Comments on: ProBlogger Job Board vs Craigslist – Guess Who Wins?

By: Clyde Smith

Clyde Smith — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:44:00 +0000

This makes sense to me though I’m experiencing it from the blogger seeking jobs side.

I keep an eye on the board for possible additional gigs and I’m really pleased with the quality of the jobs offered. I don’t have to wade through a lot of junk like on Craigslist.

I’m going to post about this at ProHipHop, not to tell people where they can get blogger jobs cause I’ve already done that, but in hopes that even more companies will use your board cause that benefits me.

Thanks!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:25:02 +0000

Makes sense that you’d get more quality bloggers here. However, I wouldn’t hire another blogger/freelance writer unless I knew them for at least a year. I guess you never know whether they’re just dipping into the e-zines for content or something. But…

If you’re going to find a good blogger through an ad, it has to be here at ProBlogger.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:22:40 +0000

Although I have never used craiglist. I can attest that your job board is the great. When I posted my job offering there (which has been filled). I was inundated with applications, and I wished I could hire them all. Obviously I could not, but at any rate it gave me an awesome pool of people to choose from.

Thanks,
Shane Coffey
CEO Cellounge Media
http://www.cellounge.com

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:58:01 +0000

I’ve hired bloggers from the ProBlogger Job Board, from Craigslist and from eLance and all three have been good for different circumstances.
For the overall number and quality of responses though, I agree with the article your Job Board is the best.

By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:24:48 +0000

It’s funny this post came up today because it was just yesterday that I noticed that feature! There are some really interesting opportunities on there, hopefully sometime soon I’ll have the time to look into them.

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:37:24 +0000

The trick to not paying Craigslist is posting under the gigs section. Probably not as many eyes as under jobs, but it’s free.

By: CatherineL

CatherineL — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:48:57 +0000

Your board does have some interesting job. I notice the one on blogging the Beckhams isn’t there anymore. Has the position been filled?

By: Samir

Samir — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:57:24 +0000

Targetted traffic wins in the end.

I assume Craigslist has a lot more traffic, but that traffic is unfocused and not targetted to the topic of interest in question. On the other hand, you’re not going to be caught dead at a place like Problogger unless you are serious about blogging or are starting to think you want to get serious. There are almost no casual window shoppers here.
Better targetting = better results.

Thanks for offering such a useful service Darren.

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:42:01 +0000

Congratulations Darren! I’ve missed that feature of your site.

Think any business out there could use a senior network admin with 2 solid years of blogging expertise? Or are most looking only for bloggers?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:14:05 +0000

Craigslist only charges in a few select cities. There is only one city that it costs $75 to post a job in and it’s San Francisco. It costs $25 for NYC, LA, DC, Boston, Seattle, and San Diego. Everywhere else, it’s free.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:56:38 +0000

Why does this not surprise me.

Ever thought about advertising the jobs board on craiglist? ;)

By: Terra Andersen

Terra Andersen — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:04:39 +0000

Who would’ve known? Great job!

By: macewan

macewan — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:46:38 +0000

I’m with Ali on this. I’m more apt to visit your board than to drill down through Craiglist to view their offerings. Niche is it.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:37:44 +0000

Does Craigslist only charge money for certain cities?

It doesn’t seem like the Vancouver board charges, because of all the spammy ads (and posts re: spammy ads) in the job section.

I too, once had an almost job from the ProBlogger job board :D and will definitely use when hiring for great bloggers!

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:11:30 +0000

I almost got a job too once from your job board. Though the pay was on par with entry level and I couldn’t justify taking it. But yes, it does work.

Plus I’ve noticed in the past that craiglists gets you less responses back from job posters than from more niche topic job board, such as yours.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:07:56 +0000

in time :-)

probably a couple of weeks but it’s mostly a backend update and won’t be too noticeable from the front.

By: Razvan

Razvan — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:20:05 +0000

Sounds good… When will the update be ready?