I’ve written a lot in the past about Email Grabber. Another great tool is Atom Park software. They offer several email marketing solutions including SMTP servers, Email extractors and more. Since you need to find email addresses of employers to keep your lead gen going check out that they do. Extract emails from other job…
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Job board marketing tools, tops and tactics.
If you aren’t tweeting your jobs, you should be (member only)
Is your job board on twitter? You should already be tweeting job search advice and industry news but your jobs should also be in the mix. And you may want a separate twitter account to do it. For the simple reason of showing up on twitter search. Take Ziprecruiter for example. They have a main…
Using online advertising as your salesforce (member only)
Pinpointing recruiters is fairly easy today. Just go to other job boards to find leads or comb though Linkedin profiles. But selling to them takes many forms. I always used technology to do my selling for me. Here’s a 5 min video about one way to do it. NOTE: my new email is chris@careercloud.com
Thoughts on going from free to paid postings (member only)
I had a consulting call this week with a new job board coming online soon in another country. The founders were newbies in the space and wondered how to get started. In order to “jumpstart” their new site this is what I told them; 1. Think longterm. Give away free postings for 1 year in…
Make more advertising revenue with Adsense Direct
Ever wanted to have your own version of adsense to sell ads on your site directly? Well if you are willing to let google take a 15% cut now you can. They just launched Adsense Direct. It is only for U.S. based publishers. (via Techcrunch) With AdSense Direct, which is currently only available in the…
Dynamic job post buttons
I think I just created what might be the first dynamic job post button in the industry. In looking for ways to encourage more postings to my new hidden job leads site, we implemented a post button that brings in the location of the page the user is on so that the message on the…
Twitter ads are cheap
Twitter advertising may be just the right mix for your job board. I have started to experiment with them and find them to be effective at driving clicks to my site. And its cost effective too as you can see from the image below. They sent me a nice summary of what I spent and…
Big colorful job post buttons
I have said in the past that your job board design needs to explicity call out employers to post jobs. You MUST make it clear and easy for them to see where to go and how much it costs. That means at least 20% of your homepage real estate needs to have messaging for employers….
New job board directory offers free backlinks (member only)
I recently discovered Thejobist.com a new crowd sourced directory for job boards. I like it because its simple and you can add your own. I added one of my sites on Dec 19th so Im not sure how long it takes for them to list you but it looks like a nice backlink to have….
A job board finder
We dont have enough job board directories. I recently learned of Jobboardfinder.net its a pay for access directory of sites across the world. I wish it were an open database but if you want to add your site use their contact us page to tell them of your existence. http://jobboardfinder.net/contact