A recent job board client of mine told me a cautionary tale of getting his job board domain stolen…and it cost him $17,000 to get it back. Apparently he had it registered with Blue Host, a somewhat popular WordPress hosting company when his account was hacked and the domain was transferred to another entity. He…
Most associations do a poor job at running and marketing their job boards. And that is not surprising to me since most of them have no knowledge of internet marketing techniques. But BankTalentHQ.com, a niche banking job board is the opposite. They push out blog and podcasts on a regular basis and just celebrated their…
A new local job board recently launched aimed at helping people find jobs in Texas, it’s called Texas Jobs Hub. “The big name job boards don’t have the Texas-focus that we do,” commented a spokesperson from Texas Jobs Hub. “We are connected to our community here in the Lone Star state and are very motivated to…
If you have a blog with traffic, you have a good use case for adding a job board to the mix. Blogs, a or many kinds of niche topic websites can easily add jobs to their sites using simple plugins like a Ziprecruiter search box, a WordPress job board theme with backfill or a cloud…
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…
Open source spreadsheets are having a moment. When online retailer Wayfair recently announced layoffs a recruiter at the company created a spreadsheet on Google Drive that she made public with the names and contact information of those laid off. It went viral and many people were able to land jobs because of its creation. Then…
I am exploring the sale of my 3 HR news aggregators; RecruiitngHeadlines.com HRpodcasters.com HRtechfeed.com These sites reach a combined 10,000 monthly readers and have nearly 1500 total email subscribers who receive daily updates. I started the first site, RecruitingHeadlines.com back in 2016. They enjoy tremendous SEO rankings and can be used as lead gen and/or…
No job board software exists that lets you charge a monthly fee to job seekers. They are all driven by employers paying to post. But there is a desire for some entrepreneurs to build this kind of reverse job board so here’s a to actually do that using a combination of tools. Mightynetworks is a…
There are lots of niche job boards online that serve a unique segment of the job market. RanchWork.com is one of those sites. Their site just underwent a WordPress redesign and I love their new look. Owner Peter Askew offered to answer some questions from me over email and today’s post is all about their…
CanadaHires is a national job site for Canada that was started back in 2015. It is up for sale by its current owner. The sale comes with the domain, associated job site data (hosted via Jobboard.io) and all social media accounts including a LinkedIn company page that boasts over 41,000 followers. The Facebook page has…