Comments on: Why are niche job boards still emerging in a mass customization era?

By: jmmbacon

jmmbacon — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:13:38 +0000

Does anyone know of a way to find out the owner of a cell phone if you know their number? I see many sites for reverse lookups for cell phones but they charge almost 100 bucks.

All of the free reverse phone number sites have a fee after you put in the phone number. Anywho.com or whitepages.com or any of that stuff does not work since you have to pay to get a report.

Are there any ACTUAL free ones out there?

By: Vince

Vince — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:48:09 +0000

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By: Travel Board

Travel Board — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:44:59 +0000

Ads in big job boards get lost and it’s really hard to find a job matching your background. You get a lot more relevant job listings in niche sites like dice.com, medhunters.com and alike.

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Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:56:05 +0000

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Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:29:34 +0000

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By: greg

greg — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:59:10 +0000

I think they'll last until someone is able to solve the problem of "write once / publish many" for employers in a way that preserves their ability to "broadcast widely to selected audiences", while in so doing continues to provide good filtration to job seekers. It's telling that, when Union Square Ventures (which has Indeed.com in its portfolio) went looking for an analyist, they got their winners from a blog post about the job.

By: Ted R.

Ted R. — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:26:39 +0000

It reminds me of the run of niche dating sites that came out in 2004. They mostly felt like boxed solutions and finally heshers had a place to meet and date.

Not many are left as it takes a bunch of traffic to make actual money.

These seem to be mostly custom built, or well built and hang-ons to existing popular sites.

If there isn;t heavy pressure for these job sites to be revenue leaders they may all hang on the vine for a while, especially when they all drop the price to $25 per listing or free.

But $200/pop for so many niche sites will last for about another 4 hours.

Expect to see a federation (like Spring St networks did for dating) or near-free listings for qualified site members.