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The key business problem with job sites isn't getting job listings or even getting employers and recruiters to pay for them, but building an audience and gettin
by petercooper 12y ago
The key business problem with job sites isn't getting job listings or even getting employers and recruiters to pay for them, but building an audience and getting exposure for the listings.
Beyond a small Twitter and RSS graphic at the top, there doesn't appear to be much effort on this site to build an audience, yet that's the most important part and what its long-term success will depend on - I advise the creator think about ways to surmount those obstacles.
- 500and4 12y agoI think you've hit the nail on the head here. We've had a similar experience building http://www.zonino.co.uk http://www.zonino.co.uk. Plenty of interest from employers but without the traffic it's hard to justify charging. This is where sites like Stackoverflow really stand out because they already have a flow of relevant and highly engaged traffic.
- cbovis 12y agoWas about to post something similar. This doesn't really add much over sites like nomad list which already have job listings and a large audience. I think it's telling that all the job listings are development based...
- hiddentao 12y agoThanks, you're right. I was aware of this issue when I was building it, and I do have a few ideas regarding traffic building which may or may not work. For now I just want to see if such a job board would be of any interest in the first place, especially given that there are other job boards (e.g. nomadlist, weworkremotely) that overlap it. I really wanted to see if some the differentiating factors (e.g. Github auth, remote region specificity) would be of interest to anyone.