Today I received a note from Harry Joiner - THE Marketing Headhunter. The guy is a walking irony – He places marketing professionals into high-level, high powered positions in and around e-commerce; all the while being a brilliant marketer in his own right. I can only imagine how many of his clients have just asked him to take their open position.
Anyway, back to the note. In a cutting edge move, he is now offering the ability to list open Online Retail Jobs on his site at OnlineRetailJobs.com. Here are further details -
Effective immediately, the cost to post jobs at www.OnlineRetailJobs.com will be ZERO. To post a job for free, all you have to do is call 678-795-0900 for the monthly discount code. That’s it. No strings attached.
He will continue to advertise this job board in Internet Retailer magazine. (This month’s ad is on page 69.) The badge on the site will continue to say “Post a job for $147 for 30 days.”
This month’s code is “headhunter.”
In his words – “I am doing this because when I was a beef trader back in the 1990’s, my boss used to say ‘You can’t worry about disintermediation. It’s going to happen anyway. Your suppliers and buyers do not operate in a vacuum. Find real ways to add value and the profit will take care of itself’.”
Post early and post often – IT IS FREE!! BTW, check out his blog listed in my blogroll to the right. Good stuff.
April 12, 2008 at 9:24 pm
My friend,
Any brilliance on my part is always accidental. This move was born out of necessity: Since January, I have been paying four figures a month to advertise OnlineRetailJobs.com in the back of Internet Retailer. As of yesterday, I had sold a measly four postings — while PaidContent, MarketingPilgrim, and many other sites were raking in the dough.
So before unplugging the site (knowing full well than someone would launch another), I decided to experiment with other ways to monetize it. I figured “leads cost money — and if I can get a hiring manager who has a legitimate need to call me, then there’s value in that.” Right?
As of yesterday afternoon, I have spoken with three new hiring managers and two HR executives — one of whom asked me to send along my fee agreement in the event that their posting at OnlineRetailJobs.com does not work.
Go figure.
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