If you are a newbie who is looking to start a job board you need to analyze the market you want to enter. There are some specific things you need to look for to determine how successful a new entrant might be. 1. How many other job boards serve that industry or location? The more…
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Hack to uncover recruiter emails (premium)
Some people on linkedin put their email address in their profile which makes it publicly available, especially a lot of recruiters. Click the link below to view an example; site:linkedin.com (intitle:com OR gmail.com OR yahoo.com) keywords title “greater new york city area” -inurl:dir Do your own search by changing the text after ‘keywords title’…for example,…
Blogs and link building (premium)
One of the easiest ways to get links for job boards is to approach job related blogs and either ask for one via link exchange or offer to pay for one. I have bought many a link on job blogs. Recently I approached a popular job blog and offered to pay them $100 for a…
The Big Red Button (premium)
Colors are important. And when it comes to buttons, the bolder the better. Particularly for “Post a Job” buttons. There’s a reason Jobamatic sites come with a big red post a job button. It calls attention to the number one way you’ll make money. Through employers. So make your post a job buttons big and…
My Sales Strategies (premium)
I dont do cold calls. Too much effort for too little reward. Plus my business is well established so I dont really have to. Instead I rely on 3 things for driving sales to my job boards…targeted emails, faxing and direct mail. Recently I showed you 2 tools to find email addresses off other job…
Freakin’ awesome tool to generate sales (premium)
Last week I discovered what might be the greatest tool a job board owner could ever have. It is called Email Grabber. It’s a program that crawls any website and collects ALL the emails it finds. It’s instant lead generation every job board should have. Before I found this tool I had been thinking about…
How to make you job board sell-able (premium)
The job board business is a very cyclical one. Our fortunes rise and fall on the back of the overall labor market. Anyone who tries to sell in a down market (like today) will get less because no one knows when the employment picture will stabilize. It wont be a good market to sell until we see…
How much can you make with Adsense? (premium)
I get asked a lot about how much job boards can make with Adsense. So I though why not show exactly what I make to give you a better idea. The image below shows my earnings for most of September. I should make a few more hundred this month but have earned $1,449 so far…
Why I hate integrating other companies features (premium)
If you run a job board for any length of time, other companies in the online job search & resume space will contact you pitching their add-on services for you to incorporate their stuff. I usually resist these pitches when it comes to my sites. Visibility, Jobg8, Payscale, Resume Rabbit are all examples of services…
Blog + Job Board (premium)
One way to get into job boards is by first starting a blog and then adding a job board component later. There are many popular examples of this. TechCrunch has a job board (powered by Personforce), so does Mashable (Jobamatic) and Marketing Pilgrim (Jobthread). Even a blog about blogs has job listings. Pro Blogger has…