On mobile and just popped a melatonin so bear with me.
If you're trying to go fast, coding it all yourself is silly. Just go the wordpress route, spend $150 on wpjobmanager, and sell/market. Shouldnt take more than 10 hours for the first one, and much less time with the subsequent. Whatever one hits (makes money), custom code that one.
At this point it's much more important to get businesses on board than job seekers. Cold email businesses. Find someone overseas who'll find you a hundred contacts for $25. Get a thousand of them. Tell them to find senior HR people or business owners. Use a CRM/sales email tool that stops your sequence if they click the email (going to the site) or respond to you. DON'T OFFER FREE POSTS TO BUSINESSES, FULL STOP. $100, $200, $500 is peanuts when it comes to hiring, and you'll use that to run your PPC ads to find candidates.
Terrible example email to send out:
Hey [first name],
I just wanted to throw on your radar [your job board], a job board for [industry or location]. As a person in [industry or location], I thought it would be irresponsible for me not to let you know about [job board]. If you have any questions, I would he happy to answer them.
Your name and signature
☝ that corny email will make you money.
Now take the money made and get job seekers. PPC it up. As an SEO, your first site may get some traction by the time you get your 6th up and running. Schema markup so you appear on Google? Meh, fruitless.
Without knowing what your plan is, going for an industry or a location, if you go the industry route I would stick to one location initially. For example, solar energy industry jobs, but I would focus on southern California companies at first. Get your first few paying customers, geo ads for candidates, make sure the machine is working. Then start expanding. Much easier that 1 company in Seattle, another in Miami, and 2 more in Phoenix.
If you're trying to go fast, coding it all yourself is silly. Just go the wordpress route, spend $150 on wpjobmanager, and sell/market. Shouldnt take more than 10 hours for the first one, and much less time with the subsequent. Whatever one hits (makes money), custom code that one.
At this point it's much more important to get businesses on board than job seekers. Cold email businesses. Find someone overseas who'll find you a hundred contacts for $25. Get a thousand of them. Tell them to find senior HR people or business owners. Use a CRM/sales email tool that stops your sequence if they click the email (going to the site) or respond to you. DON'T OFFER FREE POSTS TO BUSINESSES, FULL STOP. $100, $200, $500 is peanuts when it comes to hiring, and you'll use that to run your PPC ads to find candidates.
Terrible example email to send out:
Hey [first name],
I just wanted to throw on your radar [your job board], a job board for [industry or location]. As a person in [industry or location], I thought it would be irresponsible for me not to let you know about [job board]. If you have any questions, I would he happy to answer them.
Your name and signature
☝ that corny email will make you money.
Now take the money made and get job seekers. PPC it up. As an SEO, your first site may get some traction by the time you get your 6th up and running. Schema markup so you appear on Google? Meh, fruitless.
Without knowing what your plan is, going for an industry or a location, if you go the industry route I would stick to one location initially. For example, solar energy industry jobs, but I would focus on southern California companies at first. Get your first few paying customers, geo ads for candidates, make sure the machine is working. Then start expanding. Much easier that 1 company in Seattle, another in Miami, and 2 more in Phoenix.
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