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Jul, 2008Meet SalesTrax.com president Gary Upah
Founded in 1998, SalesTrax caught my attention with its December ’07 announcement that job postings would henceforth be free — unusual for a top-ranked job board. You can find their job posting policies and pricing here. SalesTrax is based in the Kansas City area and offers "a comprehensive array of Internet services, nationwide career fairs, [...]
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Jun, 2008Create more value than you capture
Here is why I am so fascinated by the free classifieds concept and in particular free job boards — they create more value than they capture. I came across this thinking in a post by Aaron Wall today and realized that it perfectly illustrates a serious flaw in the typical job board business model. Generally [...]
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May, 2008Free job boards
The free classifieds and free job boards have fascinated me for years, perhaps because back when I was starting LatPro, the hottest thing around was headhunter.net. It was growing like wildfire and was perfectly free. Times have changed a lot since then and there is a whole new crop of free job boards — here’s [...]
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Apr, 2008OLX.com targets Craiglist and job ads — the free classifieds threat
Free classifieds site and craigslist competitor OLX.com raised $13.5m yesterday which brings this Buenos Aires based company’s funding to $23.5m. TechCrunch has the story and some interesting comments left by accomplished co-founder Fabrice Grinda: Americans are not likely to have heard of OLX because its popularity lies mainly outside of the United States in places [...]
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Apr, 2008Craigslist.org 2008 revenue to reach $81 million
Classified Intelligence’s last report on the RHW deal turned out to be accurate and I think this one is fully credible just on the surface of it. Craigslist is a runaway train. So, what should job board entrepreneurs be thinking about? What should they be doing? This is not an easy question to answer. You [...]
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Mar, 2008Craigslist not liable for discriminatory ads
Great legal news for job boards! We regularly see and screen out job postings that violate EEOC laws. We’ve been doing this ever since we received an ominous warning from some very official government agency many years ago. The ads we see are sometimes quite amusing. One of these days I’ll post some of the [...]
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Feb, 2007Do job postings want to be free?
Here’s an interesting presentation about content distribution by Fred Wilson called “Does Information Want To Be Free?” Free Will Pay "On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life” – Stewart Brand As you read it, think about the fact [...]
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