Make Money with Your Own Job Board

You may have noticed a trend recently that more and more websites are including job boards as a way to add value to their visitors and to produce some revenue for the site. Smashing Magazine, Freelance Switch, and ProBlogger all have popular job boards that provide relevant job postings for their target audiences. It’s interesting to see how well some of these niche or industry specific job boards are doing. Because they focus on a specific industry, they are able to avoid competition with major job sites, and they’re able to provide employers with a great opportunity to reach the right audience.

I think the job board approach could be used by even more sites, and there are a number of different options for easily adding your own job board. Here we’ll take a look at 6 of the leading choices.

Job-a-Matic

With Job-a-Matic you can get a free hosted job board that’s quick and easy to setup. You can keep the job board on your domain and give it a customized look to keep things consistent with the rest of your site. You can also get a widget to promote the job board on your sidebar to get more exposure. If you want to avoid having an empty job board until you start getting more listings, you can choose to fill it with jobs from the Simply Hired database, and you can make money for clicks on these jobs. They handle all the payments and “dirty work,” and you get a check. Job-a-Matic provides a nice dashboard that lets you track and manage everything you need, including the prices of the ads.

Beyond

Beyond claims to be the most comprehensive job board software on the web. Like Job-a-Matic, Beyond is free and you can set your own prices to determine how much you make. Beyond offers resume posting in addition to job searching. Unlike Job-a-Matic, your job board with Beyond will not be at your domain, although you can customize it to meet your needs.
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7 Tips for Prioritizing Your Work

As an online entrepreneur you will always be faced with more tasks that you need to get done than you can manage. There will always be new ideas and opportunities that are tempting to pull you away from other things you are working on. Prioritizing your work is extremely important to achieve efficiency with your time and to get the most accomplished. Whether you are working full-time or part-time with your online ventures, you will need to recognize what tasks on your to-do list are most important and urgent.

Here are some tips for getting more out of your time by prioritizing your work:

1. Have a strategy

How are you going to make money online? Do you want to provide services or build assets? There are so many different paths you to take towards making money online that you need to have a sound strategy that will keep you moving in the right direction. An effective strategy will help to keep you focused and avoid distractions from activities that don’t fit with what you are ultimately trying to accomplish.

2. Recognize what makes you money

I think most online entrepreneurs, and definitely bloggers, face the challenge of identifying what work will actually produce an income. If you are going to make money through freelance blogging for example, writing posts for other blogs is what will produce your income. Using social media, reading other blogs, and participating at community sites will all help the cause, but none of these things will directly put money in your pocket. As a result, your income-generating work should take priority.

This becomes a bit more difficult when you are taking the approach of building an asset. If you are building a blog you may not directly make money today from some activities, but if they improve your asset they could make money for you in the long run.

The important thing here is that you recognize the significance of activities according to how much money they can produce for you. Make sure that you are dedicating the majority of your time to things that will make you successful.
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RevResponse - B2B Publisher Network Review

If you are like many bloggers, you may have trouble choosing from the various options to monetize your blog. Many of you are trying to use Adsense to make a few bucks but I think we might have found a better alternative.

RevResponse is a new player on the market that claims that you can profit by offering your visitors access to free business and technical resources. The great thing about this is that people love the word free and this simple word will typically lead to higher conversion rates.

Is this a viable option to monetize your site? The following is a paid review of RevResponse to see if they truly can act as another revenue stream for your blog or website.

Make Money Online with RevResponse

Most ad servers send traffic away from your site, however RevResponse pitches to the visitors that are already on your site. They have many offers including free magazine subscriptions, white papers, software trials, and even podcasts. If one of your visitors completes a registration form for any of these resources then you just earned a referral commission. Sounds easy so far.

A side benefit of this is that it adds to the depth of the information available to your visitors. In many cases RevResponse will have free offers that align with the theme of your site, giving you even more credibility to those seeking information.

As I mentioned earlier, free offers are often well received and typically produce a much higher conversion rate than offers that have a cost attached to them. It has been my experience that the exact same ad copy with the word “Free” in it will convert better than ones that do not contain that one word.

