So you want to start a job board or some other type of online recruiting product? Better get some feedback first from your potential customers BEFORE you spend a dime on development. You really need to do your homework up front to see if your idea will solve a problem in the industry you are…
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More ways to go mobile and new job sites (free)
Want to make your site mobile? check out JQUERY, it lets you create a mobile site with an online wizard. You can see an example on my wind power job board located at m.jobsinwindpower.com NEW JOB BOARDS Remarkablehire.com is some kind of sourcing/matching tool to recruit IT and Engineers. They got an article in the…
How to do email marketing for job boards (premium)
One of my readers asks: Our company is currently running a promotion to get Employers to post open positions on our job board. I’ve sent the email to our contact list of over 2,000 …however, the response has been very poor. Of the 2,000 emails that were sent only 139 have opened the email and…
Is your job board on twitter?
If not you should be. Why? well first of all social media is free advertising. Who doesn’t want that? Secondly, its a way to engage your users and let them FOLLOW YOU. Thirdly its a way to promote your listings on social media and drive traffic to them. Not a ton of traffic but enough…
The best way to promote your job board offline (premium)
We all know you should advertise your job board board online. But have you given any thought to how to do that offline on the cheap? It’s affordable and easy with local job fairs and business expos. I’ve been attending these events in my local area for many years and it pays off by getting…
Job board news and notes (free)
Some things that caught my eye last week that job board owners should pay attention to. * Google is going to start penalizing sites that are “over-optimized“. http://searchengineland.com/too-much-seo-google%E2%80%99s-working-on-an-%E2%80%9Cover-optimization%E2%80%9D-penalty-for-that-115627 * Want to get into the job board software business? Xpanded Media is selling their classified software business. https://flippa.com/134350-classifieds-software-company-for-sale-established-profitable-business * Health care job board for sale. http://flippa.com/auctions/2707765/site…
5 things to make your job board sell-able (premium)
I know a thing or two about selling job boards. I’ve sold many of them over the years. But you have to do certain things to make them more sell-able. Here are five tips to do just that.
Social media and your job board (premium)
As I think about the future of job boards and social media I can only think that the two must merge and become one.
The ultimate job board?
For job seekers, the job search engines like Indeed, SimplyHired and the rest have become a major way to job hunt online. They make their hunt for jobs more efficient by bringing together a wide variety of sources. But I’ve always wondered what if we could combine the aggregators into a super site….a meta-job search…
Here’s a couple niche ideas that may offer job board success (premium)
I just launched Weekenjobhunt.com that targets weekend only job listings. I started it because it had only 1 legit competitor jobsweekend.net and the category gets over 200,000 monthly searches. Now there are two boards that target this niche and I believe over time I can get on the first page of google for this phrase….