Hey Everyone!
Thought I’d give a bit of a background on myself, my journey to creating this website, and my current tasks. I’ll also be using this thread as a journal to mark my progress. My names Matt and I’m a web developer. My jobs so far have been a shelf stacker at a grocery store, a web developer, and a QA engineer. However, once I got the QA engineer role, I was disappointed with what the job was like because it was vastly different from what I had been told it would consist of. After this disappointment, the idea of my website came to me.
The website is Jobs Defined and it is a database of job descriptions. Ideally, people create a job description stating what they do, relevant qualifications, their average day, and what they like/dislike about their job. And for all job seekers, they can go online and read what other people have to say about the jobs they are looking into so they have a better understanding about what will be involved in the job once they get it.
I originally launched the website approx 4 months ago but I had great difficulty in getting people to add descriptions as they had to log in with their email address and people didn’t want to have their emails associated with talking about their jobs. After some consideration, I decided to remove the requirement for people to log in and redo the whole website. This change has definitely made it so people are more willing to input their descriptions as it’s streamlined the process.
The next step is getting it in front of people who I don’t know. I’m currently running Facebook ads but they don’t seem to be converting as well as I had hoped. My next step is to create traffic through Reddit with either paid traffic or posting about it there.
Does anyone have any tips on how to grow a website like this?
Thought I’d give a bit of a background on myself, my journey to creating this website, and my current tasks. I’ll also be using this thread as a journal to mark my progress. My names Matt and I’m a web developer. My jobs so far have been a shelf stacker at a grocery store, a web developer, and a QA engineer. However, once I got the QA engineer role, I was disappointed with what the job was like because it was vastly different from what I had been told it would consist of. After this disappointment, the idea of my website came to me.
The website is Jobs Defined and it is a database of job descriptions. Ideally, people create a job description stating what they do, relevant qualifications, their average day, and what they like/dislike about their job. And for all job seekers, they can go online and read what other people have to say about the jobs they are looking into so they have a better understanding about what will be involved in the job once they get it.
I originally launched the website approx 4 months ago but I had great difficulty in getting people to add descriptions as they had to log in with their email address and people didn’t want to have their emails associated with talking about their jobs. After some consideration, I decided to remove the requirement for people to log in and redo the whole website. This change has definitely made it so people are more willing to input their descriptions as it’s streamlined the process.
The next step is getting it in front of people who I don’t know. I’m currently running Facebook ads but they don’t seem to be converting as well as I had hoped. My next step is to create traffic through Reddit with either paid traffic or posting about it there.
Does anyone have any tips on how to grow a website like this?
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