The three steps to making money sound pretty straightforward, right? It is, but I know the real question is how much can you make and how much work is it.

Payout Amounts

Unlike Adsense, where every click is a mystery, RevResponse guarantees $1.50 minimum for every qualified lead that your site produces. If you read their FAQ though you find that “you should expect to earn substantially more.” I have even been told that some leads can produce as much as $20 apiece. I must admit that makes me skeptical as I have heard the same thing about Adsense but have yet to see one.

They offer standard payment via check but Paypal is an alternative if you prefer an instant payment. I know I personally prefer a Paypal payment option as it is easier for me to track and keep my records straight.
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Expenses are Part of Doing Business Online

Running an online business is just as much of a real and legitimate business as owning a brick and mortar store. Whether you are blogging to make money, running an e-commerce website, providing a membership or subscription-based site, or doing affiliate marketing, you are running a business. Part of running and managing a business is incurring necessary expenses.

For those of us who do business online it’s easy to forget about this, and we often ignore products and services that could improve our business in some way because they’re not free. The amount of freebies that are available online has really caused a lot of bloggers and online entrepreneurs to blow off outstanding opportunities to make their business more profitable because of an expectation for free alternatives.

We’re obviously better off to spend some money (and spend it wisely) where it will drastically improve productivity. But it seems that this is forgotten a lot of times. In many cases there are free options online that we could choose, but spending a little bit of money may make a big difference for our business. For example, I wrote a post on my blog a month or two ago about online data backup services, mostly because I was looking into some options myself and the post helped me to do the research and find the best option. If you’re running an online business, chances are you have a lot of valuable information on your hard drive, and if that hard drive crashes you’ll lose it all. As a result, there are tons of online services for automatically backing up a hard drive. Some of these services are free and some are not. The service that I wound up choosing was Mozy, which costs only $5 per month, which is a ridiculously low amount to improve the security of your business. Still, with other free (and inferior) options available, many people will overlook a great service because it is not free.

When Should You Justify an Expense?

When you are producing revenue

If your online business is making money, you should be willing to re-invest some of that back into the business. In order to improve your business and increase the amount that you make you may need to spend money on certain things. How much you re-invest is up to you, but be willing to consider an expense that is justified.

When it saves you time

Depending on what type of business you are running there are probably plenty of products and services that can save you time in one way or another. Having more time available to dedicate to the business is a huge plus. An example of this is a WordPress plugin that Adnan uses here at Blogtrepreneur, OIO Publisher. As a premium plugin OIO publisher costs $37, but it handles and manages all facets of your blog’s advertising. By spending $37 on the plugin you can automate some of the manual work that you do and free up more of your time to work on other aspects of your blog.
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iBusiness Promoter: Helping You To Get Top SE Rankings

Strong search engine rankings are high on the list of any serious online entrepreneur yet many don’t have the first idea how to achieve these. They may have a great site with a lot to offer but no idea how to promote it properly.

Before I start the review, I just wanted to quickly apologize for posting private reviews twice in 2 days, however, the advertisers wanted these reviews out as quickly as possible, and this is the only way we could have fitted things in.

The review we are doing today is of a company called iBusinessPromoter and what they specialize in is helping those site owners who may not know much about SEO, but who like to handle things themselves.

iBusiness Promoter

iBusiness Promoter claims that they can get you a Top 10 ranking for your site if you follow their plan. I am typically kind of leery of sites that make these type of claims as they often don’t offer much for substance.

iBusiness has enough confidence in their plan that they are willing to offer you a money back guarantee if they fail to deliver. That’s pretty strong and encouraged me to look a little deeper.

What they offer is a step by step guide that gives you tasks to complete and tools to help you complete those tasks. Each task is a key ingredient in obtaining strong rankings, and in order to succeed you need to follow the complete plan as each piece works together.

I like what I see so far but let’s break it down a little more.

The iBusiness Plan

The plan that they lay out for you is quite thorough and detailed but not so much that an average person couldn’t follow it quite easily. It encompasses all of the basic SEO cornerstones and explains the process every step of the way.
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