Comment by brianpetro_ | Hacker News Reader

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Create a Job Board, use the latest social routes to drive traffic and build a list.

The amount you make from the Job Board post is heavily dependent on the amount social followers (drives traffic and makes purchasing more appealing).

https://www.angularjobs.com started making ~$1000/month in revenue with a highly targeted social reach of ~10k followers.

Technical co-founder type? Take what you know about programming and offer recruiting services to the early users of your site. Both companies and developers visit job boards, providing both the clients and talent needed to collect recruitment fees(over 10K in major US cities).

My main gig is http://www.LinkPlugApp.com where I play a technical role.

LinkPlug is how I drive traffic to the JobBoard from social media accounts like the ones below(click a tweeted link to see an ad for the JobBoard):

https://twitter.com/AngularJS_news

https://www.linkedin.com/groups?groupDashboard=&gid=4896676

https://twitter.com/angularjobs

edit: added Twitter account examples.

If you don't mind me asking, do you populate the initial listings on the job board by your self (by finding job listings and posting them), or leave it empty upon launch and just offer a period of free listing to get started?

I was populating the board with jobs for companies I scored recruiting contracts with.

These contracts made building the JobPosts and driving traffic worth my time(contract = collect a sizable a fee when someone you refer to a position gets hired).

JobPosts drive the organic traffic to JobBoards, so make sure you take SEO into consideration when posting.

I also started with a much lower rate to post on the JobBoard, never free, but as low as $29 at one point. As the traffic grew, so did the price. Now a JobPost costs $349.

Where did you find these recruiting contracts? Are they easy to obtain?

Call/email people in charge of hiring in your niche.

Most companies are very familiar with this type of contract.

I'd love to talk to you more about this if you have the time. You can connect to me on twitter https://twitter.com/patrickjbradley I have a website for finding tutorials about the Swift language. I've been considering adding a job board as a revenue source. Would love to hear your thoughts and advice. Even what you posted here is a big help already.

Awesome!

The JobBoard is a great way to get some passive income, but, there is a lot more money to be made if you want to devote your time to recruiting.

Having a non-recruiting domain in the space you want to recruit in is a huge advantage when getting both JobBoard and recruiting leads.

Definitely focus your recruiting efforts in one locale at first. DC, SF and NYC are the top markets if you are based in the US.

The JobBoard should be worldwide (easier to facilitate than restricting it anyway).

Feel free to send me sensitive questions via email: brian at linkplugapp.com

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