Business Model: 5 Way To Start A Job Board

One of the latest methods to making money online is to creating a job board. Job boards help people find the better job for them. It’s easy to surf through Job boards sites because the jobs are all listed in the same place.

You can choose to create a job board for just one particular niche or different jobs, such as bank jobs or computer jobs. Decide what jobs you want to feature on your job board.

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Here, a brief list of jobboard sites:

• Advertising: marketingjobs.com
• Aerospace: ctsinternational.com
• Arts: artjob.org
• Bankjobs: bankjobs.com 
• Communications: writejobs.com
• Architecture: architecturejobs.com

For the rest of us, here, an overview of a 5 step you can use to starting your own job board and making money online:

1. Find your host – First and foremost, you need to purchase a domain name if you don’t already have one. I reccomend you to set up your website first before you start your job board in order to create your traffic. Use WordPress platform, it’s free.

If you’re looking for a webhost I reccomend you use BlueHost. Bluehost is one of the better hosting providers with over 800,000 domains hosted. Compared to few years Bluehost has grown a lot, only 2 years ago they were hosting less than 500,000 domains. At this time Bluehost providing a good hosting platform at low price, about $6.95 per month.

2. Find your job board software – There are different developers that provides plugin for WordPress like Wpjobads WordPress plugin. In alternative you can use an open source job board like JobberBase. JobberBase is an open source program that helps you set up a jobsite, quickly. It’s simple to use, all you have to do is to download the zip file, extract them, and follow the installation process into the readme file. Here, the demo: http://www.jobberbase.com/demo

3. Get employers – Now, it’s time to contact employers and ask them if they would like to join to your job boards. There are different ways to do it, email, phone, chat, but i reccomend you be careful to not spam.

4. Advertise - At this point, you need to advertise your job board on Google or other advertising sites. Use direct ads in order to drive visitors to your job board. Use two different of ads: one for attract employers and a different set of ads to let job seekers know about your job board.

5. Last but not least – Keep your job board updated. Maintain the new jobs, while delete jobs that have been filled and add new jobs as  you find them.