
Just a quick reminder that if you want to run a job board today (or any kind of recruiting technology) you need to be good at internet marketing. Specifically you need to know how to market your product properly with the right messaging targeted at the right audience. Without that skill set you will most certainly…
5 New Job Board Launches
Want to know what’s new in the job board space? Seems like their is a renewed interest in online recruiting these days (thanks to Google and VCs). Here’s a quick tour of 5 new job boards. 3 in tech, 1 in government and 1 for manufacturing in Georgia.
Update on Google Jobs (screencast)
We are about 3 weeks in to the launch of Google Jobs. There’s lots of buzz in the industry and questions still abound. Here’s a 5 minute screencast of some things I learned about whats happening with it. Anybody else wish for pagination in results? Would be nice if they also showed a count of…
Best Candidates for Job Boards: Established Sites
Recently I helped the team at Agency Checklist launch this new job board. Powered by a WordPress theme, it’s a “hyper-niche” site that targets Massachusetts insurance jobs. And they are off to a strong start having already sold several postings in the first month. A big reason for this is their existing audience. AgencyChecklist.com has…
The Redirect Conundrum
I have a job board client with a problem. They have a number of employers which they scrape and send the job seeker back to their ATS to apply. In the process the employer only sees the number of clicks that were sent along with the phrase ‘Anonymous’ in their dashboard. The problem is that…
How to get your site in Google Jobs
Now that Google Jobs has launched many job boards are scrambling for how to be included. I saw one comment last week that Snagajob saw a 9% increase in traffic from it. Not bad. The new search function will definitely be a boost to the initial list of included sites. I’ve done a lot of…
CareerBuilder finally found a Buyer
Initial reports that CareerBuilder was going to be bought for 1 billion were debunked last week when a private equity group and a teachers pension fund, bought a majority stake in the company. According to an ERE report, the deal values the company around $500 million. Thats about $71 million more than what Monster recently…
Glassdoor Claims #2 Traffic Spot Among Job Sites
Based on unique users, custom job list sites and the % Change Media Trend Report by comScore Glassdoor now claims 45 million monthly uniques. Indeed.com is of course number one, CareerBuilder.com, Monster.com and ZipRecruiter.com round out the top 5 job boards in the country. I believe Indeed is around 200 monthly uniques but that is…