Design plays a key role in the success of your job board. Well designed sites make it easier for customers to “trust” doing business with you. A client recently asked me which job boards have the best designs so here are three such sites that came to mind. Got other suggestions? Leave a comment. 1….
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My Favorite New Widget for Job Boards
FeedWind is my new favorite tool for burning RSS feeds for job boards. http://feed.mikle.com/ It’s a great way to embed your jobs or blog posts on other non-job sections of your website. Embedding their widget helps you cross-promote your jobs or content across your entire website. It will help to drive more page views. You…
Got traffic? Get a Job Board
There are thousands of small communities online that can benefit by adding a job board to the mix. Case in point, TruckerCountry. Run by a former truck driver, the site offers CDL practice tests and resources that help people become truck drivers. The site reaches 100k users each month so when the owner approached me…
Sales Prospecting Tip for Using Google
Leads are the lifeblood of any job board. You need to find like minded employers who are hiring. Your competitors are a great place to find them but so is Google if you know how to look for them. Here’s how I find leads of companies I want to target. Enter this in the search…
2018 Job Board Software Directory
I have a new list of job board software vendors and the top 1,000 national, niche and local job boards across the web. Freshly updated for 2018! The file is a downloadable PDF file available for $19.95 on my Gumroad page. Buy the Directory Today The report contains six sections; 1. Hosted software vendors. Only…
Job Boards and their Emails
I have talked to 20+ job boards in the past few months about helping them with their marketing efforts. One thing I have learned in those discussions is that many of them are woefully behind the curve when it comes to email marketing. Sites that have been around years and that have accumulated thousands of…
Who’s Going to TA Tech Orlando?
Next month the job board association (formerly known as IAEWS) is holding its annual vendor conference in Orlando under its new name TA Tech. They have rebranded to be more inclusive of talent acquisition technologies not just job boards. For me, it will be my first visit to the event in several years. I’m looking…
2 Sales Tactics for your Job Board (member only)
New job board owners struggle when it comes to sales. Especially if they have never sold anything before, the sales process in HR circles is challenging. Recently, after working with some clients I picked up a few things I can impart to you on this blog. Job Board Sales Tactic #1 One site I know…
New Job Board Sightings
Here’s a quick look at some new job boards that have launched or made other news recently. ITJobCafe is an eight year old job board that just launched a new mobile friendly design. They have collected 100,000 tech resumes since starting and use job distribution to give employers more value (more sites, 1 price). READ…
Niche Job Board TreasuryJobs.com For Sale
I’ve been hired to help broker the sale of TreasuryJobs.com, the only niche job board that serves that sector of the financial job market in the United States. The site launched in 2014 and has significant double digit sales with a strong history of growth since its inception. The site is hosted on the ForceFinder job…