As a follow up to wednesdays post about PG Job Site, I decided to critique their job site examples usability and design. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ah7ZCy5_UQ[/youtube]
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Should your job board be global?
Should a job board be global in focus or country specific? Here’s what I think. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw7nvV3eTHo[/youtube]
More job posting services (free)
I talked about Jobtarget’s OneClick service recently where they allow employers to pay once and post on several boards. There are actually a few others like this. So my advice is to get yourself listed on as many as possible to increase your brand awareness and sales. 1. Broadbean: this is a UK company which…
How much do job boards make? (free)
I saw this article recently about one of the first twitter job sites to come online which got me thinking… “One year after he launched the service, TweetMyJobs.com has become the largest job board on Twitter. It’s on its way to more than $1 million in revenue this year, Zukowski says. The company lists up…
How to find a web designer for your job board (free)
One of my clients asked me recently if I had any good recommendations for a web designer to redesign her job board. I do all my own designs so I didnt really have a good answer for her. But if I ever needed one here’s what I would do. 1. Post something on the Job…
more seo analyzer tools (free)
I wrote tuesday about a cool new seo analyzer tool. Here are a few more tools to help you diagnose seo issues with your job board. Click the logos to go to those sites. Website Grader My Site Grader SEO Workers SEO Chat: Site Link Analyzer Tool More free seo tools: * myseoanalyzer.com * www.seoscores.com…
Go niche or go home (free)
On last weeks Recruiting Animal show I apparently touched on something which a lot of people liked. That niche is the future of job boards. So here’s a quick video on the subject.
More on job posting prices (free)
A new member asks: What drives the pricing model of most websites? When is it better to be more expensive and when is it a better strategy to be the cost effective strategy? …and my answer is… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_9WDcRpeyg[/youtube]
Another revenue idea (free)
I just learned about Resumark which offers a pretty decent affiliate program. I used to run links from Commission Junction which have some career related advertisers (i.e. Monster) and made a few hundred bucks per month back in the late 90’s, early 2000’s but was never really crazy about some of the payouts. When I…
New job boards
Although the pace has slowed due to the economy, new job boards are still being launched. Yesterday I discovered Cardgigs.com, a micro-niche job board serving the ‘payments’ industry. I call it ‘micro-niche’ because they are targeting a very niche industry and I do see more of this narrowly focused sites popping up. I think industry…