I just learned about Resumark which offers a pretty decent affiliate program. I used to run links from Commission Junction which have some career related advertisers (i.e. Monster) and made a few hundred bucks per month back in the late 90’s, early 2000’s but was never really crazy about some of the payouts. When I…
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New job boards
Although the pace has slowed due to the economy, new job boards are still being launched. Yesterday I discovered Cardgigs.com, a micro-niche job board serving the ‘payments’ industry. I call it ‘micro-niche’ because they are targeting a very niche industry and I do see more of this narrowly focused sites popping up. I think industry…
Deconstructing CleanTechRecruits.com (free)
Here’s my critique of CleanTechRecruits, a renewable energy job board. 5 min. Free. [youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5jEymD3Ev4[/youtube]
Article marketing for job boards (free)
Here’s another freebie for my job board peeps. Article marketing is a great way to build awareness and gain traffic. Just dont spam, write informative articles that enlighten and inform. Here’s one of my recent articles on Recruitingblogs as an example. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyDEiUYJ8mA[/youtube] Sites mentioned: * PRweb * HR.com * ERE.net * Recruitingblogs * Talentbar *…
Build a community with tools linke Ning (free)
Building a job board today is more about building a community. Here’s my philosophy and why I love Ning. [youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GersalE8pes&feature=player_profilepage[/youtube] Sites mentioned: * Sales Gravy * Jobs in Social Media
Some advice if you hire a sales person (free)
I don’t hire sales reps to sell my boards. Instead I rely on SEO and Google Adwords to generate leads and sales as well as doing some lead gen on my own a few hours each week. But if you want to hire a sales person to really grow your site, here is some advice…
Creating job boards with wordpress (premium)
Using blog software to power a job board is a relatively new concept. But there are a growing number of wordpress theme designers who are creating ones specifically for job sites. Here’s a look at three that I recently found.
How much time does it take to run a job board? (premium)
A new member asks: I’d like to know how much time on avg is spent maintaining and marketing job boards?
Q. Can you make money with webinars? (free)
I think webinars can be a money making tool for job boards but I think the key lies in how many clients you have and how well you market it. Trying to sell these online events to job seekers is not a good idea though, they dont like to pay for anything, especially if they…
If you build it, they will post (free)
If you create a job board that is the most search engine friendly thing you can build and that “inspires” people to post, then in my experience, it will make money. Watch this to see what I mean. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4qmDfcLGsk&feature=player_profilepage[/youtube] Episode 14 of the Free version.