Generally speaking, it is difficult to get job seekers to pay for anything. But if the product offers value, you can sell to them. Two of the more viable viable products I can think of are ebooks and courses. EBOOKS When I ran AllCountyJobs, I wrote ebooks for each of the county based sites I operated….
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The Ladders Launches Public Profiles
Last week job site The Ladders was in in the news for the wrong reason. A security breach exposed 13 million members data. On the heels of that news however, they have just announced Public Profiles for its user base. The new feature is for those looking to market themselves commercially and showcase capabilities and desires,…
Live Group Consulting Session Set for May 29th
On May 29th at 2pm EST I will be holding a private group consulting session for job board owners. For just $25 you can ask me anything about starting/managing/marketing an online job board. Just signup below and get your questions ready. We’ll talk about whatever is on your mind…job board software…marketing tips…prospecting and more! REGISTER:…
Job Boards News Headlines
Google adds support for “Work at Home” jobs in their job search filters. According to a new blog post, Google is updating the jobs search to make finding these remote jobs easier by adding “work from home” to the location filter. Once enabled, all jobs with a remote option are listed, regardless of whether the job labels…
Job Board Summit North America 2019 Is Coming to Denver in June
Jobg8, the global job board network, announces the return of its North American event will be in Denver on June 25-26 and has released the line-up. The annual industry leading conference event brings together peers in the job board and online recruitment space with a host of speakers addressing key topics facing the future of the…
Passive Income is the Ultimate Internet Business Model
When I sold my job board company back in 2012 I was only spending 15 hours of my time each week running the business. It was an amazing passive income stream. Clients were loyal and kept coming back regularly to post their jobs. After 13 years online the sites essentially ran themselves. Today I meet a…
Custom URLs added to Jobboard.io
Good news if you care about SEO. Jobboard.io has added the ability to create custom urls for content pages on their platform. This is a must have if you are moving your old site to them so you can preserve your high performing SEO pages. By recreating the content on the same url structure your…
This is What’s Wrong with Job Alerts
The other day I received this email from Indeed. I’d like to know what their machine was thinking when it generated this job alert. Needless to say I have never worked in, nor even been close to working in the field of psychology. So why did they send it? I wish there was a 3rd…
Promoting Your Niche Job Board Value Prop
Almost 10 years ago on this very blog I published a post about the value proposition of niche based job boards. In that post I quoted 3 sources; Forrester Research: “Local Sites Matter. Geography is more important to job seekers than industry focused sites. Monster.com is the most popular career site, but local sites place second…
How to Set Your Job Post Prices
One of the most common questions I hear from job board owners is how to price their site. For me this greatly depends on several factors including; Country you operate in Niche you service Amount of competition Your reach COUNTRY If you operate in the USA job post prices here are among the lowest in…