While you are trying to sell into employers and recruiters be aware of the best times to reach them. Here are some guidelines I’ve compiled over the years. Generally you’ll do most of your business between the hours of 9am and 6pm. That is when most recruiters, HR people and business owners post their jobs….
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Can you build a job board with a .co domain? (premium)
If you watched the super bowl last night you may have seen the GoDaddy commercial promoting the new .co domain. They are actively marketing this new extension. Its definitely a sign of the times that many new domains are sprouting up for webmasters to use. Many new sites are using .ly such as hour.ly. I’ve…
Positioning your job board (free)
Every job board should have a reason to post jobs on it. For niche and regional sites that reason is self explanatory. The rise of local and niche job boards over the past 5 years is no accident. They work, and that reason is all about the focus and quality results they deliver. The reason…
How I use direct mail to get employers (premium)
We may be all online these days but I still use direct mail to get clients. Here’s how. First I scour my competitor sites to see who’s hiring. A certain percentage of jobs list a mailing address and/or email. For example, when i am looking for leads to promote my Rhode Island site I go…
Promoting your board on Youtube (premium)
Youtube is essentially the second largest search engine next to Google. It has that many users.
Your page loading times count (free)
If you are building your own job board from scratch be sure to keep your pages as light as possible so they load quickly. Faster loading sites will gain more trust from google. Here’s the proof. A new service called yottaa.com lets you test your sites effectiveness in search engine friendly terms. Try it here….
Job board owner interview
Sometimes I check out the Mixergy podcasts out out by Andrew Warner. Its a podcast series about entrepreneurs/startups. Recently he had on the founder of Wall Street Oasis, an online community for wall street types. In the interview he reveals that they only get about 10% of their revenue from job postings. Just 10%! The…
Make your own job aggregator
Want to setup your own aggregator? Here’s a script called JobGeni that lets you tap into Indeed, SimplyHired and also lets you add other RSS job feeds. Its a self-installed job software. There are no job postings so you could only make money with Adsense. Cost is $199. JobGeni is a PHP Job Search Engine…
New wordpress job board plugin!
WordPress plugim company Appthemes has published a new job board software plugin called JobRoller. It is available for $69 – $199 depending on the version you get. It has a pretty solid interface which these plugins all seem to do well at. But there is no support for backfill and the only payment option appears…
Creating a hub for your multiple job boards (free)
If you have more than 1 job board you should have a hub site that helps promote them. Since I run more than 30 niche & local job boards, my hub is AllCountyJobs.com. I have spent this week redesigning and tweaking its pages to be more search engine friendly and to showcase the sites for…