Guest Post: Olivia Gamber has asked me to forward this message to any interested job boards looking to add more revenue to their base. Are you looking for a way to consistently add value to your audience while also monetizing the traffic from you job board? What if you could give away high quality valuable…
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Q&A with Geebo Classifieds’ Greg Collier
Some sites go under the radar in our industry but sites like Geebo.com, a classifieds competitor to Craigslist, has been around for nearly 18 years and still remains a profitable, lean team. I asked their Founder, Greg Collier a few questions about his company via email. Describe Geebo and its history. Geebo was launched in 2000 in order…
How to find free XML job feeds to use (member only)
I don’t like to start sites with no job listings so I use publicly available XML job feeds I find online to populate my sites like HRtechTalent. Using the Auto-import function in my Jobboard.io account I am pulling in 3 feeds, one for HRIS jobs, one for iCiMS jobs and one for jobs at Kronos….
Use Desktop Push Notifications for Instant Traffic
If you read my last post about being good at internet marketing you will love today’s topic. PUSH notifications. A desktop push notification is typically a web browser notification that pops up for users even if they are not on your site. To get them the user must opt-in in order to receive future ones. If…
To Run a Job Board Today You Need…
Just a quick reminder that if you want to run a job board today (or any kind of recruiting technology) you need to be good at internet marketing. Specifically you need to know how to market your product properly with the right messaging targeted at the right audience. Without that skill set you will most certainly…
5 New Job Board Launches
Want to know what’s new in the job board space? Seems like their is a renewed interest in online recruiting these days (thanks to Google and VCs). Here’s a quick tour of 5 new job boards. 3 in tech, 1 in government and 1 for manufacturing in Georgia.
Update on Google Jobs (screencast)
We are about 3 weeks in to the launch of Google Jobs. There’s lots of buzz in the industry and questions still abound. Here’s a 5 minute screencast of some things I learned about whats happening with it. Anybody else wish for pagination in results? Would be nice if they also showed a count of…
Lead Gen Email Examples (member only)
Messaging employers for leads is part art, part science. I’ve tried a lot of experimentation when it comes to this. Generally speaking I can get open rates of 25-50% depending on the product and quality of each email lead. Some of my best success came from using Hubspot’s sales CRM. I was able to create…
Best Candidates for Job Boards: Established Sites
Recently I helped the team at Agency Checklist launch this new job board. Powered by a WordPress theme, it’s a “hyper-niche” site that targets Massachusetts insurance jobs. And they are off to a strong start having already sold several postings in the first month. A big reason for this is their existing audience. AgencyChecklist.com has…
The Redirect Conundrum
I have a job board client with a problem. They have a number of employers which they scrape and send the job seeker back to their ATS to apply. In the process the employer only sees the number of clicks that were sent along with the phrase ‘Anonymous’ in their dashboard. The problem is that…