23 Feb
Posted by ktowndaddy as Web Junk, monetize your site
Say what? Ok, here is how…
Creating a niche job board and a 50% revenue share in less than 7 minuntes:
1. Problem: needed a job board (in my niche) to give me revenue for my site
2. Found: enter Job-a-matic from Simply Hired - they gave me the tools
3. Action: Took 7 minutes of my time, created an account, added a header, set my job prices to what I wanted
4. Result: Now I have a job board.
5. Revenue stream: 50% of the revenue from my new niche job board is coming to my pocket.
Now to the longer details of how I created my niche job board:
Ah, how would you like to instantly be able to offer your site users all the cool capabilities of a job board: searching for jobs, posting jobs, etc? If I told you that you could do that in all of 7 minutes would that get your attention? How about if I told you that you could set your own cost/job posting and instantly get 50% of all the revenue that comes through your job board. What that get your attention?
You see, I run a tech blog about Apple and Macs - Macbook Random Shutdown. It has become a great resource for frustrated owners of Macs - so I thought I would try and do the Macworld right again by promoting some jobs that are either 1. from Apple directly, or 2. have or are related to Apple/Mac technology. Biggest question - how can I do that (easily)?
The other night I stumbled upon an awesome blog from Guy Kawasaki - I saw that he had some job listings in his sidebar, so I checked them out. Way cool. His job board what setup neatly, concise and simple, yet elegant. Upon looking around a little, I saw that it was powered by Simply Hired and is what they call their Job-a-matic.
So I set off to create my own job board - how hard can this be I thought? Actually, it turned out to be way easier than I could have ever imagined. I created an account, got some code and added my header and footer html to my Job-a-matic account within 7 minutes. Then I dumped the code to my blog - Macbook Random Shutdown, and boom. I have an Apple/Mac job board.
Thanks Job-a-matic!
Update:
Oh yeah, create your own subdomain and change your DNS record and you can have a CNAME from the yoursite.simplyhired.com to jobs.yoursite.com ![]()
3 Responses
Keith Schacht
February 25th, 2007 at 5:58 am
1You might be interested to learn about JobCoin (www.jobcoin.com). I like to let our job board system speak for itself, rather than giving you a hard sell. But I will mention that we let you keep 70% of the revenue.
We also support CNAME, custom CSS/HTML, since it sounds like that was important to you.
If you have any questions, I’m happy to help!
-Keith
Super-Easy Add-On Revenue » Ask Shane.org
February 26th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
2[…] Do you blog about something that has a job category associated with it? Well, Simply Hired’s new product Job-a-matic gives you a super-easy way to add a job board to your site that can generate you some real cash. How easy? Try less than 10 minutes. […]
Francis
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:06 am
3Glad to hear that you had such a positive experience setting up your job board!
I’d love to get feedback regarding your job site after this first week.
Drop me a line, and I’ll set you up with a sneak peak of an exciting new monitization feature.
Best regards,
Francis Larkin
Product Manager, Simply Hired (and fellow mac aficionado)
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