In the golden days of job boards you could get away with just making money on job postings. Not anymore. Here’s a list of other revenue ideas.
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Social media and job boards (free)
Glassdoor is now letting its users connect with social networks like facebook. ERE has a writeup on it. They join a growing number of businesses trying to open up your job search in order to uncover connections at companies you may want to work for such as Branchout, Beknown, Jibe, Gethired, etc. SimplyHired has been…
When employers call (premium)
Even though I have a large job board network I dont get many phone calls. I put my company’s phone number on every page of every site to encourage that they call but the truth is job boards are mainly an online transactional business. The phone number gives them piece of mind. They trust sites…
All the sites I use to stay on top of the job board industry (free)
I keep a close eye on the online recruiting space. There are obvious ways to do that such as google alerts for “new job boards“, but here is a list of sites that I visit each week to make sure I’m on top of this ever changing industry. 1. JobBoarders (I founded this site in…
Spreading your site everywhere (free)
I stumbled across worktree.com the other day. Its one of the original job board directories that actually charges users. I remember seeing this site over 10 years ago. Its a remarkable feat that they are still in business. They must have a nice revenue stream of paying users to still be around. Anyway you can…
How much can you make with backfill? (premium)
Backfill is a great supplemental revenue source for job boards. A few years ago CollegeRecruiter.com switched their entire site to showcase Indeed.com backfill. Their president tells me it makes a great revenue stream for a site with hundreds of thousands of page views. So I asked my contact at Indeed what you can expect to…
Job board news & notes for January (free)
Hello job boarders, here’s some tidbits from the online recruiting world that caught my eye. 1. Jobing bought another company. They acquired phoenix based Blogic which helps companies transform sites with wordpress functionality. Could Jobing be creating some kind of job board wordpress platform? hmmm. The founder of Blogic started a job board called OrangeSlyce…
A backlink checker (premium)
I was looking for a free backlink tool and came across this one. Other than the annoying popup ads that come with it, you get a nice report with the sites that link to you including their anchor text. http://www.backlinkwatch.com/ For more SEO tips click here.
2012 hiring predictions (free)
Just did some research for y’all about the 2012 hiring outlook. Overall it looks slightly stronger than last year. My boards were up around 20% from 2010 and I expect about the same as we enter this year. A recent survey of economists by the Associated Press says to expect an avg of 175,000 new…
How to restart a used job board (premium)
Throughout the years I’ve bought various job boards and relaunched them in order to turn them around. The most recent ones were four dot net sites—longislandjobs.net, philadelphiajobs.net, baltimorejobs.net and washingtondcjobs.net. They were all using some basic job board software so I initially put them on Jobamatic (pre-Google PANDA) and watched their traffic soar. But then…