Got an email from an eQuest rep last week with info on their recent job board study. It contains good news for job board owners. In case you dont know who they are: eQuest operates one of the world’s most-utilized job posting distribution platforms. AKA they promote job board to employers. Below is the press…
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On charging job seekers (member only)
I had a call this week with a blogger who has a site that he wants to monetize with a job board. He’s in the travel niche and wanted to know if he could charge job seekers something. I told him maybe. One of his competitor’s charges a small fee for job seekers to get…
The popup job board
The other day I discovered a “popup” job board that sprang from the government shutdown here in the U.S. Unfurlough.us is a spreadsheet based job board that lists available gigs and the ability to promote yourself for work if you work for Uncle Sam. This a bit of PR stunt to get some attention (it…
Your job board and Youtube
Every job board should have a Youtube channel. At the very least its AWESOME for SEO since it is the 2nd biggest search engine on the planet. I was just touching up CareerCloud’s channel just now and thought I would write this post. There are lots of cool options your channel gives you to help…
Indeed adds endorsements to resumes, on collision course with Linkedin
Breaking News: Indeed.com, the big boy of job sites just added endorsements to its resumes product. They just took a page out of Linkedin’s playbook and fired a warning shot across their bow. Wow. I think this is a big deal and signals a quiet new war happening in the online recruiting space. As industry…
Is your product targeting active employers? (member only)
Recently a startup I am advising asked me a fairly general question about how to market their services. So we went over what they had done so far and I listened to them reel off the usual things…webinars, advertising, etc. Then she mentioned that they had bought a list of emails and sent out a…
Recruiters on twitter
There are a lot of recruiters on twitter. If you did a survey I bet recruiters, sales people and social media consultants are in the top 10 occupations for people on the platform. So from a job board or HR tech product standpoint you better be engaging with them, after all, your business depends on…
Some domain tips and tricks (member only)
If you run multiple products and services off one domain name (like I do on CareerCloud) it may be handy to have a unique domain name for each product or service to use in your online marketing to make it shorter and easier to remember. I’ll use one of my apps as an example. InstaJob…
myCNAjobs.com is a well designed job board
Niche job board myCNAjobs.com has a new look which I really dig. Its one of those “micro-niche” type job boards that focus on one type of job. In this case, Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs). They just introduced a new “badging” system for their job seekers. According to the article; For those on the job hunt,…
Writing better emails (member only)
I do a lot of cold emailing prospects, ususally I keep the message very short (under 3 sentences) and have had decent success doing that. Recently I heard about this guy who teaches cold emailing tips. He has a free pdf you can download if you enter your email address, its worth a read. http://breakthroughemail.com/…