A reader tipped me off to a fascinating story about whats going on with the company that owns the .jobs TLD (top level domains). 15 years ago .jobs launched in partnership with SHRM to help employers put their jobs on a .jobs domain. That initiative never caught on so the registry owner Employ Media then…
A reader asked me about how to attract students to his job board. Q – How do you manage to get emails from students and future graduates? Currently, I’m doing a search on Linkedin, I manage to get registrations by direct contact in Linkedin. But I’m curious if there are other ways to get future…
Q – Hi Chris, I’m looking to launch a job board, which involves a niche that I really like. I would like to know your opinion about creating a campaign involving a landing page to recruit new leads who would be interested in having your resume attached to my website. Recalling that I am developing…
A reader sent me the following question recently. Q – I have been doing research on supplemental income for sometime now and job boards have sparked my interest. I have been watching your YouTube videos and came across one where you noted that a job board is not a good source of income for at…
What’s a successful local job board? One need only ask Mac Prichard who runs MacsList.org, a local job resource for the Pacific Northwest. I Zoomed him recently and asked him to share his story. TOPICS: Give the viewers a short history of your business You’ve really built a community not just a job board, talk…
Here’s a couple of new job boards that came across my desk recently… Passion Placement LLC has announced the launch of its website, passionplacement.com. The site, at its core, is a niche job board with a broad focus including paid positions as well as volunteer, internships and board seats for mission-based companies. In addition passionplacement.com provides…
Professional Diversity Network, Inc., an operator of online and in-person networks that provide access to networking, training, educational and employment opportunities for diverse individuals, today announced its partnership with Web Scribble Solutions, a leading provider of career center technology for professional and trade associations. “We are excited to launch our new Job Board with Web…
Back in the 2000’s when I ran my local job board network I was constantly worried about competitors and how they were doing. As time passed, some of them went dark or folded and that’s when I pounced on the opportunity to buy their old domains/assets and redirect them to my own site. I reveled…
I saw this the other day via the Morning Brew newsletter that I subscribe to. It’s a good example for how to tell people on your email list to mark your emails so they don’t go into spam. I suggest sending something like this at various intervals as a reminder, especially when they first sign…
Ryan, a reader sent me this question the other day; I have a niche sector that I’m going to target, though it’ll be global ideally and have jobs anywhere within the industry. My question though, in your experience, how do you get people to visit a website without lots of jobs and how do you…