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…
Author: chrisr2
My Favorite New Email Extractor Tool (member only)
I have used Email Grabber for many years but lately it seems to not work very well on job boards I try to crawl. So I went searching for a replacement and found an online version that seems to do the trick. It’s called Online Email Extractor. You simply enter a URL on its form, press…
Six Figure Membership Based Job Board Seeking Buyer
I am representing a six figure job board ($10k in monthly revenues) that is seeking a buyer. The site is a membership based property for the media industry which derives its revenue from job seekers who pay $ 29 per month. Asking price is $250,000. To learn more about the niche and obtain a copy…
Custom URLs added to Jobboard.io
Good news if you care about SEO. Jobboard.io has added the ability to create custom urls for content pages on their platform. This is a must have if you are moving your old site to them so you can preserve your high performing SEO pages. By recreating the content on the same url structure your…
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…
SmartJobBoard and JobBoard.io Release Updates
The top 2 hosted job board software platforms released some cool new features last week. SmartJobBoard added several new features including a carousel for the homepage, SEO improvements and more. Watch my screencast to learn more. Jobboard.io released a great new feature to make more sales. The make a slew of small upgrades in early…