Member Only – Depending on your niche, your job board has a ceiling in terms of how much money it can make. I have worked with a number of clients over the years who have made money with job boards. But the amount they make depends on a number of factors with the most important…
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Reader Q&A: WordPress & Backfill
A reader wrote in to ask; I’m a regular reader of your Job Board Secrets newsletter. I’ve recently noticed on the WP Job Manager blog that they are suspending support for Indeed and ZipRecruiter publisher API programs. It would be interesting to read your thoughts in the newsletter about why it happened, and what it means for small/new…
The Construction Jobs Niche
Some niches are better than others to go into if you are launching a job board. There are a variety of ways to analyze that such as the growth of jobs in the niche and the amount of other competitors serving that space. TradeHounds a company out of Boston is taking on the construction niche….
Why You Should Soft Launch
One mistake I see new job board owners make is launching their site too quickly before its ready for prime time viewing. That’s why I recombined doing a soft launch, particularly if you have a custom built job board. You’ll want to get any bugs/kinks ironed out before telling the world. According to Wikipedia, a…
Have Blog? Add Jobs
If you have a blog with traffic, you have a good use case for adding a job board to the mix. Blogs, a or many kinds of niche topic websites can easily add jobs to their sites using simple plugins like a Ziprecruiter search box, a WordPress job board theme with backfill or a cloud…
Spreading Your Jobs Online
I noticed a press release from the Acorns app today that points to the importance of expanding your job seeker audience.. Acorns, the top saving and investing app is trying to help Americans save and invest for the future, announced the launch of Acorns Job Finder. Acorns is connecting customers with new career opportunities, helping…
The saga of .jobs continues
A reader tipped me off to a fascinating story about whats going on with the company that owns the .jobs TLD (top level domains). 15 years ago .jobs launched in partnership with SHRM to help employers put their jobs on a .jobs domain. That initiative never caught on so the registry owner Employ Media then…
One job board at a time (member only)
I had a consulting call last week with a client who was thinking about starting a niche job board AND a career advice site that would help promote the job board. They were going to launch both sites at once and wanted to know if I thought they should just put all the content on…
Reader Q&A: Attracting Students
A reader asked me about how to attract students to his job board. Q – How do you manage to get emails from students and future graduates? Currently, I’m doing a search on Linkedin, I manage to get registrations by direct contact in Linkedin. But I’m curious if there are other ways to get future…
Reader Q&A: Resume Site
Q – Hi Chris, I’m looking to launch a job board, which involves a niche that I really like. I would like to know your opinion about creating a campaign involving a landing page to recruit new leads who would be interested in having your resume attached to my website. Recalling that I am developing…