Generally speaking, it is difficult to get job seekers to pay for anything. But if the product offers value, you can sell to them. Two of the more viable viable products I can think of are ebooks and courses. EBOOKS When I ran AllCountyJobs, I wrote ebooks for each of the county based sites I operated….
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Updated Job Board Cheatsheet (member only)
I wrote this a few years back in order to quickly summarize many of my ideas about running a job board. Recently I went through it to give it a refresh. 1. Get an 800# for your business. This will make you look more professional in the eyes of employers. 2. Put your Contact info:…
Passive Income is the Ultimate Internet Business Model
When I sold my job board company back in 2012 I was only spending 15 hours of my time each week running the business. It was an amazing passive income stream. Clients were loyal and kept coming back regularly to post their jobs. After 13 years online the sites essentially ran themselves. Today I meet a…
This is What’s Wrong with Job Alerts
The other day I received this email from Indeed. I’d like to know what their machine was thinking when it generated this job alert. Needless to say I have never worked in, nor even been close to working in the field of psychology. So why did they send it? I wish there was a 3rd…
Promoting Your Niche Job Board Value Prop
Almost 10 years ago on this very blog I published a post about the value proposition of niche based job boards. In that post I quoted 3 sources; Forrester Research: “Local Sites Matter. Geography is more important to job seekers than industry focused sites. Monster.com is the most popular career site, but local sites place second…
New Job Board Launches
Here’s a roundup of new launches in the job board space. Frontline Education, a leading provider of school administration software for the K-12 education community is excited to announce the relaunch of K12JobSpot integrating the best capabilities of the largest K-12-specific job site with the former Teachers-Teachers job board and educator profiles for improved ease of use and significantly…
How to Set Your Job Post Prices
One of the most common questions I hear from job board owners is how to price their site. For me this greatly depends on several factors including; Country you operate in Niche you service Amount of competition Your reach COUNTRY If you operate in the USA job post prices here are among the lowest in…
Lensa is Testing a Bounced Traffic Revenue Widget for Job Publishers
My pal Joe Stubblebine, formerly of Beyond/Nexxt and now at Lensa.com emailed me last week with some news of a new revenue widget they are working on. This widget doesn’t list jobs on your site but rather shows a user relevant jobs from Lensa only if they click the back button when leaving your site. Here’s how…
Thinking about designing your own job board?
I have spoken to a number of people over the years who have made a certain big mistake when they launched their site. They paid a web design firm with no experience building job boards to do it. Needless to say, these firms tend to build sites that are not quite optimized for job board…
Archinect Introduces ‘Jobs Visualizer’
Its my job to point out interesting things in the job board world. Case in point is the new ‘Jobs Visualizer‘ is one of those. It is a visual way of browsing employers who are hiring on Archinect, a site for architecture jobs. With Archinect Jobs Visualizer, the design work produced by the employers takes center stage….