Job boards need to be good at internet marketing if they want to thrive in today’s competitive environment. That means leveraging cool tools to either drive traffic or collect emails. That’s what HelloBar is designed to do. It is a free tool that places a frame at the bottom of your site and can either…
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70 Million Jobs Announces Crowdfunding Campaign This job board for Americans with criminal records is now trying to raise funds through crowdfunding. The “second chance” job niche is one that appears to have some relevancy in today’s job market. I wish them luck. Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3858717#ixzz5LcLYkoQX Snag Launches in Canada Snag, the largest online marketplace for…
Google Jobs now live in UK
Well, Google for Jobs has conquered North America and now heads across the pond to the UK. The announcement was made Monday on the Google blog. Starting today, when you search for “jobs near me,” “teaching jobs,” or similar queries in English in the U.K., you’ll have the option to click through to a feature…
Live Consulting Webcast August 9th
I’ll be doing a live consulting session via webcast on ThursdayAugust 9th at 1pm ET. The cost to attend is $30 and you can register here. So bring your questions and topics and chat live one on one with the industry’s top expert.
Are Niche job apps the new thing?
Came across a new niche job board…sort of…last week. Capango is a new retail job mobile app only. It’s kind of like tinder for retail jobs. Swipe right and the employer gets notified of your interest. It was made by a company called Natural Insight that already produces cloud software for retailers so a job…
Dinegigs Gets $5 Million for Food Service Job Board
Richmond VA based Dinegigs has secured 5 million in new funding to expand on its food service job market.
Social network for college students and a Blockchain Job Launch
UpBreeze, a leading social-professional platform for college and university students, today announced the launch of JobBot, its latest innovation that empowers students to apply for jobs and internships within seconds, significantly faster than before. For more info go to www.upbreeze.com/news/2018/JobBot_Launch. Powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, JobBot presents to the student a wide variety of…
SEO Hack for Job Boards (member only)
Buy a high-authority 10-50 DA (domain authority) website off of Sedo.com, Godaddy auctions or Flippa. What? How is it possible you ask? 1. Buy an expired, dropped domain with 10-50 DA. It turns out there are a lot of them expiring every day! Here’s a cool free online tool to show you powerful domains that…
New Update to Google Jobs
Last week Google introduced a new way for job publishers to submit their job feed. Currently you just have to submit a sitemap file to tell them what to crawl. But this new update includes an API that allows for “realtime” submissions so that they can better track when jobs come on your site or…
What job boards sell for
Last week I was able to identify how much revenue Glassdoor has based on an internal PDF from its new owner Recruit. According to them, GD sales hit $171 million in 2018. With a sell price of $1.2 billion that gives them a valuation of about 7X annual revenue. 7X is on the higher end of acquisitions…