I’ve been thinking about job boards and discussing them with some of the others in RefreshMiami a bunch lately. I know they burst onto the scene years ago (I’m talking niche job boards). So it turns out that from my 10 minute research, these features on sites (none I know of are standalone sites), are grossing almost a million dollars a year!
The top earner in the category is 37Signals Job board with over $30k/month in earnings. The second biggest earner of the bunch is not who I had expected, it is Cameron Moll’s AuthenticJobs, which is generating close to $20k/month. The AuthenticJobs is really impressive considering its a one man shop running it. Hats off Cam for making such a successful job board. Here is a link to the spreadsheet below.
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Listings |
Cost Per |
Monthly Rev |
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Crunchboard |
32 |
$200 |
$6,400 |
http://www.crunchboard.com |
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37Signals Jobs |
103 |
$300 |
$30,900 |
http://jobs.37signals.com/ |
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Authentic Jobs |
68 |
$250 |
$17,000 |
http://www.authenticjobs.com/ |
fulltime |
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Authentic Jobs |
33 |
$75 |
$2,475 |
http://www.authenticjobs.com/ |
freelance |
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Mashable |
21 |
$50 |
$1,050 |
http://market.mashable.com |
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ReadWriteWeb |
119 |
$99 |
$11,781 |
http://jobs.readwriteweb.com/ |
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GigaOM |
9 |
$200 |
$1,800 |
http://gigaomjobs.com/a/jbb/find-jobs |
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Centernetworks |
35 |
$49 |
$1,715 |
http://www.centernetworks.com/jobs |
job postings here are 2 months |
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VentureBeat |
21 |
$200 |
$4,200 |
http://www.venturebeat.com |
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MarketingPilgrim |
71 |
$47 |
$3,337 |
http://jobs.marketingpilgrim.com/ |
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51.2 |
$147 |
$80,658 |
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yearly |
$967,896 |
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Here is a link to the spreadsheet of all the sites I’ve researched.
Akamai, the leading content delivery network, has an amazing visualization of network traffic across the globe. This shows how what otherwise would have been absurd mountains of data almost incomprehensible to the average person can be broken down into digestible bits everyone can understand. Nick and I were discussing yesterday how 2007/8 are going to be big for visualization.
Amazing that one company handles 20% of worldwide data traffic, and they are pushing 2million concurrent hits per second during average load!
So what examples of clever visualizations have you seen lately? (Other than tastytag of course 
)
There has been alot of buzz lately about openID, and rightfully so, its an interesting new project that has been years in the making. For those of you not in the know, and I don’t blame you, OpenID is a decentralized login system for multiple sites and blogs. Essentially its a non-microsoft run passport system.
Right now I would say its about 6 months away from being something you should consider building your apps around, but not quite there yet. The OpenID group needs to clarify and dumb down what they are trying to do. Once the masses, or at least the techcrunch masses get wind of this, and all understand how to use it, then you should start looking at it with a watchful eye. This is sort of a problem of the chicken and egg (everything is… i know, i know) do you spend the money developing for this before there is a critical enough mass of users? Do you wait?
The real reason I started writing this was because I think once this does gain critical momentum, it will be an interesting tool for smaller websites to use. I would put money on this right now, that if you were to implement this once its more widespread, you would increase your conversion rates of visitors to signups on your site. Why? Because you are removing the friction associated with user signups. This day in age we are so overwhelmed by having to signup for yet another website, that removing that requirement is a welcome sight.
So if you are one of the 3? 4? RSS subscribers, you’ll have to update your links today.
I added feedburner so I could track stats and hopefully promote the feed a bit more.
So point your feed readers to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/brianbreslin
thx,
Brian
