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Audio: Discussion with Phil Carpenter of Simply Hired re: Job-a-matic Launch
Yesterday, SimplyHired launched a new service for web site publishers and blog authors called Job-a-matic. You can show jobs on your site/blog and get paid for some clicks and for any jobs purchased through your site. The revenue split is 30you/70sh for clicks and 50/50 for purchased jobs.
Several well known bloggers including Guy Kawasaki, John Battelle, Joel Cheesman and Jeff Jarvis have already joined the network. FeedBurner and TypePad will offer widgets for using the Job-a-matic option on sites in those networks.
Below you can listen to my discussion with Phil Carpenter, VP Marketing of SimplyHired. He will explain how the program works.
Phil is asking for user feedback. My first bit of feedback is regarding the payout. First, there is no information about the payout on the Learn More page. This should be added as soon as possible. Next, Phil notes that the payout is $500. I think this is a mistake. Smaller web sites will find it hard to sell jobs, and clicks paying 10 cents or so, will take forever to actually make the $500. Phil notes that it takes a while to get a payout from Amazon. Amazon actually pays out at $10 which is great for smaller sites.
That's really all the feedback I have so far. The team at SimplyHired continues to innovate a sector which has sat dormant for such a long time.
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A great interview. Allan you’re a great interviewer.
Question:
If I add jobamatic to my blog will I make $$$ for every click on the SH provided back fill jobs?
It looks like the “Additional Job Postings from the Web” which make up the back fill do not distinguish which are the paid jobs and which are not. So is the back fill comprised of ALL 5Million of your jobs or just the 1M which are “paid” and how do we tell the difference?
Thanks for the compliment Hans, I appreciate it!
I can't answer for Phil 100%, but I believe you only get paid for clicks to jobs that SimplyHired was paid for. Meaning if they show jobs from another board, or from a monster in the regular listings, you don't make any money on those.
Yes, but how do we know which listings they were paid for and which they were not? they do not seem to distinguish.
No, Simply hired can be paid for listings from other job boards. For example DICE sponsors all their listings on SH and therefore any clicks on DICE jobs and SH gets paid. If you search on the SH site it shows you which jobs are sponsored but in the case of jobamatic – how do we know which of the back fill jobs we get paid for clicks and which we do not??