So big job baords like Monster still make a couple hundred million per year. Sites like Ontargetjobs.com make a few million per year and then there’s the rest of the job board market. Established niche players that have been around for several years make six figures. The rest squeeze by with $10-25k per year. A…
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We need more aggregators
File this under things that need to exist. We need a job board only job search engine/directory that lets job boards get indexed for free and helps job seekers uncover more sources. I think job seekers are not discovering all the possible jobs that are online, especially among the niche job boards. Indeed.com is listing…
How to start a job board
Lately I’ve been getting lots of calls from newbies who want to start their own job board. So with their questions fresh in my mind I wanted to summarize how to start a job board from the ground up. First, a warning. If you are not experienced in the operations of a website I suggest…
Nursingjobs.com stands up against bad browsers!
I love this story. IE 7 just needs to die already. Instead of designing their job site to support older browsers like IE 7, Nursingjobs.com said screw it! Its cheaper for us to just buy new pcs for our clients so they have the latest version. Hows that for responsive web design! Read the story…
Thoughts on going from free to paid postings (member only)
I had a consulting call this week with a new job board coming online soon in another country. The founders were newbies in the space and wondered how to get started. In order to “jumpstart” their new site this is what I told them; 1. Think longterm. Give away free postings for 1 year in…
Make more advertising revenue with Adsense Direct
Ever wanted to have your own version of adsense to sell ads on your site directly? Well if you are willing to let google take a 15% cut now you can. They just launched Adsense Direct. It is only for U.S. based publishers. (via Techcrunch) With AdSense Direct, which is currently only available in the…
Dynamic job post buttons
I think I just created what might be the first dynamic job post button in the industry. In looking for ways to encourage more postings to my new hidden job leads site, we implemented a post button that brings in the location of the page the user is on so that the message on the…
New job boards
Here are some new job boards coming on the scene… Women of STEM targets women in science, tech and math. http://jobs.thejobnetwork.com/home?affiliateid=2583 OhYouHero out of Boston aims to be craigslist/linkedin for freelancers. Thats a tough market to be in because there are oDesk and Elance dominate but I wish them luck. Not sure I like the…
Twitter ads are cheap
Twitter advertising may be just the right mix for your job board. I have started to experiment with them and find them to be effective at driving clicks to my site. And its cost effective too as you can see from the image below. They sent me a nice summary of what I spent and…
Question about pre-populating a job board (member only)
A reader asked me a good question the other day. He writes; I am planning to start my niche job board in Finland. In order to start I was thinking of going through companies’ career pages and then copy their job on my job board. My job board though would act only as a gathering…