I think the fee is going to work as an AMAZING filter. Bloggers will know up front that advertisers have to be serious about generating revenue to post jobs there in the first place. Consequently, it will become a valued and competitive board among writers, returning value right back to the advertisers.

Exciting stuff!

My concern with the free options out there are that they could devalue our industry.

I think it’s about time that business blogging and blog networks matured and stepped up in it’s professionalism. All the ‘free’ stuff is good and well but that’s not how the professional world works and I worry that unless we move away from it we’ll create a culture where bloggers are undervalued.

It is like what blog designers are struggling with. There are many talented designers out there but having chatted to a lot of them I’ve found that many of them can’t find paid work because everyone expects free work because ‘that’s what blogging is about’.

Blogging needs to go to the next stage and the more professional paid services like this that show blog employers that they need to treat bloggers as they would any other employees the better.

I know I’ve already subscribed to the feed and have applied for three of the jobs advertised. I’ve just heard back from one of the advertisers to say that the position is almost definately filled after just 3 hours of being on the board so I’d say it’s working.

I love your new job board – I am so excited to have a place I can come to that I really trust to learn about blogger job openings!

Thank you very much!

Lisa Roberson

Your Price and Perception of Value argument is 100% spot on.

If you’d have done it for free you would be downing in postings – mostly of poor quality. This will weed them out in a way – it sounds tough but it’s a win/win for all. The job seeker knows that the advert is serious and the genuine advertiser doesn’t get swamped by a thousand other postings.

But the real proof is a little further down the track – testimonials of sorts from advertiser who got what they wanted and job seekers who got genuine jobs.

That’s when we’ll know if this will work. And I don’t see no reasons why it shouldn’t.

Thanks for the great service in the Job Boards!

I wrote about niche job boards a couple weeks ago when Mike Arrington from TechCrunch launched CrunchBoard. I mentioned how I really liked the idea and felt there was room for more job boards like this. Even though I really liked CrunchBoard I ended …

Your arguments for charging to post a listing is spot on.

You’ve got a name to maintian, you’ve to got make it a quality service.

Cheers and good luck.

“Pink Eyed” Jim