If you watched the super bowl last night you may have seen the GoDaddy commercial promoting the new .co domain. They are actively marketing this new extension. Its definitely a sign of the times that many new domains are sprouting up for webmasters to use. Many new sites are using .ly such as hour.ly. I’ve…
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Job board owner interview
Sometimes I check out the Mixergy podcasts out out by Andrew Warner. Its a podcast series about entrepreneurs/startups. Recently he had on the founder of Wall Street Oasis, an online community for wall street types. In the interview he reveals that they only get about 10% of their revenue from job postings. Just 10%! The…
Thoughts on the future of job boards (premium)
I have written a lot about the future of job boards over the past few years. After doing some research I picked out some quotes from others in the industry on this topic.
Job board hours (free)
Running a job board? Expect to keep fairly standard business hours. Generally you’ll do most of your business between the hours of 9am and 6pm. That is when most recruiters, HR people and business owners post their jobs. The weekends will bring a job or two but don’t expect much activity. Tuesdays are probably the…
Dont get into these industries (free)
HuffPost has a slideshow about 10 job markets that will never come back. So these are not job boards niches you should be getting into. The industries are: Construction, Automotive Manufacturing, Realtors, Pharmaceuticals, Newspapers, Airlines, Big Telecom, State/local Govt jobs, Mechanics/Repair, Bank Tellers.
Expectations: The Long Haul (premium)
Job boards are not a get rich quick scheme. Here’s my advice on what expectations you need to have in this business.
How not to launch a job board (premium)
Recently on the Job Boarders blog, this post appeared announcing the launch of laborny.jobs. Its a new site powered by JobCentral and the new dot jobs domain. However they appear to have overhyped its usefulness.
Tip for leveraging aggregators
Here my view of Aggregators like Indeed and SimplyHired and how to leverage their use for your job boards benefit.
3 well designed job boards (free)
I spend a lot of time deconstructing job sites so here are 3 job sites that I admire in terms of design. * Krop * Marketingjobs * Drofficejobs [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKHWnU8hJrs[/youtube]
Preventing competition (free)
JOB BOARD TIP: When starting a new job board one of my favorite things to do is buy up as many similar domain name combinations as the domain I am launching with. Doing so allows you to slow down or prevent others from entering your space. Even if the domain is owned by someone else,…